The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning all. Dr. Collins, welcome back to the labor hhs education appropriations subcommittee. Let me also welcome all of you, the five institute and Center Directors who are joining in this morning. Dr. Bianki, director of the u. S. Kenne kenne Kennedy Shriver National Institute and committee. Dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Dr. Gary gibbons, director of the national heart, lung and Blood Institute. Dr. Ned sharpless, director of the National Cancer institute, and director of the National Institute on drug abuse. Again, welcome, welcome, welcome to all of you. This is leader hoyer asked me this morning, he said do you have the nih coming . I said, yes, indeed. And he said, are you ultimately going to be able to get all the Institute Directors to come up. This is one of the most remarkable hearings that we have, and we thank you for the great work that you do and what a difference you ma
Technology help us get more out of oui Technology Help us get more out of our workers and businesses . Productivity problems are a big issue for the chancellor in next weeks budget, so i am at this trade fair show of innovation this morning to see if i can find any solutions. In sport delight for denmark, but despair for the republic of ireland, beaten in their world cup qualifying playoff. And carol has the weather. A very good morning. Good morning. It isa a very good morning. Good morning. It is a fairly cloudy start across england, wales and Northern Ireland. We have also got some patchy mist and fog and some rain and drizzle. The brightest skies today are going to be across scotland. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story soldiers in zimbabwe have broadcast a message on state run television, after shooting and explosions were heard in the capital, harare. Military officers have denied the move amounted to a coup, and say president mugabe and his family
1 00 a. M. , water rescue unit lies on the bank of the river that flows through the city. The team is not allowed even a moment of sleep. They monitor the situation. A man gets out of a taxi on the bridge. What is he doing . Its unusual for a person to get out of car on the bridge. Unfortunately, people get out of taxis and jump. The man was on the 1. 4 mapo bridge, an important traffic artery through seoul. Its south koreas most famous place for suicides. Someone jumps at least once every day. A Fast Response can often save lives. Nationwide over 10,000 people a year commit suicide in south korea. The country has the highest suicide rate of any industrialized nation. A new segment is covering an elderly suicide. S segment is co elderly suicide. He lived on benefits with no family. The number of elderly suicides is rising, becoming a social issue. The number of suicides per 100,000 people are shown in the chart. Theres been a huge increase in suicides over the age of 60. Half of all el
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Help for a vision problem which was believed to be psychosomatic, mean made worse by his mental state. He was given not fit to work notes by those doctors. Those doctors did not believe he was fit for the cockpit. He in fact tore up the notes because they were found in his apartment. We know he was described heavy depression medication. Will im going to interrupt you. This is the spokesman for the Public Prosecutor in germany. Translator the prosecution together with the police in dusseldorf have secured documents with data we have secured a socalled tablet and analyzed it personal correspondence and search show the dhef r device was used by the copilot from 16th to 23rd of march is recorded on this device. Translator at one day there was some information about the cockpit doors. We cannot confirm and inform this because of the assessment of the analysis. The documents are comprehensive, and we would not be able to inform you about this in the coming days. Thank you. All right. A very