Latest Breaking News On - Craig snyder - Page 1 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20141014

and parked cars at night and come out of school with no debt. .. the level of the education of the site is part of a 12. if a student goes to school and learned to close to is for, the student has contributed and should be paid. what do you call a person against room and board for their work? slaves. that's a lot like the slaves in the workplace and all capitalism where half the wage is fully half. surplus value and is ripped off by the capitalist own industry. we start with a rip off a system in every part of our society that has to be corrected, not just the education part. people should be paid to go to school and it comes out of the social fund we pay for kindergarten. >> moderator: do you have any idea how much that would cost? diamondstone: does not matter. because once we change to a system that is socialist in the economy, people have money to spend because they haven't been ripped off half their salary. >> moderator: if you know. we are at the top of the out and you're watching the google debate here on vermont public television. we are delighted to have you with us. will have all seven candidates in the studio and an audience of high school and college students from around the state. next question concerns, place off some of those themes, concerns the economy and wages that are proven stagnant for an awful lot of vermonters for the last five or six years. we hear unemployment in vermont is lower than many states but as you have heard, the unemployment rate has started to climb up and the census bureau tells us that so has the number of our citizens living in poverty. so the question is, what as governor could you do to improve wages in the state? mr. milne. milne: one of the first things we need to do is change the tone from the top in the governor's office. i believe that vermont has strengthened its reputation as not being a business ready state over the last four years. there's many examples i could cite for that but i think with the scott milne administration, businesses will realize that doors open, let's give up her want to try. we need to come up with some sort of shot in the are. we have a stagnant economy as you pointed out. average household incomes are down come unemployment rate has gone up the last month. we need to do some tax incentives to stimulate business. we need to move forward with a robust revitalization of our education system which is the foundation for a great economy. >> moderator: esther shaman. shumlin: first i want to correct the facts. we have to remember the facts are difficult things to refute. we do have among the lowest unemployment rates in america. we have the lowest unemployment rate of all the new england states. when i go out and talk to employers which i do constantly becoming we need more trained workers. so the way we're going to grow jobs in the state, and granted there are too many vermonters are you prepared to me in the nation. this recovery has been spotty. americans in the middle class have not seen the growth we wish and, frankly, of more work to do. the things we're doing our important. balancing states budget without raising income taxes, sales taxes. i've done it four times. painting -- paving roads and bridges. we've increased the number of poorly paved roads and bridges, kept that while most have. most importantly education from early childhood education to higher education, the workforce we are training we're succeeding in moving more folks into a prosperous future if we give them beyond high school. and, finally, health care costs. there's nothing that kills jobs and job creation more than the ever rising cost of health care that cannot be sustained. >> moderator: how would you improve wages in the state lac lacks. >> start with the people of the state of vermont rising up and taking over every major industry so that people can get paid a fair wage instead of being ripped off 50% by the employer. and pharmaceutical is a good place to start. ibm is another good place to start. but to continue to talk about adding jobs even at higher levels is part of a rip off. and it says make more money so ththey capitalist can take more money away from you. it doesn't say that you get to keep that money. it says that the capitalists can take 50%, what is called surplus value. we need to completely convert to a socialist system of manufacturing, production and distribution, including in health care. >> moderator: ms. peyton. how do you improve wages in this state? peyton: well, i was so thrilled when the occupy movement happened because i felt that finally everybody got it, that the major banks are problematic for our economy. they are waging economic work against us. so the answers come in how can we create a monetary system so that the economy starts up from the ground, investing in microbusiness, making sure we're contracting within state, taking off tax on vermont items, to have a vermont branding what our brand is, there are quality of ours, craftsmanship, is high as swiss and german standards, things that are made to last. so we can circulate money from the ground up because trickle-down economics don't work. we need collateralized our economy, and i will leave my website ups we can find out more. >> moderator: thank you. ms. ericson. ericson: vermont is not business friendly because it's not business -- business cannot afford to pay the wages it would like to pay their employees. the students need to know why. the reason vermont is not business friendly is the federal government and the state government, the legislatures, are passing laws saying administrative officials may make rules and regulations. so the federal government, u.s. congress and state government, state legislature in montpelier are passing laws that are like blank homework papers, equivalent of letting the gender field and in. they are saying administrative officials who are not elected officials can make rules and regulations that businesses have to comply with. the administrative officials wind and died by lobbyists but that is a reporter because they're not elected officials or candidates. >> moderator: mr. peters. peters: the economy is not really good in the state of vermont because antibusiness, i believe. you've got to make business come to you. i mean, you just can't pass all these rules and regulations. businesses that want to come in, they want to put a business up and want to start hiring people and want to start making money and paying wages. you get to go to a process that takes all these years to do this, nobody's good company. they're going to go by is like roadkill on the interstate. we have young people going to school, spending thousands of thousand dollars to educate our young people. everybody else gets the benefit of our money that we invested our young people. that's a bad investment for the investment you put in your kids who leave the state at the rate they're leaving to go somewhere's else because of the people are waiting, just waiting because we don't want to do what we're supposed to. >> moderator: mr. feliciano. how do you improve wages? traffic as the governor said, we have expensive health care, high taxes, high cost of education all on your watch. what we need to do is start cutting spending. if we start cutting spending weekends are reducing our taxes and that will give businesses an incentive to grow. we need to reduce, we need to ease some of the legislation which creates an effect where businesses can't growth and subsequent can hire employees. so we have high taxes that's preventing growth. we have acted to 50 which prevents building, companies from expanding in the local area. so those things are giving out a contractor. but if we focused in on cutting spending and reducing health care costs and creating more predictable stable environment by easing some of the activity to legislate will create an incentive for businesses to grow, more opportunities for you. i'm not sure if it's a seller issue or it's more, i think it's more of a spending issue and once was are cutting our costs which are promising to do, we will have a growing economy again. >> moderator: we would like to bring some of our e-mail questions that some of our viewers have submitted this evening as well. there's an interesting one about climate change and it goes like this -- mr. shumlin. shumlin: i don't think we can move fast enough on climate change. the governor has now managed three climate changes due to storms when i refer we get 12 inches of rain dumped on vermont in a short period of time, we've got to move quickly. that's why i'm so proud of the fact that we have built out renewables in the state incredibly quickly. we quadrupled the number of solar the number of solar panels, we're harnessing the wind. doing everything we can do to energy efficiency right there in terms of digestion my view is that is it's not the sharpest tool that we have in the chore. i'm willing to look at it. i do think that we should look at everything that we possibly can to move forward on climate change, as governor i will continue to be a leader in this area. >> moderator: but no divestment, is that right? shumlin: , my view is is not the sharpest told i'm willing to look at it. is not a simple question. we have a fiduciary responsibility. i do as governor to ensure we're getting a return on our retirement pension plans. there are a lot of reasons why it's not as simple as it looks i'm willing to look at it. >> moderator: mr. milne. milne: one good reason is to sort of hedge against a bet we are doing on rushing towards this renewable energy program that's leading to industrial high elevation, wind turbines across vermont and all kinds of other things. i think the job of government is to make choices. my choice coming into the next biennium is needing to look at divesting from those kind of stocks right now. we have too many bigger problems to worry about. >> treachery i don't support to fester your. we need you everything possible to ensure that our accounts are generating revenue. right now we have a retirement system, $3 billion out of actuarial balance. we can't afford to continue to divest from also feels better yielding high returns and furthering increase that rate. so now i do not support the divestiture of that, from the fossil fuel. also we spent, come back to spinney. we spent an incredible amount of money, $600 million in subsidies for renewable energy, and those renewable energy sources are only producing 2% of the most of energy sources. we are spending money on all this renewable stuff that's not generating anything for us. so i would not the best teacher the poor vote because we need to somehow -- divest, payback a retirement fund. peyton: i don't think dan feliciano numbers are correct. i've been educating about agricultural, but the buildings we can build that use a quarter of the fuel because it's such a hopeful way to do with the climate change. i also think we should the vest. of course, we should invest. we've been sending our young people to war for oil. we do have the technology to get off of oil. we've got enough hydro- in vermont if we were claiming the hydro- on the river to give us enough power. so we need to do that. in my household, my partner just put in air to air heat exchanger's. that when we are now off of oil. we need to get off of oil and we need to look at things like solar roadways. we need to make our earth a priority because our relationship with the earth is how we're going to thrive in the future. and i know we can do it. >> moderator: divest state pension funds, mr. diamondstone. diamondstone: i think we should invest all capital investment and open a state bank so that all investments of pension funds which understand we are now close to a billion, and behind -- what? that we can use that money to invest in vermont. we did not need to invest in big corporations in order to make money. we need to invest in vermont. the other thing is capitalism not only rips off workers but it rips off the planet. and you are all aware of fracking and other mountaintop being cut away and so forth. those things are destroying our planet, the place where we live. we invest in our own home, and that has to stop now. and that means getting away from competition which is very wasteful. there's always a loser, there's always a bankruptcy. spent thanks very much. mr. peters. peters: repeated the question please. >> moderator: do you think the state should invest its investment, it's retirement investment and fossil fuel, gas and own companies? peters: know. i think people are interested in helping to get money for retirement something to live on. as far as the climate change, we lost the mountaintop where i live, so we could have green energy. then they take the energy credits and what do they do? they sell them to somebody who still pollutes. everybody made money in between but the ratepayer didn't. hydro is the way to go to i mean, it's renewable, it's cheap right now. it's cheapest than anything they have. when they talk about climate change they make some like the average person is totally to blame. a lot of big corporations are doing a lot of damage. look at the air that is flown every year, how many people fly? look at our military. but how much the military uses in fossil fuels. there's a lot of climate change right there. ericson: various government pension funds have been in the news the past couple of years, particularly with cities for fraud. so if i'm elected governor first and foremost i would to a complete forensic examination of the pension fund to find it if it has been any fraud going on. because this is so common. it just happens. it's been in the news and it's something you can't ignore. so that's not the one. number two on climate change, if the f-35 strike fighter jets are based in vermont, when they are flying they give off nanoparticles of aluminum and that will affect the climate. >> moderator: thank you. let's bring in another one of our students. beatrice, you have a question about the drug problem. >> do you think existing measure to combat the drug epidemic in vermont such as raising penalties on out of state drug runners or increasing funding for treatment are doing in of? if not, what would you propose? >> moderator: let's begin with you, ms. peyton. peyton: i think it's important we look at our pharmaceutical, our prescription practices. i think we are overprescribing opiates. here in america we have 95% of the opiate prescription practices but on 25% of the population. we can reduce our common we should reduce how many opiates our doctors are prescribing, and replacing them with other methods that are used around the world, including marijuana for pain receptors. i know many, many people who have become hooked on heroin through oxycontin that's been prescribed. so we really need to rein back our prescription practices and begin to look at hypnosis, on meditation, on marijuana, all these different methods of dealing with pain for starters. thank you. >> moderator: thank you. ms. ericson. how do you feel about -- had to make candidate for attorney general for the liberty union party two days ago, she posted online that peter shumlin had given $5 million to a ski resort to buy a new snowblower, that could've been used for drug treatment facility. peter? did you do that? [laughter] shumlin: is am i turn on your turn? >> moderator: are you done? mr. peters, how do you feel about the states approach? peters: you have a lot of young kids and nowadays if you do something like if you don't buckle them up or do something when you can be held liable for child safety and well being. you've got these drug dealers coming into this state and they're getting trucks to very young kids. and if you and them a 13 they will never be a productive citizen. if they take drugs reliable belong to for what? they can't tie their shoes or anything. take a drug dealer and when you give them, you come down hard on them. you make it known if you come to vermont and you get caught, you're going to do the time. we've got kids and judges, some district attorneys. it's not, though, we give you 30 days. no. you've got to talk about years and she got to make that they are so scared commit that will end part of your problem right there. diamondstone: i tend to go along with a lot of what emily said though i think while it's in the right direction for the cricket direction, it's not enough. i have a socialist libertarian view of this. on the socialist side i say all drugs, whether they be contraband, whether they be heroin or whatever, and noticed there was no heroin in the united states when the taliban were in control in afghanistan which is if you use your head, tell you it gets into this country through the united states government. that, we need to do is make it a crime seriously to be in private enterprise in the drug institution. and everybody ought to be able to take what they want and get it from a government service and pay cost. because of the government taxes it, that will leave a gap in which private enterprise can enter. and the one thing we want to eliminate -- >> moderator: mr. shumlin. shumlin: this is the one area that can really destroy vermont's quality of life is drug addiction to heroin addiction, opiate addiction. that's automate what made it thf my state of the state address. let me answer the question to are we doing in of? no. what are we doing? we passed penalties that make it tougher for drug dealers who are bringing poison into our state, if they get arrested they will be time. second, we have moved it from a challenge where we are dealing with a simply as law-enforcement challenges, law enforcement solve this force, that's not fair. let's partner with them and deal with this as a health care crisis that it is. so vermont is leading the way in fighting opiate addiction by saying number one, he will clear the waiting list. if you need treatment we want wt you to have treatment center you can go to. number two, if you give us to which the most likely chance that will move you out of denial and into recovery, we will say if you will go into recovery, follow this prescribed plan, you will never see a judge, never go to jail, we will move you back into a productive member of society. finally, what we're not doing enough of is pretension but we have communities all over vermont coming together to figure out how do we deal with his to take responsibly for on every street, every corner. we will make great progress kind for mr. feliciano. feliciano: the governor has gone a lot of client, you know, a lot of people have been looking forward to the governor to look up to the governor across the country to solve this problem, how he is addressing it. i want to wait and see what happens. i think it's a good approach and i wouldn't do anything different right now. i'm optimistic, or hopefully optimistic that the results will prove to be effective. so i wouldn't change anything. i wouldn't have to with what's going on. i would like to see what the outcomes actually are. i know it's hard to believe i agree with them, but on this one case i do. >> moderator: mr. milne. milne: i also think of something that i applaud -- although we good monday morning quarterback, but i think we need to follow the date and see what's going on. i do believe it's not entirely a law enforcement issue. i do here these rumors or the data showing that people are moving to heroin from so many other drugs. i will say that if we can have an economy that's creating great jobs for young people, we can have affordable college education that keeps people engaged in learning, and if we can just get back to some of the more moderate ways of typical vermont living, that would be a good enabler of some success in mr. carter's will. >> moderator: opiates are a big problem facing the department of children and families. it's been a tough year, including the death of two young vermonters earlier in the year. lots of ideas out there for reforming this agency in the months ahead. i'm wondering what the best one you've heard so far, mr. feliciano. feliciano: i'm not sure if i have a good idea yet. i think we need to take a good look and reorganize the whole structure so that we begin to getting the services, that we're protecting the services, that we are protecting the children, our future vermonters. many of you probably don't know but i've a special needs daughter and this is something that's very close to me. i want to make sure that the kids are getting the appropriate treatment, that they're being, the families are treating them well and i think we need to figure out by putting more people on the streets, more officials on the street and less in the statehouse to focus in on the problem, and make sure that when we find a potential case where a children are being harmed that we ended inappropriate and take the corrective action. so i think that's a better place to start focusing in on is reorganize it so we have more people managing the cases and ensuring that the children are being protected. >> have you heard any good ideas? peyton: i have an excellent one. that we increase the community involvement with families that are in poverty. we, for one, need to circlet more money so that we don't have such poverty or have a living wage. but another thing we can do is engage the committee in mentorship which is important for also people who are in recovery or people who are coming out of the criminal justice system but because people need to make new choices when they're making bad choices. in order to make a new choices they have to be around people who know how to make good choices to begin to understand how good it feels to make good choices for oneself. so when we create a mentor in system and coupling people with people who need to help in the choice making department, then we can engage the community, maybe do some barter or some remuneration for that sort of thing. >> moderator: how do you feel about reform the department program? milne: the best idea i came up with a didn't want to make fun out of a very dire, serious situation for vermonters is elect scott miller for governor. i believe that the agency of human services is the biggest chunk of state general funds. really needs a governor that will be a full-time governor, that's going to be picking a person, man or woman, to run the agency, that they will have a close working relationship with and really pay attention to the details that are going on. we've got all kinds of problems in the headlines all the time come from the agency of human services, and part of it i would attribute to a governor has been out of state 25% of the time for the last year, who has only been paying attention to business. >> moderator: mr. shumlin? shumlin: being governor is an extraordinarily tough job, and one of the toughest things i have to do is governor is to actually hugged the families of the folks whose child, children we lose in these awful tragedy. we could debate whether it's harder to be a drug addict or the child of the drug addict. but in every single case whether it's the tragedy, nor tragedy where the up the other day, when these circumstances happened, adults do awful things to the kids, it's almost always as a result of addiction. what have we done? with increased immediately the number of caseworkers working with each family and with more case workers on the ground. we now have a policy where no child can be reunified with the family and difficult circumstance without the sign-up of the supervisor. we are looking at other organization within department, but here's the point. bcfd as with most difficult challenges imaginable. tough challenges. where the last stop on the chain. we've got to do better to protect kids. vermont kids. with opiate addiction, heroin addiction and other addictions. it will continue to be a challenge but i'm committed to doing better than we've been doing, more staff, better to mitigation, more transparency and better service to vermont. >> moderator: ms. ericson. ericson: my prayers to the families who lost their children, but children's peers are also being broken. i live eight miles from springfield vermont. a year or so ago around 30 adults were arrested for drugs. they are photographs are put around town, different store owners put a sign saying not in our town. well, those people, the adults who were arrested and had their photographs and names flashed around town in newspapers, they were pretrial detainees. they were convicted. they were pretrial detainees. think of the children feel. their children's spirits were broken. now springfield, vermont, he walked downtown and there's store after store after store is closed. you to go to the springfield shopping plaza, radioshack is out of business, friendly's as out of business. the place is closing down. so we humiliate and demean a town, that doesn't help either. >> moderator: mr. diamondstone. diamondstone: we have an obsession with violence. killing all over the world, we have bases all over the world. we are bombing people whenever we feel like it. the people who are injured are the dead and injured in our battlefields, whether they are adults or otherwise. and when i use that expression adults, i don't think we should let anybody in the military was under the age of 26 years. that should be the dividing line. and we, you know, it takes both the environmental issue right to the top. i mean, 35 gallons to run a tank a mile. all right. so we have to stop the military. zero military budget, close all the bases, stop the factories that build all that equipment and ship it off to the zionist regime so they can defend itself against the gigantic gazans military. >> moderator: the question was about reform the department for children and families. mr. peters. peters: yes. mr. shumlin mentioned more personnel, and the coach would be do we need more personnel or do we need more training for the ones we have? what to look for? what to be aware of? probably a lot of these cases, the social worker, who ever went there, knew something was wrong but their hands were so tied by rules and regulations that they could do anything at that particular moment which probably would have saved somebody's life. the person who usually commit these crimes probably had a previous record. they probably shouldn't even be around young children like that because if they've got a criminal record that bad, something bad is going to happen. these people go check on them should have the and start but if they think something is wrong they should be able to take action whether it's called the police or whatever immediately. i think probably it would've saved a few people. >> moderator: thank you, sir. we are at the bottom of the hour and reminded of watching the google debate here on vermont pbs. next week we'll have the candidates for lieutenant governor, and in two weeks time they candidates running for the u.s. house of representatives, and we invite you of course to join us each thursday night this month for that. we have in our studio here high school and college student, some of them have questions for our candidates for governor, and we begin with addison. please go ahead. >> welfare has been increasingly in demand. and in more recent times and upturned food stamps have been great, electronic benefit transfer carts. with the legitimacy of these cards use has been question. what do you believe would make these cards more efficient as well as increase their effectiveness? or should vermont change its current plan for welfare and turned favor of other options? >> moderator: mr. peters, let's start with you. peters: i believe that if i was governor that if people are working, people thing out of social sturdy to support somebody who don't want to work, possible, that you should not be able to buy alcohol, tobacco, or lottery tickets from what is given to you for what you're supposed to be using to take care of yourself and your family. not only that, whatever the least firman estimate that is working her butt off just to make their payments should be the bottom of what you are earning big because i see a lot of people on the system that drive better cars and people are working a full-time job and a part-time job. if you're not earning your money, if somebody else's earning it for you, you shouldn't have all the good things and they shouldn't go without. >> moderator: mr. diamondstone. diamondstone: to each according to need. from each according to ability. that should be the catchword, the watchword of the wiki. and you can do it in a guaranteed minimum income of $1000 a month. you could do it anyway you want but we need to make sure that everybody has the minimum standard that the need for shelter, clothing, education. and i can tell you when i first went to college, it cost me $10 a semester. when i came back out of the army i had to pay $10 a point. boy, was i angry. we need to understand that education is part of the essentials of life along with clothing and shelter. so whatever we pick on as i figure we should be able to use that, or maybe we should make adjustments for everybody but we need to tax the people at the top to pay for it. now they don't pay their fair share of taxes let's make them pay their fair share and promote. if that doesn't work we should secede and do it that way. >> moderator: ms. peyton. peyton: i would like to germinate an idea, i hope are some words in every said, that money simply an accounting system. and right now it's a system that is rigged by the uber wealthy. our welfare system is keeping people in the state of helplessness by suggesting that they are so helpless. so what i want to see is i want to see an exchange happen where we are giving people welfare dollars. they need to be getting back in some way. we also need to have a livable wage, not a minimum wage where people are working for 40, 50, 60 hours and bringing home $1200 not having enough to pay to heat and to pay their car. so most of our problems here are cost by in forced poverty iq low income. and that's all i have time for. >> moderator: ms. ericson. ericson: for people who do need food stands for families and individuals, they don't pay for the best types of food. they get a little on the food stamp that they're not able to afford enough vegetables and fruits. and that's a real problem. many low income people are overweight and obese, and it ends up costing taxpayers more because there's more hospital visits and more doctor visits and more diabetes and more and more childhood diabetes because the cost of vegetables and fruits is so high that the people who do actually need the food stamps can't afford the vegetables and fruits. so they take a couple of their food stamps dollars to buy a lottery ticket, maybe what they want to do is just win the lottery so they can afford fruits and vegetables. >> moderator: mr. feliciano. feliciano: i think there's two proctors but i like to separate the two issues. there's people who for one reason or another can't work that we need to take care. vermonters are not going to throw promoters out in the street, and we all make sure that they can live and live a decent life, if it's no fault of their own. i think that there is some abuse in the system, but what we need to do is create more jobs. i keep coming back, if we cut spending come if we lower property taxes, if we increase come if we do a better job in our school system, then people will have opportunities to grow. people have opportunities to learn. people of opportunities to earn. and i think that's essentially what we need to do. >> moderator: thanks very much. mr. milne. milne: i agree that obligation of the societies to take care of those who are least able to take care of themselves. elderly, young, and folks that find themselves in a situation where they need help from the government for a very short time in their lives. there's a lot of big problems in vermont as we look into the next biennium $109 budget deficit. health care system that we have to resurrect some working system. economy that's in the tank. my understanding is that the food stamps, electronic fund transfer payment system is heavily regulates my party would be to talk to peter welch, bernie sanders, i think it's a federal issue. i agree with got to get the economy going. we don't want to lose track of our obligation and take of those who need help. >> moderator: mr. shumlin. shumlin: let me talk about what we have done, it's a very good question the this is what we've done. we've taken the cards and made it possible for vermonters to buy food at farmers markets in vermont, good wholesome, best in the country grown by local farmers, getting more fruits, vegetables grown locally in to the folks are using the courts. second there isn't a vermont who wants to leave anyone behind. but we also when i became governor, we are the only state left where you can stay on welfare, on a system for more than five years. my job as governor is to make sure that we are moving folks from assistance to work. so we put an end to the. we got rid of the five year requirement. instead we are training vermonters for the work through our label -- labor department. we give them the skills they need to get the job. despite the gloom and doom is on the panel, vermonters have jobs. vermont employers are hiring. they are challenges they can't find enough trained folks to do the work they have. that's why we are training everybody including folks on assistance for jobs. that's why we have raised the minimum wage. that's what i made it possible for the card abuse in farmers markets. we are making progress and it changes that will serve a vermont well going forward. >> moderator: mr. milne forward. >> moderator: mr. milne, you mentioned the $109 budget gap that might be facing the next legislation, don't talk with the number would be yet but i wonder, an if this is a question for everyone, if you're in the governor's chair, could you accept any revenue increase or would all be spending cuts? if so, where? milne: thank you. first of all the question is will be backwards. how do we get in the situation? four years of the rate of spending by the state of vermont led by our governor, but three times the rate of growth of revenue. we've got a governor who brags he hasn't raised the income tax, hasn't raised the sales tax from hasn't raised the meals tax but behind the curtains and all kinds of gimmicks going on. there's a continuing cost shift from other tax sources to property taxes which is really created this crisis of affordability that we really need to figure out. i don't see big spending cuts being a solution. we need to manage government intelligently, and get back on track. darkly some opportunities to be smart with how we are spending money. >> moderator: mr. shumlin. shumlin: well, i'm proud to say that i've managed or consecutive budget, deficit budget. us got just major without raising taxes on working vermonters. we have now managed forestry budgets and we're about to do another. the interesting thing about my opponent is a whenever to how he's going to do. people just complain about what we've done. listen, i'm proud of we've done. we not only of managed forestry budgets without raising income tax, sales tax, but at the same time we pick priorities so important. for example, we passed the two biggest transportation budgets in history of the state. that has meant we reduced inadequate growth come inadequate bridges. it the number of in a co-op -- inadequate bridges from 22% to 12%. at the same time we invested in property tax reduction i dedicate a more of the sales tax to the education tax. we have actually secured our pension perk rems going forward by working with the teachers to reduce long-term obligations there. we have the best bond rating of any new in the states, aaa, because the fiscal management we are employing. one of the things i'm proud of his bring my business goes to state government to manage to the building of monitors to pay. and that's help his state grow jobs cut for mr. diamondstone. diamondstone: higher taxes. you know, we have that available as you know. so-so security is not paid on income from gambling in the stock market. 13% of the wealthiest income is free from that. their dividend income and their bond income, interest income, is free from that. so let's tax it here in vermont. if the feds don't want to do, well, that's their problem and we have this problem, you know, the republicans and the democrats get together on so many things. all of them are together on turning burlington into bob graham tonight. all of them are together -- bob graham. weapons all over the world, including to the zionist government in -- in -- >> moderator: ms. peyton. spending cuts, tax increases? peyton: may i add another element? me i do that? >> moderator: sure transit we also need to look at our banking system. in every other scenario we have a public element and a private element like we have public schools and private schools. in banking its we're always benefiting wall street. so we can take the value of our taxes and put it in a state reserve bank, a public bank so that when we lend out, that i goes back to her treasury. right now we are supporting the tar sands by putting our money into td north bank and that is so environmentally degrading, that it's so important to stop the. so if we have a public reserve bank, we can also circulate more money and we will need so many of our governmental agencies because poverty is the reason why we have so many agencies. >> moderator: things. ms. ericson. ericson: first of all i would make marijuana legal and tax. second of all i would reinstate all the dashed on state highway that peter shumlin has removed. and i would say -- save the state from a horrible loss of the state is about to have. heads up, peter. when people work for the state department of transportation, now part of the interstate 809 can go 74 miles without a restroom? one man told me he has diabetes. welcome he has a right to work under the american -- american which is both act and has a right to reasonable accommodation to kenya to go to the bathroom once an hour but he can't because there's no restroom for 74 miles on 89 and it works for the state highway transportation. so he has to leave the highway and go do some little town and then has to pay money to go to the bathroom. peter, you're going to face a big lawsuit from a class-action lawsuit from the state of vermont proposing to rest areas 89 your own employees the right to go to the bathroom. you are uncivilized. >> moderator: all right. mr. peters. peters: yes. i think it's a combination of more than one thing. i know when i worked for the agency transportation, usually you've got a budget. the way it's set up right now unless they change it, if you don't spend all your money you don't get that money back. they catch you. they should be an incentive program for any agency that saves money, get a certain percentage of the. it's an incentive program. not only that they can save all this, raise taxes but i think they call it fees. i know i paid a lot of these lived. the other thing is it might be a bad word but we have all kinds of scheme, all kinds of snowmachine. weren't a lot of people go in vermont? they go out of state to gamble. we just as much of the casinos here next to the ski areas. put them outside the ski areas of have to travel to the and spend money our small towns. you will get your income, everybody happy. most of all taxpayers because their taxes are not going up. feliciano: we have to cut spending. our taxes are too high. our business environment isn't as fun as a governor would lead you to believe. our economy is growing at about 1.5% per year. that doesn't bode very well for the young people of vermont. i'll be bold. we need to cu cut vermont health connector that will save about 26-$37 a year. we need to cut position these in vermont. i've had over at our house on our progress they didn't do much for us. we need to reduce inmate health care spending. that's the second highest in the country and we need t to stop ts remake is a single pair that's only going to drive up costs and increase the cost of doing business in vermont. we need to cut spending definitely and which create a moral, a more business friendly environment. >> moderator: quickly, mr. shumlin, do we have reliability here with our lack of a restroom facilities? shumlin: you know, we have been adding rest area facility's, building new and then again. i cut the ribbon on that recently. it's beautiful. with a great one coming into the state and i think where the right number where time as you want done in randolph. we will continue to work on it. tragedy of taking them out on 9189 on their been no rest is removed under my governorship. we've been building them, not taking them away. >> moderator: all right. we don't have a whole lot of time but this next question, please keep this to 30-second answers but i'm just wondering if you were elected governor and you could under cover of darkness perhaps sneak a lot of the legislation that would just love to get past but no, it wouldn't. mr. diamondstone fro, which one would it be? diamondstone: no such thing for me. close government is the beginning of fascism. as far as i'm concerned to any law that is passed under the cover of darkness is part of the development of fascism, and so every transaction carried on by our government should be open for us to look at. >> moderator: great idea. mr. peters. peters: i like to get the repeal of on those paths last january that's been slower to me, and that's lake shore protection act. that as far as i am concerned is the biggest land grab by the state and it was when the government took land from the indians. it's a land grab. >> moderator: mr. feliciano. feliciano: come on, act 48. we need to stop the single pair health risking. it does nothing to reduce health care costs, and we need to focus our energy on going the economy and the putting some sort of boondoggle in place. we have no chance of implement a single-payer health care system that's going to save money and we do not have the skills to implement it as demonstrated by the portable edition of vermont health connect. >> moderator: ms. peyton. peyton: i'd like to make sure that every public debate for public office includes every valid candidate. i will say i've been running for three elections as an independent, and that times, others, press, have never ever run one article about my platform so that you know what i have to offer. so i think it's very important to be able to reform government that we have a level playing field at our elections. >> moderator: ms. ericson. ericson: make any law i want? transfer anything you want tragedy okay. number one,. >> moderator: just one try to part a, part b, part c. part a, no motor boats on lake champlain. one-third of vermonters father drinking water from lake champlain, motorboats the oil and gas which contain lead. let's stop living for people to drinking water. number two, no natural gas pipeline underneath lake champlain. they leak. they have explosions. children will get killed swimming in lake champlain. number three, we've got to stop dumping treated sewage into lake champlain. >> moderator: all right. mr. milne. milne: i would try to sneak in a line item veto for the governor. >> moderator: mr. shumlin, how does that sound you? shumlin: sounds like a great idea now. >> moderator: everybody got a shot at that one. we are running short on time and we have seven candidates so we need to move along to closing statements. we will begin with you, ms. peyton. peyton: oh, thank you. this is probably the last time that i'm going to be running but i will leave my website up for anybody who wants to see the solutions that i put up there. and i want our people to think about what is more important to you? is if you could have all the money in the world or you could have all the love in the world, which has more about you? we have elevated money to godlike status, and it is just an accounting system. so i urge the people of vermont to make your decisions to improve the quality of loving in your life, of the brotherhood and sisterhood. because it is the quality of love in a team unity that gives us spiritual wealth, and we are very spiritually wanting in this country. peace can be managed just the way we manage war. with appropriate monetary policy. and we can grow and thrive. >> moderator: thank you. closing statement now from peter diamond stone. diamondstone: i want to touch on two things. one is the obit writers for jim jefferies left that one of the finest things about him. which was he would never go to a candidate forum and let's all the other candidates were invited. from 1980 on, and remember the big when he blocked where he said i won't come because they didn't invite everybody else. i think that's a demand we should make every incumbent who is seeking reelection. you don't go unless everybody is invited. second thing is violence. the violence to workers, the violence to the planet, the violence that we do to people all over the world. we need to stop spending our resources on that, and we need to reallocate that for the benefit of the planet and for the benefit of everybody who is living on this planet. because everybody is entitled to live. and we need to be able to make sure that everybody -- >> moderator: thank you. cris ericson tried to i'm cris ericson to i'm cris ericson but if you vote for me i will do everything i can to stop the f-35 strike fighter jets funding based adjacent to the burlington airport in the largest populated area of vermont. they are designed to be dual capable of carrying nuclear bombs. they all are not safe to be based in a large population citizen every. it one jet crashes in lake champlain, that will permanently destroyed the drinking water for one-third of vermonters. again, i'm cris ericson. if you vote for me i will do everything i can to stop a natural gas pipeline from being built underneath lake champlain because natural gas pipelines are in the news year in and year out nationwide for pipe leaks, pipe bursts and pipe explosions that will pollute the lake water from which one-third of vermonters rather drinking water. this has got to stop. vote for me. >> moderator: thank you. next, and luciana, libertarian. feliciano: , i'm a father, husband, veteran. i have three young children to i've a lot of skin in the game in vermont and i want to see vermont succeed and be more prosperous. quite frankly i'm disappointed that governor shumlin standing here claiming all these victories when the numbers don't justify it. he keeps talking about the numbers and then when you challenge them on the numbers he says let's not quibble about the am also quite disappointed that scott milne for standing here next few a republican candidate is not put forward a platform a plan. i'm running as governor because i think we need to stop a single-payer health care system and cut costs, health the cost to open up the marketplace. we need to cut spend. my background is in cutting spending and improving efficiencies in both local and state governments. as well as private industry. we need to cut the property tax and we need to provide more school choice so that our young families can generate more hope for their children and have a more affordable place to live and choice in the education system. so if you want someone who is going to make sure that vermont can continue to grow, contingency more prosperous and challenge the status quo by making bold statements and bold challenge, i'm the candidate, dan feliciano. >> moderator: thank you, sir. next, bernie peters. peters: on bernard peters again and i'm asking for a vote on november 4. i am a candidate that is about as grassroots as you can get. i don't of. i don't dig this is beyond me. i don't have corporations behind me. i don't have no brief from out of state behind me because i look at this this way. i'm a vermonter running for vermont office for the vermont people. when you get money for it can become it all comes from out of state, how can you say that you're a vermont candidate quick you must be out of state candidate because it's not vermont money behind you. it should be vermont money. we need reform on this. there shouldn't be a money issue but it should be so much for each one. when it's gone it's gone. i believe that i'm the right candidate and that send to back to work with common sense. >> moderator: thank you. data democrat peter shumlin tournament it's been a huge privilege to be governor for last four years. listen, we've made some great progress as it's been outlined tonight. we have more work to do. iran for governed originally because i love this state more than anywhere else come and i want to make this state a place where more young people can succeed, we can grow jobs, economic opportunity to preserve our quality of life. we are going to wake up on november 5 and 1 of the seventh of us is going to be governor. this is an important election. who's your leader is, you should -- is a huge difference for vermont. i'm asking for your vote so we can continue the good work because we have more work to do. and the help she will give me your support. thank you for this privileged. >> moderator: thank you. eveunder final closing statement will be from scott milne. milne: stewart, vermont public broadcasting, thank you fellow candidates. i want to thank everybody for what's been i think a traditional good vermont campaign where we're talking about issues and positive things. also shadow to the audience. it's great to see young people engaged. i've been engaged in watching vermont politics since i was very young. i want to do a shout out to my mom, mary in, who died about a month and a half ago. 1994, 20 years ago my mom was running for the state legislature for the first time in orange county, was really handicapped as an underdog, was a steep hill climb to even get elected to her campaign theme, and i visited the foundation of her legislative career and her life was, i'm just naïve enough to believe that i can make a difference. my mom ended up winning that race. she did make a difference in her life. i would ask everybody here and people watching to join me, being naïve enough to believe that you can make a difference. look at each of us can decide which one you want to support, geget a couple people out to voe with your and it will be an election that can go your way. >> moderator: thank you, mr. mill, and thanks to all of you for being with us tonight. that concludes tonight's program. we invite you to join us right back to your next thursday evening for the debate between the candidates for lieutenant governor, will be on the air at 8:00, following week with the candidates of the u.s. house of representatives. mark johnson will be moderating for those events. .. >> and the cdc expecting to hold a ebola response updated in a moment. the director of the cdc, tom frieden will be joined by the commissioner of health services, dr. david lakey. they will briefing reporters that we will stand by here and wait for the briefing to begin momentarily. >> in a briefing with reporters on any bowl a day for the centers for disease control and prevention expected to start any moment now. "the associated press" writes that the world health organization says the death rate from the virus has been increased to 70%. that's a ebola into the high mortality disease category. there could be up to 10,000 new cases of peters: within two months. previously the who had estimated the death rate from ebola at 50%, increasing that now to 70%. we've got briefings and hearings available on her website, c-span.org. no audio] [no audio] >> and the cdc expect them to start a briefing for reporters here in a moment now. we'll be hearing from dr. tom frieden, director of the cdc. he will be joined by the commission of the tech is department of state health services. while a way for the briefing the star, here's a look at c-span's 2014th average in ways you can participate online. >> be part of c-span campaign 2014th average. followers on twitter twitter and like a font they spoke to get schedules, video clips of key moments, debate previews from our politics team. c-span is bringing you over 107 house and governor debates and you can instantly share your reactions to what the candidates are saying. the battle for control of congress. stay in touch and engage by following us on twitter@c-span and like us on facebook at facebook.com/c-span. >> and waiting for the cdc to comment briefly reporters on a ebola update and the situation united states. head of the cdc, dr. tom frieden will be speaking with one of the representatives from the texas department of state health services, dr. david lakey. they are behind schedule. there were supposed to start at 3:00 eastern time. we will they can see when they appear here. we'll bring you live coverage of their update. of course you can find other cdc briefings on our website c-span.org. [no audio] [no audio] >> expect dean a [no audio] update or the cdc. the world health organization increase in its rate of death from ebola from 70%. used to be 50%. we are going to be bringing you back here as soon as the cdc updates are spirit in the meantime, a look at the role of the evangelicals in the midterm elections. this is from today's "washington journal." post go we are back with russell morris, of the southern that is convention commission, talking about the role of the evangelicals in the 2014 election cycle. we want to begin there. what role do you think evangelicals play? >> guest: well, evangelicals are interested in the political process because we believe we are good innocents. we are to be the for the common good and i think evangelicals will be very engaged. we have a distinctive witness in certain areas and certain things we are concerned about uniquely. i think those issues are going to be on the forefront. >> host: what brief this? escrow in the 2014, they're all sorts of elections, but the major battles are often having to do with issues that evangelicals are concerned about. and then there are particular amendment. amendment one for instance in the state of tennessee has to do with the abortion question. that is when evangelicals pay a great deal of attention to around the country. >> host: i want to respond to the supreme court's decision recently. do not hear appeals to same-sex marriage ban. >> guest: well, i think this nondecision decision was under the radar row versus wade. it made a decision and we see the implications of that immediately. so i don't know what the endgame is in the short term. it is is clear for the record as wanting to go, which is towards finding a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. i of course don't think there is any such constitutional right, but the court seems to be moving in that direction. and it actually is an something i was all that surprised by since the windsor decision last year laid the groundwork for what he wanted to do. i was surprised that it happened as quickly as it did. >> host: didn't settle the debate? >> guest: no, it doesn't settle the debate because we continue to see what it is and why the government has an interest in marriage at all. short-term, the situation looks very bad for people who believe in traditional marriage as i do. but long-term, i am more optimistic. i think marriage is resilient and i think we are going to be having this conversation for a long time because i don't think the sexual revolution will keep the promise it makes. >> host: for us it is over in wisconsin. the federal courts have ruled the decision by this court of appeals decision is the law of the land and we will be upholding it. >> guest: gas. i have no stones to throw at governor walker. the immediate short-term in his state. that is the decision in wisconsin is having to make about whether they will pursue a process with a cord that seems hell-bent on imposing same-sex marriage. >> host: the people of faith that believe you do vote for scout walker if he is saying we are just not going to fight it anymore. >> guest: i don't interest candidate, but i don't think what scott walker is seen as it doesn't matter. we are having a hearing with the supreme court on this issue right now. that is a provincial government that scott walker is making. >> we will at best now and take you to an update on the cdc response to ebola and the u.s. >> you are going to be hearing today from two speakers and then we'll take questions. we'll be taking questions both from the room and on the phone. for those of you, would you please take the microphone and also your name and affiliation? because of the volume of questions we are having, could you please limit to one question and we will come back around if there's time later. my first speaker is the cdc director, dr. tom frieden. >> good afternoon, everyone. today we are going to focus on two aspects of the response to ebola. first, what we are doing to improve the safety and our health care settings and second, what is going on with contact tracing and dallas. i'm delighted to be joined by dr. david lakey. dr. lakey is in texas with the client team from the county health departments as well as more than 20 staff from cdc help you with all aspects of the response. in dallas, what we have done over the past 48 hours to improve infection control bear is send a team into the field. and we have sent the cdc's most experienced staff, people who work on ebola outbreaks for decades, people have stopped ebola outbreaks in very difficult situations in africa. people who are experts, leading the world in everything from laboratory science to infection control, to hospital administration. and we are working hand in glove, side-by-side, with the folks at the hospital and with the teams from the health department in texas as well as the county leadership in the state. some of the things that the teams are doing to improve safety are looking at every step in the procedures. and those experts and making immediate enhancements in what is being done. i will mention three in particular, although there are three interesting large theories. the first and most important is ensuring that every hour of the day, there is a site manager there who is overseeing aspects of infection control. that individual makes sure that the personal protective equipment is put on correctly and taken off correctly. in fact, in in our work, stopping ebola and africa, this is the single most important position to protect health workers. a single site manager whose expert and oversees every aspect of the process. second, we are enhancing training, ongoing, refresher, repeat training including two nurses from emory who cared for ebola patients and are assisting in training nurses and other staff at the hospital in dallas. and third, we are recommending that the number of staff who go in for care be limited. who want to limit the number of staff providing care so that they can become more familiar and more systematic and now they put on and take off protective equipment and they can become more comfortable in a healthy way with providing care in the isolation unit. those three general steps are very important and we are doing many other things looking at everything from the type of personal protective equipment used to the procedure of putting it on in the procedure for taking it off. now, i'm i have been hearing loud and clear from health care workers from around the country that they are worried, that they don't feel prepared to take care of a patient with ebola, that they are very distressed that one of our colleagues now have contract did ebola and is fighting the affection and dallas. a single infection in a health care worker is unacceptable and what we are doing at this point is looking at everything we can do to minimize that risk so that those who were caring for her do that safely and effectively. there are certain additional things that we will be doing going forward. one thing we want to make sure is that whatever is done with where the care is provided, every hospital in the country needs to be ready to diagnose ebola. that means that every doctor, every nurse, every staff person in the emergency department who cares for someone with fever or other signs of infection is to ask, where have you been in the past month? where have you been in the past 21 days? have you been to liberia, sierra leone or ginny? that is important. that will reduce the risk that someone will come into a hospital and not be diagnosed. the fact is the usually infections in health care settings read from someone who is not yet to knows. we have to show up the diagnosis of people have symptoms and who have traveled. the second thing that we will be doing starting today is establishing a cdc ebola response team for any high special anywhere in the country that has a confirmed case of ebola peer group at a team on the ground within hours with some of the leading experts to take care of and protect health care workers from ebola infection. that will include experts in infection control, laboratory science, personal protective equipment, and management of ebola unit. experts who will assist with experimental therapies ,-com,-com ma public education and environmental controls. we have at cdc some of the absolute best experts in the world. they've devoted their life to stopping ebola. many of them like myself are physicians trained in infectious diseases and public health. others are specialists in laboratory science or outreach, experts in everything from contact tracing to epidemiology, too but it takes to stop an outbreak in different settings. they will look at everything from the physical layout of care to the personal protective equipment used. they will bring supplies of personal protective equipment. they will assist the transport of will assist to transport a patient should that become necessary. they will assist with waste management and decontamination. in addition, for training of health care workers throughout the country, we will be ramping up webinars, conference calls, outreach, support their hospitals, hospital associations, professional associations, state and local health departments and more. i would like to now turn to the situation in dallas in terms of infection control. i'm sorry, in terms of contact and just outlined where we are. first, our understanding is that the nurse remains in stable condition and we are thinking of her. i am thinking of her constantly and hoping for her steady recovery. for the first patient, the index patient as we call, there were 48 contacts. those contacts have now passed more than two thirds of their thirds of the risk period. they have all passed more than 14 days. while that wouldn't be impossible that some of them would develop the disease, they have now passed through the highest risk. risk. and it's decreasingly likely that any of them will develop ebola. second, for the nurse who is now hospitalized, there was one and only one contact. that is a representation of what happens when you do active monitoring, when you do contact tracing and when you encourage people to come in for care promptly. the first patient to have ebola in the u.s., 40 potential contacts in the second, one potential contact and that individual had contact before the nurse was severely ill. the nurses not severely ill now and generally people are not highly infectious to that point. we will hope he does not develop infection. third, since the nurse to develop infection, we can't rule out that other people who cared for the individual, the first patient index case had exposure. our teams have been working very hard to cast a wide net and identify everyone who might have been exposed in that circumstance. that includes anyone who went into the room and that includes people who might have handled specimen of blood that were taken from him. at this point the team has identified 76 individuals who might have had exposure to the index patient of the 76 individuals, all will be monitored for fever or symptoms on a daily basis actively. i know within the media and there are several of those individuals who have been concerned about their health and have come in for care and been evaluated. dr. lakey will outline the results of those evaluations. i will share with you that it is very excited provoking to have had a potential exposure to ebola. when i got back from west africa, i have gone into ebola treatment units. every time i had the slightest sore throat or a headache, i was concerned and that is what we want health care workers to do. be concerned about their health that they are in this group of 76 individuals and if so, come in for care so they can be assessed. we would much rather see a false alarm than someone who lets their illness go on for a day and potentially get sicker and potentially expose others. so that is the system as it should work. we want people to come in if they have any symptoms, given that there was one patient, the second patient, the nurse coming to get infected. it is possible we will see other people become ill. we hope that won't be the case and i don't want anyone to take out that there were 76 exposed people. over 76 people at some level of contact and therefore are being actively monitored. so i will stop there and turn it over to dr. lakey for details of those individuals than anything else you would like to say. david. >> thank you, dr. frieden. good afternoon, everyone. it's been 14 days since the first case of ebola was diagnosed in the united states and we've had a very busy time here. since the passing of mr. duncan, we have unfortunately had one additional case and we know that is one too many and we know that the possibility. if she's listening, we're thinking of you and doing everything to get the treatment they need. we have a force on the ground in texas to make sure this is contained. we have state leadership on the ground, dallas teams from the cdc, hospital and local partners together to confront this. health care workers are understandably worried and our top priority is their safety and health of everyone in texas. i had the opportunity yesterday to go to the hospital and talk in detail with the team on the ground at presbyterian hospital. a team consists of the cdc, individuals from the state, state epidemiologist from the local health department. we are fortunate to have two nurses from every tear on the ground and working in concert with the hospital. they are looking at every detail of infection control and truly they have the best national and international experts on the ground as presbyterian. the group of people originally identified as contact, the 48 individuals have passed the critical. as to your frieden outlined. we need to monitor them and the good news is they continue to do well. one close contact with a health care worker diagnosis health care worker diagnosed to speak and is also and has no symptoms here that person is being actively monitored. we're also caring for and monitoring the health care workers dog and that is going well. we're actively monitoring the work of health care work errs who were previously in contact with mr. duncan. they are all doing well. symptoms are detected, even minimal symptoms, they will be isolated and likely be tested for ebola. we really do want to air on the side of caution. when people exhibit symptoms that they are identified extremely quickly due to the vigilant monitoring and i want to assure individuals that noah additional cases of ebola have been detected. we understand a lot of anxiety among workers and they want to calm their fears and detected cases as quickly as possible and will announce any positive result. we are committed to giving you that information. we have a large number of individuals now under active surveillance and i seems to be going well due to the partnership between the federal government, state government work in the hospital. we're all very committed to fighting ebola here in texas and that is the same across the country. with that, dr. frieden, i would like to hand it back to you. >> thank you. we will not take questions starting in the ground. >> "new york times." how many of the 76 were health care workers, do we know? >> those of all health care workers. all of the people exposed to the second patient were health care workers except one close contact and mentioned. i'm sorry, you said that wrong. the 76 were all exposed -- but they say it again so they get it all right because there's a lot of numbers and let's get it straight. first off, the first patient before he was hospitalized at exposures or potential exposures for 48 people. second, once he was hospitalized , there were at least 76 people who might have come into contact with him or his blood and who were being monitored now. we may identify people as we go to records and identify other information, but that is the number who may have participated in some way in the care of the index patient. there's also one individual who was exposed to the second patient before she was isolated. >> janice mcdonald, abc. we understand each hospital has to be able to diagnose a ebola statement. once they are diagnosed, why not transfer them to the high-level containment? >> we are actually looking at all the options, looking at transferring patients are necessary and that is one of the things the apollo response team would consider. >> doug studer with nbc news. it is our understanding the nurse infected has received care about two months ago. are you comfortable with that level of experience treating ebola patients? >> i think what we are dealing with is a disease that is unfamiliar in the u.s. caring for ebola can be done safely, but it's hard and we like to make sure that the protocols we have in the support we have for health care workers are there on the ground so we can assist. you know, i thought often about it. i wish we had put a team like this on the ground the data patient -- the first patient was diagnosed. that might have prevented this infection. but we'll do that from today onward with any case anywhere in the u.s. on the phone. >> on the phone line if you'd like to ask a question, press the star one and record your name clearly. to remove yourself, you may press starts to. one moment, please. our first question comes from make taro at cnbc. ask your question. >> hi, guys. i am just wondering, are you concerned about health care workers safe on the job or that folks will be afraid to come to work? >> we are concerned that his health care workers are afraid to come to work her patients are scared to go to hospital settings, we can see wider health care impacts. that is why it is so important that we focus on what will work here. .. from anyone with fever with the signs of infection. that gives them the tools to protect themselves. and for the health care workers caring for the nurse in dallas, concrete information on what they can do to keep their risk to the absolute minimum can address that fear and keep us able to respond to the needs of community. next question on the phone. >> one clarification, and then the question. did you say that the 48, of the 40 people who were in contact with the patient, because there passed the two-thirds mac -- more, passport and is that they're unlikely to get evil? >> yes. the two-thirds of the incubation period is far more than two-thirds of the risk. most of the cases happened in that eight to 10 day window. we put out 21 days to the on the states appear doesn't rule out there could be cases among those individuals but it would be unusual. your question? >> the next question comes from jackie with "newsweek." you may ask your question. >> i just want to find out what, if anything, the cdc has learned from the response to the outbreak in west africa organizations like doctors without borders? >> we work very closely with msf, doctors without borders. in fact, we've undergone and participated in and replicated their training course here. we work side-by-side with them in africa. we have a very close partnership and relationship with them. one of the challenges is that the african environment and the environment are different in terms of health care. so things that are done routinely in africa, in ebola boards are not necessarily transferable to the environment in the u.s. but we think it are a terrific job and we work very closely with them. next question on the phone. >> one moment, please. >> next question comes from cbs 11 dallas. you to ask your question. >> yes, thank you, everyone. appreciate it. i wanted to find out have you been able to identify the breach in protocol that led to the nurse getting infected? how crucial is that? how exactly are you going about figuring that out? >> we have not yet identified a specific interaction that resulted in the exposure and infection of the nurse. the way we do that is to review in great detail everything that occurred. she has been terrific at assisting our investigators in going through the steps we can all try to learn together how to keep health care workers safer. against the virus. it's something that we don't always come to the conclusion but we always identify things that we can do to improve the process, ended with the siege of health care workers there. dr. lakey, anything you would like to add to this? >> i don't think so, dr. frieden. again, the patient has been working with us as a team looking at the procedure. there's no specific error that has been identified. things are looking very closely at the protocols and how we can maximize the ability to contain the virus. there's been no identified item at this time. thank you. >> thank you. next question on the phone. >> next question comes from allison park with the times. >> dr. frieden come you mentioned you have now since wonder whether you should have sent a team immediately when mr. duncan was diagnosed. can you talk a little bit about why that wasn't done because we did send a team. we sent superb epidemiologist. we assisted texas with the contact tracing, with the investigation with the monitoring of all aspects of the response. we did not -- we did then send some expertise in infection control but i think we could, in retrospect with 20/20 hindsight, we could've sent a more robust hospital infection control team and then more hands on with the hospital from day one about exactly how this should be managed. ebola is unfamiliar. it's scary, and getting it right is really, really important. because the stakes are so high. so some of the things that a hospital might do that they might think would make things more safe might end up making them less safe, such as using additional layers of protective equipment. so i think we look back we say yes, we definitely should put an even larger team on the ground immediately, and we will do that from now on any time there's a confirmed case. next question on the phone. >> next question comes from chris with the "new york post." in ask your question here -- you may ask your question. we will go on with the next question. that comes from telemundo network. in ask your question. >> my question has to do with you for hospitals and the us specialize in treating the highly contagious diseases. why are there only for with this biocontainment union? you said it's necessary you would transport a patient one of the special is hospitals. can you find the procedure or protocol for that transport? >> the hospitals that have specialized rooms or specialized facilities were created because of the risks that there might be a new pathogen can not ebola something that is unknown and we don't know how it spread. and that's why at cdc and other parts of the we support the creation of units that would be particularly suitable to unknown diseases. ebola can be cared for and hospitals as long as there is a core set of training, facilities, and oversight in place. in terms of transport, we transported peoples -- patients in africa but as luck easier to transport patients around the u.s. in the room are there any more questions let's act to the phone now. for two last questions. >> thank you. our next question comes from kyle. in ask a question. >> thank you, you for taking my call. dr. frieden, some are confused some have recovered from ebola. some have died from the disease. even though there's no vaccine do you know, dr. frieden, according to your knowledge by some people survived the disease and others do not? >> you're not sure of all the reason why some people do better than others but we do know the people who are healthy going into the infection are more likely to come out of the. we also know that health care, standard medical care can make a really big difference and at least double the likelihood that a patient will survive. helping a patient's fluid balance come replacing electrolytes that are lost. this is excellent medical care. it can be given. it is being given at the hospital in dallas as needed. and this is something that can make a really big difference. that are also experimental treatments that may or may not help and that will be considered for the individual up to the patient and the treating physician to make that decision. last question on the phone. >> that comes from craig snyder. you may ask your question. >> hi, dr. frieden. thanks for taking my call. i wanted to get a sense as to what degree a team you're talking about has been sent over to him very in atlanta, or if there already is one -- in bakken is that has become the model of which would be putting together for elsewhere in? >> emory and the hospital in nebraska have very some protocols and experience trading ebola patients. we are reaching out to them and as your earlier, two nurses from emory our on site helping them. and these are two facilities and but all working together to learn what works best and what's most practical to stop ebola in the hospital. before i make any concluding remarks, dr. lakey, would you like to say anything? >> well, thank you dr. frieden. and again i really do appreciate the teamwork, the support from the federal government and the response right now. in dallas. the epidemiologists are working really, really hard to map out who need to be monitored, monitoring those individuals and hospital is working really hard to make sure our patient gets the best care possible. we are doing everything we can do to ensure that this does not spread further from the individual that currently is infected in anyway that is already been exposed and everything we can to assure no other individuals are exposed here in the state of texas. thank you very much. >> thank you. and just to wrap up. first come we are focusing on dallas, supporting the patient, supporting the hospital and minimizing the risks that they would be an further exposures with a very robust expert team on the ground working around the clock with the hospital and the public health team there. second, we are increasing our education and information to health care workers throughout the u.s. we are also initiating an immediate response team from cdc to any future case of confirmed ebola in the u.s. so we will be there hands on within hours helping the hospital deal with the situation, if there is another case. and third, we're continuing to follow up with the dallas on contact tracing, identifying everyone who may be at risk so that the same kind of decreased from 48 to one and a number of contacts can be continued if you are any further cases. thank you all very much for your interest. [inaudible conversations] >> c-span skimping 2014 coverage is bringing more than 100 debates this campaign season. last night we showed you the first and only live kentucky senate debate between majority leader mitch mcconnell and his democratic opponent alison grimes. here's part of their debate. >> secretary crimes you made news across the state and the nation about that question. and the first question to you is why are you reluctant to give an answer on whether or not you voted for president obama? grimes: there was no reluctance to. this is a matter of principle. our constitution grants here in kentucky the constitutional right for privacy of the ballot box for a secret ballot. you have that right. senator mcconnell has that record every kentucky has the right and the secretary of state the chief election official i am tasked with overseeing and making sure that we are enforcing all of our election laws. i work very closely as bush with a member of our military to ensure the privacy of the ballot box. those who play their lives on the line -- >> moderator: so it's a matter of principle rather than. >> moderator: . grimes: are not going to compromise a constitutional right divided here in kentucky in order to curry favor on one or other side, or for mayors of the media. i will protect that right for every -- >> moderator: and you won't answer the question tonight? grimes: you have the right. every kentucky and has the right for privacy at the ballot box. if i as chief election official don't stand up for the right to who in kentucky will transfer when you've responded to the question during the campaign committee of said you were a clinton democrat. and i'm curious about what in your mind separates a clinton democrat from an obama democrat? grimes: well, from my work here in kentucky and, indeed, in this campaign, it is one that is based on growing the middle class. and as was a under president clinton's tenure, especially spn you reach the minimum wage to actually help to expand the middle class. we saw one of the largest growths under president clinton's tenure than ever before it we have not seen that. it's because not just who sits in the white house but congress has a role. yorty uss enterprise a huge role and you get your from senator o'connell tonight how is he would actually help kentucky did more jobs. he doesn't even think it is his job to bring jobs to the kentucky. that is what his own words were to the folks in lee county kentucky. >> moderator: so a clinton democrat and obama democrat is grimes: by growing the middle class by making sure we're building from the foundation up spent our campaign 2014 coverage continues with a week full of debates. tonight at eight eastern on c-span live coverage of the arkansas u.s. senate debate. >> more than 100 debates for the control of congress. >> be part of the c-span's campaign 2014 coverage. follow was on twitter and like as a facebook to get debate schedules, video clips of key moments, the beta preview from our politics team. c-span is bringing you over 100 senate, house and governor debates and you can instantly share your reactions to what the candidates are saying. the battle for the control of congress. stay in touch and engage by falling was on twitter at c-span and liking us on facebook and facebook.com/cspan. >> more campaign 2014 coverage with another debate, one of more than 100 we will be bringing you this campaign season. the candidates taking to represent minnesota's eighth district incumbent democratic rep rick nolan has been challenged by republican stewart mills and green party candidate ray sandman. "the cook political report" list the race as links democratic. this comes to us 30 of duluth. is. >> moderator: good morning and welcome everyone. i'm roger wedin, director of policy and education at the duluth area chamber of commerce. i like to welcome you to this morning's forum. to introduce my friend and fellow moderator, chuck frederick. some acknowledgments this one. i'd like to thank our friends at the duluth playhouse for allowing us to use of the facility. they been generous and gracious in helping us with the logistics of these forums. i'd also like to thank our friends at the duluth superior area community foundation and there's the cookies stability project, you were each handed a leaflet on the way in that laid out expectations of behavior this morning. i'd like to remind you of those expectations. please hold your applause until the very end. i will close us out after the final remarks from candidates and allow you to please express your appreciation. we won't tolerate any shouting or heckling, no disruptive behavior of any kind will be tolerated. with that, maybe you can start us off. >> moderator: thank you. i want to mention you were allowed to bring science into the theater. holding up her t-shirt is like holding up a site and we won't tolerate that either. i hope you have another shirt on underneath of course, but i want to welcome those watching at the duluth news driven.com and my9 on television. i welcome our candidates. i thank you so much for being here. it's a great part of the democratic process. i want to point out the woman and a front row, she is our timekeeper and she will you don't want allowed to hold up a sign to show look a sign letting no, you 30 seconds left, a minute left to speak and then when your time is up and we'll keep an eye on her and choked a good sight line to were. as i mentioned candidates, the answers will be time. opening statements will be two minutes, no rebuttals on opening statements. questions will be two minutes and we'll offer each candidate a chance for a one minute rebuttal. at the inlet to commitments for closing. congressman dolan, as the incumbent we give you the opportunity or the option of either speaking first are having the final say at the end. you or your campaign chose to the final say. so then to decide who is speakig first this one with a big win. we did last week and mr. sandman wanted on a speaking first at the opening. with that we will get started. we will start with opening remarks, it's two minutes to kind of introduce a you are, what the top reorders, your reason for one run, whatever you want to say for two minutes. mr. sandman, we will start with you. sandman: thank you. first of all, thank you for being here in the duluth playhouse. i'm ray sandman. i'm resident of duluth, been here for 25 years. i'm a vietnam vet, tribal elder your and my opening remarks is that as a lot of you know i oppose the mining of their, the copper salt mine. i am for women's equal rights, debt reduction for students and student loans, and we'll go from there. >> moderator: thank you very much. congressman? nolan: i'd like to begin by thanking the duluth chamber for getting us all together and giving everybody a chance to see the candidates and where they stand on various issues. the choice, in my judgment, in this election contest really could not be more clear. the fact is, and it's undisputed that, the rich are getting richer in this country and the poor are getting poorer. and the middle-class is getting crushed. and with that the american dream is getting crushed. the american dream is not all about everybody making a super million or a super billion, although there's nothing wrong with it. the american team is all about having a secure job with a living wage, being able to provide health care for your family, to be comfortable that you will be able to deal, be secure in your retirement years, and be able to send your kids to a good, affordable school and get a good education, to belong to a union, and to have someone at the end of the week when you're done paying your bills to do a little recreation or go to dinner with your family and friends. my dad once told me when i first went into public life, he said, if you just do a couple things i will always be proud of the. one is be honest. tell the truth. number two, he said work for the working men and women in this country. he said, be their champion. don't worry too much about the rich and powerful. they do a good job of taking care of themselves. this election contest i submit is a question of who are you for. our primary opponent here in this contest, mr. mills, has made it clear who he is for. he has said he wants more tax cuts for super millionaires and billionaires, and yet at the same time he opposes an increase in the minimum wage. the choice could not be more clear. if you know who you are for, you will know who to vote for in this election contest. i thank you for the opportunity. we are going up a spirited debate and i assure you and i promise you it will be civil. i'm looking forward to it. thank you. >> moderator: thank you, congressman. mr. mills. mills: thank you for having here today. i'm something of without ever but running for public office. i'm the vice president of our families to become mills fleet far but my dad and my local started it in 1955. it's hard work sweat of the brow reinvesting becker this is but as a kid i grew up in the business, cleaning those come sweeping floors, washing cars. had about every job there and my current job right now is vice president. one of the many hats you wear in a family business -- i should say in a family business you wear many hats. and one of those many hats i wear as vice president is looking out for our 6000 employees. one of those hats is plan administered of her companies health insurance plan. i've seen firsthand how obamacare has affected negatively our employees and their families. not only that, i have seen all throughout our part of minnesota have people have been negatively impacted i higher premiums, higher co-pays compound deductibles. they're paying more, getting less. congressman dolan, he wants a single-payer -- single-payer model, government run. every time government has tried to assume the control of the production of a product, good or service, every time, costs have gone up in quality has gone. there's never been an exception to that and anybody who's ever studied economics knows that. also i got up spoken about second amendment issues. congressman nolan gets back to congress and he wants to do some automatic rifles, the ones he thinks looks good and that the government tells him we both we can have in our guns. that earned him a failing grade, and f. rating from the national rifle association. in our them with something called the hunting camp doctor. effect hunting camp you complain about something, you get the job to fix it so that's what i'm here today, i'm sure the hunting camp doctor. i'm putting skin in the game and am willing to go to washington. there's a lot of things we have to stand up for for our part of minnesota. congressman nolan is wrong on so many of those issues. thank you. >> moderator: thank you all very much. you touched on some issues we're going to get to but we will begin this debate this candidate forum by talk about some of the accusation that are out there, some of the ugly charges that are out there, some of them may be negative stereotypes. but i like you to address those. congressman nolan, this is an essential to me talking but they say you are as far left as a tea parties are right. you're a has-been and dignity second amendment and you don't even know how to hold a gun seven. how to respond to critics who say you have been wrong for the eighth district? nolan: let me, i'm not sure where to begin, so many charges and allegations. >> moderator: so many insults i know. nolan: there's 191 members of the democratic caucus, and about 100 of them are judged to be considerably more liberal than i am. so the fact is i am a moderate, added to have a right wing tea party on my dash to i guess he is on -- is on your right, okay. on my left. i guess i got someone more to the left to me on my right, all you're left. but, you know, i'm just not sure where to go here. let's take the f. rating from the nra. the nra is primarily financed by gun manufacturers and gun sales people, like yourself, stuart. they are interested in primarily trying to sell guns, and that's all right. i mean, they've got a right to do that, but it's never been more good that someone like myself support the second amendment, and the right to bear arms to some of my most joyful moments and memorable moments in life have been with a gun in my hand. i was out hunting with my dad last week and. i wife and i are out duck hunting with her grandson. by wife and i were married 30 years ago. first present i bought for her on her birthday, her first birthday was a 20 gauge shotgun. and i don't mind telling you, she was thrilled to have it, but she did look a little disappointed. you know, i think she was hoping for something a little more romantic. so on her second birthday i bought her a 30.06 with a scope on it. stewart, i've been buying my guns and ammunition and my family and i have from your debt into granddaddies store all of our life. and the fact is i support the second amendment for hunting, for personal protection, for sport shooting. it's a fundamental basic right but that doesn't mean we can have some gun safety like background checks. i mean, do you support selling guns to people who have been found to be criminally insane or terrorists next. >> moderator: carper-specter will get to the condition of it. your time is up on charges they. mr. mills, the knock against you, millionaire partier, doesn't know how, challenges faced by most americans. you support tax breaks for the rich at expense of the middle-class but how do you respond to critics who say he won't work for the eighth district? mills: i have worked hard all my life, and in our business we didn't have a choice but it was something we did at a very young age. my father grew up during the great depression and work was not only a necessity but a virtue but i know how to work hard but also a very joyful life. we live in a work hard play hard part of minnesota. if they want to take on my hair, it shows that they don't want to talk about the issues. there are things that are facing are part of minnesota, and the issues are its health care, it's obamacare, it's our second amendment rights which we will talk about later. it's the fact that rick nolan voted for a job skill in, a tax on energy that would absolutely strength are part of minnesota economically. it's also about the fact, and i'm endorsed by the farm bureau, it's about the fact that representative nolan voted in favor, voted in favor of the water, dbas water u.s. rule. i would love to talk about this issue, not about my hair and the fact that my family, and myself included because a family business is not one person or one generation, it's about the entire family and even family farms, that applies to come farms as well, we work hard, reinvested back into businesses and that gross jobs and sustains the jobs that we have. but, you know, what? they want to attack a business. again can we are not publicly traded. there's no venture capital money. there's no private equity money. is a family business like any other and if you want to attack me and my family for the success and the jobs that we have created, well then, that's their message. their message is picking on my hair. transfer i forgot to ask about your here. thank you for bringing it up. [laughter] mr. stana commute even longer hair -- [laughter] sandman: yes, i do. track of what you say to critics who you are just a one issue candidate? all in front, anti-mining and that's about it. sandman: it's a very big issue. critics will call me a lot of different things, but look, if we don't have water we don't have life. when i was a veteran in the service i do stand up in front of a bunch of people, and i do raised my hand, and i took that oath to protect this country from foreign and domestic. that means a lot to me because i was never released on that oath. .. sandman: i cannot understand how 2-500 jobs are worth our future. once that stuff gets into

Benchmark | MUO

How some Pennsylvania Republicans are using a congressional race to protest GOP extremism

Biden campaign ramps up efforts to flip moderate Republicans in 2024

Moderate Republicans, specifically those who supported Nikki Haley's GOP presidential run, have been targeted by the Biden campaign since she dropped out of the primary race.

Bemidji Sculpture Walk celebrates 25th anniversary with 16 new displays

The Sculpture Walk had a record 43 applications from artists this year, and 16 new sculptures were selected. They join about two dozen pieces that are permanently on display.

Independent Grocer to Open 2nd Site in Sioux Falls

Pomegranate Market expanding to Cherapa Place

Pomegranate Market is expanding its locally-owned store to downtown Sioux Falls at Cherapa Place next summer, with a groundbreaking Thursday morning.

New Grocery Store Location Coming to Downtown Sioux Falls

Pomegranate Market expanding with downtown Sioux Falls location

The locally-owned grocer, Pomegranate Market, will open on the first floor of the Clark Building.

'Zombie' Haley voters don't want Trump, but many not sold on Biden, either