dr. bell, thank you for your testimony and thank you for making that long flight out here from washington state. >> senator murray knows about that long flight. >> i do well. >> now, we'll begin with our witnesses. ms. savage, why don't you go first? >> thank you for inviting me to speak with you today and for allowing me to share our family's story of loss and the hopes of helping others. i am a wife, a nurse and a mother of four boys. our family is like a lot of families including yours we like to spend time together, laugh together and dream about the future. on june 14 of 2014 our lives changed forever. that is the day that our two older sons were pronounced dead of an accidental alcohol opioid-related overdose. our sons, nick and jack, were like many other 18 and 19 year olds. they were athletes. and jack had just graduated high school and was heading into his first year at ball state university. they were best friends. nick and jack had attended graduation parties the night before. they

dr. bell, thank you for being here. the goal of the casey family program is to keep families together. the opioid epidemic is clearly a challenge for that. we know that in the past five years we have seen almost a 10% increase in the number of children in foster care. it talked about much of which could be attributed to substance abuse. is really concerned. children in foster care disproportionally faced significant trauma come as you well know, and adverse -- trauma, as you well know. what are some of the resources that communities need to prevent the need for foster care and keep their families safely together? >> one of the things that we have seen that which we have spent a lot of time focused on -- in new york city, the foster care role has continued to go down. that one of the reasons that that is theirs because of the immense amount of prevention services that are available in the city. one of the biggest challenges for families who are raising kids and kids who are at risk of social is

i mean dr bell with. years ahead but over with iran. all of them want that eleven. minute have by fear i we have done with drone hardware the. many i've been by both. allard the real heat is going away and i would subscribe in policy and that of adelaide meld for example but just watch here the satellite picture picks up development of quite spectacular still around brisbane they knocked out the power the last two days not sure fact they might repeat themselves i think probably not these are the walls that thirty seven in brisbane was about down to twenty five in adelaide about the same in melbourne in fact perth beach you. it seems like ian personality might get a bit warmer thirty seven is the forecast on thursday it's not warmed up much through must the south australia new south wales all victoria wind coming in from the bite is just in the wrong direction but brisbane stood up at thirty six looks like you probably got away with that the thunderstorms new zealand and now you could have in north island in a couple days time the presence of the remains of this thin

dr. bell's professional experience expands media and marketing and has worked eight years in interactive media development, working with fortune 100 clients on strategy and campaign execution, and with agency management on new business development. and so what we'll do is we'll first start with prove southerly heroic and allow her a chance to give some remarks and then we'll move to professor lopez bunyasi and professor bell and then go in a moderated discussion about race, identity, america and the politics of solidarity and we'll open it up to the audience for questions before wrapping up. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you, ted, for the invitation for organizing in panel for new america for hosting us and thanks for all of you from taking time for your afternoon and coming and being part of this event. soy i want to say a little bit about how in moy work i understand the relationship between race and solidarity and also what i mean when i talk about solidarity and how we should understand what this has to do with democracy and why it's so important to cultivate. so one of the pre

presented some five hundred films and it's organized by the go to institute in san francisco with dr bell as a partner and last at and it builds on many of their other cultural activities. so let's have a quick look at what they're lining up with this year. the german language films being screened in san francisco this week aren't blockbusters but this festival always manages to draw in enthusiastic audience. the grateful but it's always good film to feel just a lot of fun and i saw that you know no other theater saw the factory a control room with a lot of good in the fray and look always looking forward to see a good german film. among the films featured at the festival is the comedy of welcome to germany. it explores what happens when an ordinary middle class german family decides to open their home to a refugee from nigeria. its humor and timeliness help make it a huge box office hit in germany. the film's director. is making his first visit to san francisco to open the festival but he says that breaking into the american film market is not his goal. i think i'm someone who likes to w

dr. seeing bell will tell us how much of a game change they are will be. >>> "the black man they are" dominatingtuart varney. you're watching the second hour of "varney & company." ♪ charles: we begin with this, robert mueller indicting three russian companies and 13 individuals for interfering with a 2016 presidential election but there was no evidence that the trump campaign had anything to do with it. tammy bruce, fox news contributor joins us now. all right, tammy, has president trump indeed been vindicated? >> i think so but at the same time part of their public rhetoric need to change. the democrats have moved the goalpost saying, well at least proves the russian involvement wasn't a hoax and president trump kept saying that it was. president trump made that clear on twitter as well, just i think today, that or late yesterday. that this, his claims about the hoax was never about the fact that the russians were involved or russians were doing something. it was collusion that was the hoax. charles: sure. >> that is the kind of reality that the president needs to make clear. at the same time

mom's demand action following that, will have closing comments before discussion from doctor bell who is the er dr on duty at danbury hospital where some victims of the sandy hook shooting were taken. >> anything, before i read my poem i want to say this is an incredibly humbling experience. i didn't know what to expect. i want to say thank you tell of you for sharing your powerful stories. i was the first responder at hartford and i've been to the scene of over 400 shootings in 13 years. i bear witness to 300 young people being murdered in different communities. i've seen a lot and i've responded to a lot. most painful response was that response my own brother. i never thought again made a man. i have very little experience with gun and i was never the victim of gun violence. the most dangerous victim was my education. the series of lessons about the human body and how to make it a weapon. child abuse, physical abuse and verbal abuse. all the way someone can use a body to impose their will on someone. that was my experience. i grew up believing that hurting people is power and respect. when i was

. >> wedding bells will ring for the price is right host drew carey. he's engaged top dr.twick. carey is 59, hartwick is 36 they've been dating since last summer. in july carey shared his selfie on instagram saying the face of a lottery winner. this will be carey's first marriage. no word yet on a wedding date. >> speaking of love can you imagine falling in love over a tweet. today on dr. phil his guest is a 21-year-old woman who says it was love as first like. she's butting heads with her biological mother. her mother says she thinks the relationship with a stranger is consuming bailey and the person she's chasing may not feel the same. earlier today dr. phil told us bailey's story is a cautionary tale. >> bailey very intelligent attractive sophisticated young woman becomes infatuated with jasmine who she has never met and really starts interpreting everything jasmine puts on the internet as personal to her, starts messaging her sometimes hundreds of times a day and it turns into a cyber stalking situation. >> tune in today to find out how this online relationship is impa

dr. omalu can talk to this in much more detail, is thath in football was, i got my bell rung. having your bell rung, seeing stars, seeing fireworks things of that nature, hundreds, maybe thousands of times i could say the that happened to me. and that's what we're starting to discover is a concussion. so that's very frightening. and it's not a good thing. so i'm very fearful of what the future will bring. >> let me turn to you now, dr. omalu then. the same question that i asked brett to start, are you worried as you prepare to maybe sit down in front of the tv on super bowl sunday, maybe you won't watch it, are you concerned about it? >> thank you, christiane. i stopped watching football about five years ago, because i just couldn't get myself to watch it. as a physician and a brain expert, in every play of football, there is a blow to the head. in fact, a paper recently came out from stanford university that showed that in just one game of football, a player is exposed to about 50 to 60 violent blows to the head. and some of those blows are like a car traveling at 30 miles an

dr. bell, i'm sorry. >> thank you. senator collins did raise this before she left and, as i indicated, we are very supportive of what you are trying to do here. it's something that we learn from the crack epidemic, that these grandparents need support centers, they need navigatetive programs, they need financial resources because the notion of the $4 billion saiflgs savings is because many of these grandparents have not been necessarily informed that they kwo become kinship providers. i wouldn't advocate that we take them and bring them into the foster system because many can do better from the outside. we do need to find a way to provide financial support for them to continue to live their lives so they're not burdened down overly with these children. because one thing that we saw during the crack epidemic was that their health started to deteriorate had they didn't have the support that they needed. i think you're definitely on the right pathway and would fully support working with you on th