Believe the job that we have done. They cannot even believe it. I give tremendous credit to the military, theres been a military operation with private people, wait a minute. I give tremendous credit to our military, the army corps of engineers, fema, these people, the job that they have done is incredible. And you should not be asking that kind of a question. Jim honestly i really dont believe youre that bad. You should not be asking that kind of a question. You should say, you know what, it is been really incredible what has been happening. Jim, nobody is asking, what governor, let me ask you this. What governor, we have more test than anybody in the world we have virtually every country in the world calling us, asking us, how do we get these tests that you have, your testing is the best in the world, how do we get it, theyve done a fantastic job and when you ask a question like that its very insulting to a lot of great people. One more. You may have seen how sweden has responded to
Walnut creek. The bakers started at 2 00 this morning and the cooks came in at 3 00 to start preparing breakfast burritos and sandwiches and pastries. The owner started a go fund me fund last tuesday to help pay for the meals. They started making deliveries on thursday. So far they have made 500 meals for those who are responding during this pandemic. Because we have to push through. I know a lot of other restaurants have hit tough times like we have, but weve been feeding this community for 40 years. My mother and father started it in 1981 and we continue it today and now in the face of this adversity, we have to find out how to be useful to our community. Today they will be donating 150 meals to ambulance drivers. They have also fed hospital workers and wednesday theyre going to feed the Walnut Creek Police department. They do need help paying for all this. They have a go fund me account. They are hoping to raise 100,000. So far they brought in 25,000. We have a link to that go fund
Group, reports Public Health officials in bay area counties are planning to extend the shelter in place order to may 1st. The official announcement could be made some time this week. At last check, there were close to 2,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the bay area. 49 people have died. Starting today in San Francisco, muni is stopping Light Rail Service and closed all of its subway stations and replaced trains with buses. This just in, a new opening date has been set for the tokyo summer olympics. The Opening Ceremony is expected to take place july 23rd next year. Thats 2021. So, big news for that, reggie. And relief is coming here for Health Care Workers on the front lines of covid19. Today Governor Newsom is expected to announce an initiative to boost the workforce. Right now Health Care Workers are working very long hours as we know. Starting this week Governor Newsom is scheduled to take up an update on the pandemic and he will do this every day at noon going forward. A secon
Usmca that might come as a result of these negotiations that can improve the outcome of American Workers im happy to consider. Its important to remember that usmca is better than nafta by nearly every standard, including labor and environment. So i hope discussions between House Democrats and ambassador lighthizer is an exercise in getting to the yes that i feel Speaker Pelosi wants to get to. One particular area where everyone can agree is that enforcement across the board is a key compromise that must be hammered out. Factors outside of farmers hands such as an oversupply of grain in the global market, an unusually wet spring across the midwest, and natural disasters like flooding have all contributed to increased uncertainty and less profitability for farmers and leading to anxiety among those same farmers. Passing the usmc will help alleviate some of that uncertainty and anxiety for the years ahead by providing stable export market for american corn, soybeans, pork and dairy to nam
Order. Without objection, share off the rise to the clearer recess at anytime. This hearing is entirely on youll test when it secretary the treasury of the state of the International Financial system. Without objection, all members of five minutes within which to submit extraneous into aerials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I will note of the outset of this hearing we have a hard stop as a crew to see the secretary at one pm this afternoon. We will strictly observe it. Now i recognize myself for four minutes to get an opening statement. Welcome, secretary yellen. I appreciate you being here today. Todays hearing is about the state of the International Financial institutions. I want to take a minute to talk about the debt ceiling crisis that we narrowly avoided. First, were all glad that they seized behind us and. No one wanted to default no legislative branch official no executive branch official your statement says waiting until the last minute hurts american credibility i