Disaster Relief Needs News Today

The flat. Jim might be a free play for brees. Kamara. Touchdown. Referee offside. Defense. Number 50. Penalty is declined. Touchdown. Jim 75 yards in 42 seconds. Tony kamara just makes ogletree stand right there and think he was going the that was so easy. Jim kamara has a second touchdown of the game, over 100 yards in receiving on six catches, five carries for 87 rushing. 17 yards a clip. Tony comes down to this. Ill tell you right now new orleans is going to kick an onside here, obviously if ...

Pelley this is a hospital during the siege of aleppo. From the looks it of, maybe a father, a distraught mother, and a child curled up on a gurney. That was an air strike. This hospital was hit 14 times in six months. You work with the understanding that you might dr. Samer attar you work with the understanding that you might find yourself dead, or crippled, or dismembered on the floor, next to the people youre trying to save. Kroft the isle of eigg is an ungroomed masterpiece of nature too wild...

Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefit...

Hurting from hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria, and who will be spending christmas not in their homes but in a hotel or with family and friends or in temporary housing. All across these regions, there are houses, businesses, schools, churches, Community Establishments that still need to be rebuilt, and they are waiting, counting on our help. It is wrong. Indeed, its maddening to those in the affected regions that the senate is not taking up legislation today to give them what they need to conti...

But for those to bridge the gap [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order good morning recently the hurricanes left a path of destruction along the gulf coast of texas and florida and throughout the caribbean. Homes and businesses and entire communities were destroyed and lives were lost then we learned the tragic news that eight seniors ranging in age from 71 through 99 died in a florida nursing home that lacked airconditioning because power had been knocked out. Those that des...

Because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility as, quote, a deathtrap, end quote, because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month this photo of residence of an assisted living facility in texas who were trapped in waist deep water went viral. As of these recent disasters make clear, Older Americans are particularly vulnerable before, during, and even after a storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gold coast...