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health. this is two and a half hours. conversations] the subcommittee on health will now come to order. the chair wishes to observe that this hearing was originally scheduled to occur last wednesday morning, but on that wednesday morning the capitol hill family and the entire country was shocked and horrified to learn about an awful attack that took place against our own. this past week has been sobering and difficult for all of us in many different ways. a number of friends indeed, a member of this very committee is still in the hospital and they continue to need our prayers as they fight to heal and recover and in the incoming days, join us again. last week s tragedy reminds us that what unites us is more of port and then what divides us. we are not first democrats or republicans, we are americans, we love our country, we respect our colleagues. we are saddened but we are strong, we are troubled but we will unite around our common duty and are common service to our ....
to order and thank everyone for their forbearance. we have concluded with member opening statements. the chair reminds members that all member opening statements will be made part of the record. we do want to thank our witnesses for being here today , taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. each witness will have the opportunity to give an opening statement followed by questions from members. again, as previously mentioned , we will hear from mr. michael holmes, jamie schneider, associate commissioner for s chip services, health and human services from the state of texas and ms. cindy man. we appreciate you being here today. mr. holmes you are recognized for five minutes for an opening statement. thank you chairman. ranking member greene, members of the subcommittee, my name is mike holmes. i am the ceo of cook area health services. we provide medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare in nine locations more than 12000 patients of rule ....
listen to what ted cruz said about getting to yes. if premiums continue to rise after we hold a press conference claiming to have repealed obamacare, that is a disaster. it is a disaster politically. it s a disaster substantiallily. it would be a failure of the mandate we ve been given by the voters. reporter: take a look at three senators who are not a no, but they re not yeses, they re somewhat unclear. that obviously would be susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski from alaska, and rob portman from ohio. neil as you do the math, it is simple, 48 democrats will vote no. mitch mcconnell needs at least 50 republicans to say yes. then he can get this through with the vice president voting in favor as well. if he loses just one more, because if he loses more than the two, if it is three, this thing doesn t go forward. negotiations are underway. everybody has different concerns. some like portman are concerned about funding for opioid at diction. collins from maine is con ....
ruined, but this will be out in the morning hours and then the rest of the weekend looks a lot better. but especially north and west of the i-95 corridor, we re pretty saturated. and now you can see on the radar we have more rain and yet again we have pockets of heavier rain particularly this line that you see firing off just to the west of us. so that will be heading our direction as we continue through the morning hours. again, it s not lasting terribly long. the view shows us that as we go throughout the next few hours, the heaviest line will pass right into philadelphia though. so here is the wider view. it shows scattered showers on the back side, but otherwise we will start to dry out as we progress into the later this morning and especially into the afternoon. let s talk temperatures. it s actually pretty nice out there if it weren t for the humidity which is making it feel steamy already this morning. 78 in philadelphia and 77 in wilmington. lancaster, you re 69 ....
on the motorcycle has died. ktvu join us now from the scene with what we have learning from theh about that crash. lee, good morning. they say a motorcyclist was struck by a semitruck driver, this happened just a few moments ago. they said that witnesses told chp they saw a red truck hit the motorcyclist and take off. they re telling us at this time, they re still searching for that semitruck they have not talked to driver, but they say at this point, the motorcyclist is deceased. they do have most of the the lanes here on interstate state 0 westbound blocked off. they have one lane open, the far right lane is open. this is just a few exits away from the original exit we were send to this morning. also a fatal accident. this accident is not related, to the original accident that we were at early they are morning on interstate 80. we are told that semitruck driver left the scene so chp is actively searching for that right now. all right. lee martinez joining us live, ....