Remotely. R by webex, appearing members are in person, let me remind everyone that pursuant to the house attending physician and guidance come all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. I am dropping mine only to speak. Members who were not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is actives webex speaker view. A timer is directly in front of you. Remotely,s appearing let me remind everybody that first, you will be able to siege person speaking during the hearing whether they are in person or remote as long as you have your webex set to active speaker view. If you have any questions, Contact Committee staff. They will try to be helpful. A timer thatve should be visible on your screen when you are in the active speaker with thumbnail view. Members who wish to pen the
Cspanstore. Org. Next, a look at efforts to modernize Information Technology across government agencies. The House Oversight subcommittee hearing includes the chief Information Officers from the governmental accountability office, the office of Personnel Management, the white house budget office, and the education department. This is about 2 1 2 hours. Begin in 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Welcome, everybody, to the subcommittee on government operations. And our 10th hearing on fitara. Before we begin, pursuant to house rules, most members today will appear by webx remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, or at least this member is, let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Im dropping mine only to speak. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. Youll only see witnesses appearing remotely on the moni
Inventing disaster the culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the johnstown flood. Copies will be for sale. Thrilled to be with you to hear her talk. I hope you will join me in a very warm welcome for cindy kerner. [applause] prof. Kierner in 2012, Superstorm Sandy destroyed many places i cared about. It was not in the ocean on a road on it. Stories about this storm really riveting. Especially the Human Interest stories about its victims, survivors, efforts to provide post Disaster Relief in the way in which the whole says situation became politicized. It happened so soon before president ial election. I also found it interesting what all the stories told us about the larger story worlds of new york and new jersey. In the United States generally. In 2012. , i noticedortant that the news followed a pattern familiar to me from katrina and other disasters. The quantitative information about what happened. How many people died, how much property was destroyed in the value of that
To take on south africa in the World Cup Final. And coming up at quarter to 8 shaun ley delves into viewers comments on bbc news coverage, in this weeks newswatch. The leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has called on borisjohnson to ditch his Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union and form an alliance with his party, in the upcoming general election. Speaking at his campaign launch, he said hed field a candidate in every seat in britain, if the Prime Minister didnt drop his brexit plans which he described as a sell out. Today, mrjohnson said in an interview with the bbc that doing deals with other parties, would put Jeremy Corbyn into number 10. More on that shortly, but first, heresjohn pienaar. The biggest grin in politics but what has he got to smile about . Nigel farages party is trailing in the polls but still grabbing tory votes. So his ultimatum to borisjohnson today, drop your deal, leave the brexit party to fight labour in many leave voting areas, or we will take
Please. Good afternoon. My name is jodie maderas. Im here with a message from our members and some of them youll hear today. The message is thank you, thank you for pushing the sfmta staff to do more, faster, quicker, else on our most dangerous streets in asking the right questions. Dont stop pushing. We are counting on all of you. Time and time again, were hearing the devastating, angry messages about the precious lives were losing and its feeling disheartening that were getting further and further away from our zero vision goal and fatal crashes by 2024. Thats because were in a state of emergency. Weve lost as many pedestrians this year as we have in all of 201. 2018. We believe that vision zero is achievable. Its all of us, the board, staff, mayor, our board of supervisors, Public Health, Police Departments, we have to double down on whats necessary now. Were grateful for this team and board for pushing for a new policy on norout noright on rd were thrilled to try a leftturn campaig