Can osha wisconsin testifies from his hospital bed as he faces charges of Sexual Assault. Lebanon fall silent a month after the explosion the toll through the capital beirut. And the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activists behind the nations fight for womens rights. And i welcome to the program 2 countries that for one of the most devastating wars in the balkans are normalizing economic ties in a deal announced by the u. S. President on trump trump has called the equipment between serbia and kosovo a major breakthrough kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 but is not recognized by the government or its allies trying says serbia will also follow his controversial diplomatic policy and move its embassy to jerusalem while kosovo will establish ties with israel lets go live now to the white house our correspondent kelly halkett is following all of these developments and of course kimberly President Trump will be hoping that these cour
Kosovo agreed to normalize ties also coming up on the news hour lebanon falls silent one month after the explosion that tore through the capital beirut and the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activist behind the nations fight for womens rights. In school enormous see is to remain a barcelona player messi says hes changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal disputes with the club. Welcomes the news our top story Donald Trumps allies are scrambling to his defense amid growing backlash of the u. S. President s alleged remarks on war veterans suckers and losers are amongst the times the president has called americas war dead according to an article in the atlantic magazine but given trumps support in the military and with less than 60 days to go until the election its become the focus of both campaigns of a night party call hayne has more. The u. S. Military and veterans are a big part of u. S. President Donald Trumps base he needs th
[inaudible conversations] i would ask her guess to take their seats. The subcommittee on oversight investigations will come to order. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement to todays hearing is the first opportunity for congress to hear testimony from doctors mandy cohen since she was appointed to the centers for days Disease Control director in july. Dr. Cohen congratulations on your point maybe we are taking the reins of the cdc at a critical time you have a heavy task ahead. As i have said editor jan oversight hearing to cope with 19 pandemic revealed he we did not have the cdc we thought we had. I look forward to hearing how you plan to change that. This is an opportunity to hear firsthand about how the cdc is responding to the ongoing respiratory virus. Im particular interest in hearing about how the cdc is helping to mitigate the shortage of respiratory essential virus or are city immunization for all infants. We have heard reports that are as the cases are sharply in certai
I am asking a question to the chair if you would agree with my observation. One reason i think statements have been made over there is they never believed we will get past a six year highway reauthorization bill over here. I am going to make it a deal so we can have the vote to take place and get on with the last and final vote so we would have that ready while the house is still in session. Whether individuals are facing themselves in the corner or that is not going to happen i dont know. Isnt it worth a try . That is my question. Let me respond to my colleague from oklahoma and thank him for his bipartisan leadership. You and senator boxer set a standard of bipartisanship when it comes to this issue. You have produced a sixyear authorization bill. Though i may not agree with the particulars thank you for that leadership on your bipartisan bases side. As far as the effort to speed up the senate so we can catch the house colleagues before they leave, i would support it completely but y
Been exposed to live anthrax apples are you confident as to whether or not we would have had proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . Am confident that we do. Are you confident, doctor hassell . Okay. Are you confident that we have enough proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . I do not have sufficient information to answer that question. Nor do i. Would that be for the workers that are being exposed or how about with respect to the Committee Building on the congressmans questions about one of these individuals if you have been exposed to presented to any our . Can you explain to me what your view is if you have one . Thank you for that question. The Strategic National stockpile did provide vaccine for the states that have workers while receiving prophylaxis. I am confident we have the ability to do it the vast supply of countermeasures for anthrax,anthrax, the nature of the events you might be trying to prepare for always determines whether you have