Cbos budget. The hearing is expected to begin shortly and youre watching live coverage on cspan3. Good afternoon. Ill call the committee to order. Today the committee will hear testimony from the Congressional Budget Office director phillip swagel. These projections account for the effects of the covid19 pandemic and legislation enacted in response to it and provide a window into the future of our financial state. This is dr. Swagels first time testifying since becoming the 10th director of the office. Unfortunately, the pandemic has delayed us from having him appear before this committee. I would like to thank dr. Swagel for being here and thank the cbo staff for working to provide congress with informed estimates at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and unusual working conditions. Cbos updated budget projections confirmed what we all know, that the economic disruption caused by covid19 and the federal governments response have led to a surge in deficit and debt. Cbo projects by the
The highway, medicare and scattered showe social distance needed funding by 2031. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, ill call this meeting to order. Today the committee will hear testimony from the Congressional Budget Office director, phillip swagel, on cbos updated budget and economic projection. These projections account for the covid19 pandemic and legislation enacted in response to it, and provide a window into the future of our financial state. This is dr. Swagels first time testifying before the Budget Committee since becoming the 10th director of the Congressional Budget Office. Unfortunately, the pandemic has delayed having him appear before this committee. Id like to thank dr. Swagel for being here today and id like to thank the cbo staff for working to provide congress with informed estimates at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and unusual working conditions. Cbos updated budget projections confirmed what we all knew, that the economic disruption caused by covid19
Been destroyed or damaged. Firefighters are also making progress on the czu lightning complex fire burning in the santa cruz mountain. It is burned 80,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties, but is now 19 contained. The fire has destroyed 538 homes and other structures, mostly in Santa Cruz County. The good news is there are no new evacuation warnings or orders. The gains made in containing the czu complex have officials feeling optimistic that they will be able to allow more people to return to their properties as early as next week. Jesse gary has details on that. He joins us live this afternoon from downtown felton. Reporter good afternoon. With containment growing by about 5 every couple of days, officials are now working to take the teeth out of this fire by burning potential fuel before it can go up in flames. Although it does make people nervous, introducing fire to the environment, especially from the outside, but you have the best people available doing that job. Repor
Pandemic are being handled by the countrys most watched. And honored to serve. A new generation of firefighters include some of the kids of heroes who died on 9 11. Their moving stories as we mark 19 years since the attacks. Well never forget. First, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. If you are advised to evacuate, please do so immediately. You may not get a second chance. The death toll rises out west in a fire season thats as devastating as it is historic. Evacuate now. Leave immediately. Danger is in your area. The mountain was j just glowg red. It was daylight but it was dark. The president face moers backlash for playing down the threat of the coronavirus. The whack job that wrote the book, well, trump knew a little bit. They wanted me to come out and scream, people are dying, were dying the latest covid stimulus package proposal gets voted down by the senate after failing to get 60 votes. I cant have a skinny bill when we have a massive problem. Southern maryland
Heavy military vehicles arrived at the Sonoma County fairgrounds where they will be based. They have been on orders, some of them continuously since early this year with covid. Reporter a third of the citizen soldiers have been a major fires before but all have been trained in camp roberts before coming here. They come none too soon. This is a much welcomed asset, a valuable asset and resource to us here locally. It will be good to get them to work right away. Reporter the cal fire truly needs this help. Obviously the season is already very busy and so we fill the gaps that cal fire doesnt have with resources for reporter these trips will have a very handson approach to provide a wide variety of critical functions, including write up on the fire line. Our mission here is to help the cal fire inside command gain the fire fermenters and how to allocate resources, callout evacuations and key people on the front safe. Reporter other units already at the fires for the last several months or