On cspan2. Who was confirmed just two months ago, Administrator Criswell brings to the job a wealth of experience from her role as city management, leader of one of femas national Incident Management Assistance teams and over two decades of service as a firefighter in the colorado national guard. I would also note that she is the first woman to be confirmed by the senate to lead fema and i applaud the Biden Administration for selecting highly qualified individuals who reflect the diversity of our great nation. Administrative criswell steps into the role at a critical juncture as fema contends with ongoing responses to previous disasters, including western wildfires and 2017 hurricanes, while also continuing to manage the covid response, the current Disaster Season and other emergencies. For example, in Mississippi Weve suffered terrible loss of recent flooding, and i know many other communities have dealt with similar disasters this spring and summer. Over the weekend, we also watched
On cspan2. Who was confirmed just two months ago, Administrator Criswell brings to the job a wealth of experience from her role as city management, leader of one of femas national Incident Management Assistance teams and over two decades of service as a firefighter in the colorado national guard. I would also note that she is the first woman to be confirmed by the senate to lead fema and i applaud the Biden Administration for selecting highly qualified individuals who reflect the diversity of our great nation. Administrative criswell steps into the role at a critical juncture as fema contends with ongoing responses to previous disasters, including western wildfires and 2017 hurricanes, while also continuing to manage the covid response, the current Disaster Season and other emergencies. For example, in Mississippi Weve suffered terrible loss of recent flooding, and i know many other communities have dealt with similar disasters this spring and summer. Over the weekend, we also watched
On cspan2. Who was confirmed just two months ago, Administrator Criswell brings to the job a wealth of experience from her role as city management, leader of one of femas national Incident Management Assistance teams and over two decades of service as a firefighter in the colorado national guard. I would also note that she is the first woman to be confirmed by the senate to lead fema and i applaud the Biden Administration for selecting highly qualified individuals who reflect the diversity of our great nation. Administrative criswell steps into the role at a critical juncture as fema contends with ongoing responses to previous disasters, including western wildfires and 2017 hurricanes, while also continuing to manage the covid response, the current Disaster Season and other emergencies. For example, in Mississippi Weve suffered terrible loss of recent flooding, and i know many other communities have dealt with similar disasters this spring and summer. Over the weekend, we also watched
Next ones to get a restricted voting bill that targets access on to their governors desk. Its just a matter of how restrictive its going to be. Not to be outdone in suppression is florida, where its Legislature Just passed their own bill going after voter access and assistance. Minority voters in particular. And like texas, the focus is on controlling what local officials can do about it. But dont look at these locations and presume its a sudden thing. Like i said before, this is a national campaign. Nearly every state has some kind of Voter Restriction Legislation on the books. The only thing they have on common are conservative lawmakers who are intimidated by the electoral results of 2020 and committed to ensure it does not happen again. Also on tonights show, ill be in Elizabeth City, North Carolina tomorrow as head of National Network to eulogize andrew brown, jr. , who is right now being commemorated after being killed by Law Enforcement. The full picture not yet public. Well tal
Resumi resuming use of the vaccine would save hundreds of lives and result in just a few dozen cases of rare blood clots at most. The u. S. Suspended use of the vaccine after several women who received it developed blood clots. Johnson johnson has now updated its fact sheet to deflect that risk. Joining me to discuss this is dr. Henry bernstein, Voting Member of the cdcs independent panel of Vaccine Advisers and also an attending physician at Cohen Childrens Medical Center in new york. Good to see you, dr. Bernstein. Good to be here, thank you. You voted yes to resume the j j vaccine. How did you come to that conclusion . Well, its really impressive how the whole thing has unfolded. Remember the nations vaccine Surveillance System identified a potential problem, meaning the blood clots and low platelets. That in turn prompted the full investigation and identification of now 15 cases. It turns out the 15 cases are quite serious and 3 of them were fatal. But that was out of more than 8 m