WMAL Interview - SECRETARY BEN CARSON - 09.07.17

INTERVIEW - DR. BEN CARSON -Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Harvey Recovery Will Take Time, HUD Secretary Ben Carson Says

Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, discussed the recovery efforts and his department's role in assisting Texas and Louisiana property owners affected by flooding -- and now Florida.

His efforts to reform HUD

President Trump to host entire cabinet at Camp David this weekend

Ben Carson performed historic conjoined twin separation surgery 30 years ago YESTERDAY. On Sept. 6, 1987, Dr. Ben Carson completed a 22-hour pioneering operation that separated 7-month-old West German Siamese twins, who were joined at the back of the head. Carson led a 70-person team as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and used a first-of-its-kind strategy that involved dropping the twins’ temperatures down to 68 degrees to stop their hearts and bloodflow. The twins, named Patrick and Benjamin Binder, were considered critical but stable after the surgery, and given a 50-50 chance of survival, according to a United Press International article from 1987.