top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
a growing number of victims deadly opioid overdoses are children under the age of 5. let s think about that for a minute on accidental poisonings. jacqueline howard joins us with details. how does this happen? how do children under 5 get poisoned by this? i know. it s so disturbing, but this study shows it s a consequence of the ongoing opioid epidemic. the more people who have opioids in the home the more likely a young child might come across that and become accidentally exposed. this new study also says that when you look at that time period 201918, opioids were the most common substance contributing to fatal poisonings and it was followed by then over the counter pain, cold and
that s already a problem in america. politicians and parents alike are pushing for kids to return to school pointing to the damaging mental health effects of remote learning for the cdc reports emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts among 12 17 -year-olds were up two and half times higher than the summer of 2020 and more than two times higher than this number from 201,918, this winter. doctor benjamin miller he is the president of well-being trust. if you could, before we go any further i would like you to explain to us from your perspective just how this impacts the mental health of our children. first, thank you for having me on and thank you for covering such an important topic like mental health. schools are the most important foundation first children s development sprayed that includes mental health. try them taken away from