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the senate committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. today s hearing is about the opioid crisis and what the federal government is doing about it. senator murray will each have an opening statements and then the witnesses and after the witness s testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. the senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now and all of us would like to hear the witnesses testimony so we ll figgiure out what to do about that. the opioid crisis is tearing our communities apart. tearing families apart and posing an enormous challienge t health care providers. the amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. according to the centers for disease control and prevention. in 2016 there were over 7.6 million opioid preskripgcriptior pain in tennessee. that means for every 1,000 persons. in march researchers published a study tha ....
the senate committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. today s hearing is about the opioid crisis and what the federal government is doing about it. senator murray will each have an opening statements and then the witnesses and after the witness s testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. the senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now and all of us would like to hear the witnesses testimony so we ll figgiure out what to do about that. the opioid crisis is tearing our communities apart. tearing families apart and posing an enormous challienge t health care providers. the amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. according to the centers for disease control and prevention. in 2016 there were over 7.6 million opioid preskripgcriptior pain in tennessee. that means for every 1,000 persons. in march researchers published a study tha ....
city. live view across the delaware this morning. the radar view shows some activity to our southwest. you can see it moving it to the south of washington, d.c. and heavier downpours. those are trending toward delaware and south jersey and slight chance of a shower in philadelphia today but most of the day will be dry and nice sunny start. 72 at 7:00. scattered clouds at 10:00 and 82 at 1:00. your hour-by-hour future cast to show you when the showers are likely to move into the area when i come back in ten minutes. right now a check of traffic with jessica boyington. we are checking out the schuylkill expressway and doing great in both directions. montgomery drive. eastbound right here headed towards the center city area 12-minute drive time from the blue route to the vine street expressway. 12 minutes there as well. we are watching out for a ramp closure in lower pottsgrove on route 42222 due to an at arm&hammer boulevard. still out in sellersville route 309 is clo ....
spite of clouds that will be coming in after some sunshine this morning. 76 degrees at 10:00. by 1:00 we will be in the low 80s and watching for some showers. your neighborhood-by-neighborhood forecast when i come back in ten minutes. let s see how the traffic is moving this morning with jessica boyington. we are out in west conshohocken. for the time being if you want around that stretch take matsts road to get through the area. no problems on 95 heading southbound from wood haven road and vine street expressway 12-minute trip. blue route no problems from the schuylkill to 95 only a 14 minute trip there. the p.a. turnpike moving along just fine and roads dry and 22 minutes east or westbound from route one to valley forge and check in with new jersey roads coming up! people can relate to this. we are tracking breaking news. train derailment to evacuations in tennessee. rail car went off the rail and caught fire. 5,000 people in a one mile radius around the wreck hav ....
neighborhood-by-neighborhood forecast when i come back in ten minutes. see how thursday morning is shaping up traffic wise. jessica boyington is in the first alert traffic center. what is it looking like out there? quiet still. 95 typically starts to see volume at this time. maybe a lot of people are heading to the shore earlier and taking the day off. 95 around common avenue on the southbound side you can see right here moving along just fine. no problems northbound. 13 minute drive time from wood haven road up towards the vine street expressway but watching road closure in west conshohocken. closed between front street and jones road from earlier storm damage. take the following to get by that scene. bellmawr accident blocking the left-hand lane. more drive times to come. back to that breaking news out of tennessee. thousands of people near knoxville have been forced to evacuate their homes after a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailed. the train was trave ....