The eastern United States, with record breaking low temperatures that have already claimed several lives. Good morning. Its friday 5th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Chairman of the parole board has apologised unreservedly for not telling of the release ofjohn worboys. He was jailed in 2009. The black cab driver was jailed in 2009 for offences against 12 women, but detectives believe he carried out more than a hundred rapes and sexual assaults. This morning a Cross Party Group of mps has written to thejustice secretary to call for an investigation as to whether the voices of victims were heard in the decision to release him on parole. The parole Board Chairman said he recognised there was a lack of transparency and would hold a Public Consultation. Our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, has more. For six years, john worboys cruised smart areas of london in his black cab, looking for women to drug and rape. When he was finally caught, thejudge said h
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Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. But there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. Member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. But this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin as calling th
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