Because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility as, quote, a deathtrap, end quote, because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month this photo of residence of an assisted living facility in texas who were trapped in waist deep water went viral. As of these recent disasters make clear, Older Americans are particularly vulnerable before, during, and even after a storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gold coast 12 years ago, more than half of those who died were seniors. As the danger of the Senate Homeland security committee, along with senator Joe Lieberman of connecticut, i lead a bipartisan investigation into the response to Hurricane Katrina at the federal, state and local levels. Our investigation which resulted in this weighty report revealed many weaknesses in our nations Emergency Response system. And although i doubt very many people read the whole report, it does have an excellent summary t
Represent people in the fifth congressional district. Congressman, thank you for your time. Thank you very much. We now go live to an event at politico with an interview with House Minority leader nancy pelosi. The event has just gotten underway with introductions and we expect the Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to be here shortly. This is life, john cspan2. It does mean more years in retirement and lastly every important as our inefficient health care system. How does that that affect the economy clocks that start by affecting the budget. So these are the top seven budget categories in 2016. Im going to leave the labels off for a minute but one is seventh. By 202010 budget item becomes the third largest. By 2046 he becomes the becomes the second largest. By 2050 if they comes the single largest item in the budget. Does anyone want to guess what that is . Interest pics of interest on the debt is unpaid. Another thing that debt does is something called crowding out. Discretion is because
Here. Sarah westwood in washington for us. Sarah, the president has been pushing in narrative that deceased persons, even dogs having mailed ballots, that the system is rife with fraud. Reporter the most important fact to remember is that voter fraud is exceedingly rare according to experts and they say that widespread voter fraud just simply doesnt happen in vote by mail scenarios because remember, even though politicians now are talking about dramatically expanding the practice of vote by mail, it has been going on to varying degrees in states for years now, and experts do say its very secure. The president has, in a lot of cases, including today, been pushing some straightup misinformation, some misleading claims about voting. He often conflates issues of Voter Registration in states with fraudulently cast ballots, which are two totally different things. Voter rolls do sometimes need cleaning up, but state officials are regularly checking them. And there have been some concerns from
It is largely not. Thats what a con man does and thats what the president seems to be doing. Dont take it from us, take it from republicans and judges and judges he appointed said so. William barr telling the Associated Press today we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. Thats coming from william barr, a guy who bent over backward to backup the president. Remember the attorney general back in june validating the president s attack on mailin ballots. Foreign countries can print out tens of thousands of ballots and it would be hard for us to protect. That was not true then and no evidence to backup that statement. It does show you how willing hes to echo what the president wanted to hear. The move through widespread critici criticism. With that said for all the controversies surrounding these investigations must have drawn a blank, otherwise, attorney barr centerly would ha certainly would have said so. They are not systematic alleg
So we are asking the American Public to be very serious about reconsidering whether they travel. Group founded by Stacey Abrams under investigation for trying to register out of state voters and apparently dead voters. Roethlisberger to the end zone, touchdown. Smith. Ainsley this week has flown by. Already thursday, guys. Loockets at you our allamerican Christmas Tree on fox square. Red, white, and blue remembering all the brave men and women who fought for our country. Merry christmas. Brian merry christmas, everybody. I think the countdown now is to Christmas Shopping and how many can do it in person like first time tell medicine be using Online Shopping for the first time. A lot of americans like the traditional window shopping pick the right gift as opposed to scanning around. Steve we have been shopping online for a year. Brian go look in the window. Steve to answer your question, its the countdown to Christmas Shopping it is exactly three weeks to christmas eve, which is when i