ministration has some big news for older americans in particular. direct negotiations between medicare and the pharmaceutical injury. it s a policy move decades in the making that into his overwhelming public support. we will explain more about how it all works in a moment. first, jessica layton is here with some more headlines. hello, jess. hello, mehdi. florida governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency ahead of tropical storm adalja. that storm is forecasted to make landfall. it s a category two hurricane later this week. it could hit the big bend region of the florida panhandle. residents have been warned to take necessary precautions. u.s. officials have said that three marines were killed within a multi nation training exercise off of australia s northern coast. the marines were on board an aircraft when it crashed into an island. five others taken to a hospital, and they are in serious condition right now.
single republican vote, and signed into law by president biden. one of its key provisions was talking about the federal government for the first time in history to negotiate the prices of a number of drugs covered by medicare. directly with the big pharmaceutical companies, and thereby bring down the prices of those drugs for the ordinary americans. on tuesday, the biden administration will finally reveal the first ten prescription drugs selected from medicare price negotiation. we are expecting that list to include some pretty expensive drugs commonly used to treat cancer, arthritis, diabetes. george they currently cost millions of seniors tens of thousands of dollars. the congressional budget office says that medicare portion get a price of drugs in the direct negotiation with big pharma could save the taxpayer almost 100 billion dollars over the next decade. it s hard to overstate just what a. b. fd this is, to borrow a line from president biden. it s a huge deal. in fact, it s some