The plowing nonstop. This morning, the jersey shore. Icebergs floating in the street. The heavy snow caving in roofs. Buildings and barnes collapsed. The misery factor so high this morning, as some struggle to dig out. Others, ready to dive in. Oh, my gosh. I was not tempted to do that yesterday. Not even slightly. But she was like. Shes braver than all of us at this table good morning, everyone. Were coming to you from a crippled new york city, literally shut down after one of the biggest snowfalls ever. And new york by no means the only target of this blizzard inspect is a live look at the flooded jersey shore. Remember, this is just three more troubles for that region. Check out this video dump trucks ready to pitch in, ready to move in. Washington, d. C. , along with philadelphia as well, all paralyzed this morning. Look at this. This is timelapsed imagery it of virginia. It was coming down in some places at two inches an hour. It looks benign. We cant forget that the storm is beau
Julie things nice and light for the moment. Route 1, 93 south. Bright green and no accidents to report at this time. Pike moving along fine too from 495 in hopkinton through framingham, the newton area and into the alstonbrighton area. Only a handful of cars out there at this hour. 24 minutes on the pike from 495 to mass avenue. Nine minutes from the expressway from the braintree split to the pike. 19 minutes from 495 to the leverett connector. Gene and sara, back to you. New this morning, police are investigating a robbery at a store in everett. Sarah this happened around 1 00 in the morning at a tedeschi. Fox25 spoke with people who were inside the store when it happened, jessica. Reporter around 4 30 we reporter around 4 30 we spoke to workers inside this Convenience Store and they did confirm there was some sort of incident early this morning around 1 00 and police were called to the scene and they were out here for quite some time. This is a very busy convenience of evident. You k
Agency, dea, to try to get scheduled narcotics on to electronic prescribing. And after years of bureaucratic battle, finally the regulations came out. I think that facilitates via electronic prescribing Prescription Drug monitoring, when you no longer have to go and ask for the paper scripts from individual doctors or from individual pharmacies, you can look at a database and you can see, wait a minute this, fellow is a podiatrist. Why are they prescribing oxycodo oxycodone . They prescribed 500 capsules last month and now theyre prescribing 5,000. Wait a minute. This person has gone to five doctors in five pharmacies for the same prescription. Whats going on . It opens investigatory doors. And yet, years later, its now electronic prescribing for all this stuff. The Prescription Drug monitoring programs dont seem to have yet really come online as a proper investigative tool to give us the common sense information that we need to make these determinations. What are the best next steps t
State university and the university of south dakota law school. From 1973 through 1990, he was a states attorney and prosecuted hundreds of felony cases. He served as the chief Deputy Attorney general for south dakota. In 2002 was elected t eed the s Dakota Attorney general. He has been a judge since then. He created the 24 7 Sobriety Program you will hear about today. Its a zero Tolerance Program for alcohol abusing offenders that give them a chance to dry out and walk right without going to prison. It has been recognized as being effective, efficient and humane. In 2008, council of state governments saw the merit in the program by awarding it an innovations award. The institute for behavior and Health Awarded it the john p. Mcgovern award in 2009. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave it the life savosavers award in 2. To his left is the honorable stephen ohm. Judge ohm is a former prosecutor and now sits as a judge in hawaii. From 1994 to 2001, he was the United St
Afraid to save the life of a Family Member or a loved one because of legal liability. I recently introduced a bill called the opiate overdose reduction act. Its a simple solution to a problem. It extends protections to people who step in to save the lives of a person who is overdosing by administering a drug and that we need a National Good samaritan law so that people will step in. How many lives do you think would be saved if we had such a law . We know one of prime issues why people overdose and die is failure to call 911 in an emergency. Clearly, signaling to people that they shouldnt be afraid to call 911 is a significant advancement in how were going to reduce overdose deaths. A Good Samaritan law would help here . Absolutely. Do you agree with that. Yes. And i think thats really something we can do to pass a law which does provide that can samaritan protection. Doctor, isnt it true that for opiate addicts in prison, treatment approach that works bet best is combining medication