Dobbs and his team. And all that has gone into mississippi being one of the states that is testing at a higher rate than virtually any other state. That has not received significant federal help. When you look at the hot spots in new york and new jersey and even to our neighbor to the west, louisiana, city of new orleans, the federal government put significant resources in there to help them testing. Understandably so. Whereas they had a significant peak that went up very, very quickly, mississippi appears to have at least for now slowed the spread of the virus and we are becoming more and more confident each day that for where we are currently plateaued that we will not be putting the kind of risk on our Health Care System as was the case in those hot spot areas. We are also seeing now that some of those hot spots are spreading out a bit. When you look at the boston metropolitan area, the detroit metropolitan area, and to a certain extent the chicago metropolitan area as well. Those a
Expected to return to a full schedule later this week. Hardy is up for reelection in november. Hes in a tightly contested race against the democratic nominee, state senator ruben kihuen. Kirsten Joyce the second day of school is about to begin. Weve got some new numbers from the district about their teacher vacancies. They currently have 319 positions up for grabs. Longterm substitutes will be filling in as needed. They already have 18 thousand 300 licensed teachers on the payroll. And are workingo Kirsten Joyce another big problem the Clark County School district faces. Is overcrowding. Especially since theyre offering full day kindergarten this year. One way theyre dealing with it. Is portable classrooms. For example, at William V Wright elementary. They have 13 hundred students enrolled. But it should only have 800. The majority of their students are now learning inside 28 portable classrooms. More than any other school ccsd supt. Pat skorkowsky we know that a portable is not the id
Quorum call the presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 563. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. Ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk carolyn b. Mccue of utah to be United States circuit judge for the tenth circuit i. Mr. Reid i is send a cloture motion to the clesks. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of carolyn b. Mccould you of utah to be United States circuit judge for the tenth circuit signed by 17 senators as follows mr. Reid i ask that the reading of
Businesses get it and now how important it is for the vitality of america and endorsed by the aflcio, so labor understands it also. We thank both labor and Business Community for supporting the immigration bill. [applause] so, nick, youve been involved in ufcw, packing house workers and stuff, and its been my experience as i toured them, and i didnt work in them like durbin did. He was a meat cutter in packing houses, but as ive traveled around, i see more and more of the Latino Community working in our packing houses and meat cutting places you represent. Tell us about that. Im with local cw222 from northwest iowa. We have a packing house in cherokee, iowa, and dakota city, nebraska. Too together, thats roughly close to 5,000 employee, and 75 of them are latino. 75 . Yes, yes, so 75 of the membership who we represent are latino and imMigrant Workers, so, again, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, of the panel and audience, senators, im honored to be here to talk about an issue that af
Or this ill faded flight departed. All flights into egypt. This is despite insistence from the kremlin that bomb theories are mere speculation. The kremlin has now said to be working on a plan to bring 50,000 russian vacationers home, a process now underway on a smaller scale with the brits. So i have Richard Quest with me, cnn aviation correspondent. Also renee marsh is with us as well. Renee, let me begin with you on the reporting. Talk to me about it. This is inbound flights into the United States from certain airports overseas, yes . Right, and they are being very vague. They dont list out which airports will be impacted and thats for security reasons. But this is the first time were hearing from the department of Homeland Security since the jet liner went down. Heres the headline. E we know that according to the statement from secretary johnson that they plan on expanding screening of items going on to the aircraft. They also will be working with foreign governments to assess the