it is clear that usda wants to find the efficiency, but is usda prepared to make the changes to deliver these service and inkrecreasing and not decreasin the staff and resources. i look forward to the testimony today, mr. undersecretary. i now recognize chairman peterson for an opening testimony. you waive. i recognize chairman conaway for statements. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for having us to this hearing to help usda to help the farmers and ranchers in rural america in this country, but it is difficult when the chairman has mentioned everything that going on. and the process in the last eight days on the c.r. is shameful. it is one thing for zee gxi jin to use the powers of this body to be using the same good people as leverage because you simply don't like president trump. this committee and the usda is doing the yeoman's work to make sure that rural america is protected and eliminate the uncertainties out there that we can. the way that has been gone about this ccr is now taking these folks to be used as a weapon and shame on or us for having that happen. and we are reducing this

the usda requested a total of $1 billion. for alabama, california, florida, georgia, hawaii, south carolina, north carolina and virginia. we have not seen any updated estimates for the 2018 storms. are you aware of any updated estimates from your economists for 2000 $.18 the 29th -- >> i am not and if there have been i have not seen a number. >> i'm not either and that concerns me greatly. again i apologize for moving so fast, but, for example, and i have the breakdown by commodity group, by state. your economist, the usda economists of the georgia cotton loss was $260 million. indemnity estimate was $111 million and $148 million would end up as the net uninsured loss. according to our ag institutions, the university of georgia. the land grant institutions and economists, you have $260 million in that slot. we show it as $550 million. you show it as $70 million. we show it is $260 million. again, these are land-grant institution economists that we have provided this information to the usda and asked for updated estimates on w

is clear usda wants to find efficiencies but as usda prepared to make the changes needed to deliver these services even if that means increasing not decreasing staff and resources. i look forward to hearing your testimony mr. undersecretary.>> i now recognize chairman peterson for an opening statement.>> i recognize ranking member conaway for an opening statement pick >> guy appreciate you it's important in having us focus on the way usda is going about its business of helping farmers and ranchers and rural america across this country. in junction when is difficult with the chairman mention everything going on the process we've gone through the last eight days on the sierra shameful. it's one thing for ping to use our farmers and ranchers in rural america as a weapon against president donald trump which is something else to have the powers of this body be using those same good people as leverage because you simply don't like president donald trump this committee on the usda has done yeoman's work to make sure rural america is protected and we eliminate the uncertainties they live that we

my appreciation to all the hard work to all those in usda under your responsibility. and the family farms depend on that. and that frankly that the committee makes available with the farm bill. . . . . about 80 farmers to short right now where we were in the sign-up in 2018. we think likely will end up by the end of this week and more sign-up for this program been needed but as you suggested in the question there's others that have participated in the past and maybe they decided not to participate in this. we are trying to reach out to those to make sure they understand the value of this program. they historically have not participated in making sure that we reach out to them. they have been contacted in their marketing organizations if they are part of an organization so we've worked with them so we've done all that we can continue to do that the next week. we've seen that bump in the next couple of days but it's important to get folks another week to make sure it's important for the department to exercise, so i think what you're saying is you are exercising that fle

>> i don't even know where the usda office is. we don't play those games, we don't take grants because the grant, in order to give you a grant it had to be stolen from somebody before, so it's actually not the government's money, the government got it from somebody else and so we don't participate in any of those programs at all. but by direct marketing and establishing a brand and doing compost instead of fertilizer, a lot of latitude within the regulations and that's what we are working on, is where are our -- well, in business they call it unfair advantages, where are our unfair advantages within the system, let's leverage those and see if we can exploit those little cracks in the structure. >> what's your take on gmo and organic? >> well, gmo, i'm guest genetically modified organisms, i do appreciate research and science to try new things, my take on gmo's unlike many of my organic farming friends who want to outlaw them categorically, i say let the research proceed, but if one of your patented beings invades my farm and gives

. >> host: do you find the usda to be an ally? >> guest: if i were president, i would abolish the u.s. -- no federal agency has ever been more efficient at eliminating its constituency. >> host: how so? >> guest: most growth or constituency. welfare, housing, they grow their constituency. the usda has almost eliminated its constituency farmers that were the original constituency where they almost had so few farmers now we actually have twice as many people incarcerated in prisons in the u.s. as we have farmers. >> host: how has that been accomplished in your view? >> guest: it isn't all the governments fault. they are complicit in that they like cheap food and spend more money on other things. so the government has been complicit in creating food safety requirements van eliminating neighbor to neighbor commerce among consenting adults because the government defines what is safe and what is allowable in the marketplace, for example is fine for me to give my child for glasses with mountain dew everyday, but one glass of whole milk,

far, what i'veso heard so far from usda gives me feeling that they are conducting this investigation working that they are hard to gather and analyze the pertinent data. they want to get to the bottom of this. they want to determine to what xtent, if any, there were unfair trade practices or market manipulation. a determination, mr. speaker, won't be easy. effort, require real real persistence, a real deep.gness to dig as i said at the beginning, there are two types of in this town. those that are for show and real.that are for it looks like usda is conducting and investigation for real, thank goodness for that, because cow-calf folks deserve that, our feeders deserve that, and, country er, our deserves that. yield back.d i the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. cunningham, for five minutes. thank you, mr. chair. rise today in support of h.r. would he fair act, which eliminate forced arbitration clauses in employment, consumer, rights cases, restoring the rights of small rs, workers, and businesses to go to court. his is about respecting

in 1943, the usda estimates that 4 billion cans of food were created in the united states. theing amounts pete during war at about the same time that the victory garden production peaked, demonstrating the successful link between the two practices. been a way ofhas life for many americans hire to this, many had to learn the art of canning as part of the war effort. the government's cookbook offers authors and companies, helped american women learn how to can by not wasting fresh produce and making sure to always have enough. the usda would create almost canning centers around the united states to help women learn how to can as well as to share in the kitchen tools that they may not otherwise have. pamphlets were created to instruct women in the process. even children were able to help the war effort by helping to garden and can foods. which for many, turned into a lifelong practice, for some. i will show you a quick video age janine johnson, she was six years old to 10 years old during the war effort, and she .till cans she sat down with me until me about what food was like

usda reports that in 2017, the prevalence of food insecurity among those in ohio were higher than the national average. 3.7% of ohioans were food insecure in 2017 compared to 1237b9% nationally. even usda admits the proposed changes for snap would make food insecurity worse and make it hard for millions of americans to get by. most notably it would remove the current flexibility for states and territories to use bbce to tailor snap to best meet the food needs of their own populations. republicans love to talk about states' rights when it suits them but when it comes to the flexibility of states to meet the needs of food insecure population, then they want something very different. as the economy continues to leave working families in our -- and our most vulnerable behind, programs like snap are needed more than ever. congress already debated these issues. we came together and rejected this policy both in 2014 and 2018 farm bills with a record a record bipartisan vote. this proposed rule is shameful and cruel and contrary to the will of congress. this unilateral action by the administr

the downturn sparked by the shocking forecast by the usda in august.act plunging the most in six years. corn futures did rise the most in three weeks on concerns and trade lines fueling price swings. soybean futures rose the month on speculation china will boost imports in u.s. farm products. china also looking to argentina to meet demand. paul: thanks. the month of u.s. crop report is closely watched by the markets. it is only focus on the u.s. and nothing only game in town when it comes to agricultural data. vast amounts of information from all over the planet, providing its own view. for example of why corn prices have plunged 23% in the past three months. the founder and ceo joins us now from boston. sarah, thank you for joining us today. the last time you were on bloomberg, you said the forecast for corn crops was not good and following the background from sophie, it is fairly safe to say nothing has changed? sarah: thanks for having me. actually, a lot has changed. company, we harvest large amounts of data but we also generate our own predictive

at the summit we discussed these resources like usda's new margin recovery program. this revamped voluntary program one of many tools available to dairy farmers around the nation and offer more options, more flexibility, better return on investment. our nation's farmers are always working hard. owning and operating a farm is a 24/7, 365 a day year job. no matter where you are from, a strong agriculture industry benefits each and every one of our lives. of course the hardworking men and women would be lost without strong market opportunities. so we must do more to expand opportunities for american dairy products both domestically and internationally. that means making pendling trade agreements like the usmca a reality lie bringing it to a vote in the immediate future because pennsylvania deserves freer markets, fairer trade and increased economic opportunity. has the commonwealth number one industry, the importance of a strong agriculture sector cannot be overstated. as the largest sector of the agriculture industry dairy production remains critical. usmca brings good

. >> cage free, humanely raised can get the usda's seal of approval. we let people understand how much space we gave the chickens to be free range. it was even half this. here it is. free range. right now there's already three more chickens in our free range zone. >> reporter: how many chickens are in the barn? side trn chickens. just by opening the door, putting up this little pen where they had access, i put that in quotations because they never went outside, they're considered free range by the usda. >> they are curious. >> go out, check it out. >> reporter: i buy free range eggs, thinking it's a glorious life. >> they're bouncing around, eetdieetat being worms and bugs off the ground, not true. there are places where they do it, but they're so few and far between of what is really represented by the industry. it's crazy. >> check it out, free-range chicken. you are living the chicken dream. >> reporter: shattering our illusions makes us savvier consumers which is why transparency is the ultimate goal. it also sounds that the truth telling you've do

and usda does not have a strategy to preserve these homes. for these families, the homes we are trying to preserve the only affordable housing in their communities. without congress providing the tools, many of these families will be displaced. not om from their homes but from their communities. and even worse, some might fall into homelessness. to address this problem, h.r. 3620 would permanently authorize the preservation and revite lization program that allows us dmp a to restructure loans for properties to provide incentive for private owners to participate in the agency's affordable housing programs and provide further properties. to carry out the program, it would authorize $1 billion in funding over five years and require them to develop a plan to implement the new funding and thots available to them under this bill to ensure that a comprehensive strategy is in place to preserve these rural housing properties and avoid resident displacement and would establish a advisory committee to include usda on the implementation of its plan. this

it was so shocking to learn that the usda wouldn't even let ziska talk to us about his studies.wn with you earlier this year and we were told you wouldn't be able to do it. >> right. they said, no, we don't want you to talk to cnn. >> when we asked why were we denied a chance to speak with him, the agency said they didn't publicize his work because they had concerns about the nutritional claims in the paper. when pressed further, the agency said there is no additional or new information to share. ziska believes it was once again the agency putting ideology before science. >> i'm a little worried now listening to you because i feel like, first of all, there's real concerns about what's happening with the climate and then additional concerns that we're not being proactive about snag we could be proactive about. >> yes. >> should i be as worried as this is all sounding? >> i think you should be worried but i don't think you should give up hope. as i mentioned before, there are good people in these agencies and they're just looking for an opportunity to put their skills and their ab

i realize that's a different building down the street with the usda and forest service. they are working on making things better. and also this migrant -- migratory emissions that come from other areas that affect our state, too. forcing us into our little caves, our little tiny cars, is not going to change the situation for my constituents, for californians, and certainly to have the state of california and the california resources board dictatorial policies going towards the rest of the 50 states. again, my people plead for relief from car, put reasonable regulations back in place. i hope this administration does not give up at all on fighting car -- that's all california seems to want to do is fight us here in congress and this administration. every day they think up a new lawsuit to go after. we want to make jobs happy in this country, not china. all these things have to be manufactured somewhere else to make these electric cars go. why aren't we mining the materials in this country we need for batteries, for high tech apparatus we need across the board. instead we e

he resigned from the usda.tist who is have been leaving federal government. the scientists leaving because they don't feel supported. just yesterday senate democrats released a list of 38 different times the trump administration tried to quote suppress science across the federal government. it's tough for the message from the scientists who work for the federal government to get out. >> what you just presented add fascinating. it's an angle no one had thought of. thank you for sharing it with us. >>> next, as the candidates come to iowa, it means there's going be a lot of babies. here what's happens when presidential candidates and babies collide. ♪ ♪ yes ♪ hey sean hey dan ♪ imagine a world where nothing gets in the way of doing great work. where an american icon uses the latest hr tools to stay true to the family recipe. where a music studio spends less time on hr and payroll, and more time crafting that perfect sound. where the nation's biggest party store can staff up quickly as soon as it's time for fun. t

the proposed rule change by the usda is undoubtedly a move in the wrong direction. in a move of self-sufficiency, they are jeopardizing the nutrition of more than 3 million people who are already food insecure. we must be clear that food secure is a human right. there is a choice of doing what we can to access the most basic needs like food and water and letting them figure it out for themselves. there is a huge value in self-sufficiency, but the price for not getting there for whatever reason should not be hunger. data from the usda shows that fraud and snap amounts are less than 1% of its cases. which means that 99% of snap is meeting real needs of people. food security as a human right means we need to make sure our families are fed. according to the task force in 2018, 226,520 people in san francisco are residents with an income below 200% of the poverty level and are in risk of foot insecurity. we should be sparing no expense and make sure our community is fed, especially given the material wealth we see all around us in this city. i also, along with supervisor

our bill directs the fcc, usda, and ntia to enter into an agreement to coordinate the distribution of federal funds for broadband deployment. we are working to make it easier for rural communities to access high-speed internet. we must close the digital divide and ensure hoosiers and rural americans are not left behind. mr. speaker, i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the chainow recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. rush, for five minutes. i want to thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to address the scourge of mass shootings currently plarging my community -- plaguing my community and other communities around the nation. the gun violence archive, mr. speaker, which is a not for profit corporation that dissem nates information on mass shootings definesass this where four or ere four more people are injured or killed as a result of gunfire. using this metric, mr. speaker, there have been 33 mass shootings in my district. in the past five years and eight so far this year. 33 mass shootings in my istrict in the past five years and eight

basically, the usda had a punch of people there by saying people had, you know, a month or so to move across the country. we're not really going to tell you where we're making you move to. somewhere in the kansas city region. and something like 80% of the people said that they weren't going to leave. so this is not unprecedented. and one might worry about what happens when the other agencies that answer directly or indirectly to wilbur ross also happen to cross him. remember, commerce department is effectively the department of statistics. it's not just noaa that's there. it's the census bureau. and of course we already got a whiff of what it means for this administration, and in particular wilbur ross to try to politically manipulate data at the census bureau through the attempt at putting in a citizenship question. you also have the bureau of economic analysis there, which produces the gdp numbers, inflation data, trade data, lots of other things. to my knowledge, this administration has not been doing anything to put political pressure on the hardworking experts there. but they mig

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there are 10,000 inspectors for the usda they said they did 171 food related inspections.>> jane, clearly burger king is hiring but back to the -- is there anger towards the idea of fake meat there or not? >> reporter: i think there's sort of like why would you want to eat that? they used to laugh at tofurkey it's a tiny market and not laughing at them they see the momentum and they think it's false claims of resources used or how healthy it is and they want to get in front of it but the big thing is the lab-based meat if it's cellular, meat, you don't need animals, will people eat that will it be economical at some point in that's the threat they're watching. >> jane wells, thank you very much beautiful shot down at the ranch. the ranchers. >> that's how i said it. >> pronounced correctly. >>> an upcoming recession? y t wa bthca looking yacht this manoalyse e se that's why we built a portal into the future. good luck brad! and brad's in the future. uh, with vmware cloud foundation, cdw can deploy a flexible hybrid cloud solution that can scale with your needs. today and i

. -- eporter: beef numbe e meat industry is regulated stringently by the usda, but plant-based productsre regulated by the fda. but if fake meat burgers cannot be eaten raw and have to be refrigerated just like meat, kevin cokester of the national beef association thinks they should be regulatedme by . >> we want to have the same inspection processes and have the consumer and public confident that those products are r:fe. >> reporeef number two -- claims that plant-based meat use a fraction of the land to produce t same amount of protein as cattle. brett crosby says all land is not created equal. >> 90% of the land grazed by cattle has no oer productive use. >> reporter: then there's the callover whether you can fake meat meat. 13 states, including montana, have psed laws or resolutions about labelling,ll saying you can'tng call somet meat unless it comes off an animal. but perhaps the greatest long-term concern could be meat made in a lab, actual meat, not pltit-based sutes. who nds an animal? have you tried a plant-based meat? >> i'v tried them all. yes, i have. >> are you kidding me?

the founding member of usda and -- more more than 4050 businesses associations chambers and friends and fellows. leading up to the august recess we have added pro usmca sign in letter that included more than 600 businesses, agricultural associations and chambers of commerce representing all 50 states and 30 industries. during the recess we have followed lawmakers holding more than 90 district events with members of congress. since the beginning of the w yer we have held 740 meetings with members of the congress and/or their staff and by the way lots and lots of those back home. a lot is at stake. you will hear more of that from others here and still no coasting to the finish line. working together with the chamber federation and getting to the point where we get adequate numbers of democrats who are making the right noises and the right commitments to make this go is very important to us. one of our great supporters is governor doug ducey from arizona. he is hereus with us today. we are going to keep the pressure on together until this job gets done. he is closest to the action, right n

. >> reporter: if bread has a seal that says usda organic it was made with at least 95% organic ingredientse not grown with synthetic pesticides. another word to pay attention to here is fiber. look for a package that says good source of fiber. along with keeping your digestive system in good working order, it can make sure you feel fuller longer. >> i go for five grams of fiber or more. is that good, michael? >> yes. >> dr. finney at your service. thank you, michael. >>> we'll use your service, michael. good evening. live doppler 7 showing you mainly clear conditions across the bay area. in the sierra this is interesting. i know it's late summer but it's a little bit of snow up there at the highest elevations mixing in with thunder and some showers. so if you are getting away and heading to tahoe over the next couple of days, it's actually going to all change. it will be back to summer weather. let's take a look at the forecast for the next three days. it's going to be sunny to partly cloudy. partly cloudy sunday. one thing i want to tell you is tomorrow morning expecting some frost. 29 de

. >> could you give us an update on the conversations you having with the white house and the usda about the renewable fuel standard and the waiver issue that's going on. >> will continue to have a very good conversation. thank you. >> next question. >> administrator wheeler, over here. two-part question. one, can you say definitively now whether the safe rule will not be the preferred option, whether it will increase the standards of some of whether it half or 1%? can also address revoking the waiver now as a separate rule, what does it do to the legal strategy? do think that speeds up the administrations corporate view of this issue and you think it's feasible you can see the supreme court take action or consider this before the end of the first of? >> i'm going to defer to my general counsel on the second half, but dasher now a country over the the first half of the question. [inaudible] >> we are looking at all the options right now. we've not made a final decision yet on what the standards will be. i think i'm on record saying the final will not look exactly the same with that we pr

the usda report from the hungriest americans aren't african american and latino households, particularlyn the south and rural communities. adam says that's because these areas also have high levels of concentrated poverty and with little access to jobs have been stuck in the same cycle for decades people aren't getting the incomes they need to be able to survive now is talk of another recession, looms, adam says congress should continue to fund federal housing and nutrition assistance programs and states should focus on creating jobs in the areas that need them most in washington, i'm just eaten or. well apple's big product unveiling is tomorrow. >>well and cupertino are you excited well, they will likely unveil new iphones but experts say don't expect anything 5 g capable foldable or very different from last year i feel like that's normal path. her right. according to reports apple will likely show off 3 new high in phones, including the iphone 11 pro the iphone 11 pro maks and just a basic iphone 11. so the apple watch and the ipad and can also get an upgrade. we shall see. still ahead

when i say america = three other country in the world but if you go and look to the usda, the department agriculture, and you go and put a now something in the old-age used to be in the food pyramid now they are more interplanetary and i don't know why they change it, but that's fine if you look what they tell us on my plate of toast you we should be eating 60, 70% of fruits and vegetables. we should all be clapping to our government saying they want us better, they want us hope because they want an america that is invincible but when you go to the farm bill and see how much money the government puts towards subsidies it's like one or 2% of the entire farm bill so they want us to eat more vegetables, they are telling us 70%, but the government doesn't support the money to make sure. i have no problem with the big corn farmers, the farmers and everybody else to make money. i am a business guy, but the subsidies of making the big companies. they don't receive the same subsidies. i'm only asking why we don't level out the playing field if we give to the big organizatio organizations. what d

i know in may, there was a symposium that nih participated with the usda and collaboration with research opportunities that may lead to transitional benefits and other fields looking at animal research and how -- specifically on farm animals of curious to where you see that going and what benefits might come out of that. that's one area want to talk about and the other area i want to ask you to address is the anti resistance and what our strategy is for commanding superbugs if you will. >> those are both great questions and i'll start seeing that they should signal me. basically you're quite right and it's a great opportunity for looking at health issues by comparing what happens between animals and people. so we are all rather similar when you start looking closely and various metabolic classes and we at many nih have tried at many decades to build on that in instances where we want to understand and the model that appears and he farm animal and use something from that from the actual mechanism that's by squabble to three. in some instance right now there is great concern about the east

the usda report from the hungriest americans aren't african american and hounoholds, particularly in the south and rural communities. adam says that's because these areas also have high levels of concentrated poverty and with little access to jobs have been stuck in the same cycle for decades people aren't getting the incomes they need to be able to survive now is talk of another recession, looms, adam says congress should continue to fund federal housing and nutrition assistance programs and states should focus on creating jobs in the areas that need them most according to the report, mississippi ranks the second highest in food and security with 16% compared to the national average of 11% in washington just eaten or. >>and for your health this morning after a long tough day you might want to head to bed as soon as you get the chance. but experts say there are 5 things you shouldn't save until the next morning mandy gaither has more on that in today's health minute. >>we all have a nighttime routine, but doctor barbara joy jones of northside hospital burnett says the first thing you

the usda is proposing moving scientists to kansas city. the fact that both those announcements happened at the same time that a lot of controversy and raised eyebrows. the interior department has been pushing a move like this for a while, the idea that we cover lands across the country, that we should have representatives of the agency spread out across the country. what he didn't mention is, the bureau of land management has already been largely spread throughout the country. only 10% of employees are still based in d.c. and for now, the plan is to move almost the remainder of those employees out west as well. that includes congressional liaisons, people who are tasked with going to congress every day and talking to congress and pushing the issues of the blm. specialists are getting placed in colorado. there have been a lot of concerns about the legitimacy of the plan and the reasoning behind it. ben: i think miranda hit it pretty well. the bottom line is, these offices already exist. it was interesting, the secretary of the interior that

three quarters of the usda economic research service is going to lose their jobs. as the u.s. tries to shift those jobs from washington to kansas city. this is a big issue. the economic research service, it's a pretty critical report. this is a subset of an agency that dates back to the 1800s. a lot of people rely on the report for crop and planting forecasts. there's a lot of talk about why this office needs to be moved out of washington and into the midwest. >> i am looking at the cost to rent apartments in kansas city. three-bedroom, it cost $1500. >> what about washington? >> i'm getting there. this is literally the important stuff are you how much they have to pay people to make it worth the world to work for them. they have to pay them a lot less. former congressional watchdog officials say the reason this matters and the reason it is , the president gutting this agency is because they don't want research produced that contradicts the white house's view on certain things like climate change or global warming. >> that's a good point. they pointed out there wer

affairs and health services but it would ulleave out programs that the federal distribution program at usda for indians because the program is discretionary whereas the food stamp program is mandatory and so i think taking the steps for advance preparation ultimately looking for in striving for mandatory funding would be number one. >> host: do you just represent the cherokee nation or other types as well? cherokee nation. the treaty was signed between the united states and the cherokee nation so my job is to upset the governmental interest of the nation but likean many of our champions on capitol hill that represent our districts we lean on them to represent iything generally and certainly feel that i could be an extra seat the table and make my voice known as well be one chief, aside from operations what are the other priorities for the nation when it comes to representation in congress? >> guest: from time to time their land title issues. just last year we got revealed an antiquated land title law on the books that was designed to destroy cherokee land titles. those are some issues we wo

the usda had a purge of people there. saying people had a month or so to move across the country. we won't tell you where we're making you move. somewhere in the kansas city region. and something like 80% of the people said they weren't leaving. this is not unprecedented and one might worry about what happens when the other agencies that answer directly or indirectly to ross happen to cross him. remember commerce department is effectively the department of statistics. it's not just noah. it's the census. and of course we already got a whiff of what it means for this administration in particular ross. to try to politically manipulate data. through the attempt at putting in a citizen ship question. you had the bureau of economic analysis. which produces the gtp numbers. inflation and trade data. to my knowledge this administration has not been doing anything to put political pressure on the hard working experts there. but they might be trying. or maybe things haven't gotten bad enough. >> will burr ross, mike pence. same story. you do what the em porer asks. and make him look good.

it is not a medicine, not a food, so it kind of falls into that gray area where the cdc, usda, hard towho can enforce it legally. so the fda is stepping forward saying we'll take more aggressive action when it advertising to kids and making sure that some of the flavors that really attract children, that they are getting out of the hands of children. because we know, one, it can start them down that path of addiction to nicotine and now it looks like the pneumonias are a big thing to worry about. >> a word to the wise. doctor, thank you so much. >>> up next, after hurricane dorian decembimated the bahamas some of needed good up, hurrica wiping out communities in the bahamas, good news for bahamians for students displaced by the category 5 storm. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts

their scientific integrity and independence amidst pressure and we've seen them do things at epa, usda and they've moved some client scientists out of washington to get rid of them. does this concern you? about the future of noah? >> absolutely. absolutely. these storms are getting more and more severe. we've seen five category fives in the last three years. this is critical that we have this climate information that we need that we actually need to grow the weather service to be able to handle this kind of stress. the storms are coming out of the floods, the fires. we don't even have the ability to do the kind of fire forecasting that we have for tornadoes and floods and hurricanes. we need to expand the weather service, strengthen them, empower them, give them more resources to take on this incredible challenge that we have ahead of us. >> what does it mean for the sort of -- for everyone else throughout the federal government, not just to noaa, who are functioning as civil servants, who are working on all sorts of things that have to do with climate or other independent scientific f

it's inside the usda mart.sumers should throw the affected products away or return them to their place of purchase where they will give you a full refund. >> thank you, michael. >>> the berlin zoo is celebrating the birth of its first pair of baby giant pandas. first-time mom gave birth to the twins within an hour of each other over the weekend. it's the first time pandas have been born in germany. the cubs are in good health weighing in at less than a pound apiece. >> so tiny. >> i know, just itty bitty. they have been at the zoo since 2017 on loan from china. >> cute. >>> just ahead, the perfect pair. we're not talking about those guys, the pandas. a miniature horse up for adoption doesn't come alone. his best friend is part of the deal. that's coming up. >> and what's coming up on abc news at 5:00. kristen? >>> we are learning who some of the victims are of the deadly boat fire. new images of what happened. the connections many of those who died have to the bay area. >>> he led police on a wild chase across