one woman dr francis kelsey a canadian born doctor and pharmacologist had just joined the federal drug administration when she received an application to bring thalidomide onto the american market here was a drug that looked like it should be no problem but at the same time there was just a feeling to do something in the leader of the absence of the. cause of concern the application came from richardson merrill one of america's oldest drug companies known years ago for its best selling product vix cough drops merrill poured on the pressure they contacted the f.d.a. fifty times they went behind her back to those periods they complained a better and rushing the threatened global proceedings they pushed and pushed and pushed and she was resolute she was unbelievably tough. but i know that we're always most indebted to dr kelsey the relationship to the hope that all of us have for our children in august one thousand nine hundred two president john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill sea really so you know it starts from june storm through the

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drug administration has told a federal judge monday that the government will not meet tuesday's deadline for reuniting migrant children with their parents that initial order request that one hundred two migrant children under the age of five i return to their families separated at the us mexico border by tuesday the split was part of a white house crackdown on illegal immigration but the american civil liberties union who pushed for the judicial order says less than half of the toddlers will be successfully reunited a federal court is due to decide on whether the deadline can be extended to have a tendency has the latest from washington the drug administration says it has one hundred two children under the age of five in its custody who was separated from a parent at the border of that number it says ninety six are mandated to be reunited by the tuesday deadline however it says it's not going to come close to that number it thinks it will be able to reunite fifty four children with their parents by tuesday the judge is accepting that there are all the just equal difficulties and is now a

state legislation has been proposed to legalize these centers, but the drug enforcement administration tells us under federal law, it would still be a crime for anyone to use the sites or even work inside. for now, that doesn't seem to be a sticking point for san francisco. announcer: we investigate why new legal marijuana businesses are being forced to turn armored trucks into mobile banks. that's next. marijuana is now legal here in california, but pot businesses are facing a new dilemma. what to do with all that cash? weed is still illegal under federal law and most banks won't open accounts for people in the industry. from growers to the government, everyone says all that cash is dangerous and bad for business. and we discover there's no solution in sight. liz: you're looking at photos of a pot farmer after he was pistol whipped and mugged leaving a dispensary in san francisco. he's always on alert because the bad guys know growers often carry weed and cash, a lot of it. male: puts me in a sticky spot. liz: he doesn't want us to use his name, but he invited us to his farm in the heart of cannabis country

the drug administration has told a federal judge monday that the government will not meet tuesday's deadline for reuniting migrant children with their parents that initial order request that one hundred two migrant children under the age of five i return to their families separated at the us mexico border by tuesday the split was part of a white house crackdown on illegal immigration but the american civil liberties union who pushed for the judicial order says less than half of the toddlers will be successfully reunited a federal court is due to decide on whether the dead.

border protection, and investigations are followed up with our partners, again, from drug enforcement administration, federal bureau of investigations and the postal inspection service. >> grease, thanks. >> yes, sir. >> -- great, thanks. >> there, i have a question for you, and that is what is holding back med e case-assisted therapy or treatment in this country? you mentioned the experience of france in your close. what do you -- i mean, i know it's multifaceted, but if there were a new things that you could change, what would they be when it comes to wound rah nor be teen but the other options as well. >> i think it's one of the greatest barriers, and i think there are many reasons, there are many barriers to patients accessing this treatment. there are ideological barriers, for example, where even some folks in the treatment community are you should the wrong impression that if you're treating opioid addiction or methadone maintenance that it's not really treatment. you're just -- [inaudible conversations] so there's a bias. but i think the single biggest barrier to patients accessing this treatment is t

the drug administration has told a federal judge monday that the government will not meet tuesday's deadline for reuniting migrant children with their parents the judicial order requests that one hundred two migrant children under the age of five are returned to their families separated in the us mexico border by tuesday the u.s. secretary of state has made an unannounced visit to afghanistan might pompei you met afghan president ashraf ghani and affirmed that the u.s. will offer its full support to resuming negotiations with the taliban. not only is not giving up on any path to independence that's what the region's leaders says after a meeting with the new spanish prime minister that will sanchez has hosted the separatist catalan president kim toda for the first time in the government palace in madrid those are the headlines news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story by phone. ethiopia and eritrea no longer at war the one face to face that started a new chapter in his prime minister in eritrea president signed the joint declaration of peace and friendship enough but one of the cha

drug prices? i do think the federal government should negotiate for pricing. we should negotiate for prescription drug pricing when that was passed during the bush administration. and then to accept to negotiate. we could use those free tools available to negotiate as anybody else of course we should negotiate for prescription drug prices. another free-market tool is to get best prices for drugs this is very standard in commercial contracts i had writer that said how, family has to pay $150,000 for this drug and you pay 50000 other nations it is 30000 i asked hhs look at the manufacturer to say we will pay you whatever the best price is for many other in the nation. he said he would take it under advisement the wish for normal commercial tools to negotiate just like anybody else plan to bring milk healthcare costs down. >> once again senator kaine you hang out with the washington elite like chuck schumer and hillary clinton in here can honestly say the quality and price of their health care has improved? who can actually say that? in the real world to have skyrocketing premiums and untouchables people are waiting in longer lines just to get the healthcare they

. >>> federal regulators appear ready to strip the world milk from soy and almond milk. the food and drug administrations to set a standard that defines milk as milking one or more healthy cows. the agency plans to notify foodmakers sometime in the next year. >> announcer: now your accuweather forecast with spencer christian. >>> look at live doppler 7, fog at the coast, making its usual late afternoon push out over the bay. sunny skies elsewhere though. overnight the fog will reach out over the bay. fi mid to upper 50s. taking you through the day parts tomorrow, the 12-hour day planner looks like this, starting with fog in the early morning hours, the fog will thin out and high clouds by midday. nonetheless, it will be very warm and it will feel muggy by late afternoon as humidity increases. high in the mid-90s, low 60s on the coast, if you have the accuweather app, follow all the developments free anytime of the day and night. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast, mid-90s inland the next two days, low 80s right around the bay, mid-60s on the coast, and again it will feel a bit muggy by bay area s

that was the nixon administration not wanting to expand the federal bureaucracy. >> jay jaffe is the first drugs are, but he's temporary. now we get to go to vietnam. it was worth the wait. shortly after that meeting in the oval office, jared jaffe and i are told to go to the pentagon to talk about the heroin addiction problem in vietnam. so we go over to the pentagon. we meet in a large conference room with generals and admirals. problemys, you have a with heroin addiction. the military was not very forthcoming in conceding there was a problem. jerry said, the president thinks there's a problem. well, what would you like to do is to mark -- to do? we have to determine the problem, determine how many soldiers are addicted to heroin. congressmenfter two claimed that 10% to 15% of our soldiers are addicted to heroin. jerry says we could do urine analysis. the generals say there really .sn't the technology jerry says, what if there's a machine that can analyze a sample in 30 seconds? the generals say, it doesn't exist. jerry says, do you have a speakerphone? yes we do. can i make a phone call? jerr

ourselves through administrative action because it relies on a loophole in federal law that allows otherwise regulated entities to essentially double deal. already, we have seen drugompanies hit pause on price increases or actually cut prices. understanding that we're on the verge of significant and transformative reform in the drug pricing system in the united states. fixing the broken incentives around prices is one piece of the president's plan, but a real market requires that consumers, competitors have prices and they're giving private negotiators more power to negotiate with drug companies and empowering consumers to bring down out of pocket costs and stoking competition in drug markets. delivery on the plan will involve taking some steps that may be unexpected and took some by surprise when i directed the food and drug administration to examine how importing drugs from other countries could accept address patient access problems caused by spikes in drug prices. this shouldn't necessarily have been a surprise because the president and i have been very clear when we rolled out our drug pricing blueprint earlier this year. we are open to all solutions that put

kidnapping, criminal threats, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia (pam) tonight the trump administration is under orders from a federalge ... to reunite migrant families .. who were separated at the border. the judge ordered families to be reunited by this evening. but many say, the effort is falling short. mark meredith is in washington with a closer look. shouting (nats) and singing protestors took to capitol hill demanding the government work faster to reunite migrant families who were separated at the border.nat: "i am a child..."a federal judge ordered the government to reunite families by midnight thursday.but house democrats say hundreds of kids won't see their parents by the deadline...because they were already deported...nat: we can do better and we must do better "it is unclear that they have any plan, on how to to reunite those families" the administration the the administration says some children will stay in government care...because of safety concerns over adults with criminal records.illinois democratic senator dick durbin says the department of homeland security botched the separations and are now stal

drug addiction and was staying with other family members. she is due in court on monday. >>> a federal judge will hold a hearing on whether the trump administration that a court imposed deadline to reunite -- reunifyen with their parents at the southern border. they were separated because of a zero tolerance policy.white ho 1800 children were reunited with their families by yesterday's court order deadlines. still, more than seven her parents -- seven her parents have been deemed unintelligible -- 700 parents have been deemed ineligible. >>> 55 flag draped boxes of remains of soldiers were received in south korea. in a somber ceremony at an air base, they lined up to receive the remains on terror back -- tarmac. the remains follow through on a promise made by kim jong-un mon the u.s. military plane flew to north korea to pick up the remains will be transferred to a base in hawaii for -- which will be transferred to a base in hawaii for testing. >>> michael cohen says mr. trump about a controversial meeting that happened more than two years ago. reporter reports from washington dc. >> reporter: president donald trump denies he knew about controver

drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me every single time. - checkmate! you wanna play again? - anncr: prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> a federal judge has ordered the trump administrationa list of 101 separated migrant children 5 years old this afternoon. hhs says it lost track of 38 minor infants and toddlers. i spoke with representative emanuel cleaver earlier about the family separations. >> what wasn't set up was a plan in the beginning to deal with something that most americans find completely abhorrent. it's almost unconscionable to lock little kids and their mothers, their parents, away from each other. >> joining me now is president of kids in need of defense, wendy young. wendy, welcome to you. let's get right to what your organization has been doing. you've been working with any government agencies to try to meet these reunification deadlines. have you been able to help these separated children? >> it's been very, very difficult. we've been working both with parents who are detained along the texas border who have been separated from their children as well as with the children who are in separate facilities, sometimes hundreds if not a thousand miles away fro

federal policies that have been proposed that you think will reduce overall premium? >> earlier this week brief filed significant comments on the administration prescription drug blueprint which i think has a lot of great ideas getting at this issue. one challenge is our request for information in so those really have to be turned into actionable policies to drive some of those results. one of the interesting ones that wasn't there was looking at director consumer advertising and talking about what something really costs. i think there a lot of good ideas out there. the underlying unit cost of prescription drugs and these continual price increases that is the root cause and sometimes it gets wrapped around the axle and thinking about other issues and that sort of thing but i think it's really about how the get more competition and how do you reduce costs? it the only way we are going to get at this and 22.3 cents on the dollar that you are paying every month goes towards prescription drugs. i don't see that number going down frankly. >> there's actually an interesting finger-pointing episode going on and it's been going on for a while. he will see that pvm's point the f

federal ao state officials is outrageous. >> i'll tell you straight up,s thise of our top concerns right now. >> reporter: scott gottlieb is e commissioner of the u. food and drug administrationhe says while e-cigarettes can be used by adults to stop smoking, it can't be done at the expense of children. >> if all we do is end up hooking a whole generation of young people on nicotine by doking these products available, we won't hav a service from a public health standpoint. st we need to be very aggressive in trying to taks to crackdown, prevent the youth use of these products. b>> reporter: the f.d.a. ng sued by several organizations ths are challenging gottlie decision tallow e-cigarettes, to remain on the market until 2022, without regulatory review. gottlieb say to set comprehensive standards ulr all these products, not just >> we also can't be playing a-mole, just going after one particular product and don't have in place rules that address the overall category. >> reporter: the f.d.a. has requested internal research from e-cigarette companies, including owhy these products are s popular with kids. they are conducting a nationwide, undercover blitz to stop stores from sel

federal policies that you are a fan of that have been proposed that you think will incite meaningful change in terms of reducing overall premiums. week, we earlier this filed significant comments on the administration's prescription drug blueprint, which i think has a lot of great ideas, sort of getting at this issue. one challenge was an rfi, order request for information -- or request for information. those have to be turned into policies to drive the results. one of the interesting ones that was there was looking at direct to consumer advertising and talking about what something really costs in the advertising. i thought that was interesting. i think a lot of -- there are a lot of good ideas out there. underlying cost of prescription drugs, that is really -- and the continual price increases -- that is the real cause. we get wrapped around the axle in thinking about rebates and all that kind of thing, but it is about how do you get more competition, how do you reduce the underlying drug costs, unit costs, that will be the only way to get at this. i think it is like 22.3 cents on the dollar you are paying every month goes towards prescription drugs. i do not see the number going down, frankly. >> there is actually a