for johns hopkins, the strategy is working. in april they have 35 p.a. and nurse practitioner openings but with the targeted ads, they have hired 18 candidates with 100 more in the pipeline. >> we have to go after them. we can't wait for them to come find us. >> reporter: right now there are 6.1 million job openings in the u.s. in 2016, 46% of employers reported difficulty filling their empty positions. that's up from 32% in 2015. but recruiting people from a distance could help bring those numbers back down. >> i think that discovering jobs online is the future, and i think that location-based advertisement is an enhancement to that. >> reporter: paul knight is a digital marketing expert whose company uses geofencing technology. he's seen it go from the retail space to job recruiting. placing an ad for a few dollars is more cost effective. >> it costs a lot of money for companies to hire a recruiter to go out and manually find those people. they could simply run advertisements that explain the benefits of working for their company. >> reporter: anyone c

most significantly, as a graduate student at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies, velasquezs ally recruited annabelle montez for cuban intelligence. they overlapped with a professor who worked for the state department and was also a cuban spy. though they don't appear to have formed a classic espionage cell, the presence of three cuban agents inside one thief top feeder programs to u.s. diplomatic and intelligence services shows just how deeply the castro regime penetrated american academia. montez would rice to become the premier analyst on cuba at the pentagon's military intelligence arm, the u.s. defense intelligence agency and most effective cuban mole to bureau into the federal bureaucracy, feeding classified briefings to the castro regime while softening u.s. policy toward it. michelle vancleve, who headed u.s. counterintelligence number president george w. bush described montes in 2012 congressional testimony as, quote, one of the most damaging spies in u.s. history. unquote. >> so that's how i get into her story. of course, telegraph the punch line. thank y

most significantly, as a graduate student at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies, velasquezs ally recruited annabelle montez for cuban intelligence. they overlapped with a professor who worked for the state department and was also a cuban spy. though they don't appear to have formed a classic espionage cell, the presence of three cuban agents inside one thief top feeder programs to u.s. diplomatic and intelligence services shows just how deeply the castro regime penetrated american academia. montez would rice to become the premier analyst on cuba at the pentagon's military intelligence arm, the u.s. defense intelligence agency and most effective cuban mole toea

and effectiveness at the john hopkins' school of bloomberg health. my focus focuses on policy solutions to the opioid epidemic. as a practicing physician i know the power of stories to show compassion and i'd like to share a brief one now. in 2011, judy lost her son, steve, from an overdose. i work with judy on policy reform and i asked her if i could share his story she said i'm always happy to share steve's story if it helps the cause. steve's journey began like so many with a lower back injury that led to chronic opioid use and subsequent addiction. years before his death, he wrote of opioids. at first they were a lifeline and they became a noose around my neck. steve tried as best as he could to get well and he didn't want to die but he ultimately succumbed to an overdose after discharge from a rehab facility. now judy keeps a picture of steve along with a note. if love could have saved you would have lived forever. steve's story and his family's resolve to ensure other families don't have to experience what they have is a reminder to me of what'

i'm going to tell a quick version of it, but i went to medical schools at johns hopkins. johns hopkins medical school is located in east baltimore, which probably one of the worst slums in america and it was a real shock to me because i had grown up in canada and kind of canada had a deep level of investment in its people, universal health care, universal childcare, paid sick leave, vacations, heavy investments in public art and infrastructure. east baltimoreto and i saw the conditions, i was really quite shocked. it triggered this sort of thinking in my head that in the livedoes where you ultimately shape your help more than any of your genetic factors? so, i kind of got interested, when i graduated medical school, then i went through a whole bunch of studies in policy, i got interested in how do you illustrate these differences between neighborhoods and the and packs, the ultimate, to militant impacts on people's health? using technology. at the time, this was in the early 1990's. geographic information systems were coming online. i kind of got h ooked on gis. if we can

use our senior medical director at johns hopkins and spoke at the university of florida's bob graham center for public service. this is about an hour. >> good evening, everybody. it is my distinct pleasure to introduce dr. hee hee and then bali because we go back a ways as a change agent experienced in leading change in complex health care systems and networks. he is committed to improving the patient experience and drives initiatives focused on clinical care, quality improvement and systems redesigned mouth at johns hopkins medicine. fda, led the department in the transformational journey to provide veterans with easier access to both the va care in private or cared that he oversaw the va's community of care network, which includes about half a million providers, academics and community networks and expanded tele-health across our vast system of care, treating about 1.5 million patients annually. a significant improvement that was done in terms of providing access to care and increasing access to care for veterans. he is a nationally recognized expert in hiv medicine and health equa

to have someone of your stature withat johns hopkins, thank you. to have someone of your stature in partnership with john top tens, thank you. [applause] clinton: i want to close with somebody who actually knows what she's talking about. [laughter] pres. clinton: keep in mind, baltimore is not only the oldest public health unit in the country, on this score, one of the finest. as you said, even if you got a treatment center somewhere, you don't necessarily have the transaction cost covered. this i think is important. when i was the governor of arkansas in my former life and we were the second poorest state in the country, we early on had one of the highest vaccination rates for basic vaccinations for kids, two and under of any state in the country. i would like to say it was because of my sterling leadership. [laughter] clinton: it is because we were so poor in the great depression and a lot of southern states were, that, the government helped us build out the public health network. then, a century later, when people started suing people over vacci

for the the you who may not know, johns hopkins medical schools located in east baltimore, which is one of probably the worst slums in america, if not north america and it was a real shock to me because i'd grown up in canada and kind of candidate had sort of a deep level of investment in its people, universal healthcare, universal childcare, paid sick leave, vacations, heavy investments of public art and infrastructure. i grew up in montrÉal and what i got to east baltimore at us all the conditions, i was really quite shocked. it triggered this thinking in my head that in the u.s., where you live ultimately cheaper health more than any of your genetic factors? i got interested when i graduate medical school and then i went through studies in policy, i get interested in how do you illustrate these differences between neighborhoods and the impacts, the ultimate cumulative impacts on people self? using technology. at the time this was in the early 1990s, geographic information systems were just sort of coming online and i cut it got hooked on gis. if we can bring up the slide, i just

he completed his residency at johns hopkins -- john hopkins hospital. he also holds a masters in public policy from princeton university and masters of science in health policy research from the university of pennsylvania. please join me in welcoming dr. baligh yehia. [applause] can you hear me ok? it is really a pleasure to be here today. bringing together my undergrad and my medical school training here at the university of florida. my work with the v.a. it is a little bit of a homecoming. i'm looking forward to our conversation today. couplewant to share is a of thoughts about how health care is changing in america today and really draw on lessons from the department of veterans affairs and how other health care systems and networks can use those lessons to drive forward positive change or patients and providers for the population at large. how do you take ideas and put them and implement them into practice and lead change in health care? this up for us tonight and talk about what is changing in health care and how do you think about that as the cont

miller and johns hopkins for your warm welcome and hospitality. the work you do makes a huge difference in our community and around the globe. i also thank our esteemed guest, governor hogan and pugh for joining us. we're honored to have you in our presence. of course i thank our witnesses, governor chris christie, commissioner wynn, dr. comperned, and mr. baum. thank you for testifying and for all you are doing to help us combat opioids and save lives. a year and a half ago at our committee's first hearing on this issue, i warned that so many people were dying in communities across america and that we can no longer ignore this emergency. today the centers for disease control and prevention estimates that more than 64,000 drug ns died from overdoses in 2016, an increase of more than 20% over the year before. to put this in perspective, the death toll from drug overdoses last year alone was higher than ll u.s. military casualties in vietnam and iraq wars combined. every 20 minutes, every 20 minutes someone die from an opioid overdose. if today's he

for the first time tonight we have video of tina frost taking her first steps at johns hopkins. news 4's kristin wright takes us inside her road to recovery. >> reporter: tina frost is taking incredible steps. five weeks after she was shot in the head in las vegas and survival was not certain, tina is walking. her physical therapist and also her mother by her side. she's holding her daughter's hand through days of intense therapy. >> they're not sitting vigil by a bedside. they are active. they are busy. all day long she has physical therapists and occupational therapists and speech therapists that are in and out multiple times a day. >> reporter: family friend amy klinger went to see tina at johns hopkins wednesday and recorded the video. the first time we're seeing the young woman from maryland in her amazing recovery. in such a short amount of time is amazing. >> reporter: amy also shared pictures she took of tina reading a magazine and playing on a tablet. tina's also laughing and talking in sentences. but a concern right now is monitoring tina's memories of vegas. if she ha

i am andrew from the microbiology department at johns hopkins. i've like to introduce our panelists. to my immediate left is the chief of the viral pathogenesis and evolution of section in chief of the laboratory laboratory infectious disease diseases at the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases to the laboratory sequence they influenza virus and is investigating implanted a seasoned pathogenesis in clinical studies and models using seasonal and pandemic influence of viruses. recently he's been focusing on developing universal influenza vaccines. in the center is an epidemiologist from the division of international epidemiology and population studies at the national center of the nights. his research focus on the transmission dynamics of influenza and respiratory viruses and at the end of our panel leads the influenza vaccine development and she supports efforts to support faxing platforms it can be used to generate vaccines against influenza or any number of potential human pathogens. we will be more than happy to take questions

so johns hopkins medicine is using life-like robots to simulate emergencies cents. weijia jiang shows us around the state-of-the-art facility in baltimore. >> even when the patient is a robotic, it can be chaotic and stressful for doctors. >> specially when something goes wrong. >> may need little extra attention. >> here at johns hopkins medicine. >> medical professionals are getting real world experience, in a simulated setting. >> there go. >> the pain rent plastic, but that doesn't mean they're lifeless. >> the mannequins actually breathe. and they actually can bling their eyes, they can speak. we can change their heart rate we can change their blood pressure, their breathing rate >> the center tries to make simulation cents like this 15 year old in cardiac arrest, >> look at communication factors, and engages the learner much more. static while room. >> this group of obgyn resident work quickly to make sure the newborn is okay, asomugha their professor watches every mover. >> made me better physician, when i go out and treat my real patients >> you take the les

among the partners is john hopkins school of public health. the bloomberg america health initiative launched last fall with a generous gift from being innovative research projects partnering with community-based organizations and working with policymakers around the country to implement evidence-based comprehensive solutions and beyond the hopkins campuses, we rely on the expertise of so many other health-related institutions and businesses from the baltimore city health department to the local pharmacies and our elected leaders. so i look forward to today's testimony from a dedicated and edwarandinformed group of important group of witnesses. i am confident that your work will move us forward to achieving solutions. thank you. now i' i am honored to yield the floor to the mayor of baltimore city mary catherine. the plus [applause] to the esteemed committee, thank you it up to the congressman. everybody knows at this point that we are in a crisis. opioid addiction, we are suffering here in baltimore but the nation is suffering and it's importa

the first chair of the john hopkins was already an expert when the pandemic hits. at that time, data were extremely difficult to collect, much less interprets. as head of the public health services office, frost work with -- worked with colleagues to conduct surveys nationwide. these revealed a defining characteristic of the 1918 outbreak we heard about today. that is that the highest mortality was among rich -- adults under the age of 40. frost then published a chronology, which became the model for all subsequent efforts to track global pandemics. today, frost methods are still used to predict a measure epidemics. under frost's influence, the school would pioneer the tactic of teaching students she leather etymology. house, from house to block to block to confirm all cases of the disease in a particularly defined area. -- for students. pai the school's leadership intensified after alumnus founded the epidemic intelligence service at the centers for disease control. many bloomberg school graduates have gone on to become the i.s. officers, and many eis officers in

in fact, one economist, steve hanke from john hopkins university, thinks the situation is far worse. he recently wrote in forbes magazine that the actual inflation rate is almost 2a3%. he's warning that hyperinflation is returning to the country. he and other economists put the blame on robert mugabe's economic policies. the economy is by weight has been in a prolonged state of paralysis spending over ten years. —— economy and zimbabwe. this is done to nehru causes, like the seizing of farms, and much is dependent on rod mcgarvie's political agenda. now it appears he will be reading power and if once gives an opportunity for a fresh start the economy. —— robert mugabe's political. william attwell, senior analyst for sub—saharan africa at frontier strategy group. you are from south africa and have family in zimbabwe. give us your perspective on the economy. family in zimbabwe. give us your perspective on the economym family in zimbabwe. give us your perspective on the economy. it has been recovering very mildly over the past year or so. there has been a bounceback in agricul

tuesday the house oversight and reform committee held a field hearing at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. this included testimony by a new jersey governor and the chair of the president's commission on combatting drug addiction and the opioid crisis. they livered opening remarks. this is two hours and 10 minutes. >>> good afternoon, everyone. and welcome to hopkins. my name is redonda miller and as president of the hospital i have the pleasure of welcoming you all to the institution. as president i have had the immense pleasure and privilege of working with congressman elijah cummings on a variety of issues. we are grateful for his steadfast leadership nationally and on behalf of his local constituents here. we are truly lucky to count ourselves among those he excellently represented for more than two decades. chairman, we are honored to be a part of the government reform committee's efforts to find meaningful solutions to the opioid epidemic. thank you all for being here today. it is no secret we are in the throws of a crisis that reached epic proportions in our country. baltimore is no

korea institute at johns hopkins and she explained the designation of north korea as state sponsor of terror it's really just a political designation since punitive measures against the country could be addressed by executive order. this essentially says today's announcement is really escalation of rhetoric or language. not necessarily escalation of action since new sanctions could be imposed with or without the classification of the nation as a state sponsor of terror. i asked town for her thoughts on what we might expect next. >> i would expect retaliation coming out of north korea for being relisted especially because because tensions are high anyway and especially at a time when administration was talking about you know still wanting to pursue diplomatic efforts and still thinking you know putting out formulas into which we could get back to the table. and this certainly doesn't help that and certainly pushes that further into the future now interestingly enough at today's press briefing in contrast really to what we heard jenny town sed say the second of state said we still as a

. >> i went to medical school at johns hopkins, and for those of you who may not know, johns hopkins is located in east baltimore, which is one of the worst slums in america, and it was a real shock to me, because i had grown up in canada, and canada had a deep level of investment in its people universal health care,, universal childcare, paid sick leave, vacations, investments in public art and infrastructure. when i got to east baltimore and i saw the conditions, i was quite shocked. it sort of triggered this thinking in my head that in the u.s., does where you live ultimately shape your health more than any of your genetic factors? in, when iested graduated medical school and went through a whole bunch of studies and policies, i got interested in how do you illustrate these differences between neighborhoods, and the impacts, the ultimate, cumulative impacts on people's health? announcer: you can watch the rest of that conversation at the computer history museum in california today at 6:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. announcer: c-span student cam video documentary cup edition is u

-korea institute at johns hopkins university, and founder of 38-north, a website that focuses on korea. joel wit, how concerned should we be about this latest launch? >> well, of course, we should be concerned because north korea is obviously moving to the development of a missile that can reach the united states, but this is not new. this is the third test they've conducted, and we've known for some time that they are moving down this road. so it just reconfirms what's going on and it's, of course, very dangerous. >> brangham: the north koreans argue they are now a fully-formed nuclear power. is that true and, if so, what does that do to our diplomacy? >> well, the reality is north korea has had nuclear weapons for some time now, and they've also been able to put them on missiles that can reach other countries in the region, like our ally south korea and japan. so now they are expanding their reach by developing missiles that can reach the united states. so they have been a nuclear weapons state for some time now, they have been a threat to other countries in the region, and now they'

hosted by the johns hopkins school of public health it live coverage around he's been to. >> it is a combination of protection in their age group that has seen the related strain of [inaudible] but [inaudible] also now look at historical tenements from 1890 to 1918 to 1,962,009 and they're all different. they share pictures and come at odd times and come in the summer and the effect more of the younger population but they are quite different and that means for the future we need to have systems to have technology information and what it looks like. >> david, in 1918 there were no pharmaceutical interventions available to help expand the pandemic. we now both antivirals and vaccines, though as tony mentioned, their efficacy is not as high as we like them to be. could you talk about the influence of vaccine history and where i see the field going in the near future to try to improve the tools we had to deal with the pandemic. >> i think back in 1918 as jeff pointed out they were already working on vaccines. mistakenly working on a vaccine for a bacteria and it wasn't until 1931 that it

for the first time tonight, we have video of tina frost taking her first steps at johns hopkins. news4's kristin wright takes us inside her road to recovery. >> reporter: tina fros taking incredible steps. five weeks after she was shot in the head in las vegas and survival was not certain, tina is walking. her physical therapist and also her mother by her side, she is holding her daughter's hand through days of intense therapy. >> they're not sitting vigil by a bedside. they are active, they are busy all day long. she has physical therapists and occupational therapists and speech therapists that are in and out multiple times a day. >> reporter: family friend amy clinger went to see tina at johns hopkins wednesday and recorded the video. the first time we are seeing the young woman from maryland in her amazing recovery. >> to see her come this far in such a short amount of time is amazing. >> reporter: amy shared pictures of tina reading a magazine and playing on a tablet. tina is laughing and talking in sentences. they are monitoring if she has any. >> they are working with a neu

there is a 16-year-old science prodigy studying cancer research at johns hopkins! 16! what am i doing?! i'm eating cake! hey. no, no, no. cake! cake! cake!

tina frost is out of intensive care at johns hopkins hospital. last week she also spoke her first word since that deadly shooting in october. her family spokeswoman says she's even been playing sock ir in the hospital room with her dad. >>> more and more doctors are recommending parents consider a unique donation in an effort to save lives. rehema ellis tells us more about umbilical cord blood. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine that 7-year-old once struggled with a rare life-threatening immune deficiency. what saved her? a donation of umbilical cord blood, rich in stem cells that regenerated her immune system. >> i can't explain it. >> it changed her life and our baby's life forever. >> reporter: studies show that cord blood can be effective in treating dozens of including leukemia, sickle cell and certain genetic disorders. yet, this blood is usually thrown away. >> you could really save a life of someone with a fatal disease who had no other options. >> reporter: now, new guidelines urge doctors to talk to every pregnant woman about donating. a

they met while under going treatment for leukemia at johns hopkins hospital. today the folks at andrews gave houston and jack the vip treatment. the boy put on flight gear, climbed inside a flight simulator, inspected planes and engaged in mock hand to hand combat. >> who won? >> me. >> that's a good day. these pilots for a day had once aboard one of the planes. going forward, we wish them well in treatment and we salute the folks at andrews and the organization check six for making this special day happen. >>> coming up, a woman who caught the sheriff's attention for a profane anti-trump sticker on her truck is placed under arrest. >>> 18 high school football players suspended have you any wool?eep, no sir, no sir, some nincompoop stole all my wool sweaters, smart tv and gaming system. luckily, the geico insurance agency recently helped baa baa with renters insurance. everything stolen was replaced. and the hooligan who lives down the lane was caught selling the stolen good