Momma, happy birthday, mom. Today is a day where it does get warmer for us but we didnt start off without issue take a look at this three her loop we have a few rain showers that were freezing on contact up in the poconos and quick little burst of snow through overnight and that is prompting the National Weather service to put out for a couple hours, next two hours this Winter Weather advisory specific to Monroe County. Toby hanna, east stroudberg poconos where you could run into minor black icing this morning. That one hyper local concern. Rest of us had in precipitation, overnight looking fine, chilly but not as cold as yesterday along i95 notice wind out of the south and air mass coming from the milder place to allow to us rebound more readily. We should see sun breaks through those cloud in the poconos showers start to move back in. They will be rain showers, this evening, and that is wet weather that overtakes the rest of the region, later on tonight. Coming up we will talk about
Training to have medicaid expansion. We did this in Public Housing when i was mayor of charlotte which was effective and we want to know if there is any more flexibility or is that the line drawn in that area. I want to congratulate you on you reaching out for us and the honest dialogue. Sylvia in terms of the benchmarks, that is something we will get back to you and your team directly on. With regard to the question of work and how we think about that particular issue with regard to health, in terms of one of the things that is an important thing that both sides agree on that was an important changes that preexisting condition shouldnt keep you from an ability to get health insurance. Maybe how one gets to that maybe, the idea that health care is not a conditional thing. Health care differ by a number of things. Different from tan of tanf. Having said that, we think that there are incredibly strong ways. Were with you on work. That is a place where we would like to see it would be gre
A lot of areas where we can move forward. Thank you all very much and thanks for having me again. National Governors Association also held assumption on scripture drug abuse Prescription Drug abuse in the u. S. Mary bona also created the Prescription Drug abuse caucus. This is one hour and 20 minutes. If i could have your attention, lets take our seats so that we can get our joint session started. First of all, i am governors Steven Beshear from kentucky. I chair the mga health and Human Services committee. Welcome to all the governors who are here. This is a joint session of the health and Human Services committee and the Homeland Security and Public Safety committee. Joining me is vice chair of our Committee Governor bill haslam of tennessee. Im pleased we been able to come together with Homeland Security and Public Safety committee for todays discussion regarding the nations opioid crisis. I want to thank the leadership of the other committee, governor Rick Schneider of michigan, go
Choctaw reservation last week talking about that. What are the sources of wandering . Is the universal service fund useful to you now and what would we have to do to improve its . Look at the federal government do in terms of funding for tribal infrastructure . Particularly for those tribes that might have more difficult the . Im thinking of the pueblos in new mexico or the tribes at the grand canyon smaller and less funding available. How were these funds helpful to you the once a helpful to the wants of we do have in these programs that we these programs that we do have are they . Thank you congressman pallone and you are always welcome. With usf funding Stable Funding mechanisms are critical. Where they have to develop the climate bank plans are land federal Funding Sources to be there to begin with. Providing funding for the structure build outs and that is critical to the longterm sustainability of these telecommunications providers. Are you using funds from universal service now
Let me show you right now the current conditions. Lower 60s in boston, watch what happens through the day. We are in the upper 50s at noontime. Scattered rain north and west of the city. But the farther south and east you go, its more of the steadier washouttype weather, and into about 3 00, notice the temperatures. They are in the middle 50s. We are just going to fall a little bit today behind the front. So, fenway, plan for rain. Bring the ponchos i. Will turn breezy as well. We have certainly seen Better Baseball days with mid first pitch. Im back with more coming up. And we are following breaking news this morning. Police are investigating after a shooting in roxbury fox 25 Stephanie Coueignoux is live at Boston Police headquarters and, stephanie, we know one person was rushed to the hospital . Reporter yeah, still a lot of questions though remain, heather, including how this victim is doing and exactly how old that victim is. This is some video though of what that scene looked lik