To the program nowadays it takes just one tweet anger is mounting in china over a comment by the general manager of basketballs Houston Rockets he openly supported the prodemocracy protests in hong kong but china and its hundreds of millions of sports fans is a highly important market to the leak and its corporate sponsors so after just one tweet damage control is now in full swing. We apologize we love china Houston Rockets n. B. A. Star james harden distancing himself from the words of his teams general manager and on monday morning daryl morey tweeted his regret saying he had not intended to cause offense among the clubs chinese fans and that he was merely voicing a thought based on one interpretation of one complicated event humble words that show the importance of chinese money to the n. B. A. But they came too late to prevent sponsors like the Sportswear Company leaning and shanghai based s. P. D. Bank from cutting ties with the rockets chinas state broadcaster has announced it w
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This morning millions of merps are taking to the skies are, the roads, the rails, all trying to get to their holiday designations. This is a live look at how crowded the skies are right now. Many travellers could be seeing delays. Good morning and welcome to your world this morning. Reporter according to the Popular Crowd sourcing, today is the worst day for Holiday Travel, so expect traffic jams and long lines at the art port warnings are already out because of some dangerous weather reporter this bus Holiday Travel week started off wet. Its not Getting Better you have to visit, right. Reporter more than a hundred million travellers will hit the road more than ever before. You have to keep an eye on the skies just as much as they do the road. Fog may have led to this chain crash killing at least three people. Cross parts of the west, snow is so heavy it is slow in the search and rescue mission in washington state. A missing skier had to be halted because of avalanche dangers. Dangerou
Like the new 1,000 per pill hepatitisc drugs. Everyday drugs to treat conditions like Blood Pressure more than doubled over past few years. Those prices are expected to go even higher. Despite the promise of generics to bring prices down. For more on this, lisa gill, prescription drugs editor at Consumer Reports joins me now. Lisa, welcome back to the show. Thanks. Gerri weve had 11 increase in drug prices since 2007 and that is despite the fact that generics comprise 86 of all pharma out there. So i thought prices were supposed to crater, not go up . It is true. A lot of blockbuster drug prices have dropped but meanwhile other prices on some of those key remaining branded drugs and specialty drugs are boeing way up. Gerri theyre driving overall Prices Higher . They are. A couple of other things. More people are taking medications first of all and you have a aging population. That is another issue. Gerri well that adds into the mix too. I was looking forward to some of these prices act
Thanks for being my guest today. It was a real pleasure to talk with you. Thank you on youre always a gentleman. You im bill harris. Im the acting director here at the fdr president ial library museum, and were so happy to see you here this morning. I cant tell you. Were always happy to see people but after two years it is so wonderful to have this event back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over the format some of