now osha data shows worker safety enforcement activity is down and the number of osha inspectors under this administration is at record lows. mr. scalia, will you commit to supporting increasing the number of osha inspectors so that osha can fulfill its mission and keep workers safe? mr. scalia: if i could respond briefly, mr. chairman, any workplace fatality or serious injury is too many, but the number had actually been down in the last couple of years. we can be thankful for that. but you are correct, the number of osha inspectors, my understanding is lower than , secretary acosta for example wanted it to be, and i would commit to you to take a look at steps that might be necessary to get the number of inspectors up to an appropriate level. sen. baldwin: mr. scalia, we -- and i too have appropriations to follow. >> [indiscernible] sen. baldwin: okay. very good. >> senator, thank you. [indiscernible] >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. scalia, it's good to see you. i enjoyed our conversation together. our young people are told they need to go to college in order to get a good job, and in

i think there is a role for osha in that context. there is a balance to be struck, obviously, for those instances when it's just purely personally motivated and one wouldn't expect the hold the employer responsible. but i have been briefed on this issue. i know it is important to you. and if i'm confirmed i would like to look at it more closely and i would genuinely like to speak to you about it further. >> i appreciate that. and i would note in terms of patricia's case that she was providing medical care to a youth at a juvenile detention facility and this is the type of context where we see social workers and nurses, and i think it's -- i hate to see the agency dragging its feet on implemtation on something so vital. >> i've seen the hazard in that environment too. >> according to the bureau of labor statistics more than 5,000 workers were killed on the job in 2017 and almost 3 million workers were injured or got sick on the job. now osha data shows worker safety enforcement activity is down and the number of inspectors under this

fasten your seat belts jurors carmakers unveiled their plans for an electric future and the fact that osha. and the muni norge green a button is aimed at making consumers more aware about where what they wear comes from. welcome to business asia america jones in berlin good to have you with us and if you're planning on flying with british airways better check your flight status because british airways has canceled almost all its flights pilots have begun a 2 day strike it is the 1st time the company's pilots have taken part in industrial action but they're warning another walkout will follow soon if their demands aren't met. this was the scene at london heathrow on monday morning dozens of british airways planes grounded as pilots walked off the job for the 1st time in the airline's history the action has left tens of thousands of passengers stranded prompting british airways to tweeze we under.

fasten your seat belts jurors carmakers unveiled their plans for an electric future and the fact that osha. muni norge green a button is aimed at making consumers more aware about where what they wear comes from. welcome to business asia america jones in berlin good to have you with us and if you're planning on flying with british airways better check your flight status because british airways has canceled almost all its flights pilots have begun a 2 day strike it is the 1st time the company's pilots have taken part in industrial action but they're warning another walkout will follow soon if their demands aren't met this was the scene at london heathrow on monday morning dozens of british airways planes grounded as pilots walked off the job for the 1st time in the airline's history. the action has left tens of thousands of passengers stranded prompting british airways to tweeze we understand the frustration we are extremely sorry it has come to this we remain ready and willing to return to talks with. the pilots' union called the action after refusing the offer of an 11.5 percent pay rise

we have never had fewer osha inspectors. we have had more accidents, more injuries and health care people dying. you can talk -- he is a case to be made and then believe me i'm still doing this. i'll i am doing is calling balls and strikes. when he does something that's good for workers i say he did something that is good for workers. when he does something bad for workers i say he's done something that is bad for workers and unfortunately for workers they see more of the latter than the former. i wish that were not true because workers in this country would be much better off if it weren't true. [inaudible] >> shirt. he at least has the willingness to take on and change nafta. that was the worst agreement that ever happened and it needed to be change. will they get it right? we will see. we are trying to get it right because that's good for workers. >> marjory from the financial times wrote across the table. >> you told your members that nancy pelosi was lockstep with you. have you seen any times and she's coming under pres

13000 words for every 1000 words that you put in your fill not making a dent through the you know osha has got 4000 regulations so what's needed is not kind of at the margin even at a ratio of 13 to one what's needed is to go area by area starting with schools and hospitals and you know the areas that really of impact people in their daily lives and say how can we simplify this so that people can make practical choice to and take 4 1000 7 pages to use an example and turn them into a 100 pages philip thank you so much for your time today great to be with you matthew and thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking and also thank you larry for letting me sit in your chair today remember we love hearing from used to join the conversation on larry's facebook page and as always you can share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting at king's things and use the politicking hash tag i also invite you to join me on facebook at matthew cook official and that's all for this edition of politicking. the. error of russian and lights. in a world of big partisan new things lot and conspiracy i

though they have tightened up the scrutiny they are requiring the secretary of states to make any osha to fit cation that there is no violation of human rights freedoms you know. that sort of thing in hong kong and it is more intimidating because it affects one's sanctions against persons identified by by the administration as undermining white said freedoms and this is sending a very negative signal was of our hong kong in fact call has a very good standing all of its war law so this all top allegations are really unfounded and the bill is intimidating and sending very negative signals about hong kong are you prepared to be assigned national unhappy are you prepared to be sanctioned person i'm not worried about censure i don't see any grounds for sentient being me but i'm not worried about censure you know what time on the happy about is when the u.s. congress how hearings recently the congressional executive commission on china as well as the senate foreign relations committee they chose to hear only form read because rather than here form a wider range of 0 pinions from hong kong so

and his osha inspector, darryl whitman was bullied and fired for complaining about the test. all of this was happening when we had kamala harris district attorney and state attorney general. why was there no criminal action to fire the whistle blowers? the reason is this is a corrupt organization. why would there be a plan to build condos on a polluted site like hunters point shipyard? we have some serious issues, systemic corruption. there needs to be an independent investigation of the corruption in san francisco with regards to hunters point and treasure island. aimee brownell is paid under the developer, under london breed, our mayor. why is someone who works for the department of public being paid for by the developer saying they don't have anything to worry about, by lennar? the people that suffer in the neighborhood from cancer. there's been no independent testing of that? why hasn't the city done independent testing? why hasn't the navy? you know why? they're not interested in it because they're part of the corruption and development process that he ago going on. that

13000 words for every 1000 words that you put in your kill not making a dent through the you know osha has got 4000 regulations so what's needed is not kind of at the margin even at a ratio of 13 to one what's needed is to go area by area starting with schools and hospitals and you know the areas that really of impact people in their daily lives and say how can we simplify this so that people can make practical choice to take 4 1000 7 pages to use an example and turn them into a 100 pages philip thank you so much for your time today great to be with you matthew and thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking and also thank you larry for letting me sit in your chair today remember we love hearing from you to join the conversation on larry's facebook page and as always you can share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting at kings things and use the politicking hash tag i also invite you to join me on facebook at matthew cook official and that's all for this edition of politicking. aeroflot russian and lights. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to

the idea of the event is due see each 9/11 as a project day in a day of going to osha back doing good the victims and those who have been suffering since the attack people here are happy to get back.>> 9/11 was such as a horrific event. to have an opportunity to get back on a day that was seared in our memory as a day of loss, a day of loss of innocence, and a day of tragedy. it makes you feel good to at least know that together, we are all doing something to make the world a better place.>> if she wants volunteers, she is fine when she comes over here. we were told to have viewers at home were to have the option -- the availability to share. >>> temperatures are on the cooler side and below average. we talked about this earlier couple of days ago. it's going to be a roller coaster ride for the next 7-10 days. we bottomed out for one dip yesterday, and now it is on the way up. only 72 in redwood city yesterday. upper 70s and low to mid 80s as temperatures begin to make the move. very little thought. some on the san mateo coast has had little visibility. 60 is still on the thames. we a

my job was going to be the osha inspector and i was going to have to drive around -- they were goingcar. that was my -- that's my funny story. >> greg: this is a terrible question. martha, come on. >> martha: i was running run up to the booth at the new york stock exchange to do my reports from up there. the door got locked and i couldn't get in. and it was not funny. it was actually pretty scary. >> greg: jesse, funny story. >> jesse: my first three jobs i got fired from all of them. rapid fire, too. the one job i was a bellhop and i left to go follow a girl i was interested in the middle of my shift. the other one i tried to take a vacation within the first week i started as a busboy and the third one i can't talk about. [laughter] >> greg: juan? >> martha: interesting one. >> juan: this came up this week so at the front of my mind. i was working night cops for "the washington post." and skinny black kid with a fro and detectors were all. i don'there is a street filled with naked people. the tallest naked people, the shortest naked people and, you know, the deadline has passed. tur

don't have a 95 percent voting record that doesn't mean i agree with them by and large when you have osha that is not one then one significant change since 1970 to help safety laws and we have i think it's, i'm going to be off because i haven't read it for a while. i think it was 5000 people died on the job last year and if you work in a popcorn factory making that microwave is somebody said, it's like inhaling acid. and we don't even try and congress to get something through. that's what you need to stand up to workers for. questions? am i on too long? >> if i could end first of all, governor i always remember those wise words of john mccain who came with you and pow and i a a little bit ago . if i could, can i have two more minutes? i choose to take my time. but the issue is that my wife actually works in various things, the a studies for suicide and one time she had held on pows and mias. so she went through going through, she went to middleborough, crawling through our caught in the ukraine with the former soviet union.and trying to find out where we lost some pows in the regiment fro

and sallust osha's a fetish that has been running recently in sana'a in fact there's been some decent thunderstorms in the still in the forecast in western parts of yemen and also the science western side which is not abnormal i mean the changing seasons he seems a pretty active weather in southern africa recently actually particularly cape town at city 5 think of new september high temperature records and this cloud hints at developing rain still around madagascar or even something mozambique but cape town's come back down to a disappointing 19 degrees despite the sunshine got all the records. new political sitcom after 27 years of dictatorship this problem that we have can we overcome it can be challenges here looks at the new democracy in ethiopia is fast changing political landscape through the stories of 4 divests ethiopians know the city this is my studio where i shoot the sitcom. my ethiopia on al jazeera. this is al jazeera these are the top stories of these 29 people have been killed in 2 attacks and became a fall so the state of emergency is in place in parts of the west afr

osha workers, teachers. i don't think there's anyone that's not for because mental health is everyone's life so it's kind of like everyonebut really everyone . >>. >> still moving on. my other question is what is the biomedical model of mental health illness and why is it problematic. >> i've got so much to say about the biomedical modelbut i'll keep concise . so i think one of the ways and i understand the medical model and i've learned so much doctor deboer mate who does a lot of work around,. any thoughts about problems, well lots of problems which is interesting but another one, the medical model the mind from the body. so we're looking at the mind and isolation from the body often and then second, it separates the person from the environment area all these locating our distress as some kind of faulty wiring. theyalways come up with a new theory as to why and how our wiring is faulty . and it's an individualist focus and i think that's one of the most destructive things about it is it's always looking at

at 2:00 p.m., the house takes of child safety bills in the business in a motion to instruct osha negotiators for defense authorization. on c-span2, the u.s. senate returns at 10:00 a.m. eastern for more nominations. later at 7:15 p.m., the national press club hosted a spelling bee between members of the press and politicians. at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3, a forum on the future of u.s. hong kong relations. then at 1:00 p.m., the house judiciary committee considers obstruction charges against the president for attempting influence on special counsel robert mueller investigation. the committee has subpoenaed former trump campaign officials cory lewandowski and rick dearborn and white house staffer rob porter. >> this experience is really valuable to me. >> he had a huge effect on our life and it's helped us grow into her college years. >> for past winner of student cam documentary competition, the experience sparked her interest in production. >> i currently attend drake university in des moines, iowa and i get to be right in the middle of the caucus season and i got to meet so many different candi

. >> osha eventually will take over that investigation if it's determined to be that type of thing. >> reporter: there was an autopsy too, routine of course. >> told us that the victim had been electrocuted. he had been burned and he had been near an explosion. >> reporter: pacific gas and electric sent a team over, which confirmed it looked like an accident and, sadly, not unique. >> he said, well, we've seen stuff similar to this. what might happen is the operator will get into the panel with a tool for some reason and cross the leads with that tool and cause a plasma type of explosion, and that could have been what happened here. the other thing he did say is, we've never seen anything this big. >> reporter: this is what the electrical box would have looked like before the explosion about the size of a high school locker. and after the explosion, that box was nowhere to be found. all that was left was a splintered post where it once stood. hard to know what to make of that. >>> coming up, along with the crops, growing resentments at the farm. >> robert told paul that he was going t

. >> i focused on low wage and immigrant workers, encouraged increased use of a powerful osha enforcementl and took at that point an unprecedented legal action to protect the whistle-blower at a garment factory. i took these and other actions because i believed they were right, they further rd the department's mission and because i believe in law and order, but there was more, too. the most affecting part of the job for me wass encountering individual workers in sometimes tragic circumstances and recognizing that a capacity that we had to respond. the construction workers who died in trenching accidents. the 12 miners in alabama who gave their lives trying to rescue one others. migrant workers who sacrifice for their families was preyed upon by others. the labor department is a big agency with many programs, components and acronyms, but if confirmed, i will aim to remain mindful every day of the individual men and women like those to whom our efforts ultimately are targeted. back in the private sector, much of my work has been in the public eye, but there's been an important part of my jo