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i will distinguish this for you, kelly, purdue is in very solid financial shape.have more than balanced our books every year we have frozen tuition for seven straight years that's not meant that we have invaded our reserves in any way. in fact, they have grown our athletic department is self-reliant, self-financing and they have a very, very serious problem but it's separate from that of the university >> let me come back to something at top and in your letter, as a mortality risk, younger people are very low it seems on that. >> i come back to the idea of where does testing fit in this i know you're a data driven purpose. you don't run the omb. what are you going to do >> we plan a very aggressive testing regime, possibly beginning well before students arrive we happen to have here hospitals and doing tests now. we appreciate the central importance of testing. we set aside a number of units so they can be properly quarantined and comfortable. >> mitch daniels, former governor of indiana, thank you very much for your time. great to see you >> you too >>> as the co

they took steps to suppress negative information within a month we received a 3 page letter from purdue pharma. basically saying why are you bothering the doctors this is not a prescribing problem this is a patient misuse problem this is a drug abuse problem patients need to be able to get what they need and then we got a year later got sued in federal court we were all all the medical directors were served in our homes the current efforts to stop this overprescribing have been met with much pushback from the pharmaceutical industry they rationalized that the billions of dollars they were making were helping more people than they were whoring they insisted and still insists today that only those who are diverting and misusing the drugs to get high are responsible for the epidemic and not those who are prescribe the drug produced distributed a follow up video to i got my life back the double down on their claims that oxycontin was a safe non-addictive long term chronic pain relief returning to these patients off to 2 years shows that when pain treatment is successful and stay successful

and the fact that it took money from purdue and other opioid makers and promoted aggressive use state medical boards that failed to regulate the way in which doctors prescribing and even encouraged aggressive prescribe and there's a lot of blame to go around the question is is who is guilty or who should feel guilty i don't know that anybody feels too guilty i kind of wish a few more people did feel a little more guilty despite public outcry pharmaceutical companies find new and creative ways to market their era with pills. what's in the parts lauren and we do have power and data we can employ from a. very opioid centric including painkillers marketed to children the food and drug administration announced about a month ago that they were determining that oxycontin is safe and effective for children 11 and up which is very disturbing most of the companies that now operate in these bases in this space have gone dark. it's not the big names that you and i would recognize like pfizer or johnson and johnson pfizer does have a little bit but not a lot. is actually these small very focused c

as part of a grant of that was provided to them by the pharmaceutical company purdue pharma the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations recently defined and adopted stringent pain standards on the basic thrust of our new standards is that organizations and practitioners have an obligation to ask the patient even if the patient doesn't look like he or she is in pain ask them be surprised to hear when you go to a doctor's office how they ask you or are you having pain. no you may go for a raise that has nothing to do with pain which just added lighter fluid to the fire because because it became equivalent to say if you have pain you need opioids they're making at least in the united states you know 2 plus 1000000. you know i mean probably not they're making 2 plus 1000000 on them produce marketing depending on how you look at it very successful very tragic all the marketing legislative maneuvering cash and free giveaways handed to doctors and politicians might have been justified if opioids were a safe effective non-addictive treatment for chronic pain but they we

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i notice where purdue university, a great school and a great state, wants to open and have students come in. i think that is correct. some colleges -- i think i saw harvard wants to have students come back in the fall. i would hope that they have students. i think the whole concept of computer learning is wonderful, or tele-learning, but it is not the same thing as being in a classroom in a great college or a college of any kind. college and university, you can't replace that. young people do very well with this horrible scourge. they do very well. so i am going to see you tomorrow, and we will have other things to talk about. we have a lot of interesting things. i don't think we should have a news conference today because this is a news conference. in addition, it is a celebration of these incredible people that have done such a good job. i think we have found a couple of stars in this room today. i won't tell you who. there are a couple. this guy right here is the

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today the opioid epidemic commands national attention there are now dozens of court cases against purdue and other pharmaceutical companies for their collusion to promote drugs they knew were dangerous for turning a blind eye to the sale of opioids to doctors and clinics that were killed mills and for the destruction of states and communities ravaged by the up at them. i'm not sure i'm enough of a medical expert to say what steps need to be taken at this point. but you know what what's very clear is that unless you have. public health experts regulators criminal investigators local officials and the medical community working together. in some kind of established program the problem will never get solved the one thing that we have to do is slowly and surely. the. prescriptions we need to get them doctors are no strongly encouraged to cautiously prescribe for both chronic pain and acute pain this will lessen the chance of surplus pills being diverted in the buz surgeons or dartmouth hitchcock medical center in lebanon new hampshire recently published guidelines to reduce the number of exce

we will talk to the president of purdue university is making plans for students to return in the fallage for leaders of colleges and universities nationwide, next. musica♪ we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. scotts turf builder triple action. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and feeds so grass can thrive, guaranteed. our backyard is back. this is a scotts yard. mortgage rates have dropped to all time lows. by refinancing now, you can save $2000 a year. and newday's va streamline refi shortcuts the process. veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year. >> dana: school districts across the country considering classroom changes for when students can finally get back to school but they are also trying to figure out when that will be. alicia colonia reporting live with more. >> you are exactly right. if california's governor says some schools may reopen as soon as this summer but with strict guidelines here in colorado, governor jared polis says to prepare for both the fall return to cl

the company advised purdue pharma on how they could "supercharge sales" of their addictive painkillerxycontin. mckenzie urged purdue to use mail orders to bypass pharmacists that were trying to keep addicts from getting narcotics. mckenzie advised purdue on how to "counter the emotional messages from others with teenagers who overdosed on opioids. considering all the injuries this country has sustained over the past 40 years, the loss of manufacturing and unprecedented drug academic epidemic that has changed art demographics, leaders aligning with foreign dictatorships and a financial ice economy. mckinsey and company is directly implicated in every one of these disasters. the ties are especially shocking. we introduce you to a longtime partner in mckenzie called peter walker. management in mckenzie are eager to fawn over the government. mckenzie's senior partner peter walker came off like smitten teenager. "what i discovered in china was, the people were happy. we were proud to come if they were energized. the government officials i met genuinely wanted to do the right thing for the

and when that was combined with this deceptive advertising from companies like purdue pharma which convinced doctors that opioids were not actually addictive, in combination it led to a situation where people were receiving more pain pills than ever before. their stories of places like kermit west virginia, a count of 400 people that received literally millions of pills a year you that our pill mills and patience, people who had legitimate needs for these pills found that when their prescriptions were finished they were addicted area and so many of them turned to street heroin. and so heroin represents is a second wave of the opioid crisis . now, as of the last five years or so, in a lot of places it's almost impossible to find your heroin anywhere. almost all of its is fentanyl . and fentanyl represents the third way of the opioid epidemic . so fentanyl is also an opioid and satisfies the same cravings as prescription pills like oxycontin as well as heroin. the biggest difference is that it is the times stronger . and so drug dealers using as a cost-saving measure. so a lot of times when pe

yesterday, i directed secretary of agriculture, sonny purdue to expedite aid to american farmers. secretary purdue will be using all of the tools at his disposal to develop a program and very quickly of at least $16 billion to provide relief for farmers, ranchers and producers impacted by the coronavirus. in this time of crisis, keep our supply chains moving from the beginning to end, and we're committed to supporting the amazing men and women who produce supply. i did, last night, a statement on social media and i said, i have directed secretary sonny purdue to expedite, help our farmers, especially to the smaller farmers who are very, very badly hurting right now. i expect secretary purdue to use all of the funds and the authorities at his disposal to make sure that our food supply is stable, and safe, and our great farmers are prosperous and continue to be prosperous. we're working very hard to continue to make sure our food supply chain is sound and plentiful, but we all know that begins with our farmers, cattle men, ranchers and producers. so we're going to be working with th

or return to purdue and pursue their education this fall.record applications and somewhat to our surprise, record acceptance of our offers to come to purdue. so we know that if we're going to do that under conditions of safety and preparedness, going to take a lot of changes. and we need every day between now and when school starts in order to make those changes if, in fact, we can devise them. >> so, what is your perspective on how to balance these two competing challenges? obviously public health and safety and well-being being at the forefront of everybody's mind. on the other hand, you are pretty pro business governor. now you have to try and grapple with this in a way that obviously it's to a certain extent a business and educational institution that needs to continue to survive, as well as students who are very anxious to continue their educations. what's the right balance, do you think, for the state of indiana? do you think the state's leaders are getting it right right now? >> i think they've done what they had to do and others felt

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that is the hope at least of purdue university. in the meantime, we have been telling you of how states have been working around these provisions where they are going to ease up on sheltering at home orders in effect. alabama you might recall has pushed its order to around may 15th. that does not mean that some parts of that state can't reopen on a staggered basis. alabama governor with us right now. governor, first of all, how is your stay holding up right now? what are your plans? speak to the states feels a whole lot better now that we've announced we're going to begin art reopening in our great states beginning at 5:00 p.m. april 30th. >> neil: and hello that girl, governor? >> well, we are allowing all retail stores to be opened at 50% occupancy and social distancing. we are opening up our beaches to gatherings of less than ten, social distancing as well. we are allowing elective surgeries and procedures, medical procedures to again occur. so we are taking maybe baby steps. we are doing it slowly and methodical. we are letting

and i did watch that excellent interview with my colleague mitch daniels from purdue, and, you know,oing to do it if it's safe and not just safe, of course, for as chris paxton president of brown said yesterday in "the new york times" op-ed, it is not just safe for the students but safe for the faculty and staff. >> absolutely. >> much older. >> exactly. >> what's going to happen to them so yeah. we have -- let me just tell you the inside baseball here, kelly. we have some -- we have some dorms that are not being used right now because we use them as swing space. you know renovating a dorm we open it up and we could figure to put people in there and spread them out. get rid of doubles there's hotels in the city of evanston basically shut down and we could rent, exploring renting a couple floors in very close by hotels and if we could do it safely, you want to do it but i don't want it on my conscience if anybody gets sick or god forbid dies because i'm worried about the budget or bringing people back before it's safe i won't do it. >> that's fascinating to look to hotels nearby and m

i did last night a statement on social media and i said i have directed secretary purdue to expedite help to our farmers, especially to the smaller farmers who are badly hurting right now. i expect secretary purdue to use all the funds at his disposal to make sure our food supply is stable and safe and farmers are prosperous and continue to be prosperous. we're working hard to make sure our food supply chain is sound and plentiful. that begins with our farmers, cattlemen and ranchers and producers. we're going to be working with the small fafrmers, big farmers, the cattlemen, the ranchers, all of the producers. we're going to take care of them. we're working with them right now. we have a lot of money that was put there through our use of tariffs and other means. and we're going to help out our farmers. i've been helping our farmers for a couple years. they were targeted by china and others. i think they're very greatful for what we've done. on the medical front, the fda has issued 47 emergency use authorizations for advancements in testing. new ventilator designs, innovations and pe

purdue university in indiana plans on reopening its campus in the fall.chool is home to more than 50,000 students and staff, and mitch daniels spoke on "gma" uc young people, he thinks the university could handle bringing students back to campus and they are willing to protect the staff as well. >> dining and residential arrangements and the sizes of classes, everything with that goal in mind, we think we can do it, but we don't pretend to have all the answers. >> purdue is among one of the first universities to switch from online classes to in person learning in march. that interview is coming up at 7:00 right here on abc7. >>> a bay area school plans to re-open its campus despite the extended stay-at-home order. o o received a letter stating in-person classes will resume next month. >> all my friends that have college-age students have their kids for the summer and can keep them home and that's not our case, which is good and bad. >> the governor's office and state health officials approved that decision. cadets will be health screened dally including a

we're just saying we have a can do attitude at purdue. you know, we're known for engineering and science that we've always said that we want every graduate whatever they study to leave here with a -- as a problem solver. someone prepared to try to tackle the challenges of life, make a better world. and that's what we're saying we're trying to do now on behalf of 40,000 students who are telling us they want to be here and want us to make that possible and safe for them and for those around them. >> have you been talking to other college presidents and if so, do they have a similar plan like you do? >> well, we're hearing from a lot of people. again, we don't pretend to have a plan yet, although we have many, many ideas. a faculty led group including some of really the world's premiere biologists and public health experts has been working on options. we'll be looking at them very soon. we're not prescribing, and we never do at purdue, anything we're doing for anyone else. we're trying to make the best decisions for our students and our inst

and at purdue, that student is suing and is asking for damages for what he claims is the difference inue between online and in-person instruction. let's get into this. joining me now, danny cevallos. i think a lot of people predicted something like this was going to happen. there's a couple different issues here. and i want to start with the schools and ask if they have a valid claim to fees when students are not on campus any more. as i mentioned in one of the cases, they say it's for telehealth services and also, talk about liberty university. and the claim there that the students is making about profiteeing. >> in all these cases, students and universities are party to a contract for education. so a court is going to look at whether or not the student received the benefit of the bargain of the contract. and the contract's terms control. each of these will be different because each university is different. some of the key issues are an act of god. in other words, this is something that was so unexpected that we can't be expected to perform our end of the deal. we just can't deliver t

because we have been talking about the need for more food on the table, the chicken companies like purdue and tyson have requested the right to speed up the line. the usda which is an agency that is a fully owned subsidiary of the agriculture industry, the usda took these requests to speed up the line and they agreed. instead of 140 chickens per minute, the line is going even faster. as far as i know, these companies have not instituted the distancing in between workers because if you put people six feet apart, then you have to slow down the line that means lower production. instead, they are speeding up the line and by doing that, they are ensuring that we will have more cases of covid-19. what we are seeing is small towns across america where these poultry plants are and pork plants are located are becoming the new centers of disease. host: buffalo, new york, tom is next, go ahead. caller: yes, i used to work in the steel industry in gulfport, new york. there were a lot of different accidents that would happen in the plant where people would get hurt, sometimes people got killed in the

i'm just going to ask secretary purdue to explain exactly how we're going to handle it. thank you. east. >> mr. president, you may remember earlier this year you tweeted a message to our farmers and ranchers that no matter the circumstances, you pledged to stand behind them. and while none of us could ever have anticipated this type of pandemic we're currently in, i think today's announcement is proof that you have our farmers' bac backs, and you will continue to do what it takes to support them, and they have very grateful. you've heard a lot recently about our food supply chain. i think america knows more than ever the wholesome food that our families depend on starts with america's farmers and ranchers. america, agriculture has been hard hit like most of america with the coronavirus, and president trump is standing with our farmers and all americans to make sure we all get through this national emergency. so today thanks to your direction and leadership, mr. president, usda is announcing the coronavirus food assistance program. as you mentioned this new $19 billion program will

i'm just going to ask secretary purdue to explain exactly how we will handle it. thank you. >> mr.president you may remember earlier that you tweeted a message to the farmers and ranchers that no matter the circumstances you pledge to standby and while none of us could have anticipated this type of pandemic that would occur, i think today's announcement is proof that you have put our farmers backs and you will continue to do what it takes to support them. they are very grateful, we heard a lot recently about our food supply chain, i think american now knows that more than ever the wholesome food of our family depend upon and starts with america's farmers and ranchers. america, agriculture has been hard-hit like most of america with the coronavirus and president trump is standing with our farmers and all of america s to make sure we get to this national emergency. today, thanks to your direction and leadership, usda is announcing the coronavirus food assistance program, as you mentioned the new 19 billion-dollar program will take several actions to assist farmers, ranchers and consu

so you know it wouldn't be probably you'd be back you wouldn't be back for too long i notice where purdue university a great school and a great state wants to open and have students come in i think that's correct to recess stasio kron 4 news. >>vice president mike pence is defending his decision not to wear a mask while he met with recovering coronavirus patients and this is what happened today at the mayo clinic in minnesota. reporters at the scene said everybody but pence have their faces covered the vice president says he does not have coronavirus and he thought this would be a chance to speak with health care workers and quote look them in the eye and say thank you. the mayo clinic's policy requires wearing a mask which is based on white house guidelines. president trump has said that those guidelines are not mandatory. let's take a live look outside right now in this city of san francisco on a very sunny tuesday and working from home is our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow with a look at the weather forecast. i hope you got a chance to enjoy some of this warm weather today. lawren