Timbre, founder and chief strategist, carly mcwilliams, Senior Advisor to the fda commissioner, waring, a washington correspondent with usa today. Jennifer rodriguez, dena, medicine and health editor, kathleen quinn, Senior Advisor to the fda commissioner. Here, we have lisa matthews, Vice President and coleader of the Headliners Team. We have bill pierce, senior director of the National Press club headliners who organize todays event. Allison, how policy for an pr, jim spencer, a correspondent to the star tribune. Doctor charles snyderman, health and science correspondent for audio video. Thank you for joining us. [applause] want to take a moment to acknowledge members of the Headliners Team responsible for organizing the luncheon, betsy, laura, heather, and lindsay. Thank you all. For cspan public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction even here is not necessarily from the working press. So, being a succ
Next, the head of the fda talks about efforts to evaluate and approve new pharmaceutical treatments and the fbis role in combating the bid epidemic. This is one hour. [inaudible] good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The place were news happens. My mantra, part of the bloomberg breaking news desk and Vice President of the club. Like to remind you to please silence your phones. For our viewing and listening audience, please follow the program on twitter using the and pc live. Like to please hold the applause till all of the guests are introduced. Guess, please stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, we have sarah riordan, with nature magazine, timbre, founder and chief strategist, carly mcwilliams, Senior Advisor to the fda commissioner, waring, a washington correspondent with usa today. Jennifer rodriguez, dena, medicine and health editor, kathleen quinn, Senior Advisor to the fda commissioner. Here, we have lisa matthews, Vice President and coleader of
Its also been confirmed that one of the suicide bombers was caught near turkeys border with syria and was deported to the netherlands in 2015. Turkey warned dutch and belgian officials that he was a foreign terrorist fighter. Inexplicable developments there, alice. Thank you so much. The search continues for americans who have not been heard from since the blast. Sasha and alex had just arrived to the airport to check in tuesday for a flight to new york. They were on the phone with family when the connection was cut after the first blood. Justin and Stephanie Schultz of kentucky had just dropped her mother off at the airport in brussels when the bomb went off. The state department is struggling to get as much information as possible to loved ones. Many of the injured went to a broad swath of hospitals and trying to get Accurate Information on the nationalities and the identities of these injured has been tough. As they wait, families are someone can provide some concrete information. N
Sierra leone. The country is officially declared ebola free and saving the worlds frogs how scientists in panama are trying to stop a mystery disease first to egypt, where the head of the joint Team Investigating the plane crash last week in the sinai said a noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording. The administration bolsters british and u. S. Suspicions that a bomb brought down the russian airliner, killing 224 on board. Egypt is continuing to resist the bomb theory, saying that all scenarios are still being considered. Paul brennan has the latest. Reporter its been seven days since metro jet 9268 fell out of the sky, taking 224 people to their deaths. Flowers were laid at the crash site in the desert on saturday. After a week of leaks and rumours, an u. N. Official statement from the egyptian crash investigators. The debris is scattered over a wide area, more than 13km in length. Which is consistent with an inflight breakup. Some parts of the wreckage are mi
Letting you get on to the new jersey turnpike. You are just going to come to a dead stop there. They have flipped the signs encouraging you over to the eastern spur. That is on the left side of your screen. You can see not really very much better, so if you can avoid the turnpike at all costs that would be your best bet. Even the southbound side eastern and western spur. As you said you can see the smoke for miles. It is jam packed beyond belief, and unfortunately its only going to get worse. We will keep you updated as we get more information on this. Back to you guys. What about injuries . Front is. You know, we have not heard anything about injuries yet, but i cant imagine this was a very good accident. Clearly this tanker truck caught fire. We do want to show you one other thing here short of as a side note, if you look a little further up the new jersey turnpike, weve got two civilian vehicles that are off to the shoulder as well. We believe that they were somehow involved in the