As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few months, it is feared that ice am a and its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously and have not i. C. E. And its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously. At least 405i. C. E. Employees assigned to detention facilities have just a positive. Least twost at detainees, a potential third today in florida, and five contractors, d
Today, the subcommittee meets to examine the response to covid19 by four of the contractors responsible for managing facilities. As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and detainees. Facilities. As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few mon
They can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and detainees. For fiscal year 2020 congress appropriated approximately 3. 1 billion for more than 45000 single adults and family ice detention beds and other custody operations. Over 80 of these beds are operating daily by private contractors and some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money, money a historically high number of detention beds and demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times but in this moment it is a vital importance. Yet, over the past few months it is clear that ice in its contractor had not taken this a break seriously and have not treated it aggressively enough. More than 3000 detainees, 280 contractors and at least 45 ice employees assigned to detention facilities have now test positive for covid19. Sadly, we have watched as two detainees a potential third today in the state of florida and contractors due to convoc
Also, a huge tree came crashing down, knocking out power lines. Were on the scene this morning. Well tell you when crews expect to get the power back on, and why its not the first time people in that neighborhood complained about that huge tree. And its going to be a hot one today. Certainly hot. Its tuesday. August 13th. Im gasia mikaelian. And good morning. Im dave clark. You called it, but Steve Paulson called it observe that. Yes. And were looking ahead even. Tomorrow looks even warmer. Ouch. Hang in there. It will change the but after what has been a pretty mild summer. We started that yesterday at warmup and will continue that today. There are areas of fog. Very thick. Some on the golden gate. But i dont think thats going to last too long, over on the san mateo coast. Inland temps will be in the 90s to near 100. And everybody will be well above average here. Forecast highs on the left. Normal on the right. That includes San Francisco, which will be way above average highs. Howeve
Mission boulevard after a shooting involving at least one officer. A witness told us that he was tariffing south on mission when he saw a man dressed in black and White Clothing and armed with a large hand gun. He said the man pretended to fire the weapon at passing drivers. He followed that car, made a mock shot and then pointed the gun to me as i went by and pretended to shoot. I could see right down the barrel. He did a pull the trigger motion. I was 35 feet away. It couldnt have been 40 seconds after that i saw the car. It was making a u turn. Reporter police have not confirmed the condition of the suspect. Investigators are busy collecting evidence. No officers were hurt. Police say that mission boulevard will be closed down between industrial and tennyson for the next several hours. We do not know the condition of the suspect if it does become fatal the da will be involved. All right. Thank you for that. Also following a developing story in san ramone. Police have wrapped up thei