Gentleman from West Virginia. Mr. Mckinley, for five minutes. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you for the hearings on this topic. As an engineer, i need to see things in perspective. So been following this the last four years in congress and on this committee, trying to look at this issue. I think one of the last meetings we just had, i tried to put it in perspective by saying you said there were 44,000 Overdose Deaths. I want people to understand, thats more than died in vietnam in combat. I dont know that the American Public understands that, and every day on the news, nbc or whatever, they had body counts and had that and people were outraged over that. I am not getting the sense of outrage over every year we are lose as many people to Drug Overdose as we did a ten year war in vietnam. I am concerned when i had affirmed in West Virginia one in five babies born in West Virginia and may be 1 in 4 in other states, but 1 in 5 have been affected with drugs. I keep things in
Springfield, where two left lanes are closed inner loop northbound on north 95 in virginia. We head over to the beltway near New Hampshire avenue, very heavy, now traffic on the right, outer loop heading westbound to Georgia Avenue, and Silver Spring, still very slow, pretty good, the wilson bridge, bothbr sidesid looking pretty good. On the beltway at brarc bafn avh you can see the back of an of accident that was at Saint Barnabas road that was moved over to the shoulder. Thats a look at the fox on time traffic. On the eve of the first Government Shutdown in 17 years, congress is on hold. Ld. The senate not due to return until 2 00 this afternoon, and Senate Democrats have crowd to reject a temporary spending bill measure passed by the republicanled house yesterday. That bill would keep washington running but delays the Affordable Care act obama care for one year. Had those lawmakers have one dao to reach an agreement, or all nonisnnonessential workers col without pay. Some the busine
Reporter its only reserved to the north bay vallies, everyone waking up to mild temperatures. Santa rosa 36 degrees, oakland at 43. Temperatures will continue to dr. A few more degrees as we approach sunrise looking at areas of patchy fog, plenty of sun nine into the afternoon in fact it looks like we could see mid60s for most in land spots. Breakdown afternoon highs for today. It looks like 63, 64 degrees in sunnyvale, oakland but San Francisco will stay in upper 50s. Bay forecast shows although we do have a slight chance for sprinkles into tomorrow, mostly cloudy conditions around bay area. Windy conditions around wednesday, that will continue the rest of the work week, 70s as we push in closer to the weekend. Actually looking at a god chance for unsettled weather to the the sex seven daves. We are not monitoring any hot spots. Looking at the bridges, by bridge moving well, coming from all three directions. Holding steady at 12 00 to 13 minutes and no issues or delays moving in right
Inconvenience to anyone involved. And i understand, as judge starr has mentioned, theres a difference of opinion on whether or not there should be cameras in the courtroom, but i have to say addressing cameras in the courtroom for the United States Supreme Court i respectfully disagree with their posture and their position on in this. Now, why is this important . One of the reasons its important is because the public cares. The public wants to see cameras, they want to see what is happening in our courtrooms as they want to see what the transparency will provide with every branch of our government. And thats extremely critical. You know, the public receives information now in a way that is totally transformed and morphed is instantaneous communication. And that is a good thing, i believe, in many, many respects. The downside of that can be dealt with, but there is no downside to having that kind of exposure to the oral arguments that are being conducted. In fact, all 50 States Supreme