Is erin bliss, he was with health and Human Services department and is the assistant Inspector General for evaluation and inspections, welcome to the program. Good morning. Remind people of the role ofthe Inspector General office is in comparison to hhs itself. Our mission is to protect the integrity of health and Human Services programs such as medicare and the healthand wellbeing of the people that they serve. So we do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. You turn your attention recently to the topic of hospice. Why is that, what are you looking to find out . The health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our Top Priorities and help is a particularly vulnerable population so we looked at information about deficiencies being cited at Health Providers related to quality of care and patient harm. Expand on that, what doyou find looking into this . A report shed light on how common it is to have as providers to be sided with so
In effect for our region. Some places could climb to the mid 90s. So it is no surprise that surfers are in the water. We sent skyfox up above the mavericks surf break. A lot of people there more than usual. Some big waves coming in. You have to be very experienced to do this kind of surfing and a mark tamayo group here in the bay area, big time surfer yourself, but you say not even you are going to try to brave those waves. Oh, no, that is next level stuff. As you can see off the coast of pillar point. But i will say, even if you were heading to a normal beach, even the waves can be very dangerous. So even even a ten foot wave could cause some some real some real danger. So just be extra careful. I know the coast is tempting today, but theres a lot of energy out there. Offshore october heat, its here today. Temperatures will be peaking for the week. Temperatures well up above the average. A heat advisory in place. And with the pattern, especially this time of year, fire danger is somew
Maria good friday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this friday. Hope youre having a good morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is friday, september 29. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. Gop president ial candidate nikki haley called out the Biden Administration for making the United States more dependent on china, she said so during the second primary debate wednesday. Watch this. You have a company, u. S. Antibiotics that produces a pox amoxicillin and theres a company in bristol, tennessee that produces that yet our federal government only gets it from china. We need to focus on companies that produce in america and supporting those companies that produce in america. Not companies that are helping china. Maria so the u. S. Importing nearly 7 billion worth of drugs from china in 2022. That number is up from 820 million just a year earlier, 2021. The surge reportedly being driven by chemotherapy drugs and cardiovascular drugs as well as infe
Growing up on long island they said get the federal job to do work for thel post office. Why . Because they take care of their own. I have family who owned business. Business. Equity to work for the government and this whole thing is out of control. Half the people unit in . They can complete a full sentence we are breaking away to keep our over 40 year commitment to live coverage of congress. Today the senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote to start work on a shortterm spending bill that would avert a Government Shutdown this coming saturday at midnight. The focus boat is set forn time. Now live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Lord and king, you are forever. Send your light and truth to guide our senators. As they move into crisis mode in an attempt to avoid a Government Shutdown, give them insights that will help them solve the riddles of these times. Empower them to possess discernment in order to know what is right. Imbue them with a pass
I take my oxygen from them. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Eerie, pennsylvania, shattered the state record with over 50 inches nearly fourandahalffeet of snow fell in just under 36 hours. The snow pack forced trucks to be dug out, along with cars and streets blanketed with snow. In ohio, the visibility and Hazardous Conditions backed up traffic on a portion of interstate 90, forcing authorities to drop the speed limit from 65 Miles Per Hour to 30 Miles Per Hour. And kansas city, missouri, the snow and ice caused many accidents on the highways. In one crash, four people were killed. Not to be outdone, record frigid temperatures sent the midwest into a deep freeze. Parts of wisconsin experienced minus20degree weather, and minneapolis had a low of negative 2, but the sixdegree wind chill in aurora, illinois, didnt stop people from shopping after christmas sales. Were from around here, so we go to School Downtown so ill really used to the wind chill. Reporter now, the snowfal