Last year for people under the age of 50 is Drug Overdose. That is according to data by Public Health agencies compile over time. That is more than the highest car crash was 54,000 and 1872. More than a 50,000 who died from agerelated publications in 1995 and more than 39,000 who died from gun violence including homicides, suicides and accidents in 1993. Two hours here on cspan, we want to take an in problem, k at the hearing from state officials on the front lines of the opioid medical professionals who treat addiction, lawmakers from hard hit areas, we want to in just a little bit. Well open our phone lines and you how the Opioid Epidemic is affecting you personally, first, part of our conversation from the author of he book dream land, the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. I want to ask you about something you wrote on your blog. Days g about heroin these is another way of writing about america. Who we are and what weve become. That. Ou explain sure. I began, it began to occur
Thanks for joining us. Alexei navalny, russian opposition leader, has been for 15 days. The 40yearold was arrested on walked to a protest in moscow, after organizing a anticorruption demonstrations. Reporter after spending a night in custody, Alexei Navalny appeared at a court in moscow where he was sentenced to 15 for disobeying the Police Officer at an anticorruption demonstration. The 40yearold has also been ordered to pay a fine of 20,000 rubles or about 350 euros for massole in organizing the rallies, held across russia on sunday. I think yesterdays events are quite that there a large number of voters in russia who support the program candidate who speaks up against corruption. These people demand Political Representation and i strive to the political representative for them. Thats why i have the right to run for office. Reporter navalny left the court sentence. Is they will appeal the verdict. Most of those arrested for freeds rallies have been from custody. They have demanded th
Of the 21st century. When sport is about more than about winning. The men who embodied the marathon spirit. Maybe i was a bit overzealous in my support. It was wonderful. It was needed, needed to kind of hit home as well. Yes. Coming up in the sport on bbc news. 11 months on, can rafa and newcastle return to the Premier League . A win against preston tonight in the championship and theyll be back at the first time of asking. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. French voters face a clear choice in the next two weeks. The run off in the president ial race will be between two political outsiders who have left mainstream parties on the sidelines. Emmanuel macrons En Marche Party which is barely a year old won the most votes. Hell face Marine Le Pen. Its more than 20 years since the Front National made it to this stage of the electoral process. A victory for either of them could have profound implications for the eu, and for brexit. Heres our paris correspondent lucy williamson
This morning by a fire. At least one of those units badly. I want to show you some of the action that took place this morning from our chopper. They are not saying how the fire started yet, but we do know that the investigation is ongoing. We have seen san jose fire crews here. We have seen San Jose Police officers here. It started around 7 30 in the morning. And whatever caused the fire did quite a bit of damage. Five people displaced five adults and five children have been displaced and one firefighter was sent to the hospital with minor injuries. Reporter now, we are told that that firefighter we are told that that firefighter will be okay. Earlier this morning witnesses tell us that crews were helping some of the people who lived back here remove some of the items. We dont know where those people were taken. As you heard, several people were displaced by the fire and we expect this investigation to go on further into the day. Reporting live in san jose, scott budman. What is starti
Time filling in, westbound 580 tracy to dublin is an hour and flight delays westbound 4 from antioch to concord and southbound 101 looking good. His head bloody his representation battered and bruce miller waking up without a job. We her from police and the 49 evers and we are still waiting to hear from the former tightend about what happened at a hotel on the wharf. Amy hollyfield has what we me this morning. River morning for him and now he is making the newspapers and i am finding a lot of disagreement on twitter, one opinion asking, what is wrong with bruce miller . Lock him up. He is out of jail and keeping quiet. We tried to talk to him and went to his santa clara home and his mom mate said he would not have a comment. Here is the Surveillance Video of him on monday morning bloody and disoriented. He want to the wrong hotel room on Fisherman Wharf and got in a fight with a 29yearold map and officers say he pudge him and punched his 70yearold father who was trying to stick up for