united medical center in southeast d.c. has been plagued with problems for years.trict leaders have fought to nkeep the hospital ope until a new one can be built to serve that part of the city. the mayor and the d.c. counsel disagree on how much money to give the cash strapped facility. mayor muriel bowser had proposed $40 million.ci co members want to cut that funding to just $15 million and spend the rest on a new hospital. >>> the health care crisis across the city with providence hospital closing and now extreme cuts to the united medical center, that means folks are not able to access health care. >> a final vote on the hospital's budget is set for next month. the council is threatening to eplace the ospital's board of director withntrol board. >>> 4:48. working for your health this morning with ase warning for thf of you whor from seasonal allergies. you may want to pay attention to what you're eating for breakfast. doreen gensler explains why certain foods could make your symptoms worse. >> reporter: spring is in the air. >> they're suffering from the tail e

she fears if united medical reduces services, people will flood otherspitals across the city. >> where are people going to go when they have to do hospital hopping so they don't have to wait 10 or 12 hours? >> phil men dellon supports reducing the subsidy -- >> the management has been so poor that the spending is way outside of budget. over budget. therefore, there has to be fiscal measures taken. >> the bowser administration wants to keep them afloat until a new hospital can be opened in 2023. the deputy mayor for health an human services says if the council's budget gets final bproval, there will cuts at the only hospital east of the river. w t it means is the hospital will have to be right-sized. you won't see people turned away because services are being reduced. >> a spokesperson would say the hospital sent warning letters about layoffs. in the distric mark segraves, news 4. >>> the council will take a final vote on the hospital's budget next month and changes are still possible. the council's threatening to dissolve the hospital's board of director and replace them with a control

the united medical center in south d.c. has been plagued with problems for years. district leaders have fought to keep the hospital open until a new one can be built to svice the city.or ma muriel bowser has proposed $40 million but council members want to cut it to 15 million and spend the rest on a new it hosp. >> the health care problem and now extreme cuts to united medical center, that means folks are not able to access health care. 's final vote on the hospit budget is set for next month. the council is threatening to replace the hospital'soard of directors with a control board if spending is not brought in line with the budget. >>> it's 5:48. we have new video that's a good reminder to slow down when it's raining. a florida trooper is recovering after a car slammed into him on the shoulder of an interst e. take alook. the trooper could be infar worse shape if he hadn't reacted so quickly. he was handling a crash investigation when a car hydroplaned and it headed right to him. he had the presencef mind to jump onto the wall. the trooper was able to hang on th

where providence hospital closing d extreme cutsto united medical center that means folks are not ableo access health care. >> reporter: phil mendelson reports -- supportsu the sidy from taxpayers. >> the management of the hospital has been so poor that the spendi is way outside of budgetand way over budget and have to be e physical measures taken. >> reporter: mhe bowser adistration wants to keep umc aoat until a new hospital could be open in 2023. the deputy mayor nor health and scheuma -- and human services said there will be cuts on the ome e hospitalast of the river. >> it means the hospital will right-sized. you won't see people being turned away because servic are reduced. >> reporter: a spokesperson would confirm the hospital has sentarning letters about layoffs. mark segraves, nbc4. >> and the council will take a te next month and changes are still possible. the council ishreatening to issolve the hospital board of directors and replace them with a control board if spending isn't brought in line with the budget. >>> this afteoon d.c. mayor muriel bowser will launch the great g

providence hospitalnd closing a now extreme cuts at united medical center. folks are not able to access health care. >> rt council chair supports reducing the subsidy the hospital gets from d.c. taxpayers. >> the management at the hospital has been so poor that the spending is way over budget and there, therefore, there have to be physical measures taken. >> reporter: the bowser administration wants to keep it afloat until a new hoespital is opened in 2023. if the council's budget getsn fi approval there will be cuts at the only hospital east of the river. >> it means that the hospital will have to be right-sized. esople won't be turned away because serv are being reduced. >> reporter: a spokesperson would only coirm the hospital has sent warning letters about layoffs. mark segraves, news4. >>> the council will take a final vote on the hospital's budget next month. changes are still possible. council threatening todi olve the board of directors and replace them with a control board if spending isn't brought in line. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo just wr

you know this closure leaves united medical center as the only hospital east of the river.hospital is currently running a deficit in the tens of millions of the dollars. councimember mcduffie says they have plans in the budget for a full hospital bs that i still years. aw >>> a warning tonight if you've just taken a sleeping pill or if you take them regular rly. the fda is sing side effects from the medications. some 6 millionmecans take pills for sleep including lunesta and more. some of the side effects include sleepwalking, driving, even sleep thoking. fda says it will require the most serious warning on the labels of those drug the pharma industry declined t mment but in the past said side effects are rare. federal regulators warn not to take the with alcohol and be sure not to drive the next morning after taking insomnia medication. >> never take a sleeping aid before doug's forecast or you will never kno what to wake up to. >> so true. sleep cooking, didn't know that was a thin >> i guess it can be. >>> today we had 83 degrees. tomorrow -- tay was degrees warmer than

left their houses because they're afraid of being hit we have obviously the medical accounts of doctors in the place or of the unit union of medical care and relief organizations with them was talking about the continued attacks on hospitals they are talking about twelve hospitals you end themselves are talking about seven hospitals so this is a tragedy that we have known from other places before of the assad regime and the russian air force because they are trying to really hit the civilian infrastructure before they try to take control over these opposition held areas this is what happened before in syria but what about the cease fire from from september actually the ceasefire this from frustration about the cease fire about the took a short because the ceasefire was supposed to bring about a demilitarized zone which means that the nationalists and islamist factions that are controlled by turkey would withdraw their heaven weaponry and that the jihadist factions would be you know getting out of being fought completely which didn't happen because to the contrary. the jihadist fact this alliance of jihadist factio

. >>> united medical center says it may be forced to make significant layoffs if a new budget is approved by the d.c. council. they disagree onow much money to give the facility. mayor muriel bowser had proposed $4 million but council members want to cut it to 15 mm and spend t rest on new hospital. a final vote on the hospital budget is set for next month. >>> washing n wizarns were hoping that they were going to go into last night's nba draft in a good spot. >> that's right. >> lottery. eottery. >> it was the nw orleans pelicans, a bit of a surprise here, that secured the number one pick. that means the pelicans will almost certainly select duke standout zion will wmson. theards will get the ninth pick, not bad. it will take place on june 30th in brklyn, new york. >>> 6:36. working for you in the community this morning. >> molette green hanging out wouh the girl scs. >> reporter: that's right. coming up next we're going to meet the -- >> girls the world needs. >> reporter: the girls the world needs next. >>> good wednesday morning. >> every pare knows thatys are becoming more high tech.

being assisted by the fbi, forensics unit, dhs forensics unit, and virginia beach state forensics unit. medicalprotocol for the medical examiner's office. right now we have a lot of questions. the whys, they will come later. right now we have more questions than we have answers. we're a little more than two hours into the event and we used the wordy ve event, that's a co term, a devastating thing that happened that none of us want to talk about, this devastating incident that will change the lives of a number of families from our city. so my goal will be to update you and confirm additional information as soon as we can. our next briefing should be at 21:30 hours. we have been told the governor is enroute. we notified state senators and other elected officials, offering condolences to our city and to our family of those of us that work in virginia beach. >> can you tell us any more about the suspect? was he a former or current employee? >> a current employee. >> and do we know anything about what led to his -- >> i'm going to have to hold off, andy. >> what floor? >> it was multiple floors. >>

destructive decisions, nationwide children's , spital, facebook, and amazon snap, google and united children's hospital medical center, to name a few. there are so many organizations that have worked along side my office the past year. on behalf of our grateful nation, i cannot thank you enough for all you are doing on behalf of children. your work is saving lives and helping children and i believe there is no greater gift you can give to this country. thank you. [applause] mrs. trump: i always said as a mother and first lady, it concerns me that today's fast-paced and ever connected world can make children less prepared to manage their emotions, causing them to go to destructive actions such as bullying, drug abuse and addiction or even suicide. one year ago today, i announced the be best, awareness campaign dedicated to the children of this country and all over the world. be best the well-being of children, online safety and opioid abuse and continues to have one goal, educate children and parents about the issues they face and promote programs and services available to have them to meet today's challenges.

united states military and medical personnel working with counterparts in the region will be there to provide medical assistance to communities in need and help relieve countries overwhelmed by the influx of the suffering of the people of venezuela. while the united states has section more than 150 government officials and state owned businesses loyal to the dictator , america has also made it clear that the sanctions may not be permanent. just as the national assembly has promised to provide amnesty to anyone who has not committed the united, so too states of america will consider sanctions relief for all those who step forward, stand up for the constitution, and support the rule of law. general manual for guerra -- like the former head of the service, he rallied with the national assembly. in recognition of his recent actions in support of democracy and the rule of law, i am announcing today that the united states of america is removing all sanctions on the general effective immediately. as president guaido builds a brighter future for venezuela, we hope the action that our nation i

countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units documents show that their task was not health promotion the population council an american foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the korean ministry of health. these vehicles are given to help improve living standards in korea for bigger is attack on the problem of excessive population growth. cut it dear sir. don't take the little one you got your dog to eat our modern cards are not going. well at the nickel i'm telling. you that this. will. cause a huge let's kill them all if you will. instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a citizen's duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. western family planners flooded the country one of the pioneers was the american dr sheldon siegel he founded apartment for reproductive medicine in one of the largest state hospitals in new d

a patient who escaped a locked psychiatric unit at the medical affairs in the district is in custody and facing several charges. according to police and t v.a. records obtained by the news4 am i-tethe patient removed the ceiling tiles above a tloem shower in the psychiatric -- above the bathroom shoren the psychiatric unit. he crawled to a locked base. a relative told us he was able to catch a cab to virginia. >> he went through the emergency room and asked someone in the emergency room the staff at the hospital to call a taxicab. >> reporter: they cd him a cab? he was wearing his hospital clothes. >> he was wearing his scrub a bottomsnd tank top. >> it man took the cab to manassas where he held a woman he knewagainst her will and assaulted her. he's being held at a hospital and fes several charges. the v.a. hospital told us it is reviewing its policies and procedures. >>> new developments in the situation.anning she is no longer in federal custody. that may be short-lived. manning was in the atexandria dention for refusing to te jury about the release wikileaks documents. she may be

the united states military and medical personnel working alongside their counterparts across the region will be there to provide medical assistance to communities in the to help relieve countries overwhelmed by the influx of the suffering people of venezuela. while the united states has sanctioned more than 150 government officials and state owned businesses loyal to the also madeamerica has it clear these sanctions need not be permanent. just at the national assembly has promised to provide amnesty to anyone who has not committed a war crime, so to the united states of america will consider sanctions relief for all those who stepped forward, stand up for the constitution, and support the rule of law. like the former chief of the venezuelan intelligence service, who just last week broke ranks with the maduro regime and rallied to the support of the venezuelan constitution and the national assembly. in support of democracy and the rule of law, i'm announcing the united states of america is removing all sanctions on the general, effective immediately. as president guaido builds a brighter

his promises after a divisive campaign there under modi pledges to unite the country and quote unleashed its potential. plus a medical 1st here in germany to mother gave the birth to the country's 1st babies born from the transplanted uterus and the procedure has shaken up the medical world here and raised some complex moral questions. on my ass waiter welcome to the show check and irish voters are heading to the polls today on the 2nd day of the european parliament elections in total over 400 a 1000000 voters across that used 28 member states are eligible to vote most countries will go to the polls on sunday check voters have until tomorrow to cast their ballots with polls in ireland closing later this evening ireland's main parties have campaigned heavily to cement the nation's place in europe as

.>> law enforcement will have extra boating units working and medics will be on every corner.>>> now into the memorial day weekend, our chief neurologist is here.>> did you call each other and address that? >>> the monday has the potential for wet weather, just a little bit. it looks like it's going to be dry, you will not have to cancel your plans but you will want to be prepared with maybe an umbrella. just somewhere few minutes. they should not be going off the whole day. thing is good change, we have some stuff lake county and that activity is which will potentially weaken this whole stuff. there are the current temperatures. what would you call that color? >> the fog is back at the coast. it will be a player the next couple days. sunday is in question and even then temperatures are going to be in the mid 60s. tomorrow we have mid-sixties to mid and low 70s but then it cools to low 60s. there is another model, just a different look at it. tomorrow night you see these clouds go this way, your day tomorrow looks great. these clouds coming and that is the system. on a clock in the m

the united states medical system doesn't have the resources to meet demand for teen mental health serviceskind of thing is excite rocketing as more as mon teenagers strupgal with severe depression and anxiety. 21 states have a severe shortage of child and adolescence psychiatrists. a situation sometimes forcing parents to descririve for hours get their children treatment when it becomes available. joins by a health care policy reporter for "usa today" the byline behind that critical story. thank you for coming on. >> my pleasure, sure. >> talk about this. the rate of people, teenagers, defined 10 to 19 died by suicide went up 56% in the years between 2007 and 2016. by the way, those are the last years we have data available for. beyond obviously the human, the personal toll here what are the impacts of this crisis? >> there's a very serious finance cost. even if you were callous enough to say you don't care about the kids, these young people's mental health issues left untreated or unaddress willed turn into physical health issues, not, let's set aside and addiction and all that, it's goin

that is ok, but for the rest of us -- 1987, i was in the united states army. i was a medic.as in the middle of central america. talk to you about a gentleman veteran, vietnam sitting in somerville, new jersey, talking to one of his good friends, also a veteran, and they were discussing the prisoners of war, missing in action issues, and it was a little personal. it was personal because they were there. it was personal because it was their friends, their b uddies, their brothers in arms, and they knew for a fact that there were prisoners of war that behind, that there were mias unaccounted for. as you can imagine, it got a little heated in their conversation. commiserating. i happen to know this individual. i am sure there were a few explicit discussions. but instead, most people would just continue to commiserate and complain. this individual, he did not. , rallyded to take action the troops, and in 1988, he took a group of people on their harley davidsons down constitution avenue here in washington, d.c., and his purpose was to remind uncle sam that, hello, you are accounta

and ruled it a suicide and sfpd timely opened an investigation within the special victims unit and the medical examiner after strong public pressure. this type of law enforcement response is part of the systemic pattern of not treating this with the priority it deserves and there's many open cases in the state of california. this is unacceptable when they face a murder rate ten times the national average. of the 517 reports of missing or murdered indigenous missing own 116 were logged by the department of justice. the lack of response is horrifying. at the same time, i'm deeply inspired by the courage of indigenous women and organizers who stepped up to demand justice and they successfully organize the first day of awareness to honor missing and murdered indigenous women on may 5, 2017. please join me in support of our native-american communities locally and nationally by recognizing may 5 as the national day of awareness honoring missing and murdered indigenous women and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor brown. >> yes, i just wanted to say a few words becaus

united states air force. he was 36. there was a father, husband and air force medic. as from hardin county, north carolina. 1975 he was looking after hundreds of orphans from saigon. president of the united states, gerald ford, order the orphanse to rescue 2000 -- the north vietnamese master sergeant johnson is caring for them. his c5 crash in a rice paddy outside of the airport. dayhildren perished that and 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend who is lost but his life was a testament to the spirit of america that we see today. i was honored to visit that wall wasears after the event sergeant johnson's daughter. the america was asleep in 1970's something stirred in the thesands of people here, shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man that was looking down on us today in his second inaugural address when he paid to end the scourge of four. us strive to finish the work whore in to care for him has borne the battle and his widow and orphan. in the 1970's it began to change. most am

reserve you what he's been accused of bear in mind i was the consensus in the united nations statement on reported medical records suggesting innocent has been unfairly treated in prison both mentally and physically if a songe had health risks which was known in fact why send him to a maximum security prison like belmarsh. we could not comment on the health situation but here is our cost said that prison is a maximum security prison for the was screaming out mr ass down is not of that category especially barry remains that he's convicted for viral eating bait and if he has health issues then he needs a different treatment and the treatments he's had been now we've be british. the next big legal hurdle of course for mr assad is this potential extradition to the united states how do you see the playing out does it raise any concerns for the united nations. we did not address the issue of the possible extradition to the united states in our decision and i'm not going to comment on any. substantive bent that. mr sanchez had already when he came to be walking blue because if you rebuild clearly he states the c

unit that we had set up a hospital in england. and i was there for normandy to assist the medical units in the army that the army already had there. of any wounded and evacuate them. and we thought when we saw the bombing and shelling and everything else like they showed on saving private ryan, and when we heard the planes going over, they had to render those bunkers useless and so i guess when whether qui found out much later there was cloud cover and they could not see the bunkers and the bombs dropped a mile away. unfortunately the waves, the first waves and six waves coming in was having a real -- they thought everything would be okay. we also thought it would be a cake walk. >> martha: when you went, in sir, as a corpsman, obviously you saw a lot. and that had a very big impact on you. you say you had suffered from ptsd for 66 years. talk to me a little bit about that experience. >> yes. martha, it was -- when you are a corpsman or medic. we call them medic or corpsman, it's very personal and you see men on the beach there when you up there taking care of them and crying momma, momma. hear guys pleading to help them. this has

units will be sent to the middle east between january and september, the largest wyoming deployment in nearly a decade. the deployments began in january with the g company of the second battalion, 211th aviation, a medical ee iraquation unit, the most deployed unit in the wyoming national guard. the unit includes soldiers from bear river, from casper, carpenter, cheyenne, laramie, and wheatland. this past week, the wyoming governor mark gordon participated in a send-off ceremony in casper for 130 wyoming national guard troops headed to texas ahead of a nine-month deployment to the middle east. the cowboy can oneers, the group that my father-in-law bob brown was part of, they are from more than two dozen communities from casper to lovell to cheyenne to morecroft. this guard unit will serve under the u.s. central command covering iraq, afghanistan, kuwait, and the united arab emirates. mr. president, wyoming and the entire nation owe an incredible debt of gratitude to these fearless fighters for our freedom, so god bless the united states armed forces, god bless our troops, our veterans, god bless the united states of america. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding offic

this morning a patient w escaped a locked psychiatric unit at the veterans affairs medical center in the district is in custody and facing several charges. this is a story you saw first on news4. according to police and v.a. records obtained by the news i-team, the patient remealed the ceiling -- remove of the ceiling les in the shower in the unit. he crawed to -- crawled to a lockeeispace. a nbor who didn't want to be identified said she was able to catch a cab to virginia. >> he went through the emergency room and asked someone in the emergency room, the staff at the hospital, to call a taxi cab.er >> report they called him a cab? >> they called him a cab. >> report: he was wearing his hospital clothes. >> he was wearing scrub bottoms and a tank top. >> reporter: the cabbie hold a woman against herill and assaulted her. the man is being held and faces several charges. the v.a. hospital tells us it is reviewing its policies and procedures. >>> new developments in the chelsea manning situation.s she i longer in federal custody, but that may be short-lived. manning was in the alexandr

have some video and we had joe biden who was saying i'm the vice president of the united states and i can't get medical records for my son, he was very frustrated by the is a widespread problem that just about anybody encounters, especially if you have a complicated history and on have been to a lot of different places and you try to get them to talk to each other, it's a very formidable task . >> cocoa beach florida, robert? >> good morning . >> your experience with electronic medical records? >> i have a question and a question about medical records in general but why is it that different hospitals and doctors offices charge different prices for medical records, in fact my brother just passed, god bless him but i've got medical records on him, about 10,000 pages for free but from the hospital and then i go to the emergency room where he passed away and they want several hundred dollars for the medical records. why is there some discrepancy in pricing and why is it not free? records were on paper, there were state laws that you could only charge so much. now, they can try to charge whatever they want.

countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units documents show that their task was not health promotion the population council an american foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the korean ministry of health. these vehicles are given to help improve living standards in korea for bigger is attack on the problem of excessive population growth. cut it is a truly. god god allowed to eat our modern. well at the new club. the fish can only. because of his that's kill them all original. instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a citizen's duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. western family planners flooded the country one of the pioneers was the american dr sheldon siegel he founded apartment for reproductive medicine in one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. although early

medical college. there is no known photograph of her. this image serves to represent her achievement of becoming the first african-american woman in the united states to earn a medical degree, in 1864. she worked as a nurse in massachusetts for eight years before she was admitted to the medical school in 1860. after she graduated, she practiced medicine in boston for short time before she moved to virginia, and that is here she treated the freedmen there. as well as the free black population working with the bureau. she published a book in 1883 called the book of medical discourse. she made note of her service in virginia. she said in 1866, i was enabled to the agency of the bureau to have access to data a very large number of the indigent and others of different classes in a population of over 30,000 colored. her book is one of the first publications by an african-american woman. nursing during the civil war was been as a nurturing and caregiving role and less of a caregiving role. most of the nurses had no formal training. they provided care to soldiers, they assisted surgeons and helped bind wounds. they dispensed medicines and repaired u

in medicines half of the medicines of in gaza i wrote zero stock according to the united nations the number of medical poem that israel gives for cancer patients and others to leave gaza. for a life saving medical treatment is its lowest point ever the people of gaza are in a ghetto this siege is violence it's constant violence it kills people it kills their lives and this is what people in gaza are trying to end and this siege so that they can live if they protest at the border feds israel buzzes them with snipers high powered rifles to kill children to kill medics to kill journalists to kill women and if they resist using rockets they're called terrorists and my question is what did people in gaza supposed to do if the whole so called it to national community is doing nothing while israel subjects them to be is into humane conditions this is what i wanted to ask you about. this is what i wanted to ask you about because where everything you've just described for the people of gaza sadly is unlikely to change unless there is some sort of intervention now much is said about a potential u.s. plan led by

. >> i'm a doctor in the united states, and a lot of these medications are prescribed over there. do you have any idea how much is coming from here? and turkey's best customer? the united states. american doctors wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012 alone. enough for every adult in the country to have their own supply. when users get hooked, many turn to a cheaper derivative of opium, hair win. a drug ravaging communities across america. clearly this is a powerful plant. something the turks figured out a while back. hundreds of years ago opium was a go-to remedy prescribed by doctors and it wasn't long before it was abused in turkey's cities. but a lot of the rural areas including the opium growing hub of afyon were spared the ravages of addiction. how do they do it? a turkish scholar might have some answers. i think if you had a town named opium in the states, people would be suspicious. >> people are proud of the name itself and what it stands for here. >> spice markets are always the place to visit. >> yep. here are different kinds of poppy seeds. the tiny see

think of it as an intensive care unit where parishes are being taken care of until medical technology can revive them. >> why environmental groups say they're about to sue a chemical giant in contra costa county. >> people in california have a right to do their own citizen enforcement. >> plus it looks more like december than may. tonight in the sierra an updated on roads you should avoid. >> monitoring the roads closer to home. and the radar here in the bay area. paul is back next with the weekend forecast. >>> freezing dead bodies until some future medical breakthrough restores them to full health and a second life. >> nearly 3 first americans are banking on that in three facilities in the united states, including one in the east bay. >> reporter: who wouldn't want to see a deceased loved one again? alive and healthy? for a price, an alameda county company is offering just that. >> this is like a hospital. >> reporter: except all the patients here are clinically dead and stored in huge stainless steel containers. >> it really is a very intense time. >> reporter: one of three crio ge

united states air force. he was 36. he was a father, a husband and and are forced -- and an air force medic. he was from north carolina. on april 4, 1975, he was looking after hundreds of orphans from saigon. the president of the united states, gerald ford, had ordered the air force to rescue 2000 orphans before the north vietnamese approached the capital of the republic of vietnam. while master sergeant johnson was carrying for them, -- caring for them, his c5 crashed. 78 children perished that day, 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend was lost, but his life was a testament to the spirit of america we see here today. i was honored to visit that wall 44 years after the event with sergeant johnson's daughter. when america was asleep in the 1970's, something stirred in the thousands of people here. the shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man who is looking down on us today. in his second inaugural address when he prayed to end the scourge of war, he said with malice toward none and charity for all, let

united states economy. the industry in mexico is growing very fast. or medical services. our capacity to increase in the short term. o close the gap in several fields in coalition with the united states is not about commercial trade. it is about something more sophisticated. >> for north america? with that mr. secretary, i want to thank you for flying from mexico to be with us today and for your comments on so many issues that are important in the relationship between the united states and mexico, but most importantly, your vision of development and your vision for north america. thank you very much. [applause]

united states economy. the industry in mexico is growing very fast. for medical services. or ourapacity -- capacity to increase in the short term. in severale gap fields in coalition with the united states is not about commercial trade. it is about something more sophisticated. that mr. secretary, i want to thank you for flying from mexico to be with us today and for your comments on so many issues that are important in the relationship between the united states and mexico, but most importantly, your vision of development and your vision for north america. thank you very much. [applause] announcer: the annual conference on the americas concluded with remarks by acting homeland security secretary, who talked about the flow of migrants from central america and other immigration priorities for the trump administration. [applause] >> i am going to work on that. that is a good goal. thank you everybody. i know you have had a very engaged set of discussions today.

humanitarian affairs chief briefing the united nations security council on the west wing situation and it led he has described attacks on i.d.p. camps and medical facilities within the deescalation zone there well let's bring in our diplomatic editor james bays who is at the united nations for us james as you said earlier there have been multiple closed door briefings for the security council on this what brought about today is open session. well one of the countries that called for this open session is speaking right now belgium belgium germany kuwait look after the humanitarian file with regard to syria they take special interest in that they have decided that there needs to be an open session of the security council because the bombardment of it which they addressed in a closed session last week has not ended in fact it's getting worse and there you heard from the humanitarian chief of the united nations marlow cock a particularly strong speech u.n. officials are often accused of being too diplomatic and not saying things bluntly but he really did lay out the situation pretty strongly saying that he had warned last year that a full scale ass

actually, i was recently laid off because they sold our unit, it was a medical psych unit, they sold to a company out of new york. so i was laid off. have had a lot of people talk about the cost of medical care. from your ground-level view as a nurse, where do you think the culprit is? where do you think that comes from? it's the insurance companies, big pharma. doctors are caught in the middle but are part of it, too. i think that people are suffering, dying. we get a lot of patients worried about their health care bills. know, it's just terrible. it's a bad situation, you know? we need single-payer medicare for all as a starting point, but it's, the greed and corruption of the system is astounding. our hospital, a single small hospital, the ceo makes $2 million a year and that's just wrong. i don't understand it. david, a nurse from joliet, illinois. brad is calling, a medical professional in concord, north carolina. you would oppose medicare for all? caller: definitely. people understand where want it. if you actually look at what it would be, you would have to ration care. that's

thing huge queues at the pumps due to the oil embargo i applied by the united states in generations receiving exasperated medical shortages due to the financial restrictions placed on venezuela's importing industry and a whole range of other issues which are really not that will help in the venezuelan people i think what's going to come meant that they buy these are not helping the venezuelan opposition leader that we could be a much closer that they can of the truth so president trump and putin they had a phone call about the venezuelan crisis and other things as well but do you expect russia on the u.s. to find any common ground here or is it just too different to find any common ground. well i can it is difficult to see what common ground they may share i think the most we can hope for from the these two worlds superpower is all right we seem to have have some technical difficulties there of course if we can get paul back we will you're watching our team international. live television things can kind of go wrong let's see if we can have paul back paul can you hear me yes he can hear me now yeah sometimes thes

units and grew tough and ignored the conditions. they learned the prime importance of speed. as the drain tested they drew near, medical corps drafted plans. the position of hospital facilities in england would be as follows. >> in the north, scattered over a wide area, the general hospitals. large institutions, completely equipped for every type of medical service. a few miles in land from the south coast, would be a series of hospitals. for which would pass all the casualties arriving in england. here they would be classified and routed to the various general hospitals in the north. along the coast, close to the beaches and --, there would be holding hospitals. fully equipped for emergency surgery. serious cases could receive attention, immediately on the arrival and england's. these were the plans. this was the reality. the general hospital, the transit hospital and the holding hospital. better equipped than many permanent institutions back home. the tent stood empty. ready and waiting for the day. june 6, the day, a great plan is put to the test. >> the medics have moved in and the work begins. stations are establi

united states air force. he was 36. he was a father, a husband, and an air force medic. he was from north carolina. pril 4, 1975, he was looking after hundreds of orphans from saigon. the president of the united states, gerald ford, had ordered the air force to rescue 2000 orphans before the north vietnamese approached the capital of the republic of vietnam. while master sergeant johnson was caring for them, his c5 crashed in a rice paddy outside the airport. 78 children perished that day, 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend was lost, but his life was a testament to the spirit of america we see here today. i was honored to visit that wall 44 years after the event with sergeant johnson's daughter. when america was asleep in the 1970's, something stirred in the thousands of people here. the shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man who is looking down on us today. in his second inaugural address when he prayed to end the scourge of war, he said with malice toward none and charity for all, let us strive to finis

must make good on his promises after a divisive campaign around pledges to unite the country and quote unleashed potential . medicalst here in germany to mother gave birth to the country.

served from 1981 until 1985 and also served as commanding general of the walter reed army medical center in united states washington, d.c. madam speaker, i am proud to represent over 40,000 veterans in my district and rural america, and if you take into consideration eastern new mexico, that this national cemetery would serve, it's over 70,000 veterans. we must ensure that the commitment we make to our veterans isn't reserved only for those veterans living in population centers, whether it's long-term care services for the disabled or respect that's owed our honored dead, we must never forget all veterans, including those living in rural parts of our country. . madam speaker, no group of americans believe more adamantly the importance of strong defense and mission of our military to keep us safe and free than the good people of west texas. their duty was to serve. our duty is to remember them. one of the best ways we can can can do that is by giving them a hero's burial in a national cemetery. god bless our veterans. go west texas. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the ge