Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us with what we are learning about the victims. Jana . Reporter julie and frank, we were here at San Francisco zuckerberg general hospital. The woman injured was brought here. The man who was killed at the scene has been identified. Now the coroner says he is Benjamin Deen, a 39yearold man from clovis, which is about nine miles northeast of fresno. Both of them were in the crosswalk at ofarrell when the tesla crashed into them. The evidence yellow markers on yellow street shows how far they were thrown. Police say the black tesla crashed into them a man and a woman in the crosswalk of ofarrell just three blocks from union square. I heard it from my apartment, which is just a loud screeching. San Francisco Police say it happened about 2 00 p. M. And witnesses say the tesla had been speeding from market street. Driving his tesla, driving northbound on taylor, ran the red lights here at ofarrell and a mini cooper traveling eastbound with the grn light sideswiped
Dreamland the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then i will introduce the witness, then with her from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since his are only witness i suggested to him that if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that, but who will be plenty conversation back and forth from members of the committee. Mr. Quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearing but this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin is calling the worst manmade epidemic in history. The challenge this crisis present has captured the attention of a member of this committee. The research and writing has been acclaimed for the depth and breadth so this is what we call a bipartisan hearing, most of ours hour. One in which a a democrats and republicans agreed on the topic, its important, a
Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. But there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. Member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. But this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin as calling th
Its an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon, im charlie baker, the governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and the chair of the nga razz health and hum services committee. Glad toaround by the vicechairman, New Hampshire governor and as well as by governor bevin, who dropped us all into this conversation in a big way at the meeting we had back in february. I want to start first of all by saying how much i appreciate the fact that so many of our fellow governors signed on to the compact we developed to deal with this issue. Last count we had 46 governors signed on to the compact, representing 250 million americans, and certainly for news massachusetts, and i know for many of the folks around the table this is probably the single biggest Public Health issue youre dealing with based on the chase had with second burwell and others how big a deal this is across the country. I do want to point to the clock on the screen. So far, it shows an estimate of the number of individual wes have
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is