And make sure that they get exactly what they need. The chair would like to recognize the gentleman from oregon, mister schrader. Is he available . Not seeing or hearing him. The chair recognizes Mister Kennedy. Mister kennedy available . Not in his chair. Then the chair will recognize thegentleman from New Hampshire , miss custer or five minutes of questions. You need to unmute. You. Thank you very much. Thank you madam chair. I appreciate this hearing and i appreciate the opportunity to address you on this important issue. Here in New Hampshire weve had a dramatic increase. Depression, anxiety, trauma and grief as a result of covid and we are struggling as well with changes to the Economic Impact on our Healthcare Providers particularly Mental Health providers. 83 percent of small and large groups Substance Abuse providers have described what is a Financial Hardship as a result of covid and 48 percent of those providers have had to cancel income generating events while 74 percent hav
Restricting the number of hours a baker could work each week. Watch landmark cases tonight on cspan 3. And any time on cspan. Org. Now a hearing on the impact of the coronavirus on Mental Health. The house energy and commerce subcommittee on health discusses the benefits telehealth has provided americans and the need to continue after the pandemic ends. This is just over four hours 15 minutes. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Due to covid19, todays hearing obviously is being held remotely. All members and witnesses will participate via Video Conferencing. As part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise. Members and witnesses, youre going to have to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. I just say that as a reminder and a little housekeeping issue. Please remember to do that. Documents for the record can be sent to megan mullin at the email address we provided to your staff. All documents will be entered into the reco
10 to 20 through our day. Were looking at 67 San Francisco, 73 in oakland and mild around the bay, warming up inland to 81 in san jose and 88 for fairfield. We will talk about the ridge of High Pressure building in and the temperatures on the rise coming up. Back to you. Two the fireworks, they have doubled in size in just 24 hours. It is 20 contained. We are live near gilroy with the firefight still underway. Reporter good morning, we are seeing the day shift arrived and these crews are coming off the line and they are switching over with the guys to get relief on the very busy firefighting effort that is happening in the hills near the area. We are here at Christmas Hill park. The internet over to cal fire and they have taken it over and the size of the operation gives you some sense of the scale of the effort that is going on to battle the crews fire it will get back for day three. We have 5400 acres burned and 20 cod ructure destroyed. One structure was damaged and 30 structures ar
Overnight hours the crews fire was 20 contained with 5400 acres burned. It remains the same which is good news meaning the fire did not grow in the overnight hours this is a long coming out a road this area was evacuated on sunday for everyone safety. You can see what the fire did to the land, its still smoldering in certain parts and every now and then a fire truck comes along and puts out the hot spots as far as the cause of the fire that remains under investigation firefighters usually dont get to that and so they turned the corner and get the upper hand on the fire. We do know that 2 structures were destroyed no homes, no fatalities and no major injuries. The challenge for firefighters is to keep the fire along the ridge line along the hills, the city of gilroy is about 3 miles from this location. And they dont want the fire to jump from this location down to the city into the residential areas where the homes are located. Right now they also are keeping a close eye on one 52, its
Speemac. [background sounds] subcommittee on Oversight Committee will now here comes the order. It is hauling hearing in china and the public help emergencies, to curb the Opioid Crisis. The premise of todays hearing is to examine states efforts and successes and adjusting the Opioid Epidemics as well as opportunities for future federal support. And just to let everybody know, doctor alexander, the reason why we are Getting Started a little late. The plane was delayed. But now the dr. Is on our way. We will swear in the witnesses when we get to that. If we have to do that later we will. The. [cheering]. Will now recognize the suffering Opening Statement. As i said, today the committee contends his bipartisan efforts to combat the Opioid Crisis. As we know, the countries in the midst of an epidemic unlike any of recent history. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention, from 1999, 2017, nearly 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses. In 2017, more than two thirds of