Today, we are very pleased to be joined by acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. Secretary wolf, thank you so much for taking time out of your incredibly busy schedule to be with us today. Mr. Wolf thank you, suzanne, for having me. I appreciated the opportunity to discuss these important issues with you today. You are right about the important issues. The scope of your responsibility is quite daunting. I was thinking about what i knew as a layperson and also preparing to talk to you today, reading about that scope is remarkable. So many facets of our nations security, from aviation, infrastructure security, to cyber security, immigration and border protection. As a chamber, we think about these issues because they are so linked. Economic security and National Security are so linked. We know we cant have one without the other. We are always delighted to find someone with your talent and experience to share with us what is really going on in efforts to keep
Director of internet ethics, alex damas, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. Dss event is part of kqu series on common ground. It is an initiative ream people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good . Next in the series if you have an open calendar is this tuesday at 7 00 p. M. , at the San Francisco exploratory them we will look at how to overcome the polarization. On to tonights topic. Democracy is under attack worldwide. Populism is on the rise. Disinformations tool number one and social media is the platform of choice. What can we d
Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom
Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
Schools are likely have smaller class sizes in order to accommodate the need for 6 feet of space between our students in their classes, hallways. And in common spaces. That could also include hybrid learning with some students in class while others learned from home. Answers in guidance could come thursday during a Virtual Meeting with state education officials and leaders from california is 1000 School Districts members from the School Reopening task force or expected to share their early findings johnson psaki with Oakland Unified Schools will be watching we imagine this is going to fall, you know pp for everybodys can imagine a physical distancing for everybody is going involve extra cleaning disinfecting during the course of any school day. So you know we really want to know what thats going to look like some that the state perspective. Psaki says the district is working on a plan of its own but is looking for leaders to step up to provide more guidance. So lucky says with 35 milli