Classic moments of life and in 2011, it was selected in the issue, one of the best photos in life magazine for the past 75 years. American history tv, all weekend, every weekend, only on cspan3. The house energy and commerce subcommittee on health met yesterday to hear testimony from members of congress about how the nations Opioid Epidemic has affected their districts and their constituents. Texas congressman, michael burgess, chaired this hearing. Its three hours and fifteen minutes. The subcommittee will come to order and ill recognize myself for an opening statement. The United States of america is in the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic brought to us by opioids. It does not matter where you live, this crisis has touched every corner of american society. While new england and the ohio valley regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic, Health Officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all report a growing number of Overdose Deaths in those c
Order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insights and solutions on this critical issue. The energy in Congress Committee led several bipartisan initiatives. And the comprehensive Addiction Recovery alct and the 21st century act are now law at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The inflicted passage of kara and cures. As a result, patients now have greater access to evidencebased treatment, adiks
Those are only two of my good things. I dont want to tell you about the bad things. But he really helped me. I had had had somebody that guided me and he had a very, very tough life because of alcohol, believe me. Members of the u. S. House met recently about combatting the Opioid Epidemic. They also shared their own stories in dealing with opioids and other drugs. Subcommittee will come to order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insigh
Yesterday. Satellite and radar High Pressure that gave us the Beautiful Day yesterday still in control of the weather pattern its the dominant feature on the map over washington, d. C. Its keeps all the clouds and showers away and pushes them out to sea and keeps us high and dry. A repeat performance of yesterday, mostly sunny skies, breezy, comfortable, High Temperatures around 63 degrees. We get warmer as we head into election day followed by a huge cool down next weekend, when i come back well have the details in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Look forward to the update. Firefighters had to rescue three family members including an infant after a frightening overnight fire. This morning the investigators are calling the fire suspicious. The action cam was on the scene on the 2600 blo of mansion street in the grays ferry section. Firefighters arrived to fine the home engulfed in flames. A woman was screaming for help from a second floor window. She and a man and baby wer
Local time. This is the largest quake we have felt in tokyo this year. To give you an idea of the intensity, in japan, they have a one to seven scale. This was about a five. Its a very strong quake, felt all the way out here. The big concern right now is the possibility of a tsunami along the northeast coast of japan. That is the same area that was devastated last year during 2011. Right now, we have not seen any reports of tsunami waves just yet. The Meteorological Agency here has forecast waves about three feet high to hit the miyagi prefecture. Weve not gotten any reports of a tsunami. But all of those cities along the coast have been told to evacuate, just as a precaution. You can imagine, theyre taking that warning very seriously after that whey experienced last year. I was going to say, any immediate dangers reported right now, though . Reporter we are not hearing of any immediate reports of damages or injuries. I got off the phone with tepco that operates the Fukushima Nuclear p