Foreign approval side as weve got an operation in mexico so that deal has to go through that process there. Weve got operations in brazil but theyre not the only ones. So were going through a process at the department of justice right now and, you know, our expectation is, you know, we should be through that process, we should be through, you know, the operational issues that we have to go through in order to be able to close without any license transfers and the foreign approval process and were hopeful, pretty confident that well be able to get through that by the end of the year. Watch it tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Announcer a Senate Appropriation subcommittee heard from the head of the National Institutes of health, dr. Francis collins and other Top Public Health officials on the 2018 budget. This is two hours. Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio
We can actually see there was a line of storms bringing a little bit of some spotty showers along areas in the north bay and when were talking about the oroville area, theyre actually starting to see some spotty showers as well out near that area. But this isnt going to bring the biggest concern. These spotty showers are going to be very light, but over the next couple of hours if you fast forward through tonight, that time line is showing the arrival of that first storm system at about 2 00 a. M. , bringing with it moderate to heavy downpours and of course a lot of strong gusty winds as well. This is going to impact your morning commute as well so those moderate to heavy downpours are expected to stick around to two, three and really the 8 00 a. M. Hour right in the middle of that traffic commute. By 10 30 the north bay will continue to see showers and we will continue to see that storm system push off to the east. But this is just one of four storms we are anticipating so ill have a
Francisco with no delays, it is about an 8 minute drive time, speaking of it here, it looks good if you are driving passed the oakland coliseum, we dont have anything going on, on 880 or 580 and here on the san mateo bridge, it is a nice drive here at 430 lets go back to the desk. Firefighters are searching for the cause in oakland. It happened on international boulevard. Alex savage joins us live with what we have learned so far, alex . Reporter i am told there is quite a bit of evidence that is raising some red flags this morning. These are the two fires, a fast moving fire that forced more than 30 people from their home but the good news is that everybody made out safely and nobody was hurt including firefighters. This fire started at 11 00 and a quite a few firefighters had to be called in from across this city. It began on the outside one of these are buildings on apartments on the car up above. Witnesses said they heard several explosions right before this fire took off. They sai