Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to todays judiciary. On encryption excuse me thats not the right one. Tackling the Opioid Crisis a whole government approach and ill go ahead and start with Opening Statements from the Ranking Member and myself and i believe senator durbin has opening remarks and will die then to eyewitness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americ
Magic and we are excited to have casey cep in celebration of dirks the last trial of harper lee. This is her first book but casey this not her first thing she has given to us write. She has been writing for the the new yorker, the new yorkw york times for many years now, and many of you probably noticed because youre but in all of work she has this super home able to make every detail fascinating and crystal clear. In this one casey works to layout two intertwine can mysteries, one in the story of reverend Willy Maxwell and his trials and the other in the unissued work of a beloved literary market and she has contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as much justice as possible. Trust me, and also every person i think who works in this book store in this room, this is a book that you actually cannot put down and i mean it seriously. Im about 20 pages from the end and very sad im not reading it. Casey, we are so excited to have you tonight. Thank you so much for coming
Good evening, everybody and welcome. Before we jump into the event, i want to thank you all for coming. Events like this couldnt be possible if it were not for your generous support and showing up to them so thank you for your support we appreciate it. We have the honor of hosting them only here to talk about the book the rise and fall of marijuana in america. She received her phd from George Washington university and grassroots is based off of her dissertation. The inspiration for such a sure she will tell us more about it as she starts her talk. Emily has been featured on the history channel, npr and her book can be found in the washington post, the atlantic, History News Network and run washington. We are excited to have emily here today because here in colorado we had a very intriguing conversation going about marijuana even before it was officially legalized in 2014. Her book adds to the conversation with research and interviews which expand the conversation even more than we coul
Media, all that coming up after the close tonight. Plus in case you missed it, former chair fed addressing. We have the sound for you coming up. Yes, well get responses to that as well. Oracle shares are down 11 this year so far. Jeffreys is upgrading that stock to buy with a 50 price target. You see the trading at 39 and three quarters. You have the analyst on oracle coming up moments from now. On markets today, the dow up four points. The s p higher. The nasdaq doing better up 20 points. Even though facebook is still low were after the earnings support. A lot of people liked what they saw on the numbers. By the way, apple is down today too. Lets get to our closing bell. For this thursday, ben willis, kind of a muted day today after tremendous volatile earlier this week. Whats going on today . Actually a very interesting trading day. Once again, we saw the ability to buy on the dip where the education from the Economic Data we saw took the dow jones and the s p to the loads of opening
Ktvu Paul Chambers who is live in our newsroom. The search was suspended at dark, but theres a lot of questions out there. Is the 15yearold alive and if so, where is she . Questions would like to ask the suspect but that cant happen since i died in a shootout with police. The search is on in jenner as at least a dozen people in two and two dogs were look forking this girl looking for this girl. Shes the missing girl last seen wednesday morning. This is very much a search and rescue university. Our number one priority is bringing her home safely to her family. We believe that is possible. Sky fox was overhead this afternoon as crews searched through dumb centers in wooded areas. They also looked along the shore and used a boat to search in the russian river. Authorities say a significant tip led them to this area after receiving a call on the Sheriffs Department hotline. We are following up on every lead possible. The strongest leads right now are in this area. Investigators say she was