Reporting their first containment just 2 cal fire says that 80 homes have been destroyed so far 28 in Sonoma County 52 in napa county and more than 22,000 structures remain threatened tonight, this is the 4th major fire in just 3 years in the napa and Sonoma County areas kron 4 aqi. Continues our Team Coverage from santa rosa residents. Taylor unfortunately are all too used to these situations. Thats right ken the family spoke with theyve been through many fire evacuations before but of course this time unfortunately it was different this time they wont have a home to return to and you can see some of this area over here still smoldering right now im standing in what used to be the garage inside they had a gym you can see this barbell in way track Still Standing they also had a. Really important art studio and year. And unfortunately now thats gone with Everything Else in this fire. About halfway through its run what we could and the my husband and i dot really expect the snow started
Screeria nigeria. And later, a look at turkeys role uhamid the violence in syria, iraq and yemen. Wednesday the Senate Agricultural hearing held a hearing. Along with officials from the agriculture, treasury and Commerce Departments. Topics include the opportunities and challenges of expanding trade with the island nation. This is 2 hours and 10 minutes. Okay. Just quiet down. Let it go. Let it go. I was going to say that myself. Sure got quiet. Good morning the committee will come to order. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry to order. At the beginning of this congress, i was extremely hopeful that trade would be one area to work to find an agreement. I still maintain that hope. We certainly hope thats the case. Were working very hard in the finance committee to make that happen. Tomorrow, will mark up the promotion bill. That allows our negotiators to garner the best deal possible for american exporters. Tpa is good for agriculture. And
To do what they can to level it will Playing Field. For american exporters and the jobs connected with that. I yield. Let me say i want to thank my colleagues for their participation today. I have great for respect for both of you. Ive known you for a long time. I want everyone to know that i recognize there are passionately held views on both side of these issues and these debates. I wish we could report a tpa bill you nanunanimously. Its clear were not going to be able to do that. We create a product and a process on this legislation thats bipartisan. So far i think we really have been successful. I think most people would agree with that. I really want to thank senator widen for his help on this effort. Its been a very difficult one for him as it has been for many of my colleagues on the democrat side. I think its very important that we move forward and let the committee function properly. Im looking forward to even more lively discussion and debate tomorrow. I have tremendous respe
Under Medicare Part b, doctors were protected from socialized medicine. Allowed them to be compensated for usual fees. They were represented by american medical association, still then and still opposes quote socialized medicine. President johnson traveled to independence, missouri, the birthplace of trumans wife bess to sign the law. Bess and harry truman were given the first two medicare cards. Medicare expansion protected pharmaceutical industry. Some contend that aca protects Health Care Industry skirting efficient approach to insure the nation or medicare or singlepayer approach. Finally were now at chapter four, which raises the question, did the path we set for ourselves then result in a series of bonanzas . First bonanza for doctors and hospitals. Secondly a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry and third now for the Insurance Industry itself. Or was it as others might argue, just the american way . Here we are traveled a long circuit does route to near universal access to he
Value of exports is far less than that in roughly 2950 million. U. S. Exporters see a tremendous market in cuba by the authorizations they seek from us though currently they only export a small fraction of that. Those exports go through the cuban import agency. So thrs no changes in our regulations on exports to cuba because thats limitted by the trade sanctions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman thank you for your statement. Our next witness, johnny smith acting director, office of foreign assets control, the department of treasury. Mr. Smith serves as acting director of the department of Treasury Department of foreign assets. Control or opac is mr. Smiths acronym for which he works which is tasked with administrating economic trade sanctions to advance u. S. National security and Foreign Policy goals. Prior to joining opac he served as expert to the United Nations taliban and sanctions committee. As a Trial Attorney at the u. S. Department of justice. Welcome to your new job. Tha