This event should get under way shortly. Nuclear experts will discuss the u. S. And Chinas Nuclear weapons policy. Theyll address how to promote dialogue and understanding. While we wait for this event to get under way, heres whats happening tonight on the cspan networks. Republican president ial candidate donald trump continues on the campaign trail. Today, even though hes now the only republican running for the nomination, the new york businessman is going to be in west virginia, which holds its primary on tuesday. Hell address supporters at a rally in charleston and cspan will have live coverage at 7 00 eastern. Tonight on American History tv primetime, a look at Church Committee. It was set up after watergate to look at possible intelligence gathering by the cia and fbi that led to the creation of todays intelligence committees in the house and senate. It begins at 8 00 eastern. Right now, waiting for the discussion on how to promote dialogue and understanding between the u. S. And
Weather service reported a tornado touching down new new orleans. Since friday the remnants of Hurricane Patricia have dumped more than a foot of water on to some parts of texas, what had been a category 5 storm lost much of its strength. It caused widespread flooding that made highways and roads impassable. 50 miles south of dallas, a Freight Train derailed after floods washed away the tracks. By most accounts the state weather will. No deaths have been reported. A san antonio man was reported. He was swept into a drainage ditch. What is happening there now. Sounds like the rain has not stopped . No, its not as heavy, theres a lot of eyes on the river outside of houston, its a river that has been known to cause major problems when it comes to flooding. The totals here, were not nearly as high as we saw yesterday, they had to shut down the internet state. Receiving 20 inches of rain. The totals for the weekend. Here in the area, and the galveston area, there was flooding, but the total
Thought about todays hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. With the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. Cdc works 24 7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. But we must do that work more safely and we will. Theres a recap of the recent incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and were just at the outset of our investigation of the influenza contamination. Id be pleased to go through the two diagrams weve provided to the subcommittee which outlined what we know to date. But in brief, the anthrax incident shows deeply troubling problems. A lack of proper protocol, incorrect inactivation procedures. Failure to ensure that we were transferring materials that were sterile when we thought they were sterile. Use
Solve, but we think it would be worth spending some time even at a theoretical strategic level to address the issue and think through how we go about doing it in the future. Dr. Frieden, what are your views here in terms of the growing numbers of of the labs and just what how to move forward with the activity here in the u. S. . I do think this is a complicated topic for which theres probably not a quick and simple solution, but just logically, the more places with dangerous pathogens goes on, the more possibility there is of accidents or accidental releases. So ensuring that the work that happens is happening in a safe environment is critical and the key concept i think we have to apply is riskbenefit. I dont think we can ever guarantee zero risk for some of the things that are done that we can do everything humanly possible to get that risk as low as possible, but we have to ensure that the benefit is something thats reasonably likely to occur. Thank you. Thank you very much. With th
Good evening. On behalf of the entire staff thank you very much coming out on this wet evening. Please turn off your cell phones and as they get to question and answer there is the microphone over there really appreciate it if you would make your way to it if you would like to ask a question we have the cameras here going. Finally at the end please help our staff by folding up the chairs. We are delighted to have with us a very prolific writer of narrative history Hampton Sides has several bestselling works among them ghost soldiers of the prison camp in the philippines and more than 500 pows it sold more than 1 million copies since its release in 2002 another of his made some best vocalist in 2006 when it came out. Four years ago we tackled the murder of Martin Luther king, jr. And now with the release of the kingdom in the kingdom of ice s. The subtitle says the grand and terrible polar voyage of the uss jeanette which started 1879. His background is in magazine journalism and has al