[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
Today we had a productive meeting with President Trumping a bleeder mcconnell and speaker wright and and we agreed to have a continuing resolution and the increase of the debt ceiling through december 15 this is a positive step forward to provide aid for those hurt by a hearty and help avoid a shutdown and we will Work Together to avoid a default so when it was a really good moment of bipartisanship to get things done some people just dont help settle but we stuck to the good of the country to make the right offer and we did were glad the president to accept that for the good of the country we have a lot more to get done we hope we can work in the same bipartisan way the same way we did this morning messily committed to protecting dreamers and again we reiterated our desire that Republican Leaders in the house send said the leaders put the dream matchup on the floor is a bill passed by a significant margin is our belief. So lets do what and we also must provide further stability to the
Hill down to orchard to our left here, and as far east and west on crestline as about two blocks. We have one person dead confirmed. We are not showing the crime scene out of respect for the family. They have not been notified. The sheriffssoffice rstequeed we not show it jayson luber will tell us how to get around that this morning. This is the section closed, smoky hill down to orchard. This is the accident location where daryl is right now. Going west of chambers, thats easy traveling, as ii tower orchard. Those are good alternates to get around that closure. I25 and arapahoe, wrapped up that work. School is starting and a lot more kids are out and about this morning. And weather wise, we are seeing a little shower activity limon. I think these will get out of the area as the sun continues to rise. We can expect temperature wise and condition wise, 90s expected in denver. Very warm conditions. Normally we should be around 86 degrees, so a little above okay. For. A truck almost fully
Morning. This is the latest from 511ia. Org. You can see roads to the north roads are still partially covered with snow or ice which you can see in blue. And to the west along i29, some roads are completely covered which you can see in pink. A few schools in central iowa are also delayed this morning including interstate 35 and , Murray Community schools. You can find a full list on the bottom of your screen or at kcci. Com. As always you can get live , weather updates online at kcci. Com. You can also stay up to date through our kcci mobile app. Check road conditions, traffic alerts and radar while youre on the go. Shaina we have two breaking stories overnight. An overnight chase leads to a first, rollover crash at i80 near altoona, and police say a 15yearold girl was behind the wheel. You can see the truck she was driving right there. A runaway, and the truck was stolen. When they spotted her overnight, she refused to pull over and led them on a chase reaching speeds of 100 Miles Per
Lots, wet roads in central iowa. Light rain through ankeny and newton and knoxville. It has been mixing with a little bit of light snow near sheraton and more snow falling to the west, through carroll and that has affected roads, some are coming snowcovered. Be careful. 36 in des moines, temperatures holding steady, no icing concerns. Rain switching over to snow by mid to Late Afternoon with some of accumulation possible and an will get downright cold. Eric still some bad Road Conditions around the state this morning. Most of the area in green. This is the latest from 511ia. Org. You can see roads to the north are still partially covered with snow or ice which you can see in blue. And to the west along i29, some roads are completely covered which you can see in pink. A few schools are also delayed this morning, including interstate 35 and Murray Community schools. You can find a full list on the kcci. Com. As always, you can get live weather updates online at kcci. Com. You can also st