The white house gets ready to send u. S. Troops to west africa. How bad will it get . And space taxi. A big change for astronauts at the International Space station. We begin with mixed messages out of washington. The question is how will the u. S. And its coalition fight isil. Today the top generals held a Senate Hearing and combat troops might be it needed in iraq. The president has repeatedly ruled that out. Reporter tuesdays hearing was the first chance u. S. Senators had to question the Obama Administration on its plans to fight isil. Pentagon officials we want to capitol hill on tuesday to convince congress they have a plan for fighting the group that calls itself the Islamic State in the iran and lavant or islamiisil. Advisers are assisting and advising them, and theres a chance that u. S. Ground troops could be deplayed. If it fails to be true and they are addressed to the united states, i would go back to the resident and make a recommendation that would include the u. S. Of g
Ill tell you why that is. This is real money. We have god news for once in the fight a good news for once in the fight against ebola. Nigeria, the biggest economy by far, with 177 million people, was declared ebola free by the World Health Organisation. 42 days have passed since the last person there suspected of the infection tested negative, or doubled the viruses maximum incubation experience. Due in large part to their Swift Response after their first diagnosed case in july. 200 Health Workers combatting polio fanned out cross the country searching for anyone suspected of contact with people. In the first month they conducted 18,500 interviews, and 26,000 home visits. That Swift Intervention worked. We explain why in this report. Reporter this woman became a nurse because she wanted to help people. The last person she tried to save had ebola. She became infected. She was 30 and pregnant with her first child. Her husband cant accept that she is dead. Why did she leave me, that was n
A Staten Island man, sarah hoye says its easy to take the choke hold too far. Im resisting, im choking, i cant breathe, im trying to tell him, i cant breathe. And a true American Hero, he sacrificed all in the bloodiest battle of the civil war. Lieutenant, lets get you to he says no, ill stay and fight or die in the attempt. The highest military honor, why it took a little old lady in wisconsin to give him his due. Why were you so interested . Because no one else was i think. And why Alonzo Cushing is still waiting. And good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. A shooting in a National Capital building with countrys leaders just footsteps away would itself be cause for alarm but the still developing news out of canada this hour may have even more disturbing implications with serious suggestions that it might be connected to a terror plot hatched half a world away. We begin our report with a view of what happened, from america tonights Sheila Macvicar. An unprecedented chaotic
He has been on the floor for 5. 5 hours. We will show you some of his speech over the next couple of hours. You can continue to watch it on cspan two. We have put up a poll. Speech ond cruzs defunding obamacare. Here is the poll. Do you support ted cruz as he speaks in the u. S. Senate to defund Health Care Law . 1225 are in support voting against 394. We will also give you a choice chance to weigh in on twitter. Were also looking at some of the congressional reporters. This could be a late night up at capitol hill. It was a tweet a short while ago ed okeefe. The way you join that conversation is the cspan tage page. The senate takes its first procedural vote on the stopgap bill. Wednesday will vote and likely overwhelmingly to limit the spending bill. We will get to the u. N. Speeches just a it later on. Back to the senate, ted cruz cruzs speech. One thing we learned from henry that it willts is be short. Comments. Nator reeds we will hear from the republican leader after that. The se
Hospital readmissions and that changed and that the lower hospital recommissions is driving the lower part. We are seeing dramatic reductions in per capita spending for the part dmp side, primarily a shift from brands to generics and kind of. Undamental, kind of pipeline lower part a and part d are driving the overall slowdown. Think that phenomenal experience for the medicare program. Part b is continuing to rise, which may make sense as hospitals shift care from the inpatient side to lower cost outpatient side. The first take away of the slide is that the overall economy isnt driving we covered this live earlier today and see it in our Video Library at cspan. Org. And take you live to the United Nationses and hear from iranian president rouhani. Mr. President. , praise beame of god. O god, the lord of the world mr. President , mr. Secretary, general, ladies and gentlemen, at the outset, i would like to on the most sincere election to the presidency of and seize assemly the moment to