Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
Disaster well look at the deep sea tragedy that shocked the nation and shook the kremlin 20 years ago. Good to have you with us the world will soon get a 1st look at the Biden Harris Team u. S. President ial hopeful joe biden and his pick for Vice President harris are about to make their 1st joint appearance as running mates the 2020 democratic ticket will make its premiere at a high school nearby home in the state of delaware in about an hour from now harris is the 1st woman of color to be nominated for National Office by a Major Political Party Democrats hope that her profile will boost efforts to beat donald trump in of members election. One time rivals no joining forces to launch a historic president ial bid this was how joe biden i asked the california senator to help them reach the white house opinions are divided. At the top of the ball over the course of a black woman with. The Vice President i think its a little bit risky because shes highly controversial candidate through fre
Hume. Two tests for coronavirus and flu which promise results in 90 minutes are to be rolled out in hospitals, care homes and laboratories in the uk as early as next week. Eat out to help out. On the menu from today, the government discount scheme to encourage people to visit restaurants, cafes and pubs across the uk. The tory chief whip faces questions about a conversation he had 4 months ago with a woman who told police she was raped by a former conservative minister. They are very serious allegations and we do take those allegations very seriously. I think its down to the police to do that thorough investigation, not for the whips office to investigate the alleged crime. Its for the police and the authorities to do that. A bridge of hope. 2 years after the collapse of the main road bridge over genoa killed 43 people, italians prepare to open its replacement. Good afternoon. John hume, one of the architects of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, has died at the age of 83. Received
Revving up their engines drivers take a need to protest against racism. Irans Atomic Energy organization has revealed that a fire at the Natanz Nuclear facility has caused significant damage a Spokesman Says fight is braise could slow down tehrans development and production of advanced centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium but iran will replace the damaged building with a bigger one with more advanced equipment in the past week several sensitive sites have been hit by suspicious fires including a petrochemical plant and a Weapons Development phase assad big has more from tehran on the significance of the announcement. Significant in the sense that were beginning to have an understanding of the extent of the damage has caused like the Financial Impact now the head of the irans Atomic Energy organization. He made these comments when he was meeting the National Security and Foreign Policy commission and he said that the financial damage was considerable but he also said that the in
20 aftershocks. The strongest one was about 5. 1. Which on any normal day would be a pretty sizable earthquake in its own right, but this was the aftershock and that happened about 20 minutes or so after the main quake struck at 4, 3, this morning, but had about 20 aftershocks, a ground still shaking just good news is that while were all quarantine or a home this year already with your family theres no like scattered plan or altogether color out is you know where they are thats good point there in your house. So lets talk about coronavirus now as the bay area continues to ease its restrictions in phase 2 now of the states reopening. The guidelines overnight and there are new details this morning about what this entails Sonoma County is now going to join napa and solano counties in phase 2 and starting monday marin county will join San Francisco and san mateo counties in easing restrictions. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties, those still remain however in phase one which clo