Has such an impact on disease and in addition the issue of ecigarettes where we do not know what either the short term or the longterm impact is from the cigarettes themselves, nor do we know what the implications are for behavior. And, therefore, the nih in conjunction with the fda is conducting research to investigate these critically important areas. Thank you very much. Thank you, senator. Senator cassidy. Thank you all so much. As a practicing physician sometimes still i am so aware of yalls good work and i think we should double your budget because i understand the impact that would have upon my patients. Among which when i did my residency in 1983 in los angeles the epi center of hiv, im very aware what was formally a death sentence is now something you live with. Let me ask because dr. Collins i have been concerned that 20 years ago gia that nih rebalance its hiv spending from the 10 to diseases such as alzheimers dementia which are more important now. If you receive the 7 incr
The appropriations subcommittee on labor health and huge services and related agencies will come to order. I am certainly pleased we could have this opportunity this morning, dr. Collins, to talk to you and the other Institute Directors about the work youre doing and the work youd like to do. Certainly every family faces Health Concerns during their lifetime and there are so many things that can be done by nih that i think cant be done anywhere else. A new drug, a new device, new treatment can take anywhere from a decade to longer to develop, can cost billions of dollars on occasion with a pretty high failure rate even when you think youre on the right path. Certainly its necessary for the federal government to invest in Biomedical Research. It represents the hopes of lots of people and lots of families and particularly now as we see conditions growing as people survive heart problems and strock problems, we see more people with alzheimers and cancer challenges. We see the potential fo
Myself because he spent all his time being in the interrogation room. He was tired of talking to revolutionary guys so sometimes he was confiding in me, telling me about his personal life. I can hear his conversations with his wife. Sometimes even while he was beating me, he was talking to his wife. Wasmember one day, he holding my year in his hand that he was twisting my here and it was really painful and then he his phone rang and he kept on twisting my year while he was talking on the phone. Then he hit my head and he said, im talking on the phone, be quiet. His experiences in an iranian jail, all of that tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson next, outlining his departments efforts to counter homegrown terrorism, foreign fighters and cyberattacks. He also talks about a new National Security alert system. He spoke this week at the association of the United States army. [applause] good morning everybody. That was pretty good, good morning everybody.
Kwwls Olivia Mancino was there she joins us live from the Sheriffs Department the roads are still a little slick because of the flurries we had esrlier. Fortunstel y heres a look at the semi. Jacknifed in the grassy median a crew was s orking to tow it out of there deputies on the scene told me the truck was very light didnt habe a lot of cargo in it so it lost control easily anyone else s hurt there is a bit of one of the southbound lanes blocked off as they try to that way weve got u covered, Olivia Mancino, kwwl news. Ththnks olivia we will defeat isis. Thats what president obam says his last nenes conference of the year. He took some tough questions on terror and the spending bill president obama soundd defiant but hopeful. He defended his record so far. Trying to brush off the lame duck label for the rest president barack obama praised congress for passing a 1. 1 trillion dollar budget deal that includes tax cuts. Sot president obama no super 07 25 i am not wild about everything i
Thats right so what. Whether action a mini dress with a crazy cold is a hot one in the transitional dare one say its hot but we are going to be back up above normal and thats a nice change from the really cold conditions weve had for the past couple of mornings course we add little snow a couple mornings ago yesterday we are back up to the mid forties and today will be in the low fifties will certainly take it right now visibility is good around town point park. Good morning to maybe get to take a little stroll this morning as you can see we have clouds but it is dry right now it is going to be mostly cloudy today we see some of those plaid showing up with a live sky view over norfolk city lights kind of reflecting on some of that cloud cover back over towards portsmouth as well so thats whats happening right now winds are north northeast at twelve mph and generally today the winds will blow between ten and fifteen so a little breezy out there but certainly not unbearable. As you can s