The Committee Plans to hold this congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, today the subcommittee turns to the impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters. This subcommittee has three goals today. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent due to Climate Change. Climate change is real. We are con substantiate constan of that fact. Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice in one day alone. 2 billion tons of ice lost in a day and weve got people still telling us not to worry that Climate Change isnt a problem. The American People know better and they know because they are already suffering from the effects. Michael man is here today to explain how and why we are seeing more intense hurricanes, more frequent wildfires and more devastating flooding because of Climate Change. Our second goal today is to examine how the fed
The day he will take questions from the house intelligence committee. Both open sessions. Mr. Muellers report into russian interference in the 2016 election will air live on cspan3 online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding conspires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system nan the rest of the u. S. Congress funds them through block grants. So when the territories are hit by hurricane they go through funds faster and deplete the grants early. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on why states get continuous medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committees meeting today today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the insular areas under the Affordable Care act also known as the insular areas medicaid cliff. And the Committee Rule 4 f any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman and the ranking
Approaches the southeast of the United States coast. Right now a hurricane watch is in effect for puerto rico just two years after the ravaging of Hurricane Maria. And fema and all the others are ready. Then finishing off with an insult to san juans mayor. I spoke to the mayor earlier this afternoon thats another one, and she made her priorities clear. We are on the ground doing what we can. We are fierce, we are courageous, and we honestly have no time for the tweeting of the president of the United States who continues to, rather than do what hes supposed to do, continues to get underway with his divisive and aggressive comments towards the comments of people toward puerto rico. It would be diverting more than 270 funds to pay for the president s border priorities. Lets start with the latest on the storms track. Msnbc news meteorologist michelle grossman. Whats the latest . I there, ali. Well, we have that category one storm. When this all started, it was projected to be a Tropical S
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