Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. For 2016 weve already announced from New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdose and that is more in one year than all the names on the Vietnam Veterans memorial wall. And likely that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could be near 1 million. More than 183,000 lives have
This is on the money. Now, becky quick we begin with microchip implants a Wisconsin Technology company is offering workers the chance to toss their employee i. D. Card and forget all the passwords, in exchange theyll insert a tiny microchip under the skin would you do it . Thats todays cover story chipping in. It wasnt the Traditional Office party. Last week in wisconsin, threesquare market, a provider of selfservice break room vending machine offered to microchip its employees. More than half of the 80 workers voluntarily agreed to get chipped. It hurt a little bit. But its not bad they each let the company insert a 00 microchip, the size of a grain of rice, right into their hand. Thats where it was inserted right there, i got mine done yesterday and i was scared to death. I thought it was going to hurt like crazy, and it was nothing the device allows door access for employees to enter the building, sign into their computer and pay for snacks. It replaces passwords, i. D. Badges and c
Were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists, youll notice there is one empty seat and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately because of the crazy weather we had d. C. Trishas not going to be able to get into town. So she will not be with us. Fear not, our three other panelists here watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. So first to my left, we have diane roland, executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family foundation. Diane was also the inaugural chair of mac pac which advised congress on medicaid policy. To her left is josh archambault. He spent time here in d. C. With the heritage foundation. Hes up in massachusetts where he also worked for former governor mitt romney. And at the end of the panel, we have judith solomon, judy is Vice President for Health Policy at the center for budget and policy prio
Snow bands to the west and some off to the east. In the advisory area, which extends until 2 00 tomorrow, we expect another 25 inches of snow. There will be another band role in around 10 00 tonight. The roads will be i see and snow packed icy and snow packed. We saw the snow melt rather prickly today. Tonight the temperature will trend down and we will see the snow and ice in the morning. There will be sunshine, but it will not be that warm this weekend. It will be the weekend. Indent. Along my man who a longmont man who kidnapped a 16 yearold girls yesterday was arrested in coffeeville, alabama today. Detectives with a longmont leased department are traveling to alabama to meet up with the victim. To a home in wheat ridge. Officers were called to the home near 38th avenue and pierce street when they learned the men were there. One was wanted on assault and possession of dangerous drugs. The other was wanted for probation violation and drug scott was arrested when he ran from the hous
From the western suburbs and into the foothills, bailey and conifer picking up on steady snowfall. To the north of colorado in fort collins and estes park, they have light snow coming down. Also just east of greeley and weld county. You can see that most of the front range is under a Winter Weather advisory until 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow. The sandra the sangre de cristos are under a winter storm warning. Across southern colorado we could see the big time storm totals like 1012 inches by tomorrow night. There is not a lot going on, but give us some time. Around dinnertime, there met there may be flurries in the metro area. As i mentioned, there is a cold front and that will arrive by 11 00 midnight. That interacts with this storm pushing and from the southwest upslope flow and the snow will continue to tomorrow night. It may be a little tricky out there. Right now mostly cloudy skies sitting over denver and we are at 34 n. Of the airport. We have been just sitting near that freezing mark and