Change how doctors think about prescribing opioids, encouraging them to prescribe much shorter durations of treatment. Lower doses of the medications. And also in many cases, encouraging them to think about not starting a patient on opioid, if thats not necessary. Other kinds of perception medications, even trying modification first to deal with pain. Host executive action from the president yesterday, the cdc making initial guidelines on overprescribing. What about on capitol hill . As the senate left, they just pass the bill dealing with opioid addiction. What would that do . Sarah that bill would direct some money the federal government already appropriated. It would do two things. It would try and help support prevention programs, once thats try and prevent drug abuse and from even beginning. Also help support treatment programs throughout the country to help those suffering from drug abuse. Host seems like one of the big amendments was some 600 million by senator shaheen. That ame
Ago vicious blow to says head that put the 68yearold grandfather in critical condition. Every day he drives to the Senior Center to cook and volunteer for hundreds of seniors at the local Senior Center. He was doing his regular thing, the middle of the afternoon and he was struck down by this attacker. The man has to be 2 1 2 times his size. Reporter to lung blind side him, hit him so hard, its an act reporter now anderson was charged with felony assault. Hes due back in court on thursday. His sister could be facing departmental charges. Meanwhile, the family is deciding whether to pull the plug on their father. Reporting on the upper east side, cefaan kim channel 7 Eyewitness News. Such a tragedy. A former marine sentenced to life in prison without 21yearold sarah goode. She had been stabbed 40 times. Eyewitness news reporter, n. J. Burkett is at the courthouse with much more. N. J. Reporter liz, this crime was so brutal, the knife, the murder weapon was actually found in pieces. Even
I think there is something to that. The way i would summarize it would be to say the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but the margins of our lead are contracting. And what that means in terms of policy is that big problems in the world cannot be solved without the United States, but the United States can no longer be solving them alone or be dictating to others exactly how they get solved. So the premium in these coming years for the United States, i think, as the leading power in the world, is going to be on Coalition Building and alliance management. When we think about terrorism, think about cyber terrorism and big ideas of the chinese around the world i think the nature of our leadership is changing. It has to change. Ive written a lot about u. S. Power. At the end of the day when you add it all up, all the factors of power in the world, compare china, russia, United States, the United States still comes out ahead in almost everything, innovation, demo
One last point, what does donald trump think about all of this . Hes on the show in this hour. Varney company is it be to begin. All right everybody im going to give you a chain of events that produced what is going to be a big selloff a half hour from now. Governments in europe and japan started keeping some of the money that you lent to them. Give them 100 and you get the 99 back that is bad. Banks not make money with this going on. Down go bank stocks way down. Thats bad. But price of oil crashes to a new low. Stocks take another hit. Independent Oil Companies are insolvent that is bad. Worldwide financial turmoil yes theres a flight to safety. That is what is going on. Heres market watcher jeff seeker. All right jeff, heres the question everybody ising can ask this. Is this a repeat of 2008 . I think theres a lot of similarities. I think theres things about market that concern me more than 2008. Primarily because this is a market that has been built on this sense of desperation tha
Coming up today, the brookings is tuition here in washington will host the turkish president for an address on the challenges facing his country, as it approaches its 100th anniversary in 2033. Live coverage at 12 30 eastern. We also have road to the white house coverage. Cruz and former republican candidate Carly Fiorina will be in appleton, wisconsin talking and meeting with voters at a pizza store. At 4 00, a panel looking at the opportunities and risks of network smartphones. Analysts predict that domain will double in size by the year 2020. That is a nearly 2 trillion market. That is from the Atlantic Council starting at 4 00. This week, we are featuring programs on the situation of the Current Supreme Court vacancy. An apparent impasse between democrats, the white house, and republicans over the next Supreme Court justice, we look at what todays leaders have said in the past considering the nomination and confirming process of individuals to the Supreme Court. Confirmation hearin