it's the loud, large gas blowers that have so many people upset. shawn, as you were saying, there's one d.c. council member who over the years who gets so many complaints especially this time of year she thinks that the gas blowers should be faced many zc city is a city filled with loud noises. but one particular noise has some residents complaining during the fall season. the now noise from gas powered leaf blowers and council member mary cheh knows the complaints are coming. it's been kind of light. we're only at the beginning. once it gets started and the leaf blowers are out there in force i will be getting e-mails. several years ago council member cheh proposed a bill that would phase out gas powered leaf blowers by 2022 which she says. it's gone nowhere. it's not moving in the council because it's not in my committee and committee chairs they decide what moves and it hasn't been moving. just to give you an idea of how loud a gas blower is, one right here, take a look at the decibels, peaking out right about 111. there is even a group called q

and then with that importance to protect whistle-blowers. to make sure all cia employees know their rights and responsibilities. it for them to report waste fraud and review -- reduce abuse. and your job is hard heating -- hard hitting. and to guard your independence. to hear you reaffirmed that is your goal. into have that interrogation program specifically with the executive branch that is not reported. how your office lost the then found the copying of the report and to return that to the committee. and how that came to be lost and finally to get the reassurance looking and not russian interference. they give for this service to our country and for being here today is another opportunity to serve our country afford to the discussion. >> please raise your right hand. the you you give the committee the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you god?. >> i do. >> please be seated. now moving to your statement. with his practice that i asked five standard questions we propose to each nominee it is yes or no for the record. to a

do you believe whistle-blower protections should extend to cia contractors? said to be very interested yes or no do you believe whistle-blower protection should extend to contractors?. >> yes i do. >> we're making progress. >> mr. chairman good to see you again. i will fall to run a couple of conversations in a classified setting the ig has oversight but we are dependent on the ongoing investigations with the inspector general office. covert operations are difficult that it doesn't mean they have oversight so covert operations should have oversight. >> the answer is yes. i review all covert action efforts al least every three years and those reports are available to the committee. >> i currently do. >> you have then there are wild the season going into a permanent nomination you have a little more time so are their structural changes you can look at to say we need to take a long look? so if i am confirmed i will do a top to bottom review of the organizational structure to assure that the resources are focused to use them most efficiently their areas of covert

there's your leaf blower right by you. >>reporter: every time i do my lawb he i always wear a shirt and t. this is how i dress to do my lawn work. it is serious business keeping everything clean. a lot of people take pride in their lawn but this noise real he i gets on the nerves of a lot of people and in d.c. for several years now one council member has heard so many complaints, especially in the fall that she has proposed legislation basically to face out a certain type of leaf blower. this is an electric one . she wants to get rid of the gas blowers. d.c. is a city filled with loud noises but one particular noise has some residents complaining during the fall season, the noise from powered leaf blowers. council member mary cheh knowses the complaints are coming. it's been kind of light, but once it gets started and the leaf blowers are out there in force i will be getting he e-mails. several years ago council member cheh proposed a bill that would face out gas powered leaf blowers by 2022 leaving only electric and batte

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this whistle-blower isn't going to be able to talk about that. he knows about the justice department and whether they should have blown the whistle, he doesn't know about the state department. >> harris: interesting. what about the president's role today, making some news because he was the person to request the doj lift the gag order? we knew there might be some back and forth between the legalities of doing that and now that's been wiped away by this president who called it the story of the decade. >> it seems to me, the whole idea of a government informant having a gag order so he can't talk to congress -- it's one thing to say he can't talk to the public but these are coequal branches, here you had the obama justice department having a gag order to prevent congress from hearing what this whistle-blower wanted to say, that seems very troublesome. the fact that the president has lifted the gag order makes all kinds of sense. >> harris: i want to go forward on with the congressman was saying about the situation with the dossier and where we are

our bureau chief tracee wilkins found out what one whistle blower found in their high school. she's live for us in upper marlboro to explain. tracee? >> reporter: this whistle blower goes into basically says after investigators went into their first school, word spread. when other high schools found out what they were looking for, they started to make some changes in their records. the maryland state board of education awaits a report on investigation into inflated graduation rates in prince george's county. but one high school employee tells news 4 the investigation is tainted because after auditors visited their first high school, word spread, and the following high schools fixed records. in an e-mail obtained by news 4, a whistle blower who works for a prince george's county high school wrote state investigators saying, another high school called over to the school and told us that you were looking for the last two years' worth of tallies for the seniors. most of the schools had not done them so schools were calling around to other schools to get them done before he all cam

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it says just say no to gas blowers. we are two weeks away from halloween. plenty of people put up their decorations, but a display outside a house in large audience plate oh, maryland is raising a few eyebrows. did the homeowners go too far. lindsay watts shows us in a story you you will see only on fox5. and suddenly to my surprise, it's the holiday where people love to push the limits. but raising the ked can race the question, how far is too far? a woman in large audience plate oh was stopped in her tracks by this. i mean this is really rubbed me the wrong wayment i'm just sayingment i'm not really feeling this. i'm not. she posted a video on social media and contacted fox5. so we went to charles county for a closer look. it's not meant to offend anyone. nancy jones her daughter and grandchildren, a family that obviously loves halloween. they're still in the process of decorating inside as well as out. jones says these were just hung up earlier in the week and so far no one has contacted her with complaints. anything you say to people driving by, see the

>> reporter: aaron, this whistle blower does not say who they are or where they work. but in an e-mail obtained by news 4, they are telling state officials that the two years of senior records, these outside auditors asked for were not only incomplete, they were also being changed as this new and independent audit was beginning. this e-mail goes on to read in part here that most schools had not done them, finished the records so schools were calling around to other schools to get them done before you all came. the whistle blower goes on to say the entire guidance office was shut down the entire day because we needed to get our files in order before you came to the school. county school officials telling us they want to hear claims like these. >> more voices we certainty there is that it will be an honest and transparent process. >> whistle blower also saying that several students did not meet core requirements. of course, the full independent audit is due in today to state education officials. we are live in upper marlboro, i'm justin finch. news 4. back in to you. >>

blowers because we're getting lots of calls that people are cleaning up their yards and using a blower. and just like was just stated, you know, you don't want to be inhaling that. so just using that caution. >> and, dr. blount, regarding air quality, how is air quality today? i mean it seems fairly good given that we had a little bit of rain. but over the last two weeks, there have been days where there was a thick haze. would you recommend people still wear a mask? how do you gauge when you need to wear a mask? >> the air quality has been quite fluctuant. it's been getting better in the bay area each day but we do have some bad air days as well. a good indication is if a person can smell the smoke, smell kind of like a wood smoke fire or see the haze, then that's a dangerous level of air pollution, and people should consider going inside, wearing the mask. >> christine, what are the potential long-term dangers of having these toxic chemicals? could they leach into soil and waterways? >> there is a lot of erosion control efforts that are going on right now to prevent that debris from

whistle-blowers say that might be because so many top d.e.a.fficials who would have understood the bill's impact left the d.e.a., anthony, to go to the drug industry. >> mason: nancy cordes at the capitol. thanks, nancy. put out a statement saying he did not want to be a distraction but also denied the allegations of the whistle-blower in the "60 minutes" report and criticized the news media. >> the opioid epidemic took more than 33,000 lives in 2015 alone, chip reid takes us tonight to one especially hard hit part of >>e >> reporter: sasha and kane wyatt are members of the cherokee nation in northeast oklahoma. they adopted luke when he was just eight days old. his birth mother was addicted to opioids and so was he. >> i remember holding him and trying not to cry. it was so hard to see him go through something like that. >> reporter: and this was every night. olahoma has one of the most severe opioid problems in the nation, and it's especially bad here in the 14 counties that thke up the cherokee nation. >> it's devastating to our urople. >> r

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. >> next and only on news 4, the new claim tonight from a whistle blower and why they say the results are tainted even before the investigation is released. >> questions about the care inside a d.c. hospital that a lot of patients rely on. the alarming series of problems and what some say needs to be done to keep people safe. >> a controversial halloween display pitting neighbor against neighbor. tonight we'll hear from both sides on this story. and find out what happened when our reporter we nt >>> alarming details about possible grade tampering within the prince george's county school system. a school employee has shared details of what happened at one high school during a state audit. our bureau chief tracee wilkins has the story you'll only see on news4. >> reporter: in an e-mail obtained by news4, a whistle blower who works for a prince george's county high school claims the investigation was tainted. several of the schools, high school graduations did not meet core requirement s so the assistant principal, registrar and guidance chair and three guidance counselors changed studre

up next, a whistle-blower tells "60 minutes" now the dea's efforts to crack down on the opioid epidemic were derailed. >> quijano: tonight "60 minutes" talks to the highest ranking drug enforcement administration official ever to turn whistle-blower. he describes how the dea's efforts to crack down on the opioid epidemic were derailed. bill whitaker has the story. >> this is an industry that is out of control. what they want to do is do what they want to do, and not worry about what the law is. and if they don't follow the law in drug supply, people die. that's just it, people die. >> reporter: joe rannazzisi is a tough, blunt, former dea deputy administrator we are a law degree, a pharmacy degree and a smowlderring rage at the unrelenting death toll from opioids, his greatest ire is reserved for the distributers, some of them multibillion dollar fortune 500 companies. they are the middlemen that ship the pain pills from manufacturers like purdue pharma and johnson & johnson to drug stores all over the country. rannazzisi accuses the distributers of fueling the opioid epidemic by turnin

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bill whitaker talked to the administration official turned whistle blower. >> this is an industry that's out of control. what they want to do is do what they want to do and not worry about what the law is, and if they don't follow the law in drug supply, people die. that's just it. people die. >> reporter: joe man a zee city is a tough blunt drug enforcement administrator with law degree and a smouldering rage over the death toll of opioids. his greatest ire is the industry. they're the middle men that the pain pills from manufacturers like purdue, pharma, and johnson & johnson all over the country. ran a zee city accuses them of fueling the open point epidemic by turning a blind eye to pain pills being distributed for illicit use. >> this is an industry that allowed millions an millions of bad drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors' offices that distributed them out to people that had no legitimate neat for those drugs. >> who are they? >> amary source, mckesson. >> you know what you're saying, that these big companies knew they were pumping these drugs into american communities th

isn't really a whistle-blower.cal companies, distribution companies met with the d.a. to provide data on rogue doctors and pharmacies. the dea didn't really want to work with them. people want to blame summative for this because they are either running for office or they are running scared. what company wants their product to kill their consumers? logically they don't. it's the easiest bogeyman. it absolves everybody from a practical solution. the practical solution with the drugs is the product is externally effective and it helps millions and millions of people just the way firearms help millions and millions of people. in the way automobiles help millions and millions of people. those three things incur a lot of debt. 60,000. 30,000. 40,000. you try to figure out how do you solve it? look at the people driving, look at the people doing drugs. which people are addicted? which people aren't? how are they using it? you don't have to restrict the drug but diluted and monitored. that's not that happen. the worst thin

because you have chuck grassley who's been obsessed with whistle blowers for years and years. so i'm sure that's part of it. just allowing somebody who's saying he's a whistle blower to tell the story. >> what's next, jeff? >> this guy will talk and fox will continue to cover this extensively. i'm not sure if many people are aware of this. hillary is a private citizen in new york -- >> unfortunately. >> why are they investigating private citizens in new york? this is just totally -- >> they say it's the obama administration. something that happened -- >> he's a private citizen in washington d.c. >> during his time in government. >> during his time in government, the republicans controlled the congress then and had an obligation and opportunity to investigate, but there was no there there. >> to finish the thought for jeff, what he can't say, but i will, the republicans control everything now. they're failing left and right, not enacting any part of their agenda, donald trump's popularity is sinking even with his own base, so they're making hillary clinton a shadow president. >

hotline and e-mail has been established for whistle blowers but the district hasn't sent that out to staff. a school district spokesman says the coverage on fox5 and a few other outlets is enough to alert staff and there are no plans to put anything out. board members ed burroughs says he doesn't understand why sending an e-mail is so difficult. >> when dr. maxwell was defending himself saying this wasn't happening he sent out several e-mails to the county wide list serve. this isn't a difficult thing. we send out county wide employee e-mails on a weekly basis almost and so i think this is a very reasonable request. >> in response the district spokesman says the state's investigation has been well publicized in our county and we have followed all of the firm's directions and process. fox5's annie yu will have a live report on this coming up shortly. >> the white house has sent congress a $29 billion request for disaster aid. the proposal would provide 16 billion to play flood claims. another 13 billion is being requested for the federal emergency management agency. >> expect major ch

morgan whistle blower who blew the whistle on the c.d.o. she couldn't get a job on wall street she have an ivy league education not like harvey lie same allegedly raping everybody and it wasn't reported so there are two components to this when i look at the wall street i look at blocked investigations block prosecutions but the power is so significant they can also block public discussion of criminality you know when you can block. discussion and public debates of an important issue and then block the justice system from working why isn't this being addressed well it's true that they block the public domain from discussing these issues by censoring some going on may stream media and openly discussing these topics we talk about them on our team and our see is giving journalistic truthful analysis of these issues and so we're aided. it's really a shame because the way a democracy is designed to work the media has to bring the truth into the general public that's a lot of ways how policy leaders learn about policy leaders learn about corruptio

between this mechanical engine and a horse drawn car and during the race one of the belts on the wind blower broke on peter cooper's engine tom and the horse ultimately ran the race but as we know steam technology. and motive power would be to force i mean. we still use the term horse power our trains today have more than four thousand three hundred horse power each carriage has one steward it's very comfortable passengers can check in from six in the morning was open for boarding at half past the crescent consists of two engines and nine carriages. thank. the light is eerily beautiful as the train sets off at seven in the morning. thanks we passed slowly through new orleans named the crescent city because of its location on a bend in the mississippi river. the air. with our fellow passengers we face a thirty one hour ride will cross twelve states and cover more than two thousand two hundred kilometers on our journey from the big easy to the big apple the a new orleans's bordered by the mississippi river to the south and by lake pontchartrain to the north a shallow body of water three times

a former dea deputy administrator served as a whistle-blower for the report by the "washington post"evealing this pharmaceutical industry friendly law that the dea had opposed for years was passed, fueling the opioid crisis. the whistle-blower says multibillion dollar drug companies courted a handful of members of congress, showering them with cash to get this done. >> this is an industry that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors' offices that attributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs. you know the implication of what you're saying, that these big companies knew that they were pumping drugs into american communities that were killing people? >> that's not an implication, that's a fact. that's exactly what they did. >> joining me now is democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri. senator, you announced you're going to introduce legislation to repeal the 2016 law that made this possible. it was passed by unanimous consent in the senate last year. president obama signed it. how did it become law in the first pla

in many places, whistle—blowers fear to speak out because they know of other whistle—blowers who maybehey wanted, and added they were not making new placements at any of the homes involved. mark norman, bbc south east today. the organisation looking after rail safety in the uk has warned parents of the dangers of leaving their pushchairs unattended near a railway line — releasing this shocking footage. it shows the moment a buggy is completely destroyed by a passing freight train at a railway station in nuneaton after its owner failed to apply the brakes. thankfully a child wasn't in the pushchair at the time and no—one was injured. the catalan leader says he will abide by the independence vote, but will first seek a negotiated solution with madrid. britain's leading defence manufacturer, bae systems, is to cut almost 2000 jobs after a fall in orders. and at least 11 people have been killed in wildfires sweeping across parts of northern california. a state of emergency has been declared. two—thirds of the world's illiterate adults are women. so what is preventing girls and women from l

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