With these Television Companies support cspan 2 as a public service. Now it is my distinct pleasure to introduce this book and its editors, tom inland. The wall to his family letters are here at the National Postal museum at the heart of this book and one of the wonderful things about the way they have organized this book is that the letters really pull you in period 160 years ago and help you understand the sensuality of the great when families were frequently separated for the first times. They have provided the information you need to not win the understand the Family Networks by community networks, postal network, what is happening geopolitically in the United States during the civil war. Really looking forward to this talk. Lynn is a curator at the smithsonian National Postal museum. She specializes in the use of the u. S. History postal service. As well as my fellow soldiers, letters from world war i from which you can see at the smithsonian secretaries Research Prize in 28 1918.
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
New cases of coronavirus continued to be reported around the world. About 1,000 holiday makers have been told they cant leave their hotel in tenerife, after two guests tested positive for the virus. At least six schools have been closed across the uk as a precaution although official advice is not to do so. 11 hospitals in the uk are to increase their tests for the virus to help assess whether its spreading well have the latest from our medical correspondent. Also this lunchtime. A shropshire town is evacuated as flood defences are overwhelmed by rising water and more rain is forecast. Speaking in the commons for the First Time Since he resigned as chancellor, sajid javid warns the Prime Minister his plans for the treasury are not
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Today at 5. For the first time, more new cases of coronavirus are recorded outside china than within. As the virus spreads across europe, with new cases in italy, greece and elsewhere, the government here says it does have a plan to deal with the outbreak. We have a clear, 4 part plan to respond to the outbreak of this disease. Contain, delay, research and mitigate. We are taking all necessary measures to minimise the risks to the public. In tenerife, 160 british holiday makers are among 1000 people now confined to their hotel, after four guests tested positive. We are clear now. We were tested yesterday. For Goodness Sake, bring us home well have the latest from the European Centre
for disease control. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Flood barriers are overwhelmed along stretches of the river severn and residents are evacuated. Water is now penetrating the barrier and weve got to two metres of water on what was the dry side. So we have immediately authorised an evacuation of