Fda commissioner along with the assistant secretary of health and Human Services for preparedness and response, along with an official with the centers for Disease Control. Id like to call this hearing to order, the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. This morning were holding a hearing titled facing the 21st Century Public Health threats, our nations preparedness and response capabilities. Well hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the department of health and Human Services, the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and the commissioner of the food and Drug Administration. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second will be noticed for tuesday, january 23rd. Senator murray and i each have an opening statement. Then im going to turn to senator alexander and senator casey for any opening remarks they might have. After that well in
Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general lori robinson. I have to say that i taught her everything she knows from when she was the Wing Commander in the ticker air force base in oklahoma, and from curt tid, commander for the u. S. Southern command. I think there is a lot of overlap. Week talked all three of us have talked about this between the north and the south command, and i think thats one reason that senator mccain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy, the nds identifies protecting the homeland and sustaining american advantages in the western hemisphere as key priorities, even as the d. O. D. Focuses on the rising challenge of great power competitors. As we have seen from increasing economic and military efforts by china and by russia to gain a footholds in the americas, the boundaries between great power of competition and unconventional threats are increasingly blurred. I think thats one reason when genera
Speak about things in life that i couldnt speak about before. I just didnt know how. I couldnt find the words. But the playwright allowed me to express something. Maybe in the film, its a different animal. On stage, i go backwards and forwards in age and thats a difficult challenge, but the essence of the queen may be harder on film. Youve got to have that kind of working. Rose Chiwetel Ejofor, al pacino and Helen Earhart helen. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Chiwetel Ejofor is here, his role in is it years a slave earned him Academy Award in 20134 for best actor and is now playing in z for zachariah. He is the trailer for the film. I aint seen one for over a year. A dead cobra. As long as we stay here, well be protected. screaming the swear to
Speak about things in life that i couldnt speak about before. I just didnt know how. I couldnt find the words. But the playwright allowed me to express something. Maybe in the film, its a different animal. On stage, i go backwards and forwards in age and thats a difficult challenge, but the essence of the queen may be harder on film. Youve got to have that kind of working. Rose Chiwetel Ejofor, al pacino and Helen Earhart helen. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Chiwetel Ejofor is here, his role in is it years a slave earned him Academy Award in 20134 for best actor and is now playing in z for zachariah. He is the trailer for the film. I aint seen one for over a year. A dead cobra. As long as we stay here, well be protected. screaming the swear to
Connell good day in new york on wall street. The dow was up. Even though some in his own party dont like the agreement to raise the debt ceiling exchange for harvey funding. They were buying on the dip we saw yesterday. Right now to another important and developing story. That would be Hurricane Irma. Its sustaining category 5 wind causing widespread damage. Already flooding in the caribbean, the virgin islands. Puerto rico getting hit. It could directly impact the bahamas and maybe cuba as a major hurricane the next couple days. We are concerned watching florida. The florida keys and the east coast of the state. The entire state of florida is under a state of emergency. We have time stamped this so you get to thursday as a category 5. Friday, and early friday morning, it may weaken a little bit. If it weakens to a category 4, how much of a turn to the east do we see . Does it head up toward georgia, and South Carolina and hit miami directly. Thats a question we havent gotten a real an