due to president trump's shutdown, over his demands for a wasteful border wall, the food and drug administration cannot conduct routine inspections for food safety, and has slowed evaluation of new drugs and medical products. usda is no longer able to provide farmers and rural communities with loans and grants to assist housing, utilities or economic development. and approximately 40 million americans who depend on snap for food assistance, including more than three million new yorkers, have faced unnecessary fear and uncertainty about whether they are weeks away from going hungry. house democrats have passed bills to open the government. but the president and senate republicans continue to obstruct , instead of working with us to get the people's business done. in my judgment, my friends, the solution to this crisis is simple. let's pass the bills where we can agree, where there is bipartisan support, and let's extend funding for homeland security for 30 days. 30 days. one month. to allow time for negotiation on border security and immigration policy. this seems to me, in my judgment, to be fai

due to president trump's shutdown, over his demands for a wasteful border wall, the food and drug administration cannot conduct routine inspections for food safety, and has slowed evaluation of new drugs and medical products. usda is no longer able to provide farmers and rural communities with loans and grants to assist housing, utilities or economic development. and approximately 40 million americans who depend on snap for food assistance, including more than three million new yorkers, have faced unnecessary fear and uncertainty about whether they are weeks away from going hungry. house democrats have passed bills to open the government. but the president and senate republicans continue to obstruct , instead of working with us to get the people's business done. in my judgment, my friends, the solution to this crisis is simple. let's pass the bills where we can agree, where there is bipartisan support, and let's extend funding for homeland security for 30 days. 30 days. one month. to allow time for negotiation on border security and immigration policy. this seems to me, in my judgment, to be fai

environmental protection agency would protect everyone from chemicals and all foods and other ingredients but the food and drug administration the u.s. department of agriculture and other entities have substantial oversight in the united states and whereas the e.p.a. updated its regulation very recently the food and drug administration still operates on a framework that assumes that the dose proof makes the proverbial poison and the reality is that even the f.d.a. his own science suggest effects at low levels of exposure one thing that absolutely astounded me that i didn't know before is that the f.d.a. . a does not have the authority to go up to a data or reassess the safety of chemicals we are already on the market which is quite scary knowing how much both the bio chemical and medical industry is have progress does it mean that once the chemical is on the market it will be on the market for ever unless the producer wants to replace it with something safer well fortunately we're seeing a lot of attention to what we call the generally recognized as safe or grass loophole there are a lot of proposals underway to modernize th

the food and drug administration shuts down contaminated food can kill thousands. tsa agents and air traffic controllers we rely on to keep air travel safe. they are unpaid. and in a massive irony, president of trump's shutdown means the department of homeland security is unpaid. there are an estimated 2,000 new mexicans we rely on for border security, international trade, and integration work. they are unpaid. this really, truly is matt ness. for their sake and the sake of all who are affected by this tragic situation, we need to end the shutdown now. the consequences of inaction are too great. and once again let me just thank senator cain for his passion on this issue and his joints in terms of bringing this issue and fighting with all of us here on the floor and i would yield to the senator. >> the senator from virginia. >> i will briefly conclude my comments recognizing my colleague from indiana is on the floor and i want to thank the senator from new mexico for his words. he spoke about the notion i just made a. i will be on the floor tomorrow and saturday and

shutdown on the food and drug administration, and dr. gottlieb was very explicit. he said the area which was hardest hit was food safety. food safety is a responsibility assumed by the federal government over 100 years ago after the publication of the novel "the jungle" by upton sinclair. we decided that we would create a federal agency with the responsibility of inspecting food so that people across america would not suffer food-borne illness or worse. well, we have a great agency and it does a great job when it's fully funded operationally, but the fact of the matter is over 40 million americans will end up with a food illness in any given year and over 3,000 will die. so the responsibility of this agency is not some bureaucratic function. it is literally a life-and-death responsibility, and i asked dr. gottlieb, so what does the government shutdown do to the food and drug administration when it comes to food safety? well, he said we have had to suspend inspections at the highest risk food operations. i asked him for an illustration. he

food for peace. and funds the mcgovern-dole program at $210 million. finally, the bill provides the food and drug administration with $3 billion in discretionary funding. $269 million above the f.y. 2018 enacted level. includes important investments to fight the opioid epidemic and to promote domestic manufacturing of and new drug development. as i said before, this bill touches the lives of every american. i urge members on all sides to support this bill. reopen the government. and restore the service that is americans count on. mr. beneficiaryon: thank you very much, mr. bishop. mr. serrano. mr. serrano: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. hastings: get your microphone. thank you. mr. serrano: i thought were you calling me mike. he's next to you. congratulations to mike. i'm here as chairman of the commerce, justice appropriations subcommittee to discuss the c.j.s. portion of the consolidated appropriations act. we're currently in day 32 of the trump shutdown. the impact is growing. it's employees and paychecks and individuals and groups dependent upon federal assistance but without public safety and scientific inno

effectively by co-opting not only congress but also to be honest, regulators like the food and drug administration which essentially was compromised by its relationship with the industry. in that decade you see a missed opportunity to assess the effect of these drugs and terrain in the shears gala prescribing. >> let's go to bluefield west virginia. good morning kelly. >> caller: i know that prescription drugs as he stated are smaller problem than the ones that drug dealers are portion of people. now, there is a push in this country that are drug dealer gets caught for the first time he gets a smack on the hand because we don't want to put him in prison. they are forgetting that they may have killed corporate people and situations that they cannot get out of. instead of getting them a smack on the hand we need to look at it and say you push these drugs, you may have been doing it for years but even if it's the first time you got caught and to me it should be your going on trial for murder because that's what you probably done. you probably killed people. to me there should not be a push in the cou

would get money flowing toward agriculture and rural development, and specifically the food and drug administrationour bills, hr246, hr264, 265, 266, and 267. and that would be a compromise, that they can get support for and there's a smiling guy in front of the white house, one of our types waiting. what we have just learned the four bills ready to go, bipartisan support, we can get financial services, department of transportation, housing and urban development, food and drug administration, critical things for life, get them back up and funded, get the people in those areas back up and working, make sure they get a paycheck friday. all done, bipartisan, republicans and democrats, all good to go. they can pass it and we're ready. the white house said no. the white house said, and i quote, moving these four bills without broader agreement to address the border crisis that should be in quotes, is unacceptable. the administration looks forward to working with congress for adequate appropriation to address the crisis on the southwest border, arguebly of their own making, gets the entire federal govern

and encourage the development of more inowevative products, and provide resources to the food and drug administration -- innovative products, and provide resources to the food and drug administration to bolster the agency's ability to review over-the-counter applications and regulate this sector in a consistent manner. the pandemic and all hazards preparedness -- all-hazards preparedness act is important. i want to thank representative susan brooks and eshoo for their work and representatives latta and degette for their work on the over-the-counter monograph reform. i strongly support this legislation. i urge members to do the same. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield now three minutes to the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for three minutes. mrs. dingell: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong support of h.r. 269. this important bill re-authori

shutdown on the food and drug administration, and dr. gottlieb was very explicit. he said the area which was hardest hit was food safety. food safety is a responsibility assumed by the federal government over 100 years ago after the publication of the novel "the jungle" by upton sinclair. we decided that we would create a federal agency with the responsibility of inspecting food so that people across america would not suffer food-borne illness or worse. well, we have a great agency and it does a great job when it's fully funded operationally, but the fact of the matter is over 40 million americans will end up with a food illness in any given year and over 3,000 will die. so the responsibility of this agency is not some bureaucratic function. it is literally a life-and-death responsibility, and i asked dr. gottlieb, so what does the government shutdown do to the food and drug administration when it comes to food safety? well, he said we have had to suspend inspections at the highest risk food operations. i asked him for an illustration. he

food and drug administration a doctor is not happy the f.d.a. has the power to ban cigarettes and commissioner gottlieb threatens that if the youth use continues to rise and we see significant increases in use in twenty nineteen on top of the dramatic rise in twenty eighteen the entire category will face an existential threat how serious is the threat to children's health let's ask dr dominic got siana the author of well now today's comprehensive health and wellness guide he practices internal medicine in chicago doc how addictive is nicotine. and you can see it's very addictive i've counseled addiction for twenty years and i think is secondary to the heroin and i've gotten people off heroin but nicotine is a is a very dicked of drug and what's important here is that we have a new way of inhaling nicotine that hasn't been studied the cigarettes only been around for about eight or nine years and in two thousand and fifteen joel started making i'm cool with a little flash drive a lot of props here this is the jewel product there is there are other

them, because they can't ship their beer across state lines without approval from the food and drug administration of their labels, and that's held up. and we've got a merger or an expansion of a brewery in southern maine that's held up because they can't get their permission from the tax and trade bureau, from the a.t.f. so these are the kinds of services that are being provided that aren't being occurred. the ""portland press herald"" reported on the breweries. they also reported on a developer that has a project to develop a real estate project in maine, can't get an s.b.a. loan, s.b.a. is shut down. and that's going to hold it up and could even cause the deal to fall through. the ""bangor daily news"" reports a family is stuck in the middle where they have moved out of their house, anticipating a closing on a new house with an agriculture department loan guarantee that's now stuck, stranded, no action, nobody to answer the phone, and they're living out of boxes. they're caught in the middle. these are people. these aren't federal employees. these are good maine people who relied upon the daily

the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. five point five billion pounds is the thing it is imported into the united states every year and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. . emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector we've collected one subsample out of fifteen brando boxes and now i'm in the process of bagging them up. put them in coolers. and ship it to the lab a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity done so lease has inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and there or pots full what percentage of the song gets chosen to be taken to the lab so f.d.a. reviews all electronic transmissions and we utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspection whether it was sampled

and looking for the owner. (catherine) after the break... why the f-d-a is suggesting using other drugs -- to try to get teenagers to stop vaping. (grant) the u-s food and drug administration is considering the role of drug therapies to get kids to quit vaping. vaping has increased 80-percent among high schoolers and 50-percent among middle schoolers, according to the agency. experts worry that it could put kids' developing brains at risk -- and get them hooked on nicotine early in life. at a meeting today, the f-d-a said there is an urgent need for research on ways to treat kids who are addicted to nicotine, since there is almost no data on treating kids who are hooked. right now, there are no fda-approved stop-smoking products for e- stop-smoking products for e- cigarette users under the age of 18. (catherine) happy hour was less happy in 20-18. it was the third year in a row that alcohol consumption by americans was down. a new report says americans drank 3-point-three-five billion cases of beer, wine, and liquor last year - a decline of point-eight percent. one of the reasons -- a drop in beer consumption, which was down one-point-five percent. the company says wine an

the house bill provided $149 million more for the food and drug administration. the house bill protected our children by excluding chicken from china. and our children's school meals -- in our children's school meals. the house bill reflected my work with representative clyburn of south carolina to secure set-aside funds for persistent poverty as it continues in rural areas. but tonight's package does not include these priorities. also they don't protect the border. which is one of the most basic duties of the federal government. and certainly one of the basic duties that the president must make sure that he does, protect our nation against the foreign enemies. among the illegal immigrants who make their way across the southern border include gang members, human traffickers, child smugglers, drug dealers, and they stop -- by stopping their entry at the border, it prevents them from committing crimes in the united states. so instead of catering to voters who don't even want to have a border, i believe the house democrats should vote no on this bill. and the democra

former attorney general jeff sessions recuesed himself. ( robin ) employees at the u-s food and drug administrationare expressing concern that the partial government shutdown could threaten the health and safety of the american people. furloughed f-d-a staffers say they believe the agency is doing the best it can during the shutdown, but there are fears the longer it goes, the more likely americans could be at risk. in a statement, the f-d-a commissioner says the agency is working to perform critical functions and focus on consumer protection. but he admits a good deal of routine agency and review work has slowed down. about 41 percent of the f-d-a workforce is off the job due to the shutdown. (robin) still ahead on the kron four morning news... the flu season has cuased the first death of the season here in the bay area. ( john ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. (robin) welcome back to the kron four morning news. i'm tracking your entertainment headlines today... we've got another look at one of the most anticipated movies of 20-19 and an actor being recognized for his life's work. david

during that time we updated the protections for the food safety -- the food and drug administration and then the meat and poultry which is governed by the u.s. department of agriculture is not covered under that law. we found a few first, first, we found an 83% increase in meat and poultry recalls that can cause serious health problems. these are so-called class 1 recalls that mean that they are likely to send you to the hospital or even cause death and they are the ones you probably remember from 2018, it's salmonella in our beef, it's salmonella in our turkey, it's e.coli. these are the dangers we're talking about. the second finding of our report is that across the board all recalls increased by 10% over the six-year period that we looked at. so instead of our food actually getting safer, contamination is still reaching our plates on a daily basis, threatening our health. the good news is that so much of this is actually preventable through common sense actions that the government can take today to reduce these contaminations. we pulled out a few different case studies to illustrate

they are giving the u-s food and drug administration an "f" grade.the association is accusing the f-d-a of doing very little to combat e-cigarette use among high school students. nearly 21 percent of all high school students currently use e-cigarettes according to the association. the f-d-a says it's taken, quote, "an escalating series of unprecedented actions" to stop young people from using tobacco... particularly e- cigarettes. (grant) fewer people are signing up for california's health insurance. covered california reported today new sign-ups have dropped by twenty-five percent. state health officals speculate the drop in new requests for coverage could be the result of congress getting rid of the requirement to have health care coverage or face a fine. governor gavin newsom wants to restore that mandate in california. (grant) next on kron4 news at next on kron4 news at 5... global warming could impact the health of your children. we'll have details on the startling new report. (vicki) any woman who's ever been pregnant can tell you -- heat and p

800,000 men, and women include personnel at the federal aviation administration , the bureau of prisons, the federal bureau of investigation , the department of homeland security, the food and drug administration, and departments of agriculture, treasury and justice. these are the men and women who keep our country safe, ensure the safety of our airports and food, protect our national parks and, yes, keep our economy moving. senate bill 24 will provide back pay to federal employees furloughed during this shutdown and potential future shutdowns. the measure also would allow essential employees to use their annual leave instead of having to cancel already scheduled and approved vacation plans. many federal employees are suffering. but not only are they suffering, mr. speaker, their children are suffering and they are in pain and they're worried and they're scared. you see, they have mortgages and car loans to pay, daycare expenses to cover, and food to put on the table. and even while they struggle to pay these bills, furloughed employees face the stress and anxiety of not knowing whether or not they will be paid when the shutdown ends. the least we can do is to relieve that uncer

. >> rr: david ardello works for the food and drug administration and now o is of the 800,000 federal employees not getting paid. >> these h thingsappen so we try to prepare. >> cooking at homestead of ting out. deciding which cable and tv subscriptions to cut. he even considered returning some of presents he bought for his family. >> somef them i felt were a little too costly for me to have ent the money knowing that this might happen. i dec hed toe for the best and, yes, i've been tempted to return them but now i don't have the heart to do it. >> thege b banks areep stping in to lend a hand, wells fargo reversing any overdraft fees for federal employees. and chase set up a dedicated hotline. some local credit unions are promising zero interest loans. thousands of its members have signed >> helping them through this time especially through the holidays and going into the new year. we wanted to give them that level of comfort. >> meanwhile a shutdown showdown shington, president trump still calling for a concrete wall over twitter, saying he will get it build and fast. and democratsla

brian garthwait furloughed from the food and drug administration joining us from minneapolis, minnesota. good morning. >> good morning. and thank you for the opportunity to sit with you. >> this is your fifth government shutdown in your 19 years working in the federal government for the fda. just tell everyone first what it is you do every day. >> my job -- i'm a compliance officer for the food and drug administration. and the basics of my job is to ensure that the regulated industry complies with the regulations and laws that govern the products they manufacture. >> that matters for safety. >> folks imagine it is government agencies, what do they do? >> there you go. >> they impact people's lives every day. you see it in the national parks and in jobs like you do. i want to ask you this, because you must feel like a political pawn in this. who do you blame for the shutdown? do you blame the president or congress or blame them both? >> i don't think it is right to ascribe blame. but what i would suggest is that it was very clear that there were resolutions passed by both the house and t

. >> the government shutdown is causing the food and drug administration to halt most of its routine food safety inspections. the agency is working to bring back about 150 employees to inspect facilities deemed high risk. that includes seafoods, soft cheeses and vegetables. inspectors at the agriculture department that inspect meat and poultry are not being shut down. but those still ongoing. >>> point reyes national seashore. county officials tell the marin independent journal that limited rest rooms have caused unsanitary conditions in the park. on tuesday, the board of supervisors voted to approve a two-week stop-gap agreement with the federal government. that's expected to cost the county $1,000. >>> federal workers affected by the shutdown, and their supporters will be holding rallies today. outside of the white house and around the country. in san francisco, engineers and scientists who work for the environmental protection agency, will hold a noontime rally. protesting the continuing shutdown. they'll be at the epa region 9 offices on hawthorne street, between folsom and howard

(vicki) the food and drug administration is one of many government agencies that is shut down. as a result, the fda has stopped food safety inspections of seafood, vegetables, fruits and other foods. (grant) washington correspondent morgan wright reports on the possible increased risk of food-borne illnesses, which sickens and kills people ever year... even when the fda is functioning. as the government shutdown continues -american's safety is threatened... because the fda has stopped food safety inspections. to stop inspections all together is irresponsible and the government needs to do the right thing. jaydee hanson with the center for food safety says that raises concerns about food-borne illnesses - like e.coli and salmonella the big concern are the 40 or 50 microorganisms that can get you seriously ill senator tammy baldwin says this shutdown has created another crisis for the american people. just shows how important these functions are - that parts of the government that are closed right now, that on a routine basis save lives in the united states, the fda typically perf

stymied because they can't ship their beer across state lines without approval from the food and drug administration of their labels and that holds them up. and we got in another place in maine that is hollow because they can get their permission from the tax and trade bureau from thehe atf. these are the kinds of things that the services that are being provided that are being occurred. the herald reported on the breweries and also reported on the developer that has a project to develop a real estate project in maine can't get an fda loan because fda shut down. that is going to hold it up and could even cause a deal to fall through. the daily news reports that a family is stuck in the middle where they moved out of their house anticipated no close on a new house with an agriculture department loan guarantee that is now stock, stranded, no action, nobody to answervi the phone in their living out of boxes. they are caught in the middle. these are people, these are federal employees these are good maine people who relied upon the daily activity of the federal government occurring which ought to be just

desesperaciÓn que estÁn viviendo, nos encontramos aquÍ con melany ortiz una trabajadora de la fad (food and drug administrationmagen un cheque en cero dÓlar, pero no te llegÓ ni eso ¿verdad? >> nada, hace dos semanas no recibo pago, son 21 dÍas que estÁ cerrado el gobierno. >> ¿cÓmo estÁs haciendo frente tÚ a esta situaciÓn? >> yo ahora estoy viviendo de mis ahorro lamentablemente y este, llamÁndole a los bajos que me den espera para pagar la hepÁtica y todo eso, los bills. >> muchas gracias melany, felicidad hay un botÓn de muestra lo que se estÁ viviendo en este cierre de gobierno y seguiremos recogiendo testimonios de trabajadores federales cuya peticiÓn es sencilla, volver a trabajar. >> y una peticiÓn merecida dirÍa yo, gracias javier, parece una ironÍa que mientras el presidente trump alega que la construcciÓn del muro es necesaria para la seguridad de estados unidos, quienes cuidan la seguridad del aeropuerto desde hoy no podrÁn cobrar el sueldo que se han ganado, muchos de ellos apenas ganan 30.000 dÓlares al aÑo, asÍ que podrÍamos decir que el cierre estÁ afectando la seguridad nacional y la gravedad

the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. five point five billion pounds the thing it is imported into the united states every year and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. . emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector collected one subsample out of fifteen random boxes and now in the process of bagging them. put them in coolers. and ship it to the lab a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity dance elise has inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and they're all packed full what percentage of the sample gets chosen to be taken to the lab so f.d.a. reviews all electronic transmissions we utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspection whether it was sample than another fo

. >>> the food and drug administration has furloughed 5,000 food inspectors because of the government shutdown. inspectors look for things like unclean conditions, bug infestations and harmful contaminations. the fda is working on a plan to resume inspection at place that is that handle things like seafood, soft cheese and vegetables. scott gottlieb says the agency is doing what it can to minimize the risk to the public. >>> palo alto police are investigating a hoax known as swatting. this comes after someone called 9-1-1 claiming to have killed his wife tied up his children and planted pipe bombs. an untraceable call to police prompted this large response tuesday night. officers descended on a home on emerson avenue with two unsuspecting residents inside. police determined it was swatting. it's a form of harassment or prank when someone calls in a false report to get police to respond. the palo alto daily post reports that one of the victims is a facebook cyber security executive. >> we take it seriously because our police resources are being wasted. our officers are being taken away

. >>> well, the government shutdown is causing the food and drug administration to halt most of its routine food safety inspections. the agency is working to bring back 150 employees to inspect facilities deemed high risk. now, that includes seafood, soft cheeses and vegetables. inspectors who handle meat and poultry are not being paid during the shutdown. but those meat inspections are still ongoing. >>> marin county is dipping into its own funds to pay for the cleaning and upkeep of rest rooms at point reyes national seashore. county officials tell the marin journal that limited conditions have left unsanitary conditions in the park. they agreed to a stop gap agreement with the federal government. it's expected to cost the county $1,000. >>> federal employees impacted by the shutdown and their supporters, will be holding rallies today outside of the white house and all across the country. in san francisco, engineers and scientists who worked for the environmental protection agency, will be holding a noontime rally, protesting the continuing shutdown. they'll be at the epa region 9 offices

the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. five point five billion pounds of sea think it is imported into the united states every year and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. . emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector collected one subsample out of fifteen random boxes and now in the process of bagging them. put them in coolers. and ship it to the lab a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity dance elise has inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and they're all packed full what percentage of the sample gets chosen to be taken to the lab so f.d.a. reviews all electronic transmissions and the utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspection whether it was sampled and an

the food and drug administration said it was continuing i investigation. >>> amid the government shutdown, people are looking for good news to look forward to in d.c. nats fans will like this news. itppear mrss more likely that bryce harper will be staying in town. the nationals are offering harper more than the original ten-year, $300 million offer. sources tell the site, fshington is theavorite to re-sign the free agent. harper is expected to meet with the phillies this week. but it appears that team is goingfter manny machado. >> you can't expect that man to million.under $300 >> he has bills to pay. >> a childoriaise. >> breathtaking. >> i mean, they say hittiun a ball with a bat is the hardest thing to do in sports. but my goodness >> only t weeks away from opening day. >> wow. that's awesome.>> yeah. >>> weather-wise -- >> far away. >> you can thinkbout spring training all you want to, but we're about winter for the next ten days orso. cold weather has returned to the d.c. area, after long, 4 weeks in a row with temperatures warmer than average. that all stops today. chances for sno

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how do you get biomedical research funded and through the food and drug administration in a way that people approve of and would agree to, much more complicated than you would expect. i worked with president obama who wanted precision medicine. that was in there. vice president biden wanted cancer moonshot. his son had died from cancer that previous year. that was in there. senator mcconnell, the majority leader, said he wanted something on regenerative medicine. that was in there. speaker ryan said he wouldn't approve it unless it had funding in a particular way so he did it that way. and still we were having a hard time with it. i remember calling vice president biden at one point late in the year of 2016 and saying, joe, i'm standing -- i've got this all tied up with a ribbon around it. it's got all of what i described in there, precision medicine, cancer moonshot, funding for biomedical research, regenerative medicine. i feel like the butler standing outside the door of the oval office with an order on a silver platter and no one will open the door. and the vice president said, if

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cnn is reporting that about 41% of the food and drug administration is dark right now. me agency employees are speaking to cnn and warning that the low staffing levels could prove deadly. we just learned of the warning a few minutes ago. after we had already planned to talk to a mom who says her son's potentially life-saving drug cannot be approved because the fda division that approves this experimental trial is on furlough. the mother is sara doerr. she joins me now. sara, much of the talk about the shutdown has focused on missed paychecks and the difficulties economically that families are going through. that's certainly incredibly important, but for some people, this can be a matter of life and death. can you just explain the situation your family is in right now? >> absolutely. that's correct. what we're facing right now is because the fda is one of the government agencies that is closed right now, our son who has a disease called pkan and he's been waiting for a clinical trial, we were told that that trial would be starting in early 2019 pending some regulatory --

. >>> the head of the food and drug administration is warning that the government shutdown may force his agency to make some hard choices. duringd prepaemarks at a hearing, scott gottlieb called this a watershed moment for the fda. >> we're in unfamiliar territory. it's a watershed moment in the life of the we'll come out of this i think much stronger for having grappled with this cllenge together and having prevailed. but the road between now and the end will be marked by continued challengor, hardships our people and continued impacts to our work as we work on preserving our functions. >> and partial government shutdown is coming at a bad tim for some entrepreneurs as they try to get their small busisses off the ground. kate rodgers has our story tonight. >> elizabeth nguyen was in the process of launching her hot sauce company when things came to a halt. she and herhe husband make t sauce in a commercial kitchen in the richmond arr. heontact at the fda is now furloughed, putting the approval the startup needs to move forward on hold. a>> i feelittle bit like political pawns right

. >> reporter: one study has even gotten t breakthrourapy designation from the food and drug administration from treatment-resiioant depre >> it looks like where they can treat things where we don't have anything now. >> reporter: those studies are looking at full ha lewisgenic doses. >> there has not been a long-term study overf period time. even though the doses are small, we don't really know. there ma be changes in your ngstem, your hormonal levels. we don't know anytike that. >> reporter: despite states like oregon and colorado fighting for legalization, psychedelic substances in any amount are illegal. >> i live in a paranoid state of mind all the time. i worry about being caught. >> iould likely be fired. >> reporter: if the clinical trials arel, successf there is likely there would be an increased push to lower the classification of magic mushrooms, now considered a schedule o drug. sarah wallace, news 4. >> interesting. amelia's here with more about the wild weather that's coming our way. >> i know. >> we're still climb over piles of snow from sunday. >> and we have mor snow is in

. >>> the food and drug administration is recalling employees to make sure the food everyone eats isafe. the inspectors will be working without pay while they examine foode facilities to m sure they're free from things like salmonella and e. coli. the fda commissioner sai the inspections will be done on high risk foods, cheese, dairy andme produce. there are about 5,000 food inspectors at the fda, about 700 of them will return to >>> news 4 is working for you th all of the developments during the government shutdown. gethe up--minute information on the nbc washington app. >>> in news for your health this morning a rese team at georgia tech is testing a long-actingep contrve patch. this is what that patch looks like. researchers say the patch would be pressed on to an arm or leg and would provide amonth's worth of birth control. no doctor visit would be needed either.se chers have been testing the patch on animals. it still needs to be tested on humans. >>> it's now 4:15. now to a harrowing story out of minnesota. look at the right hand part of your screen. that is a toddler in a car

get when it comes to recalls of tainted prescription drugs the food and drug administration isn't doing us many favors because a kaiser health news investigation finds that in the past five years nearly seven hundred recalls happened at drug making plants that passed f.d.a. inspection and almost three thousand recalls were issued by plants that had not had a drug quality inspection since at least two thousand eight. hundred not the same could be said for every road or bridge i've ever driven on or most bodies of water in the u.s. or the brains of politicians who spent decades in congress did nash talker's a drug quality specialist who blew the whistle on drug maker ron boxee for fraud said f.d.a. inspections usually focus on the drug making process not the quality of the drug itself and that many inspections are stage managed so that factories pass on the appointed day but once the inspectors leave it's a completely different story which oddly enough is the exact same common. make when i hate watch marie condo's tidying up show on netflix but at least in the cases of lettuce and ice cre

studies but if i had to say what is more dangerous honestly i there to me they're equal the food and drug administration which regulates tobacco is still reviewing vaporing regulations travis padgett has been smoking since high school today he baits to cut down on tobacco use for me it was you know it was just kind of like a different you when you get to now a microbiology major at u.c. riverside travis is babying for science participating in a study that measures his intake puff duration volume and frequency when you get out of here we're going to have a science degree why not wait for science why now before we know if it's safe i mean it's either a vapor a smoke cigarettes and we already know cigarettes are about to roll the dice exactly and it's a roll of the dice so. that people that are choosing a thing over conventional cigarettes are choosing the unknown over the know and they know that conventions are. as any given cancer there's a chance that it's better and so they're rolling the dice with that but they're still gambling with their own how and sometimes adults are making more informed decision