Still digesting the sad news of Nancy Reagans passing, but what an incredible life she lived. Legendary woman, iconic first lady and part of one of the greatest love stories of our time. I was reflecting on that this morning. So many people are finding comfort in the thought these two will be reunited once again. Nancy reagan, a picture of elegance and strength. Nancy reagan died in her home at the age of 94. She was equally passionate about her husband and the many causes she championed. Well talk to her son ron coming up, but first, natalie is at the reagan president ial library in simi valley, california. Good morning to you. Inside the air force one hangar here at the reagan president ial library, where many are remembering nancy reagan so fondly. She redefined the role of first lady, bringing style, substance and sensitivity. Reporter late sunday, the hearse carrying the former first ladys body left her home in los angeles, where the 94yearold died of congestive Heart Failure sund
And driver sends police on a wild chase as he weaves in and out of his lane to avoid getting caught. What happens next. Good day everybody, it is 4 01, a thursday, thursday eve. Weve made t looks like decent weather, right . Here, the last day of july, moving into august starting tomorrow. You can feel the summer days starting to dwindle. With it it is the summer weather dwindling it, has turned very cool over the past couple of days, while i think we turn warmer today, the overall pattern not too hot as we said way into the lasts month of the summer. Okay, ultimate doppler showing some showers, falling out toward our west around harrisburg, six hours ago, they faded, pretty good as we head into the overnight hours. But right now, still seeing few showers up in the Lehigh Valley. So allentown, up through lehigh itself, mount pocono, seeing tiny bit of rain. These are very isolated showers moving through. And they should quickly depart. 56 degrees in philadelphia right now. Winds out of
National debt . It is we the people so the National Debt is our debt. What percentage or our personallyprivately owned debt different than the percentage of National Debt. Host take us through the definitions here. Guest the National Debt refers to when referring to the governments budget. There are Consumer Debt measures out there and the Federal Reserve bank keeps track of that. You spend things on your credit card and they show up in Consumer Spending but another set of statistics address that issue and measure that. The financing is different than the spending which is what we measure. Host we have been talking about reports from the bea, how are businesses going to use the reports in the coming weeks, months and years . Guest i dont know if they will use the data to make realtime decisions. In some ways it is just informative to tell us how we got to where we are today. There is a two year lag for the most part. Business tends to be operating in a realtime bases. There is a lot fo
College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
I do catch instances where i wish we were more transparent and better about customer service. The other thing id like to mention. We had a group get together in little rock to discuss reimbursement to providers that have provided outside care. Youll have situations that arise, now with this 40mile rule that the v. A. Owes this money, it appears the v. A. Owes a lot of people in arkansas a lot of money. And has not been very forthcoming in paying those bills. Its another thing that makes it such that the trust issue that we talk about. The other problem is, if you dont pay your bills theyre going to quit dealing with you. And then, thats the greatest thing. And that really is going to affect quality of care. Can you quickly mention that . I will, and maybe ill ask carolyn to comment. I talked about the five strategies from my v. A. One of them i talked about was improving our internal support services. And going to assured Services Model where we centralize the bill paying. So thats all