the twin turboprop was reportedly flying in bad weather. it is carrying 54 people, 49 passengers and five crew members. we will keep you updated on the story as we learn more. and we begin with breaking news in east harlem. the search is on for a man that escaped police custody still in handcuffs. ilana gold joins us live from east harlem with more. ilana? reporter: andrea, police say the suspect is 25-year-old austin stevenson. they tell us he escaped from the 23rd precinct after he was arrested for trespassing. here is his picture. police released it moments ago. they want everyone to be on the look out for him. we wanted to show you video of police scouring the area by 102nd street and park avenue. they are going to a number of buildings trying to find the suspect but they haven t had any luck. here is what we know. the escape happened at 3:00 outside the 23rd precinct. they just took the suspect out of the patrol car. as they were walking him up to the building he g
it takes to fight this epidemic. we will attack supply, we will work to reduce demand, we will do our best to empower communities. i thank you for the opportunity to appear before you and look forward to answering any questions you have. again, we ll get to questions after all the witnesses. let me recognize ms. enomoto, the deputy administrator for substance abuse mental health services at the department of health and human services. welcome. you re recognized. thank you. good morning, acting chairman mica. good morning, ranking member cummings and members of the committee. i am the principal deputy administrator and honored to have been delegated the authorities of the administrator by secretary burwell. many thanks to all of you for your leadership to raise awareness and catalyze action on the nation s opioid crisis. as you have noted, this truly is a matter of life or death. i know prescription drugs, heroin and illicit fentanyl has devastating consequen
prescribers who are wantonly ignoring the law. you re right. we need the scrapper education. good discussion junk monitoring programs. physicians can identify people who are going from doctor to doctor. to your point, if we are going to reduce the magnitude of the problem, we ve got to scale back on the prescribing. identify people who are starting to develop problems. every kid told me the same thing, he started with marijuana could then they go on to the rest of it marijuana. then they go on to the rest of it. we have a serious problem in this country. mr. wahlberg s next. gentle and from michigan. gentleman from michigan. inc. you mr. chairman. thank you mr. chairman. i apologize for being out. rosie the riveter showed up. it does affect all of us. my district in southeast and the south central michigan has tremendous challenges. i appreciate efforts all of you have shown toward this issue. mr. milione, how long has the dea and aware of the increased prevalence
in april, one of the top 21 entries will air on c-span. all winning entries is available for viewing online at student cam.org. white house national drug policy director michael botticelli testified tuesday on the federal government s efforts to combat heroine and prescription opioid addictions. this hearing is about three hours. i d like to call the hearing to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. the order of business this morning will be as follows. we will begin the hearing with opening statements from myself, the ranking member, and other members are welcome to submit opening statements, and with mr. coming s support we will leave the record open for five days, legislative days, for additional comments or statements. without objection, so ordered. when we complete the opening statements, we will turn to our panel of witnesses. the have five distinguish witnesses today, three at the federal level, one at the state and one o
our guest is the massachusetts senate president stan rosenberg. mr. rosenberg: good morning. janet: everyone is talking about what happened in the aftermath of paris and the governor s stance on syrian refugees has weaved since the bombings. first he said he would accept them, and then sent a letter saying they would not accept refugees. what is going on here? mr. rosenberg: the governor was trying to communicate that his first responsibility is to ensure the commonwealth is safe and the people feel safe. his second response was to say i want to make sure the betting system in washington is secure and will make sure that we are well-served and well-protected. we did data research on this. from syria, over the last six years, i think we have had 24 immigrants. it is not like there is a flood of people coming from syria. nonetheless, people want to feel government is doing a good job making sure only the people that should be here are welcomed into our country and into our sta