Via web exthe password is h pc 2023. Raise your hand had Public Comment is called for theium are interested in. Call 4156550001 and access code 2664 775 7889 enter star 3 to raise your hand you will hearted prompt you raised your hand. Wait to speak until the host calls on you. Had you hear your when you hear you are unmuted that is your indication to speak. Call from a quiet location and mute your television and computer. For those in person lineup on the screen side or to your right. Speak clearly and slowly and state your name for the record. I will ask we silence mobile device. Immediate matsuda. Here commissioner nageswaran. Here commissioner vergara. Commissioners first is general Public Comment at this time members may address the commission on items of interest to the public in the subject jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items agenda items your opportunity will be when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member may address the commission for up to 3 minutes if
Updating this. You can check it by the minute. Many school closers to tell you about. We do want to begin with what is closed. Stafford, culpepper, page counties they do not have to go to school today. Thats everything that is closed. Your kids do get to sleep in in Fairfax County and Prince Georges County and Prince Williams county. We want to look at charles, st. Marys out in maryland, also on a twohour delay out there. Heres the last batch for you. Allegheny county and fredericksburg schools, those are all looking at twohour delays as are hardy schools in West Virginia. These are running at the botm to have your screen and we are always updating it in our app. Thank you. And Prince William is already closed for students today. And what is happening out there weather wise and are we going to see more problems . Yeah, a little bit. Not a whole lot of snow, but certainly the continuation of a little light snow in and around the city and as a result, a whitened ground for many. Got this
Of our Advisory Committee members. I just would like to say thank you to her excellent Advisory Committee. One of the great ideas that came out of our Advisory Committee meetings this year was to try Live Audience polling, get into the new millennium son going to test that out now. If you look up the screen behind me, we have our first Live Audience polling question, the least important question that you answer at this years conference. But i think it would be, it will be interesting to see how we feel about it. So there are two ways that you can participate in this Live Audience polling. You can get on your phones, browser, your laptop come your tablet browser and put in pollev. Com food policy or text food policy to the number 22333 and so right out food policy in the message of the text, and as you see somebody coming must be a millennial already got on, answered. Were going to try this out, see if we get any yeses and let you experiment with that. While you experiment with that, i
Food safety. Cluded the federation of america posted this event. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas. I am the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday and so i would like to say happy passover. You know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizations. We were established in 1962 advance the form through advocacy. We focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference is food safety, and agriculture policy. This Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. And opportunity to explore food policy from a diverse range of perspectives. I hope you will agree we have a really Great Program for the shares
But temperatures uniform with the damp dreary north either eastly flow. As we go into the late night hour, overnight, you can see our future radar you dont have the patchy clouds, few sprinkles moving through,s for tomorrow morning, damp and drizzly again, but there is good news in that sevenday forecast. Coming up were going to talk more about when we see warmth returning to this may forecast. More rain this week in and out of the showers and a few drier days to look forward to. Ill see you a little bit later in the broadcast with the sevenday forecast. Lucy . Well talk then, kathy, runners were drenched but not sweating. The slippery conditions forced the runners to take the slower than had planned. Fox 29 Jennifer Joyce was at the race and discovered that despite the weather, the mood was still he festive. Reporter people packed north broad street for an 8 00 a. M. Start to the broad street run in the rain. Im just trying to make the best of it and just ignore the fact that its free