To bring in transportation. We have c 130s coming in. Authorities say that at least 2 Million People are affected in 41 provinces. We will have more from a live report from the ground. In the meantime, lets send it over to andrew. He has this mornings top stories. Good morning, becky. Thauchk. We have some corporate headlines this morning. Avardis is selling its blood testing units for 1. 75 billion. Its a very busy market for health care deals. Also shire has agreed to buy viro viropharma. The deal should boost shires rare disease portfolio. Trans ocean reached an agreement with carl icahn to settle a proxy battle. They will pay a 3 dividend. The activist investor tweeting his response writing in part, quote, great news for transocean and activism today. Joe, over to you, sir. I think he just likes us to say his name. A lot, in any context. Carl icahn in. Yes, pretty much. Icahn, icahn, icahn. In every story, in every headline. Icahn wants to be an icon. He is an icon already. Is that
What danger do you worry about most in cyberspace . I think thats impressively not necessary. If you have been reading the papers and talking to your friends and colleagues across the private sector, but i would say four things about cyberspace, not entirely well understood by the public that makes use of that. I think therefore we still have some surprises that have insidiously crept up on us. The first thing i would say cyberspace, the internet writ large is not really this Massive Technology that acts as oftentimes is considered as just another version of the voter poll, fix it. Whatever technology, whatever aplukys we need to make it resilient, just do that. Its of course, a mix of technology and people and critical process. And theyre so interlocked its almost impossible to tease one out from the other so you cant delegate this to the i. T. Shop and say fix it. The other thing is everything is connected to everything. Convergence is the reality. For those who think they have an of
Think is americas number one priority . The president will be talking about it on tuesday. The numbers you can also send us an email, join us at corridor. Com twitter. Com cspanwj. Great expectations, immigration is one of the issues on the president s agenda. He may get much of what he wants in part because a bipartisan support on the issue of immigration. He will look for ways to declare victory on guns and Climate Change. The focus on the economy, that is one headline we are getting. The front page of the Washington Post the reporting of scott wilson, the chief White House Reporter for the Washington Post. Chris van hollen is our guest on cspans newsmakers program. He is a leading democrat in the house of representatives. The president will be delivering his state of the Union Address this week. I think he will address those questions. We are so caught up in dealing with these shortterm, self imposed crises that is undermining our ability to come up with a longterm comprehensive pla
Offering, yielding the 8 range. Thats juicy, tempting. But we start with Sheila Dharmarajan and a very controversial new drug, oxycodone very prone to abuse. This is a more potent variant. Yes, it is super potent. Its also super controversial. I want to talk a little about the drug because its important here. It is a painkiller marketed by a small company. The active ingredient is hydrocodo hydrocodone, the same stuff you find in vicodin but unlike vicodin, this is pure hydrocodone in a higher dosage form. Thats actually the positives of the drug because it makes it very effective for chronic pain sufferers and also avoids some of the liver issues connected with longterm use of acetaminophen. This has been controversial from the getgo. The fda approved it against the advice of its own advisory panel. That only happens about 10 to 15 of the time. Since that approval, critics have been calling for the fda to reverse its decision. They are basically saying look, we dont need another power
See if i can do this rachel thing without rachel no, thats not going to work. You know if you were watching this program last week, there is a special Congressional Election in the Santa Clarita area outside of los angeles tomorrow but all the voters have been mailed ballots in that Congressional Election. So they could all vote by mail. They dont have to go to the polls. Well see how this one works out. As the country begins to open up, were going to have to understand the different risk levels that we face. For example, which is more dangerous, sitting in a restaurant or sitting in a Conference Room with fellow workers . Which propels more infected droplets into the air, a sneeze or a cough . The answer is a sneeze. Sneeze is much more dangerous. Theres plenty of answers like that to questions like that that you need to know. Person who knows the answer to all of those questions and more will join us at the end of the hour with the practical advice you absolutely need right now every