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To hospitals and Health Systems. The alliance for Health Policy is hosting this discussion. Particularly since i know tom, i think well have a very lively discussion this morning. So i am actually looking forward to hearing something today and im sure we will hear something quite interesting. So thank you and turn it over to sarah. So, welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. Before we begin, i just want to make a quick note for the date for the nex...

Act and we look forward to your testimony. For the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape, makes it more difficult for providers to deliver high quality care to their patients we advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare to the American People. Continue the drive to strengthen quality and care coordination. In our committee p...

When you look at pharmaceutical many of actors and how much they devote to research and development. The amount based then on research and advertising the amount they spend on research and development is far more. I think what we need to be doing is figuring out ways to take the enormous profit and filing them back in the enterprise that provided the studies that allow these profits to be made. Much of it was going in the opposite direction. There is a lot of talk about cutting Corporate Tax is ...

Researchers, not just serves working. I hesitate to do this because he represented the state that is the most affected but i would love to see if someone has the courage to question the scale of money we give the universities for administering this. You look at the percent are part gets percent harvard gets. Come on guys, cant work that go straight into research . Sen. Warren let me ask you the question on the funding part of this. Should we be doing Capital Budgeting as a way to increase the fu...

And only 5 5 contained. The transbay tube that connects the east bay with San Francisco will be closed all weekend for a major maintenance project. Ktvu fox Christien Kafton is joining us to talk about all the work that needs to be done. Reporter yeah a lot of work. As you can imagine a major inconvenience. Folks trying to figure a way around this really unprecedented bart closure. We were here at 4 30 as the west oakland bart station rolled up its gate. Passengers starting to make their way in ...

Reporter more evacuations. It is heading toward highway 20 and if flames jump over the road, it could threaten the community of clear lake oaks. There is a heavy bay area presence helping fight this fire. They posted this photo of firefighters at the scene. San francisco deployed five engines. Two in lake county. Now an Evacuation Center has been set up at Middletown High School to help people with tho where else to go. Right now there are almost 7,000 firefighters battling to 14 large wild fire...

Afternoon. We want to let foe people know where the evacuations are taking place, especially for the viewers who are affected by this. Now, the newest order is for the Jerusalem Valley area east of sodo a creek. Its closed from spruce grove road. Bonham record, quarter horse lane mustang court, bronco court, sunset court and Morgan Valley east are where the mandatory evacuations are. The latest, its moving north and pushing toward highway 20. Crews have established a hard line to prevent it from...

Through the private sector. Its not a new situation. Its been around for half a century and today, the stan h, there is a debate about how it should be structured going forward, but the venture sharesn 5 Million People across the country. Larger shares in place like florida and the gulf coast andth other areas that are prone to flooding. E fede as far as specifically, does the federal government take all of the risk for people who purchase these programs, and whats the role. How they work. Histo...

Im pleased to be here to kick off the year long celebration. I want to welcome any firstyear students here this evening its really wonderful that youre taking advantage of the program tonight learning from distinguished scholars who visit our university its really valuable part of our whole experience. So its the Triangle Center in the american grand strategy program. Thank you to all the faculty and staff who made this possible. It is made possible by the Charitable Trust in honor of the late t...

Counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser. She recently had a conversation with david chancer, director of Duke Universitys Triangle Center on Homeland Security to analyze security threats during the Obama Presidency and whats ahead for the Trump Administration. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our 2017 Terry Sanford distinguished lecture, a conversation with lisa monaco, counterterrorism in the trump era. Im sally kornbluth, and im here to kick off Terry S...