Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
Upper 80s inland. No 90s in your forecast today. A lot of 70s alongside the bay, ill get to more of those numbers still to come. Weve interviewed is qualified and ive narrowed down youll find out shortly. Our top story, the historic announcement were waiting to be made any moment by joe biden and well tell you who he chooses for his Vice President they all sides right now pointing that is to the fact that his running mate may very well be a woman of color weve got jeff zeleny with the latest. 2 of the final contenders to be joe bidens running mate just happened to be alongside him at the last rally of the primary. California senator Kamala Harris and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer before he clinched the nomination and coronavirus change the campaign. His decision is coming any day now ahead of next weeks Democratic Convention every one of the women time. Weve interviewed is qualified and i narrowed it down youll find out shortly aides tell cnn hes narrowing it down from a list of a
Different every from timber on pretty gray right now starting to get some brightness right on top of the bay, although patches of fog do remain, especially in the east bay hills temperatures currently in the 50s and 60s with double in livermore san jose and alameda all at 61. Well with napa and nevado sharing the same number San Francisco and berkeley in the meantime still in the upper 50s now later today do expect our coolest one of the forecast San Francisco in the upper 60s today while oakland in the low 70s, san jose only low 80s that is definitely cooler then what were about to be in the rest of your forecast i have more about that still to come. Weve interviewed is qualified and ive narrowed down youll find out shortly. Shortly surely could be any moment and when it happens. We will tell you who joe biden picks as his Vice President ial running mate, yeah, and no matter who he picks it will be historic hes vowed to. Pick a woman as a running mate, many believe it will be woman of
A look at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Social Security. Witnesses before a house panel say recipient to rely on the income could be affected by a prolonged economic downturn. The subcommittee on Social Security will come to order. I want to welcome all of our witnesses and audience members, thank you for joining with us today as we bear up under covid19 and addressed technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense the practice of observing and instead go in order of seniority for questioning, alternating between minority and majority. Member will be responsible from youding and then muting themselves throughout the proceedings. Thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this time of need. With that i would like to welcome everybody to the ways and m
Work and how communities respond will look different this year. Already california has seen more fires this year compared to last year. We have the challenges ahead, and there are a lot of them. Reporter cal fire responded to more than 600 fires just last week. Getting on them fast, keeping the acreage down is the goal. Because the pandemic complicates everything. I would not know where to go right now, if that happened again. Reporter frederick lost his home when the tubs fire roared into santa rosa. He evacuated with his grandchildren that night to a packed evacuation center. We sat down and it got crowded and more crowded as we sat. There were a lot of people there. We only stayed about four or five hours. Reporter a scenario that wont work now. It may be that we dont put you in a congregant shelter situation. We may be putting you into hotels. Reporter hotels, dorms, scattered locations, the priority will be social distance. Box mills instead of buffets at a Temperature Check upon