Declared the Opioid Epidemic a Public Health emergency. What will be the impact of him doing that on the ground . Its welcome, but theres no money there. If you look at some county, portage county, my district, you need money. Money on the ground for law enforcement, money for the First Responders addressing a lot of these issues. And mostly you need the money for treatment. This is not alcohol addiction. These drugs are very potent, a 30day or 60day stay in rehab is not enough. You need maybe three, four, five months to get yourself off of this and get yourself well. And i think sometimes a lot of people just dont understand the level of devastation in some of these communities. Youre talking money nation would, how much would you like to see going to this crisis . We sent a letter to the president to fully fund all the programs and comprehensive recovery act we passed a few months ago, it was a bipartisan bill. We had democrats and republicans working on it. We need about 10 billion
Thank you very much im going to turn it im going to turn it back over to the alexandria chief. Thank you, chief. Were not not folk, were not going to answer any questions at this point, because as the chief pointed out this is an active, Ongoing Investigation. We call the crime scene hot because were collecting information and evidence and it would be premature for us to respond any further in an hour and a half well come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps give you answers to some questions. But chief, any indication were done right now. Any other shooters this is a stable situation, theres no additional threat we consider this to be about closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. Well be back in an hour and half. That was Michael Brown there we continue to monitor this breaking news out of alexandria, virginia, this morning if youre just joining us, a gunman opening fire on a gop congressional baseball practice around 7 15 this mor
Rounds before he was taken down by Capitol Police. The security detail for congressman scalise. We are on the scene right now. Reporter as you can see behind me there is still a very heavy Police Presence here. We have seen some of the fire vehicles leave and others but if you look down behind me here and see where these police cars, to the left is the park and you have seen some of the video closer up. As you can tell police have moved us several blocks away. The incident under control according to police. Five people taken to the hospital that include the shooter. As you mentioned, congressman Steve Scalise and a staffer or lobbyist and potentially one or two of the security detail that were with the congressmen and returned fire. I was able to talk just a few minutes ago to owen britain who was in the ymca right next to the park. He was walking out about 7 05 and somebody said shots are being fired. He went outside and looked outside and actually saw the man. Heres part of what do w
Would be premature for us to respond any further. In an hour and a half, well come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps maybe answer some questions. Chief, any other shooters out there . This is a stable situation at this point. Theres no additional threat. We consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. And the suspect in custody, correct . The suspect in custody . There you have it. The first weve heard from the Alexandria Police and the chief of the u. S. Capitol police. A press conference in an hour and a half, in which well learn more details. Theyre bringing investigators together, trying to find out everything they know. As we have said throughout this morning since we heard about this, it is always better to be cautious about what you know until you hear officially from people who have the responsibility to know. Police were certainly cautious there, saying its an active, hot investigation. They wer
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