Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
In california this year. Thats another case involving someone who traveled internationally in yolo county. And theres a zika case in San Diego County involving a woman who just got back from colombia. All of them are recovering. Officialing at the centers for Disease Control delivering some ominous news about the spread of zika virus. Puerto rico is at great risk for the virus, where 1 in 5 residents could be infected. They estimate 700,000 people on the u. S. Territory could be infected by the end of this year. The cdc says they do not think they are able to stop the outbreak. As i said, its ominous. Developing news this evening, investigators in brisbane have confirmed a dismembered body is that of a missing woman. Thats been the sus spigs. The remains of shelly tichner first turned up last month. Hikers located additional remains over the weekend. Her husband, paul, reported her missing the day before valentines day. He committed suicide by jumping off the bay bridge soon after the
Expect that one of our family members would be involved. You can read the entire statement at wcpo dot com. Meantime today was the first day back to class for madison local schools. There was extra security extra counselingb ut also a sense of hope as students and staff tried to get back on track 9 on your sides butler and Warren County reporter jay warren is live for us this afternoon from madison townshipjay . . Jay . . In talking to madison local schools superintendent Curtis Philpot this first day back went about as well as it could have the Butler County Sheriffs Office had an increased presence here today and counselors were available for kids who needed to talk today an orderly dismissal as kids filed out the front of the schoola far cry from what it must have been like as kids ran out in the confusion of mondays gunfire perhaps the most difficult time today was the 8th grade lunch which is when the shooting happened came down to eat with the 8th graders in the cafeteria there w
With more or this change of course. Reporter our investigation took us to texas, we drove the highway in question, 130 in texas. Got a first hand account what it was like, opened our eyes because not many people were driving on that highway out there. A toll road just like i77 would be here in charlotte. Now i want to show you video of that highway there, 130 in texas, the company that operates that road declared bankruptcy on wednesday, that road is owned by a subsidiary of the spanish company, cintra, the same company contracted by ncdot to build the i77 toll lanes. North carolinas transportation secretary is now looking for a way to break the states contract and that is welcome news to Mecklenburg County commissioner jim puckett who was against this from the beginning. The end of the day what you have is this is an embarrassment, ncdot used texas as the poster child why this is great financially and from a really blows up in their face. Reporter now we also reached out to cintra, th
Biden. He is taller. Reporter we have a Winter Weather advisory that kicks in at 10 00. It doesnt expire until 1 00 p. M. Friday afternoon. Were up past philadelphia and lower bucks and Montgomery County and points south we have the possibility of slick roads developing because of light snow coming in. Those of you farther to the north will see some of this, but not as much. Satellite we are off to a sunny start, its going to be cold, 28 degrees in philadelphia currently and 23 degrees as you step out the door in reading and allentown. At that in trenton. 26 in wilmington, 27 in wildwood. Not a lot of wind out there, but enough to give you windchills in the teens in some areas and out in reading. Feels like 12 degrees this morning. Bundle up a bit. Heading out to the driveway or bus stop, clear and cold and brisk. Temperatures in the upper 20s. 31 degrees, below freezing by 10 00 a. M. High of 39 degrees at 3 00 p. M. Wind not a strong, but the clouds increase as we go later into the d