you know, i always loved being in ohio. where your state motto reads with god, all things are possible. [applause] and in these times of too much division in america, of widening unknowable threats around the world, the struggling economy as you stand by this president and those who stand by him, i encourage you to avail yourself of that motto. and if you ever mind, it would be a good time to do it. pray for this country. but when you pray, i don't mean pray for an agenda or pray for a party or -- i rather like what abraham lincoln said in his time when he was asked if you thought god was on the side of the union army. president lincoln responded my concern is not whether god is on our side. my greatest concern is that web on god's side. and so pray for america. pray for this country. america matters far beyond. and so with confidence in all of you, with boundless confidence of the president i have to serve, and with faith in him who set this miracle of democracy on these shores, i can tell you, i know in my heart of hearts

and the other thing that's happening in ohio, mr. chairman, law enforcement is doing something it never did before, and that's helping getting people into treatment. just amazing stories. excuse me. i gave him an increase in title. sheriff tharp in lucas county does an amazing job. they take people from the emergency room if they're ready for treatment and they work with them and get them into treatment. let me talk about two other things if i could, mr. chairman and i'll conclude. i believe that we need to move to a k through 12 every year, talking about the kids in school about this problem. i think it should be repetitive, comprehensive, and school-based, and it must be age-appropriate. you're not going to talk to kindergarten kids about heroin. but maybe good choices and health. and if you see a pill, don't pick that up. i was on reagan's national commission on drug-free schools. every expert who came in said, you have to start in kindergarten, you have to do something every single year. we had a study commission that put this out

our jails in ohio are overflowing. we have more women in our prison system than we've ever had by far today. our jails in ohio, in 88 counties are really detox centers, something that they were not really designed for at all. narcan, all responders carry narcan. but as we've moved on that, that is a great thing, and we've advocated for that. but as we move from pain meds to heroin to fentanyl, it takes more and more dosages. i had an officer tell me the other day, it took 12 different dosages to bring someone back to life. but the number -- the big cost that we really, i think it's much more difficult to determine, but it's huge, absolutely huge, is the number of people who are in ohio who cannot pass a drug test and therefore cannot have a number of jobs. you can never hire someone who can't pass a drug test to be around machinery, to even be in charge of the local mcdonald's or burger king. you cannot have someone to drive a truck. the missed opportunities, the fact that these people are not living up to their god-giv

our commander in chief >> premiums have exploded by an average of 86% in ohio and 75% in kentucky just yesterday we learned that one of the largest insurers is pulling out of ohio. in kentucky, seven carriers have exited the state since obamacare was implemented. >> earlier the president named his choice to replace james comey at the fbi. christopher ray is a career attorney. now we're just getting a look at what james comey may say tomorrow as his testimony. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins me now. we want to know about christopher ray. we also want to know about what may be on the bill during the hearing tomorrow. >> reporter: where would you like to start, harris? i have been going over the testimony. here really is the kruk of it. he talks about the february 14 meeting in the oval office when the president was there along with the attorney general, the vice president, the fbi director, many others. he asked james comey to stay around because he wanted to talk to him privately afterwards. this is comey's testimony. when the door by the grandfather clock closed and

infrastructure in cincinnati, ohio. let's listen in. >> we love ohio. we remember ohio, oh, boy.it was supposed to be close, it wasn't close. so wonderful to speak on the shores of the very magnificent ohio river. we are here today to talk about rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, isn't it about time? spending money all over the world except here, we spend our money all over. we will do it using american labor, american energy, american iron, aluminum, and steel. [applause] we believe in the dignity of work and in the greatness of the american worker. i want to thank secretary purdu purdue, zinke secretary, and administrator for joining us today. we will keep our nation so strong and we will never have outside forces telling us what to do and how to do it. [applause] that would have been huge anchor for our country. i am also grateful that the governor could be here along with the lieutenant governor from kentucky. a great place. and the lieutenant governor from ohio, thank you very much. we are also very excited to be joined by top labor leaders of the united states, i have

in. attorney general mike dewine of ohio, thank you for joining us. ur time. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> new pictures are coming in right now. check this out. a family photo of the u.s. supreme court. this is the first time they are sitting like this, the new supreme court with the new junior justice standing in the right back there, neil gorsuch. you can see all of the junior justices standing in the back row with chief justice john roberts right there in the middle. they look like a happy family. >> there you go. all right, we're going to take a quick break. we'll be right back. the future isn't silver suits and houses on mars, it's right now. think about it. we can push buttons and make cars appear out of thin air. find love anywhere. he's cute. and buy things from, well, everywhere. how? because our phones have evolved. so isn't it time our networks did too? introducing america's largest, most reliable 4g lte combined with the most wifi hotspots. it's a new kind of network. xfinity mobile. >>> all right, good morning, everyone. i'm john berman.

bringing in attorney general mike dewine from ohio, a state at the epicenter of the crisis. ney general, thank you for being here. you are suing drug makers. we've covered that on this program before. in west virginia, open oioid distributors are being sued. will this stop the problem or slow it down? >> when i announced that ohio was going to file a lawsuit against five manufacturers, i said very clearly that no one in ohio should stop their efforts to deal with this problem. this -- lsuits take a long time. we simply wanted to h tm accountable. we think they made -- they're responsible for making a lot of the mess and, frankly, they ought to pay to clean it up. i made it very, very clear. we have to continue in ohio to do some of the things that we are doing. there is good news and bad news in ohio. the bad news is exactly what the "new york times" said this morning and what you just said. we are seeing numbers continuing to rise in the state of ohio. we are seeing a movement from the heroin over to the fentanyl, and the fentanyl over to this car fentanyl, which is the larg

. >> as the health care debate wages on capitol hill, medical professionals and residents in east liverpool, ohio to the republican proposal. joining me is ron mott in east liverpo liverpool, and dr. john torres. ron, what are you hearing from people in ohio, sort of ground zero of the health care debate? >> yeah, hey there, andrea. a lot of folks are concerned about losing health care benefits, especially those who were given health care with this medicaid expansion a few years back. we spoke to one 28-year-old who decided to stop working full time to pursue a college degree and told me yesterday that if somehow she loses her medicaid coverage, that she got through this sxapexpansion, she may hav quit her studies and go back to work full time. she wants to get a college education so she can get a better job, hopefully work for an employer that will offer her affordable health care. the real concern is this opioid crisis gripping the buckeye state. you might recall we want to show you this image that the police department here released last september, graphic video, and it shows a couple in an su

>> reporter: in ohio, it's time for a change in latitude. chris and maria are taking the kids for an adventure. >> where are we going? >> we're going to puerto rico. >> where are we going, z.z.? >> we're going to puerto rico. >> reporter: they visit puerto rico every spring, but this year seems different. >> going to the pool, going to the beach with my kids and my family and it's good. it's good to get away. it'd be easy if i could be on vacation all the time. >> reporter: weeks later, we drop in on chris and maria on a sunday morning. with 53 game-free days behind him, chris is out of the basement and killing it in the kitchen. one morning several days earlier, maria recorded another video diary. it's her birthday. >> i really don't have big expectations for my birthday but imagine the surprise when i came downstairs to this. he got me a gift and beautiful flowers and a really nice card. i'm really feeling a lot of hope and excitement, and just some happiness. >> your time at outback has come to an end but the journey continues. >> reporte

bob gibbs in ohio, they are running a guy named harbaugh. i can't guarantee you there will be no harbaugh's winning in columbus in november, whether it is the ohio state-michigan game, or the election in 2018. that will not happen. mr. wong: fair enough. do you think it is possible, though, that democrats could take back the house in 2018? mr. stivers: it is way too early to guess those things, but i do not see a wave coming. we have outraised the democrats every month. we have more resources. that allows us to expand the playing field on them, which forces them to go on defense and keep them from getting into that second wave they need to take the majority. we will have about 30 patriots before we are done, and they will need to win 24 of those races. these are battle tested, hardened, smart candidates that know how to win, and have won 24 of them in districts that hillary clinton carried just months ago. it is not like these folks are new to competitive races. they know how to win in competitive races, and they will know how to win in 2018

. >> he's expected to land in ohio latetonight. his family released a statement today, saying in part, we want the world to know oow hur son have been brutalized by the pariah regime. >> terry, thank you. >>> we turn next here at home, the desperate manhunt the inmates getting away in a stolen vehicle they car jacked. officials now warning they're armed andre's abc's steve osuns. >> reporter: georgia authorities tonight tell us they're stepping it up. >> they nesuo tdeenrr i saw two brutally murdered corrections officers. i have their blood on my shoes. >> reporter: police are desperately searching for these two fugitives -- 43-year-old donne ow rd an 24 year old ricky dubose, both are career criminals who were serving hard time, and police say one of them is a member of the ghost faced gangsters, a >>ite supremacist prison gang. i'm assuming that the shooters have escaped. >> reporter: the bus ride, where they escaped early this morning was unscheduled, and was moving 33 inmates from one prison to another. police say the two men br

in ohio, we were able to overcome that same type of attack by putting in restrictions and making sure there were proper notifications that would be put in place for the laboratories to know, from the police or prosecutors or from the courts or clerk of courts when someone hasn't been exonerated for their case has been sealed in their dna can then be taken out of the system. that is something that can be overcome. i know for instance, our task force has testified in front of other state legislatures, the state of washington was very receptive to the idea that this is a mini innocence project in and of itself. if you test all caps, you can actually find out whether or not someone has been falsely accused, and that has played very wellin certain parts of the country. it is something that will be explored. these issues have been with us since the early 1990s when it was first being formulated. you would do it on convictions are only felonies or violent felonies, you also include sexual assaults and it has expanded over the period of 25 years. i would expect that will continue to expand. >

in the world. we cannot accept these conditions any longer. a few years ago a gate broke from its hinges at the markland locks on the ohio river in kentucky. it took nearly five months to repair. any of you know about that? wasn't a pretty picture, right? all right. i don't think so. and in 2011, a massive section of canal wall collapsed near chicago. it ing everything and seemed like forever. great american businesses like lando lakes, which is here today, from minnesota, where are they? stand up. that's good stuff. come on, stand up. [applause] good stuff. fear that the lock and dam systems they rely on are no longer dependentable -- dependable. i am here with a message for you. and for all of the great businesses that are gathered with us and maybe more importantly, because that's what it's ultimately about, those businesses, workers, together we will fix it. we will create the first class infrastructure our country and our people deserve. my new vision for american infrastructure will rebuild our country by generating $1 trillion in infrastructure investment. our infrastructure program -- [applause] a lot. you know, as of a few months

in ohio, they were up even more. and dean reynolds is >> reporter: on may 26, cleveland police sergeant timothy maffo's body camera was running as he approached a man slumped in a car and, it turned out, minutes from a fatal drug overdose. three applications of narcan, the anti-overdose drug, and the victim finally started coming around. sergeant maffo says it's become a grim routine. have you encountered the same person twice? >> oh, yeah, yeah. that's-- that's pretty common. >> reporter: there were 11 overdose just last night in cleveland, two of them fatal. in ohio, at least 4100 people died from unintentional drug overdoses last year. a 36% increase from 2015, when the state led the nation in the rate of overdose deaths. kentucky, vest west virginia, and new hampshire have also experienced shock increases, as has the east coast generally, most of it tied to heroin, or prescription pain killers, called powerful narcotic called fentanyl. in ohio alone, nearly four billion pills were prescribed. even the state's las

also we are glad we're here the lieutenant governor could be here in the lieutenant governor from ohio. [applause] also to be joined by the top later -- labor leaders that they get the job done? right? together we will put our skills back to work. in the north american building trades union as one of the very first readings at the white house. for the keystone xl pipeline has started. in that will happen 40,000 jobs. and that is with the dakota pipeline. also president of the united ironworkers. and also from the laborers international union of america. in what we told believe reunions even with an open door at the white house we had a great day. [applause] we love our workers. we're pleased to be joined by north america, cf industries. a case deal, nucor steel, scotts miracle grow and others to build the of bridges and roads in the tunnels and the waterways where are you guys? and then as the builders of our country. [applause] i have to do this? they are big talkers unless they are behind a desk. >> we are fortunate to have the greatest builder in america. [applause] standing behind

but that's 100 times the size of the bust that i saw on the ground in ohio. >> absolutely and here inized 100 pounds of fentanyl as well. so those are 20 million potentially lethal doses that we've taken outfit streets so d.e.a. is doing our part. we're going to go after these guys and arrest them. i think treatment, i think education. all those things will try to help solve this problem. but there is no panacea, there is no simple solution. this is an incredibly kplicompl problem that's going to require all of us and all americans to battle this consistently to try to knock this down. >> i want to ask you about what's going on down at the border. you're the special agent in charge in the phoenix region. you're obviously in a border state. many have reached out to me in watching these reports saying that president's proposed border wall is going to stop this but i've personally seen in my own reporting down by san diego that cartels use these legal entryways just as much if not more than they do illegal ports of entry. is that also what you are seeing? >> yeah. i think that any time t

i lived in ohio near youngstown in the heart of the rust belts. right now i live in kentucky. i seen a lot of these shifts away from the democratic party close up. that was the genesis. thinking about how we can win in these regions again and get back to governing. i wrote about the people's house project and the idea for it in my book "reversinged apocalypse" if we're going to change where we win, we need to change the kind of candidates we're running, how we're running those campaigns and the issues that we're running on. what i mean by that is, right now, a lot of the candidates that we select on our side and republicans too obviously i'm more expert on my side of the aisle, that's what i focus men critique on. the way we go about selecting candidates we think about who has the greater connections to fundraising circles. who can raise the money. that was the feed back when i was running. rather than think being who has the deepest connection with deepest connection with their community. who can really best speak to the issues that are uniquely faced by that community. that'

in ohio, at least 4,100 people died from unintentional drug overdoses last year. % increase from 2015, when the state led the nation in the rate of overdose deaths. kentucky, west virginia, and new hampshire have also experienced shocking increases, as has the east coast generally. most of it tied to heroin, or prescription pain killers, called opioids, often laced with n,powerful narcotic known as fentanyl. in ohio alone, nearly four billion opioid pills were prescribed between 2011 and 2015. even the state's lieutenant governor, mary taylor, recently tesclosed that her two sons are now battling opioid addiction. thomas gilson is the medical examiner for cuyahoga county: >> if you look at how many people die in this country from opioid overdose, we're looking at, you know, the same number of casualties in the entire vietnam conflict. >> reporter: the crisis affects rich and poor, white and black, old and young. last thursday, the 911 operator in akron received this call from a nine-year-old. >> reporter: it's unclear how the child got the opioid in his system, but

meanwhile, the plane is expected to land back home in ohio. >> he's expected to arrive in ohio late tonight. and be taken immediately to the university of cincinnati medical center. his family released a statement today, saying in part, we want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime. wivid.rry moran th us. >> terry, thank you. >>> we turn next here at home, the desperate manhunt going nationwide tonight. two inmates in georgia overpowering the guards. the inmates getting awn iay ol officials now warning they're armed and dangerous. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: georgia authorities tonight tell that the inmates who got away after murdering two prison guards are out running around with 40-caliber glocks and could kill again. >> they need to surrender before we find 'em. i saw two brutally murdered what ico secaw. i have their blood on my shoes. >> reporter: putnam coty r pothese two fugitives -- 43-year-old donnie rowe and 24-year-old ricky dubose, both say one of them is a member of the ghost faced gangsters, a white supremac

as i discussed in ohio recently, my new vision for american infrastructure will generate $1 trillion in infrastructure investment, which we desperately need. we've spent as of a few months ago $6 trillion in the middle east. think of it. $6 trillion in the middle east. and it's worse than it was 15 years ago by a factor of 10. and yet if you want to build a little road in one of your communities in pennsylvania, ohio, iowa, north carolina or florida, you can't get the money . state and local leaders will have more power to decide which projects get built, when they start and how they are funded. and investors will have a much more predictable environment that encourages to invest billions of dollars in capital that is currently stuck on the sidelines. together, we will build projects to inspire our youth, employ our workers and create true prosperity for our people. we will pour new concrete, lay new brick and watch new sparks light our factories as we forge metal from the furnaces of our rust belt and our beloved heartland, which has been forgotten. it's not forgotten anymore. we wil

in the u.s. of representative with steve stivers of ohio, chairman of the republican campaign committee. of the congressman's observations in the way this city works for the rest of the country, he said redistricting have made fewer races competitive. hat should people understand about the current state of really competitive seats in the house of representatives? guest: sure. i mean, broadly speaking, the number of competitive districts long en shrinking for a time, partly because of and self thwarting and the way people move around lines ntry and the way have been drawn around them and 2012 cularly in 2011 and and most recent round of redistricting, republicans controlled the process in a lot country, to the benefit of steve stivers running the got to committee, they draw districts that were just for a more averageans than say the vote across the state. so like in north carolina, for evenly it's pretty sdri republicans hold advantage. states, democrat did, maryland, illinois, for the most part, republicans controlled giving themprocess, a stake in advantage of how the house landscape loo

pete williams, the president in ohio. he's just made one speech. we expect another. flooding the zone, if you will, in terms of counterprogramming. i believe that's a term kristen welker used earlier. via tweet a few hours ago, the president announced his pick for the fbi. what do we know about christopher wray? >> reporter: quite a it wibit. he has experience in federal law enforcement. he served as a u.s. attorney in atlanta, where he worked with local fbi officials and he had a number of different positions up here in washington, at the justice department headquarters, from 2003 to 2005 he was the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. and when he was there, that was the only dion that dealt directly with the fbi on a day-to-day matters. so he knows the fbi from both the street agent level and the headquarters level. he's been in private practice, representing chris christie during the bridge gate controversy in new jersey. he knew chris christie, because when they were both together as federal prosecutors. and he also knows james comey. whe

while this was going on, representatives from the state of ohio assisted us in this endeavor by passing state laws, one that moved back the statute of limitations to 25 years. it also mandated that if anybody arrested for felony offense within the state of ohio would ab intotely receive a sw the system to assist us in solving these crimes. again, what we have accomplished within our own county could not have been accomplished without the assistance of the federal government. as many of the representatives or former prosecutors law , enforcement is tasked with handling the current issues, let alone trying to go back 20 years in dealing with issues from 20 years ago, but we must do it on , behalf of all these victims. and so while we move forward, we are doing the best we can in our own county and through the state of ohio. but we continue to need assistance from the federal government in our efforts to bring justice to 14,000 cases from our state. i want to thank you for your time, i want to thank you for your leadership in this position and our panelists. in particular, our victims out

it it will be a huge financial burden. >> reporter: affects opioid treatment nationwide especially in ohioe the average in 2015. courtney taylor, much simpler dire needs, only filed one medicaid claim but enjoys affordable coverage as she pursues a college degree. >> maybe some people don't completely understand what is happening. they might need that help and maybe it won't be there. >> reporter: we should know ohio senator rob portman tried to get upwards of $45 billion in the bill for opioid treatment and got just $2 billion so far. >> ron mott live in ohio. getting us outside the beltway. thank you very much. let's be clear, this bill cuts medicaid and you're seeing it and i want your last thoughts before we turn to the break on that. >> it's remarkable they are making this argument it doesn't cut medicaid. without this bill medicaid increases by hundreds and millions of dollars versus what it has -- >> that's semantics. >> it's misleading but also remarkable, the republicans are not even making a conservative case for this bill. they are pretending all of the government benefits will

thousands showed up to say the warmbiers funeral yesterday in ohio. also breaking overnight in fairfax county.. a police pursuit of a stolen car- ending in a crash. it started on richmond highway just before ten last night - and didn't end until hours later. three men were taken to the hospital - one of them in serious condition. so far no word on any charges. covering metro with a reminder about changes- going into effect this weekend. new signs, plastered at stations alert riders that starting sunday, fares will go up between ten and 25 cents depending on the time of day. hours will also change -- with trains running from five a-m until 11:30 p-m monday through thursday... five a-m until one a-m on fridays... saturday's will be seven a-m until one a-m. and sunday the system will be open from eight a-m until eleven p-m. also this weekend - safetrack's sixteenth and final surge wraps up. but the end of safetrack - does't mean the end of maintence work on metro.. our question of the day - h safe track - go to wjla.com/votenow. john gonzalez is live in d

it's a dangerous thing by water. >> reporter: also in ohio at the famous put in bay, a 19-year-old electrocutednd died at a marina near his family's boat. the policy here. >> we don't allow anybody in the water. whether they be tubing or row boating. can't sit on the dock and dangle your feet in the water. >> reporter: he says here nothing electrical is exposed. there's routine checks daily. he says the main thing to focus on here, the electrical connection to the boats. >> before you connect this, make sure that the breaker is off. once they plug this in, throw the breaker on and make sure there is power. if you see this out, make sure the breaker is off on the pedestal. >> reporter: begun, you're asked to be observeant in marinas. if you see anything that's dangerous around electricity and water, tell someone. bob brooks, action 6 action news. >> bob, thank you. in glouster township, a sewer pump issue caused thousands of gallons of sewage into big timber creek. annie mccormack is live from the scene with the story from there. annie. >> reporter: and, sarah, officials are stressing that the d

she's one of those counties, at least 20 counties in ohio, as of now will not have an insurer in the individual market for next year. she's one of those counties. she has no options to buy health insurance next year and called me up and said i don't know what i'm going to do. didn't have a good answer for her. that's why we need to get this done. previous to obamacare, i don't know if a lot of people realize this, when i was a self-employed farmer, i bought my health insurance through association plans. obamacare did away with association plans and forced people on the exchanges and mandated what kind of coverage you had to buy. ironically, as a member of congress, i am required to be on obamacare, i am. the ironic thing about t. next year if things don't change, i was forced to be on the d.c. exchange, if i was forced to be in my county exchange back where i live, my county does not have the health insurer in the individual market next year. it's ironic as a member of congress if i wasn't on the d.c. exchange i wouldn't be able to buy health insurance next year on my exchange back h

warmbier was evacuated from the company in a coma, and died in ohio.is funeral is tomorrow in ohio. >>> even republicans are not happy with how some things are turning out bill. 13 senate republicans reportedly writing this new healthcare bill, but one utah legislator says the process has been taken over by gop leaders. they're trying to craft legislation that does not resemble the house bill that president trump now calls mean. >>> democrats dispute senator mitch mcconnell's claim. senate majority leader, chuck schumer says democrats never invited public input into the negotiation. >>> louisiana's governor has issued a statewide state of emergency, as tropical storm cindy bears down on gulf coast states. the storm could bring up to 12 inches of rain to some areas in texas and louisiana. more from biloxi, mississippi. >> reporter: tropical storm cindy isn't expected to make landfall for another 24 hours, but the storm is already drenching the gulf coast and in georgia, heavy downpours caused flash flooding, leaving people trapped. >> we all try to get

and we in ohio have been blessed because the attorney general's office has tested the kits and we are in the second phase. other prosecutors will get to this point and the money will be there so they can plan to follow up on the testing kits. testing is important but the real work for the taxpayers is realized when funds are needed to complete the job. if other prosecutors, other police chiefs and others know that is there, they can see the job through. the next steps to test all rape kits, fnding will be needed to meet the prosecution of 1993 to e 2011 cases, submitting the pre-1993 rape kit that will be essential, that is the law in ohio and investigating those pre-18993 rape kits will solve hose john doe between 1993 and 1998. hiring advocates and providing counseling and support and iring investigators to swab. this will help deter future crimes. we have some rapists who understand that they will be caught and in there interviews after they have been prosecuted, realized that they may be caught because of the crimes they committed and specifically said that they respond their beha

who is speaking in ohio at the moment.dent trump, who is speaking in ohio at the moment. ok, but a good bill passed in the house, something i hope great is going to come through mitch mcconnell and the senate and we're working very hard, ican senate and we're working very hard, i can tell you, we are really working hard. if we had the best plan in the history of the world, we wouldn't get one democrat vote, just remember that. if we wouldn't get one democrat vote, just rememberthat. if we had wouldn't get one democrat vote, just remember that. if we had a wouldn't get one democrat vote, just rememberthat. if we had a plan wouldn't get one democrat vote, just remember that. if we had a plan that gave you the greatest health care everin gave you the greatest health care ever in history, you wouldn't get one democratic vote cause they are obstructionists, they are bad right i'iow obstructionists, they are bad right now for the country. they've gone so far left, i don't know if they can ever come back. now, as a, believe it or

>>> an american college student who has been serving a 15-year prison term in north korea is home in ohio this morning. but there are concerns about his health. otto warmbier arrived in cincinnati last night. his parents are in the hangar. he has been in a coma. he was arrested after being accused of trying to steal a poster. >>> they claim by holding interest in his empire he's violating constitutional restrings on taking gifts from foreign leaders. it's the largest group of lawmakers to sua president in u.s. history. the law requires the president to get the concept of congress before accepting gifts. >>> attorney general jeff sessions said it was a detestable and appalling lie to suggest that he was aware or participated in any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. many more than two hours of testimony before the senate intelligence committee, sessions was pressed on his conversations with the president and the firing of james comey. weijia jiang is in washington. good morning, weijia. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. it was clear some of his former senate colleagues w

and ohio is not the only state to do this. the same year ind two big lawsuits for millions of dollars. and as we noted on wednesday, these suits might sound a lot like the 1990s tobacco lawsuit. er big pharma is borrowing a page from their page book. now from dayton, mr. attorney general, good to see you, sir. >> hey, chuck, thank you. >> let me start with the basics of the lawsuit. you do compare it to back in th. do you have specific evidence already that allowed you to feel comfortable filing this lawsuit? >> you know, chuck, taking on five big pharma companies is not something you just wake up some day and decide to do. you know, we looked at this long and hard and, frankly, we believe that the evidence is going to show what we have alleged. and there are certainly some similarities. what really happened here is this, and this is the history. you know, historically these pain meds have been used for short-term acute pain. someonha their wisdom tooth taken out, the take it a day or two or three or four. also, at the other end of life, termi

focus on increased infrastructure spending but as the president tries to focus his attention in southern ohio, most people are zeroing in on what the president left behind here in washington, d.c. before leaving the white house, president trump tweeted out the name of his nominee to become the next fbi director christopher wray. the announcement comes just one day before former fbi director james comey testifies before the senate intelligence committee in what will be his only public comments on his firing. today, members of the senate intelligence committee had a chance to question most of the nation's top national security and law enforcement officials. the director of national intelligence dan coats, the director of the national security agency, admiral mike rogers, deputy attorney general rod rosen tine and acting fbi director andrew mccabe. the hearing was supposed to be about the foreign intelligence surveillance act but instead focused on the russia investigation extensively. the back and forth was very, very contentious at times with some of the senators bristling over the refusal of

. >> overnight the american just released from north korea is back home in ohio. need of urgent medical care. >> a huge doctor team in philadelphia performs a life changing surgery to improve the lives of these conjoined twins. karen. >> david showed you that shower moving through. we caught it live on our cameras the blue route approaching the schuylkill. you can and especially seep see under the headlights how it is coming through. we'll check the blue route coming up next. >> ♪ >> welcome back. taking a live look here the center city skyline, a view from our temple camera. it is 5:14. it's not even 6 o'clock and it's 78 degrees out there but we're being told it will feel better today than yesterday. >> karen along with david has been tracking a little bit of a rain shower that's moving through, right. >> yeah, you know, at this point it's coming down pretty good but it's a small cell. we'll show you that one in a second. we showed you the blue route at the schuylkill where it was really wet. not the case here in plymouth meeting the blue route approaching german

had aa buckeye, and career in financial services, and the ohio legislator. he is also a brigadier general in the ohio national guard, which he has been in since 1985, in he served in active duty 2004 and 2005 as a battalion commander. thank you for being our guest. mr. stivers: it is great to be on. introduce our me commentators. scott is the campaign editor for politico and hosts politico's nerd cast. boulder making a return visit to newsmakers. mr. wong: thank you for being here, mr. stivers. call me, who is testifying on capitol hill as we speak, has said that donald trump told him in the oval office that the russian investigations have been a cloud over his administration. cloud was the word that he used. do you believe that the russian investigation, these multipronged investigations, what the fbi is doing and the ones on capitol hill, are distracting from the gop agenda? and how do you see these russian investigations impacting house races around the country? mr. stivers: i was glad to see former director mueller named as a special investigator to look

we think 50% of all the foster kids in ohio today are there because one or both parents are drug addictslming epidemic in its scale. key question is did purdue pharma no the drugs they were selling were addictive? how could they not know that? >> how could they not know? they went through great expense and you'll have to hand it to them, they were very, very successful in changing the culture. they did it in some of the same ways that we've seen before with tobacco. they would fund kind of a third party who was supposedly unbiased and they would come out with reports that say it's not very addictive. key opinion makers in their community, they would give them slides, talking points, the doctors i'm sure believe what they were saying was true. they believe that, they even came up with a thing they called pseudo-addiction. when the doctor was treating that person come up purdue pharma, what you really need to do is there's not enough pain pills being prescribed, you have to go up and prescribed more, you haven't hit the point. they just really misled the american people. >> tucker: to have