Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
our friend martha is back today. martha: good morning. it is a deadly epidemic. we have covered it extensively. it reaches all states, all walks of life, all kinds of families. the powerful opioid known as fentanyl is an indiscriminate killer took the lives of all these people whose faces you see on the screen right now and teens at a record pace. in 2021 fentanyl was identified in 77% of as lessent drug deaths. cartels have an enormous business. they will stop at nothing turning the drug into a weapons of mass destruction. lindsey graham says it is time to fight back. here is what i would say. america is under attack of the our nation is being attacked by foreign powers called drug cartels in mexico. this is the largest attack on american s homeland by a foreign power in the history of the nation. 70,000 americans were poisoned by fentanyl last year. we need to take the gloves off. they are at war with us. we need to be at war with them. bill: we go to texas, school di
watch this. we made it just in time. it was right on top of us. this is devastating. i have so many family members, friends, memories that has been destroyed. this is a whole community that has lost everything. so, it is just very sad here. it s going to take a long time for people to heal to get back on their feeds. alexandria hoff from washington with the latest. this is horrible for these people. you can hear her break in their voice and the center of the community blown away essentially. ashley, todd, the white house said things like temporary housing loans for uninsured property will become available for the residents of mississippi county pummeled by the storm. homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas took a tour of small delta community which residency it is nothing but a hollowed show. flower shop, beauty shop, barber, law offices down the street all gone. an auto parts store, a local restaurant that has been there for i don t know how many years, since i w
democratic candidate for governor katie hobbs. a source shows this is the man who broke in earlier in the week. they have blurred his face. they have not identified any suspects in the case. items were taken but the hobbs campaign says it hasn t been able to get a full inventory. the campaign says hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of violent threats since she declared, which she blamed on her republican opponent. quote, let s be clear, for nearly two years carrie lake and her allies have been insighting threats against anyone they see. these are the direct result of a concerted campaign for lies. carrie lake pushing back. i m saddened that hobbs and her camp would try to pin this on us. it s defamatory and it s wrong and it s so obvious what s happening. her own party is attacking her. she s trying to deflect her own abysmal campaign and the fact that, you know, nobody even knows where her campaign office is. person who broke into it probably didn t even realize it wa
family and my livelihood. i m no coward. but i am a realist. and i choose to protect my identity to protect those i love. herschel walker is a hypocrite. and he is not fit to be a u.s. senator. we don t need people in the u.s. senate who profess one thing and do another. there is another woman now claiming that georgia senate candidate pressured her to have an abortion. we ll take you through the details of this new accusation in just a moment. president biden s canal pain calendar is looking light tw just 12 days left until the mid terms. there is growing anxiety inside the white house about keeping control of congress. and also ahead, the latest from iran, where protests continue 40 days after the death of a young woman detained by the country s so-called morality post. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, october 27th. i m jonathan lemire. we ll begin today with the new allegation against herschel walker. another woman has come forward accusing th