dr. harris touched on it. but mr. stephens, you did as well. important as we meet here director of the largest agency studying down syndrome in the world right now, there are four active labs, more than 140 scientists. we do not fund any research that could even potentially lead to that eugenics path you recognized. we don't receive a proposal that tries to investigate the of that extra chromosome and try to prevent that. our mission is to improve the lives of people with down syndrome. within that, there are possibilities for prenatal treatment. it is of course something that one needs to be very cautious about, about intervening prebirth but that is within the realm of possibility with more research and advances in technology. you can have assurance from us we will no fund any research that could even potentially be tied to selected terminations. mrs. roby: thank you. i appreciate that. real quickly, i don't have much time left, but can you expound either one of you -- can he expound on the timeline of researching down syndrome? some already

dr. harris, codirector at the seminary. we are cochairing the poor people's campaign.elieve we need a systemic -- sustained moral push back that challenges the immoral public policy direction with the moral vision. i like to call it restoring moral dissent, moral dreams and moral defibrillation of this nation. we have to go at the heart. and not just one rally or you know, but a sustained movement. we need to focus on systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, and the war economy. and our whole moral narrative. it is amazing to me that we are not dealing with these issues -- health care, poverty, racism, as moral issues, not democrat or republican, left versus right. we have begun a 15 state tour organizing because it has to be from the bottom up. it has to be like, white, and brown, native and young and old and peoplestraight from appalachia and also people from the urban areas. and that is happening. it is happening. people are engaging. it has to include nonviolent, but not nonconfrontational civil disobedience. we are planning, i won't say it is all this mor

dr. harris. only 5% of high school students in the united states have computer science in their classes. that is terrible. we do not teach how the internet actually works. we do not teach helen issue gets propagated and leveraged through social media, to talk about understanding sources and things. internal combustion but where we not teaching how the internet works? alone, two years ago, there were 42,000 jobs that require some kind of computer science that went unfilled. the tech sector -- the university has only produced about 1000 computer science graduates. of the 5000 kids in computer science classes, only 120 african-americans and only 900 -- we need to make sure that more of our population becomes computer literate. coding will become required in any job you get in the future because of the technical change we will see in the next 20 years ohmic the nex last 20 look insignificant. sure that we make are educating our kids, our grandkids in this concept. >> i strongly agree. [applause] >> w

dr. glenda newell harris and dr. virginia banks. he is blessed with six grand children. she's a member of alpha kappa alpha sorority, incorporated and a platinum member of the lynx. she is the alphabet, and the wife of sigma phi fraternity. she has been a faithful member of the baptist church in wistton-salem. r. newell is a visionary trailblazer who affected the lives of so many. on behalf of the united states house of representatives and the people of my congressional district, i wish dr. virginia kimbro newell a very happy birthday. i now yield to ms. adams of the 12th district of north carolina. ms. adams: i rise to honor the phenomenal dr. newell, a mathematician, author, elected official, mentor and dr. newell is an asset to north carolina. e celebrate her 100th birthday . she graduated from atkins high school in winston-salem before attending talladega college in alabama, she received her doctorate in education from the university of share societya. as an educator she touched the lives of countless students at washington and ligon high hool in raleigh, yale summer

dr. andy harris, and me on our research bill, h.b. 3391. there's no reason that the federal government denies research to be able to definitively answer these questions. i'm tired looking at the opioid damage in my state and around the country and have congress propose band-aids when there's a simple, commonsense, widely accepted and popular approach -- allow people access to medical marijuana. the time to do it is now, and lives are being lost as we dither. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lance, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in recognition of the academy of our lady of peace in me providence, new jersey, and the woodland elementary school in warren, new jersey, for being named blue ribbon schools by the united states department of education. new providence is in union county and warren is in somerset county, new jersey, both in the district i have the honor of representing. the national blue ribbon schools award honors public and private el

dr. andy harris, somebody who doesn't agree with me about the efficacy of medical marijuana, but he strongly agrees with me that there is no longer any reason for the federal government to interfere with research to be able to prove it. the federal government has a strangle hold on this research. we have bipartisan legislation, 3391, which would break that strangle hold and be able to have robust research to resolve these questions so there would no longer be any doubt. this is cheapest most effective way to be able to stop the crisis where people have access to medical marijuana, there are fewer overdoses, and people opt for it dealing with chronic pain. i would appreciate the subcommittee looking at this issue as your time permits. thank you mr. chairman, ranking member. >> chair thanks the gentleman, gentleman yields back. chair recognizes the gentle lady from georgia for three minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you for holding this hearing. the opioid crisis has hit the counties of fulton, dekabul as hard as in any part of the country. in 2016, 72.3% of all drug-related fatales

harry carson, mike adamle. we're joined by mr. adamle's ife, kim adamle, and dr. ell eleanor perfetto who is the widow of ralph wenzel. they can speak to the challenges they live with and witnessed as a result of this trauma and they can also speak to the concerns of the future and whether they believe they will be adequately supported by the nfl or other organizations as they face future challenges. i'd also like to challenge we invited the nfl to attend but they declined. the science has raised enough red flags about repetitive head trauma that it's incumbent to those who organize contact sports to make the game as safe as possible. this must come from all levels of play including the highest level of football. since the nfl recognized the link between repetitive hits and brain trauma they need to commit to supporting independent research, meaningfully reducing the risks and supporting players suffering from the effects of long-term brain injury. so this forum is critically important. it's unfortunate, however, this discussion is not being conducted in a formal

dr. >> reporter: valerie's former lover, leon jacob, has been sitting in the harris county jail for sevening and solicitation of murder. when i sat down with him, he wouldn't talk about the details of his case, but denied any wrong doing. >> i am innocent of these charges. i still maintain that throughout. i find them to be atrocious in manner because i'm not some monster that wanted my ex-girlfriend killed and her ex-husband. i'm a healer by nature. >> reporter: did you hold yourself responsible for her suicide? >> no. that was a decision she made on her own. >> reporter: so, you never thought, for a minute, that maybe you'd put her in a position that she just couldn't hasn'tle and it drove her to commit suicide? >> no. she had so much pressure on her, and i wasn't there to help support her. >> reporter: leon asked the judge to allow him to attend valerie's funeral, but his request nied. his request to be released on bond was also denied. >> his bond will remain at zero bond. all right. thank you. >> reporter: prominent defense attorney george parnham is representing leon. >> do you know

--using that amy: that was done on harris, the cocreator of the bad batch text alert system. have one minute. drrl hart, if you could respond to this and then overall i this day after president trump as declared the opioid crisis national public health emergency, walking back the national emergency which would have meant more money devoted to this. your thoughts you want to leave people with? to the high school students were trying to do something in their community. it as a nation, we should be embarrassed. first of all, you have higigh school students trying to contribute to this problem. where you have many people who've gone to school many years specifically for pharmacology and these sorts of things. we know some things and we have some answers for this. wouldy our government seek out people who actually know what they are doing is the as opposed to us relying on high school students. that mad props for them for even trying. as i think overall about how we should deal with this thing i will start the overdoses. again -- make sure we warn people not to combine opioids with another drug. set

stone ran's ripley center in washington, dc, slipped fit harris looks a little surgery in the 19th 19th century and the medical advances of british dr. joseph lister. wednesday we're at the redwood library in rhode island for pulitzer prize winning gordonon woods' recount of the friendship between john adams and thomas jefferson. also great politics and prose book store to hear anne nelson tell the for our a member of the french resistance gave her life to save hundreds of jewish children from being sent to auschwitz. then on thursday, at the hoover institution in washington, dc, lee edwards recall this career in the conserve movement. on saturday and sunday, watch our live coverage of the texas book festival in austin. also on sunday, best selling author michael lewis will discuss his many books, and take your calls, live, on "in depth" end. many of these vaccines are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv, on c-span2. [inaudible

dr. who paid little attention to state politics announced that she would run for the senate seat held by harry byrd. she minced no words in explaining why she was running because senator byrd massive resistance program is designed to close our schools, she said. that's hurting our children or than any other group. that moved her as a working mother of five to run for office. but she didn't stop there. the problem is not just whether local communities should be allowed to decide black children to formally white children, she argued in black and white needed better schooling and that was just the beginning of the changes she was campaigning for. i think i will skim a little bit here because i know it's hot in your crowded in but i'll just say a little bit more. i was blown away by this story. it's very sad she went to her death thinking nobody had ever written about her story. she was fearless in providing over an electoral system provide to keep most citizens from the ballot box. she said i believe people everywhere in virginia as well as russia should have a chance to vote for a candidate who

harris county. i was glad of that. dr. redd, what are the types of risks associated with substances such as this? it's a dioxin facility. dumped there in the '60s by a paper mill. we have responsible parties, in both the state of texas, the city of harris county and city of baytown that's there, put signs up in english, spanish, and vet numees not to eat the crabs or fish. when i go out there, you can't find anybody who doesn't have a fishing pole because the signs say if you're an expectant mother or a small child, you shouldn't digest these crabs, but a lot of people still do. what are the types of risks that are associated with that, other than that problems with eating it? >> i would like to respond to that question in follow-up. i don't want to say anything that's incorrect, and i think especially with the levels that we're seeing in that setting. >> okay. like i said, we're going to -- the decision has been made to clean it up. but my concern is a lot of my constituents who go out there and fish and crab, and i keep explaining to them, you need to pay attention to those signs. according to

harris: something just popped into my head. do you remember in the early days of the presidency when reporters were in the oval office and somebody said "they took down the bust of drn luther king." that was not true. in fact, they had to report that it wasn't true. there have been these instances. go ahead. >> that was a time magazine reporter, it was a mistake and he apologized. there have been a lot of inaccurate reports and i am not defending it. i am talking about fabrications which means you intentionally make something up. i was going to quickly say, 76% of republicans and 20% democrats in this particular poll agreed with this notion of making things up, it's remarkable that it takes 933-year-old former democratic president who was buried under bad press when he was in the white house to point out the obvious, no modern president has been treated this way. >> harris: i want to say again what jimmy carter said, i think they feel free to claim trump is mentally deranged, do you remember a democrat from california, introducing that resolution suggesting the president undergo a physical and mental health exam? this is something that has been out there, that's be

harry connick, jr., joining us live today. his show is also about sexual harassment. his recent revelation about this wife's battle with cancer. >>> drus on good day sharing a diet that could help ward off alzheimer's. plus getting the most from that morning cup of joe. >> actor bradley whitfield will join as well. fox5 exclusive access behind the scenes of this year ice exhibit at national harbor. you'll see that first on day. >>> all righty. let's check in with tucker barnes once again. so, tuck, has it sort of calmed down outside all the crazy rain and stuff it's over. >> we're needier headed in that direct. we're not that yet. give eight couple hours. >> all right. >> the winds will gusting at 40 or 50 are like 20 to 30 things car calming down. >> baby steps g we'll get sunshine this afternoon. we're done with the rain. things are trending in the right direction. >> that's what i like to hear tuck. >> a lot of leaves on the roads and be careful driving this morning. >> yeah. >> very frightening. >> very slippery. >> slippery conditions like banana peels everywhere. >> is it that slick like banana peels everywhere. >> yeah. >> oka