All right, y all right, you guys, why dont we go ahead and call this session to order. If everybody who is all right. You guys, whoever is going to whoever is going to be in, get in. Whoever is not, dont. All right. Thank you all thank you all so much. Can i have everybodys attention in the room, please . Thank you so much. I know time is precious for a lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests with us and i want to make sure everybodys time is honored, and im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country and there is no reason to believe that its going to abate, all of us are going to suffer through disasters of some type or another and cities along with states and the federal government have been working very, very hard before and significantly after september 11th to make sure that we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen s
Lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests and i want to make sure that everybodys time is honored. Im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country, and theres no reason to believe its going to abate. All of us are going to suffer through disasters of one type or another, and cities along with states and the federal government, have been working very, very hard, before and significantly after september 11th to make sure we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen so we prepare for them, and so that we build in a way where were resilient. When bad things happen we are not hurt nearly as wood bad and other im thread tile elaine duke, who oversees fema and the recovery agencies as well. Mayor Sylvester Turner of houston, texas, who went through his own trauma. The mayor of key west florida. Paul rain worth who has served in many cap
Live pictures coming from las vegas as authorities start to update us on the investigation into this deadly mass shooting. Just bear with me a second. Well get started here just shortly. [ pause ] hello, everybody. Hello. That was a terrible response. [ laughter ] so, um, thank you for being courteous with the mics this time. Well, good evening. Obviously, im Sheriff Joe Lombardo with clark county. This has been this will be one of many press conferences we have provided in order to provide the Public Information that is occurring. And then so the sequence of these events tonight, i will provide you some can we get some help back there . [ pause ] i will provide you a sequence of some updates of the investigation as we have moved forward since last time we spoke to you. Any specifics or continuance of any Global Investigative leads that you need to be aware of, um, special agent aaron rouse will produce those, that information associated with that. Okay . And then subsequently i will r
The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis began in 1980 when a letter to the editor in the journal of medicine was misinterpreted as evidence. It was unlikely someone become addicted out of 4000 cases a center was only four connections. Years later the joint Commission Following the american medical associations recommendation assessment established standards for Pain Management interpreted by many doctors as encouraging the prescription of
Care of workers. I apologize if things got heated that you made some pretty rough insinuations. So thank you. Testify about recycling projects. Technology investments and private sector incentives. This energy and Natural Resources subcommittee hearing is chaired by senator jeff fla flake. [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee on water and power will come to order. For the purpose of todays hearing is to receive testimony on water supply and drought issues. We will hear testimony on a range of topics including infrastructure supplied, certainty of planning and innovative Management Practices that are critical to maintaining the secure Water Supplies that includes items that are crucial to arizona such as the Colorado River drought planning and watershed restoration better use of existing reservoirs, the reliable water supply and drought protection cannot be achieved without infrastructure and forward thinking management and plann