recall are the founding family of produce forma and now regarded by some as the first family of the u.s. opioidcrisis some call them drug pushers the latest filing in the suit led by massachusetts attorney joe. healy representing over one thousand jurisdictions include an apparent smoking gun or a fatal product the powerful opioid oxy caught in the massachusetts ag introduce evidence in an e-mail sent in two thousand and eight from dr richard secular son of produce founder to company officials instruct exhibit poised to quote measure our performance by prescriptions by strength giving higher measures to higher strength apparently rewarding their company's sales staff for more potent and more addictive prescriptions mr secular has previously denied any personal complicity in effort to push pushes the word the dangerous drugs. and here to discuss is todd nearly has written extensively about opioids and is a staff writer at d.t. and progressive farmer welcome todd we know you've covered this so much and we're really grateful you spent some time with us what do you about what do you make of the new

u.s. the synthetic opioid has caused surge in fatal overdoses. in the u.s. senate, republicans and democrats joined today ines challenging ent trump's plans to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan. majority leader mitch mcconnell offered a resolution that warns against any sudden pull- outs. republican marco rubio said terror groups still pose serioun threatoth syria and afghanistan.f >>e united states and the erti-isis coalition is not in syria and ing until isis is completely wiped out there will be no susined pressure on isis or on al quaeda. and they will both grow back stronger and have the capability to plot against the homeland a american interests around the world. >> woodruff: the procedural vote advanced the non-binding mcconnell measure with republican and some democratic support. that virtually assures final passage. separately, a federal court has ordered syria to pay $302 million in the death of amican journalist marie colvin, in 2012. the court found she was deliberately targeted by syrian artillery. the u.s. military says an air strike

opioid. it was responsible for the u.s. in 2017. >>> metro riders say they will findls somewhereto park after a rash of break-ins over the 7th avenue station. there was broken glass all over. a dozen cars were broken into on wednesday. metro has stepped up patrols at its parking lots. crime has dropp eped since 2017. but riders we spoke to say they have learned to be cautious. >> i don't leavein anythg valuable in my car. >> there's nothing in my car, but cat stuff. they don't have much luc breaking into my truck. >> metro police say they do have a lead in this case but so far norests. >>> look at your screen right now. d.c. police leased these images of a suspect wanted for questioning in connection with an intentionally set fire. this is tim second in three years that the pizza shop has been targeted by crime. police say this incident happened more than a week agon wednesday, january 23rd. employees have put the flames out befores firefight arrived. the fire caused minimal damage. if yan know who this is, call d.c. police

u.s. attorney noted. a hub for opioids to be distributed throughout new england. those lives are ruined. the lives of the people who have to deal with the environment if their towns. so this is the responsibility of congress. this is all of our responsibility. we see this game continuing to be played. when out seems to be clear about what kneads to be done. congressman, let me ask, though, this has been going on for so many years, this seems to be no different. why is it no difference for people in congress? what influence has the republicans not had to help make a change here in how things are done? >> well, actually, there was a change here, tammy. to the wrong side. this basically super charges child trafficking because now what you will see is a precedent-setting application where those people associated in a house, or a holding with unawe companynied minor would l be off-limits. we will stretching h.h.s. to make discern who is apoliticable to i.c.e. this is a -- who is applicable to i.c.e. this is a nightmare. >> this is what is confusing. this is a bipartisan commission that came t

u.s. attorney noted is a hub for opioids to be distributed throughout new england. those lives are ruined as the lives of the people that have to deal with that environment in their towns. this is the responsibility of congress k it's all about responsibility. we see this game continuing to be played, when it seems to be very clear about what needs to be done. congressman gosar let me ask, though, this has been going on for so many years this, seems to be no different. why is it no different for people in congress? what influence has the republicans not had in helping to make a change here in how things are done? >>> actually there was a change here tammy, to the wrong side. this basically super charges child trafficking. because now what you're going to see is a president setting application where those people associated in the house or holdings with an unaccompanied minor will be off limits. we'll be stretching george h.w. bush s to take that decision as to who that is applicable to ice. this is a nightmare. >> tammy: this is confusing. congressman buck if i can a

largely in younger workers it has to do with globalization, technology, the opioid crisis, the flattening out of u.s. education -- this is an important issue and i would love to talk more about it. >> i look forward to our next meeting. >> the gentleman from missouri, mr. krieger, recognized for five minutes. moment theat this u.s. trade representative is testifying before the ways and means committee. one of the issues they're going to raise is china trade issues. according to the u.s. trade 2016 aboutive in are00 workers in missouri of our tradeuse that is -- trade is very critical because of their employment. 2017 the trade representative reported about $14 billion a in agricultural exports. missouri, 85,000 jobs. i do not want you to get into weigh thet how do you thertainty in trade with createually trying to healthy monetary policy? chairman powell: as you know, we have this thing called beige book, where we accumulate the comments of our array of contacts around the country, and for the last year or so a principal feature has been around uncertainty around trade. companies are concerned about

u.s. f thearyland as one highest death rates for opioid overdoses in the nation averaging 30 deaths per 100,000 people. mark segraves with a maryland narcotics officer who lost a t daughter a heroin overdose and the new war he's waging on the drug problem. >> reporter: kevin simmer spent 30 years in law enforcement first in the military then in the hagerstown police department. >> it was really on the front lines of the drug wa in the trenches and chasing people down, locking them up. ht he was r: he tho making a positive difference in people's lives by locking up drug addicts. >> the more arrests, the better. more handcuffs a incarceration the better. >> reporter: then he got a look from the drug problem from a different angle when his 18-year-old daughter brooke tol him she was addicted to eioids. >> bro meant everything to him. >> reporter: brooke and her father struggled with her addiction. >> she falls on the ground and says i'm sorry. i can't beat this. t ands is where she asked me to shoot her and put her out of her misery because she could not fight the demonsny more. she had to go get

u.s. as you know has pulled out of that deal and is pressuring remaining countries to abandon it, as well. >>> opioidelated deaths quadruples in 20 years and shifted to the eastern part of the u.s. washington, d.c. has seen the fastest increase where deaths have tripled every year since 2013 >>> and a winter storm dumped nearly three feet of snow in northern arizona breaking records in the area around flagstaff. schools and roads have been closed across that area. thousands of people are without power. >>> and japan's space agency has announced that the space probe successfully landed on an asteroid the craft left earth in december of 2014. it arrived at the asteroid last june it's expected to carry out two more landings to collect samples before returning to earth. that's the update at this hour >> bill, thank you so much. >>> 30 minutes to go until "power lunch" and joined by melissa. what's coming up >> very, very, very important meeting in washington. 2:30 president trump is meeting with the chinese vice premier and expecting a tape playback and listening to whether or not they confirm a late sum

u.s. customs and border protection seized more than 250 pounds of the synthetic opioid, 100 times more powerful than morphine. authorities say it was found in a secret compartment of a produce truck at the port of entry between mexico and nogales, arizona. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. the mid-air scare. the passenger jet from l.a. to new york suddenly turning back. what the pilot told passengers while they were in the air. >>> the alleged insurance fraud. prosecutors releasing footage of this man, look at this. they say he staged a workplace accident, staging a fall, they say, in an attempt to cash in. >>> and then, the little girl who slipped through, right into the rhino exhibit. tonight, the images for the first time, the injuries worse than first thought. and how those two rhinos pinned her within seconds. a lot more news ahead. a lot more news ahead. idea: a way to create energy from household trash. it not only saves about 80% in carbon emissions... it helps reduce landfill waste. that's why bp is partnering with a california company: fulcrum b

u.s. border patrol agents, they found 254 pounds of the highly addictive opioid and a tractor-trailer headingmexico to arizona. william la jeunesse is following this story. >> it is. both republicans, and democrats said that the fentanyl boston underscores their call to use any new money to stop drugs at the port of entry. using the rising violence at tijuana, and the as for that few between the president and the beaker over the wall, a few facts. there is not 700 miles of pedestrian fence over the border, there's only 350. also were some new wall in four states. and finally, the style favored by the border patrol. with the fiber-optic line inside a company 45 minutes to cut through that bollard style wall. as for the california and mexico border it's a hundred 40 miles long. every inch contains a pedestrian fence, and that fence actually exists in most of the state. >> tell me about this new caravan, it's heading where? >> while it was coming both to tijuana but also to texas. as for the u.s. attempt to keep asylum-seekers from central america, of course the majority and that caravan here in

u.s. customs and border protection announced their biggest fentanyl bust ever. officers seized 254 pounds of the opioid saturday at the border crossing in nogales, arizona. a drug-sniffing dog found it in a truck containing mexican produce. it has a street value of about $3.5 million and is enough for more than a billion doses. agents also seized nearly 395 pounds of methamphetamine. the truck driver was taken into custody. >>> "the st. louis post-dispatch" reports two city police officers face charges of drinking on duty in connection with an alleged russian roulette-style shooting death of a female officer. prosecutors say officer nathaniel hendren and his partner were at hendren's house last week with 24-year-old officer caitlyn alex who was off duty. according to the charging documents, hendren and alex took turns pointing a loaded gun with one bullet at each other and pulling the trigger. authorities say hendren shot alex in the chest. she was buried on wednesday. >> she always told me, mom, if i died, i'm doing something i loved to do. made me feel a little better. >> hendren has been charged wit

opioids shipped through the international mail. new cutting-edge technology along the border to improve situational awareness and an expansion of air and marine operations along the border, and u.s. waters. there's also an expansion of risk-based targeting of passengers and cargo entering the united states, and critical repair projects at ports of entry. the proposal also includes funding to address the only real crisis that is at the border -- not a border security crisis, but a humanitarian one. by improving the capacity to appropriately make the needs of migrants who are temporarily in their custody. it supports the hiring of new investigation agents to focus on drug smuggling, gang crime, financial crime, and other high-priority law enforcement areas. it includes funding to expand alternatives to the tension programs, including family case management. and, correspondingly, it significantly reduces ice the tension beds and requires more frequent the tension facility inspections, which currently is once every three years. we expending it so that it is twice a year. it limits ice's ability to use more detention beds can be funded. the proposal supports many other homeland secur

fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is up to 100 times more powerful than heroin, blamed for more than 28,000 overdose deaths in the u.s. in 2017. despite president trump's claims of smuggling all along the border, federal agents say most of the drugs come from mexico through the checkpoints. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >> reporter: this is hallie jackson at the white house. in an ice-cold capital, frozen positions from the president and house speaker. >> if there's no wall, it doesn't work. and if they don't have want to waste my time reading what they have. >> reporter: speaker nancy pelosi's clear. >> there's not going to be any wall money in the legislation. >> reporter: democrats today released their starting point in bipartisan negotiations to avoid a second shutdown, providing more money than the white house requested for customs and border protection, for the coast guard, and for secret service, less money than requested for i.c.e., and no money for a wall. still, this may come down to semantics. when is a wall a wall, and when is it a fence or barrier? >> the wall, the barrier, whatever you want to ca

million dollars fenton ill is a synthetic opioid many times more powerful than heroin it is estimated that fentanyl overdoses caused eighteen thousand deaths in the u.s. in the year two thousand and sixteen alone much of the fence in all smuggled into the u.s. is made in china president donald trump on thursday said he's seeking china's help in choking off the supply we're certainly talking about theft we're talking about every aspect of trade with a country and we're talking about fentanyl to. whether the government u.s. officials arrested the truck driver and say they won't work to break up the smuggling network continue. president has often cited the smuggling of illegal drugs from mexico including fentanyl as a reason for building a border wall however as in the case of the arizona drug seizure officials say most drugs are transported into the u.s. through legal orts of entry not through remote areas where the president says a wall is needed rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles at least ten people have died in the u.s. from a once in a generation cold snap it's left thousands without power as well and many stranded . john hendren reports from chic

u.s.-china trade relationship. house radical dems and rinos denying cartels and their influence in central america and cuba. the opioid crises that killed thousands of americans a year. the rhinos and radicals don't care, or perhaps they are corrupt, or perhaps both. listen to new york democrat hakeem jeffries deny it all. >> there is no basis in law or in fact to declare a national emergency. there is no increase in illegal crossings at our border. there in criminal activity. lou: mr. trump is half way around the world asserting and assuring u.s. interests, and his vice president in colombia trying to achieve calm and stability in venezuela. the radicals claim no crisis. yet top general to u.s. northern colemacommand terrence oshaughny calls it significant and deadly. charlie hurt, kayleigh mcenany among our gusts, and michael cohen on capitol hill. three days of congressional hearings, the radical dimms are salivating at prospect of hearing from convicted liar. >> we're at another inflection point where american justice will be either vindicated or desecrated. money memichael cohen has some e answers to some of the

todd neely who has written extensively about opioids joins us all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. to a very good month for u.s. stock markets leads our global report today is the dow jones industrial average and the standard and poor's five hundred both record their strongest starts to the year since the one nine hundred eighty s. the dow seven point two percent increase for january twenty ninth teen is now the largest for a january since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine similarly the seven point nine percent gain for the s. and p. five hundred index last month was the best performance in that month since the one nine hundred eighty seven the strong market stock market rather returns may also change the market psychology as they seem to break a.

has to do with globalization, it's got to do with technology and with the opioid crisis it's got to do with the flattening out of u.s. educational attainment over the years. so this is an incredibly important issue and i would love to talk more about it, but -- >> i like forward to our next meeting. thank thanks >> the gentlemen from missouri, mr. cleaver, is recognized for fife minutes >> thank you, madame chair mr. chairman, i think at this very moment, the u.s. trade representative is testifying before the ways and means committee and one of the issues they're going to raise is u.s./china trade issues and according to the u.s. trade representative, in 2016, about 85,000 workers in missouri are employed because of our trade that is very -- that trade is very critical, because of their unemployment or their employment and then in 2017, the trade representative reported that about $14 billion a year in agricultural exports actually promote the employment situation in missouri. 85,000 jobs. i don't want you to get into policy, but how do you weigh the uncertainty in trade with the fed actually trying to create health

effort todd daly who's written extensively about opioids joins us all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. to a very good month for u.s. stock markets leads our global report today is the dow jones industrial average and the standard and poor's five hundred both record their strongest.

u.s. citizens in 1962. >> whitaker: snake oil? >> thompson: yes, sir. you're using high-dose, long- duration opioidsthey've never been designed to do that. there's no evidence that they're effective. there's extreme evidence of harms and deaths when you use them. >> whitaker: brandeis professor dr. andrew kolodny is one of the country's most-recognized addiction specialists, and has been an expert witness in litigation against big pharma, including purdue, the maker of oxycontin. he has been trying to get the f.d.a. label changed since 2011 to make clear opioids are not for everyone. >> dr. andrew kolodny: these are essential medicines for easing suffering at the end of life and when used for a couple of days after major surgery or a serious accident. if you're taking them around the clock, every day, quickly you become tolerant to the pain- relieving effect. in order to continue getting pain relief, you'll need higher and higher doses. as the doses get higher, the treatment becomes more dangerous and the risk of death goes up. >> whitaker: and that sounds exactly like heroin addiction. >> kolodny:

opioid problem. if they can get past that, increase the potential growth rate of the u.s. economy. david: this was the senate, of course. we have another day of this testimony tomorrow on the house side. the house tends to be longer and be a little more rambunctious. michael: it is a little more political. we will hear more about the debt and deficit and the tax cuts and whether they were a benefit or not. bankill probably hear less regulatory questions. you get more of that on this side. if anything stands out tomorrow, the debt ceiling questions or the green new deal, because the green new deal idea is that the andwould buy green bonds, then help pay for the whole program. the fed is kind of opposed to that. that may be an interesting issue tomorrow. david: there were estimates that would be extraordinary about how much money would be involved, chilies and joints of dollars. thanks to our own michael mcdowell trillions and julian -- trillions of planes of dollars. thank to our own michael mckee. here's emma chandra. result?at is the essentially we are flat across all three major

u.s. market to make sure his organization could supply the demand. we saw that come to fruition at the end when the opioid crisis spread. so in the early 1990's in particular we were concentrating still on columbia with the cartels. we were beginning to piece together the evolution of the mexican cartels. quite frankly, up until that point the cartels in mexico were really not cartels. we used to refer to them as the federation. they were loosely tied smugglers, not necessarily narcotic traffickers. they would smuggle anything they could to the border for profit. illegal chili peppers, counterfeit blue jeans, you name it. chapo honed his teeth in his early days as a marijuana smuggler. he was extremely attuned to the logistics of the border. and how to satisfy the u.s. market. host: the passage reads, "crime families in the united states knew violence through unwanted attention to the illicit activity, but guzman never shied away from that attention and had no scruples about killing innocent people to achieve his goals. he built terror into his business plan." can you talk about how you saw that when he w

the opioid epidemic, we lead the u.s. in cruelty to animals and children. don't hear about that so much. renewable programs, social areice warriors like aoc, pushing, people are more optimistic. i wonder if your guest could talk to that. cost: there is the upfront of transitioning to renewable energy and the hidden cost of not doing that which are health costs, effects on rivers, the air and effects from climate change which will shift crop yields, which farmers are dealing with now. those are things that are hard to price into your electricity bill. that is what people who are pushing this conversation are saying. if you transition off these types of energies, you receive a benefit in the sense that your air is cleaner, the water is cleaner, you're not paying health costs you might have otherwise paid. there is potential net benefit down the road. michigan on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have a question. i agree we can do a better job in curtailing pollution in all forms. the concept of a totally

opioid, can kill a person very quickly. >> reporter: also on the tractor trailer, 395 pounds of meth, the third largest seizure of its kind in the u.s. data from customs and border protection shows smuggling of meth and fentanyl is on the rise. and the ports araces for smuggl drugs through the country. >> most hard narcotics seized are at the ports of entry and that's the case here. >> reporter: this bust comes as president trump continues to push for a border wall. overnight the president responded tweeting, our great u.s. border patrol agents made the biggest fentanyl bust in our country's history. thanks, as always, for a job well done. agents say a 26-year-old mexican national was driving the truck containing the drugs. he is under arrest and agents say they are looking for others who conspired with him. >>> president trump appears to be giving up on reaching a deal with congress as another government shutdown looms telling "the new york times" that border security talks are, a, quote, waste of time, and he is suggesting that declaring a national emergency is likely so he can free up money for his wall. the president has also ma

u.s. troops out of syria. >>. >> i was not consulted. >> the president also expected to call for funding to help fight the opioid epidemic. they hope it will bring democrats back to the bargaining table. how they behave could provide the next funding showdown. another shutdown could be right around the corner. he is sew fix sated on it he has been meeting with contractors at the white house. that wall issue may be on the bargaining table this weekend. the acting chief of staff with lawmakers up at camp david this weekend. >> all right. thank you. lawmakers will be paying very close attention tonight to see how the president deals with the border wall issue. republicans are deeply concerned that that order could come some time after the speech. what's the latest you're hearing? >> it is a revolt that president trump has on his hands, significant that it is brewing from members of his own party. many republicans are essentially saying don't go down this path president trump. they are worried about the constitutionality of it. they are worried about the precedent it would set. here is what top republican on the hill told me

u.s. market to make sure that his organization could supply the demand. we saw that come to fruition with the opioid crisis and how it spread. in the early 1990's, we were still concentrating on columbia -- colombia. we were beginning to piece together the evolution of the mexican cartels. quite frankly come up to that point, the mexican cartels were not really cartels. we refer to them as federations. they were loosely tied smuggled -- smugglers. smuggle anything. and el chapo honed his teeth in the early days as a marijuana smuggler. he was extremely attuned to the logistics of the border and how to satisfy the u.s. market. >> one passage -- crime families in the united states drew violence to their illicit activities but guzman never shied away from that. he built terror into his business plan. can you talk about how you saw that when you worked around the country both in chicago and in el paso? >> when i was the boss for dea in el paso, it was 2006-2007. a stone'sk at juarez, throw from el paso, it was a battlefield. some say it was more dangerous than baghdad or kabul. hundreds of people were k

u.s. that in turn fuels criminal organizations' activities and profits. two, drug importation proposals would worsen the opioid crisis. a crisis that has already grown substantially worse due to the powerful opioid, fentanyl and fentanyl analog-laced counterfeit pills being produced by illegal trafficking organizations. and three, an already overburdened law enforcement and regulatory capacity would be unable to ensure a safe prescription drug supply under importation. and similarly, and that same year, in march of 2017 an open letter to congress from four of the most recent commissioners of the f.d.a. these are individuals that probably know more about this subject than all of us combined. they're the professionals. these were their findings. serious risk to patients and consumers. we're talking about drug importation. drugs purchased from foreign countries may be substandard, unsafe, adult rated and fake. the f.d.a. lacks the resources needed to oversee a major importation program. the global drug supply will limit improvement in assess and five any improved cease and cost savings resulting from importation

opioid epidemic and surging number of victims. usc researchers are calling it the most comprehensive study of its kind. they found overdoses in the u.s. on average are 3.5 times higher than other high income nations. the highest of any wealthy nation. the next highest numbers in finland and sweden, which have less than half the rate of overdose deaths. more than 70,000 americans died from overdose in 2017. >>> in the wake of claims youtube may be a hotbed of pedophiles, disney and nestle suspended advertising on the site. in the past youtube answered to claims it does not do enough to monitor questionable activities tied to videos containing young children. this week youtuber matt watson showed a video showing how quickly users can connect to those ads simply from algorithms pushing from one video to the next. comment sections may be allowing pedophiles to connect with each other. google points out they are typically innocent recordings of children doing everyday things and continues to aggressively fight child exploitation. >>> new for you this morning, a manager fired from yelp is filing a lawsuit against the company. he claims he

million dollars sentinel is a synthetic opioid many times more powerful than heroin it is estimated that fentanyl overdoses caused eighteen thousand deaths in the u.s. in the year two thousand and sixteen alone much of the fence in all smuggled into the u.s. is made in china president donald trump on thursday said he's seeking china's help in choking off the supply we're certainly talking about theft we're talking about every aspect of trade with a country and we're talking about fentanyl to. whether the government u.s. officials arrested the truck driver and say they will work to break up the smuggling network continue president drop as often cited the smuggling of illegal drugs from mexico including fentanyl as a reason for building a border wall however as in the case of the arizona drug seizure officials say most drugs are transported into the u.s. through legal ports of entry not through remote areas where the president says a wall is needed rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. there were challenges that i'm still wrong remind of all top stories venezuela's o. position leader. has accused security forces loyal to president nicolas maduro all t

opioid abuse. we advance drug and biological product manufacturing within the united states and approve rare disease medications. we modernize generic drug development. we provide increased funding for the department of interior and u.s. forest service to fight devastating wildfires that threaten our communities. and we ensure rural areas have the same access to utilities that urban areas do by investing in critical infrastructure. i want to thank my colleague and friend, chairwoman lowey for her hard work. she has been an honest broker and tough negotiater throughout the process. i look forward to working with her. i thank my partners on the other side of the capitol, senator shelby and vice chairman leahy for their hard work and all the members of the conference committee, especially the house republicans, congressman fleischmann, and graves. i want to thank the hardworking staff of the appropriations committee for their tireless work over the last three weeks in particular. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this measure and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield four minu

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u.s. are right there at our southern border. that is where 90% of the heroin in this country comes from. those borders! that means that helps putha an end to the opioiddemic in the a country. so tonight, congress has two options. they do their jobs, they agree on a compromise that doesn't weaken border security or do nothing, and they can get left behind. because the wall, i predict, is going to be funded and going to be built. i believe the president is unrelenting, tenacious, and is doing everything and will do everything in his power to keep his promise, get this done, even declaring a national emergency, which may even happen this week. and if that is what it takes, fine. that's what it takes. he took an oath to protect this country. do you not want to be protected and more secure? do we want to stop the cartels, the gangs, ms-13, human traffickers, drug traffickers, those that we haven't vetted that may bring harm to our fellow americans? we look forward to seeing what this agreement entails. i'm very dubious. also, of course, when far left radicals inside the democratic party, when they are calling the shots like congresswoman omar, well, negot

u.s. citizens. >> he's got to secure our border. he has got to do this to keep us all safe. people in ohio care about the drug issue right now because opioidsave devastated our state. 90% of that is going across the southern border, but also now we have increased in crystal meth, and all of that is coming from mexico almost. >> reporter: the white house as they were expecting the lawsuit and are planning to fight their case all the way to the supreme court if they have to. and washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. >> reporter: making local gun laws stronger. the new proposal introduced by mayor sam liccardo amid a rising number of on derisory's and san jose, and a spike in gun death across the country. >> reporter: saffron is preparing for its big chinese new year parade this weekend. coming up, a look at colorful floats and what authorities are doing to keep spectators safe. >> reporter: >>> in san jose, city leaders are proposing amendments to gun sale ordinances. the changes are designed to reduce or eliminate so-called straw purchases. are south a reporter jussie gary has more on the potential changes , and why city leaders and some c

u.s. through the border checkpoint in arizona. officials value the drugs at $3.5 million. fentanyl is the synthetic opioidose deaths. >>> a new jersey man is accused of insurance fraud after officials say he faked a slip and fall at work, and that incident was caught on surveillance camera. check it out. you can see 57-year-old alexander goldinski throw ice on the floor in the kitchen area of his workplace, and moments later, the video shows him stopping, looking around, and then slowly falling to the floor. officials say he waited on the ground until he was discovered. he will face a judge next week. >>> okay, two -- sorry. >> without comment. >> yes, exactly. two of the performers you will see in the super bowl are speaking out, addressing critics who feel they should not take the stage because of how the nfl handled the colin kaepernick controversy. craig is in atlanta covering that part of the story, too. hey, craig. >> reporter: hey, hoda, savannah. good morning to you guys again. performing at the super bowl for a performer is typically one of the most sought-after gigs, but this year it was a littl

u.s. house we have the opportunity to deliver on our for the people agenda. that means expanding access and lowering the cost of health care and especially prescription medication. we have to address the opioidmic and we are going to come together in washington to continue to send valuable funds to new hampshire and to work with our colleagues in the state house to make a difference. with prevention, education, treatment, and long-term recovery. we are investing in renewable energy. rebuild ouring to aging roads and bridges and highways and critical infrastructure, including rural red band and sillier's -- cellular service and we're going to work together to expand jobs, to raise wages, and to create economic opportunities for literally every american. achieve these goals, we need a fundamental change in how business is done in washington and that is why i work with mike colleagues -- my colleagues and the rest of our task force to develop hr one, our for the people bill. electedbility for officials protect voting rights get dark money out of politics once and for all. i am excited to report to all that i will be moving on to serve on the house energy and commerce committee. you may remember

u.s. market to make sure his organization could supply the demand. fruition atcome to the end when the opioidsis spread. in the early 1990's, in particular we were concentrating still on columbia with the cartels. we were beginning to piece together the evolution of the mexican cartels. up until that point the cartels in mexico were really not cartels. we referred to them as the federation. they were loosely tied smugglers, not necessarily narcotics traffickers. they would smuggle anything they could to the border for profit. chile peppers, blue jeans, you name it. chapo honed his teeth in his early days as a marijuana smuggler. attended to the logistics of the border -- attuned to the logistics of the border. host: the passage reads, "crime families new violence through unwanted attention to the illicit activity, but guzman never shied away from that attention and had no scruples about killing innocent people to achieve his goals. he built terror into his business plan." top about how he saw that when you worked around the country from chicago and el paso. guest: absolutely. when i was the b

opioid abuse. we advance drug and biological product manufacturing within the united states and approve rare disease medications. we modernize generic drug development. we provide increased funding for the department of interior and u.s. forest service to fight devastating wildfires that threaten our communities. and we ensure rural areas have the same access to utilities that urban areas do by investing in critical infrastructure. i want to thank my colleague and friend, chairwoman lowey for her hard work. she has been an honest broker and tough negotiater throughout the process. i look forward to working with her. i thank my partners on the other side of the capitol, senator shelby and vice chairman leahy for their hard work and all the members of the conference committee, especially the house republicans, congressman fleischmann, and graves. i want to thank the hardworking staff of the appropriations committee for their tireless work over the last three weeks in particular. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this measure and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield four minu