Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
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You know . It gets hot out here once you get to june. No doubt about it. The official start of summer is this weekend. Meteorologist lee it started june 1st. It started to feel like it and may for some reason. Fog along the coast today and tomorrow. Not factor today. We are under clear skies. 50s to 60. 51 santa rosa 60 at san jose. The city at 56 degrees. The wind has really tailed off. It was front and center yesterday. Thats not the case at all today. Some locations are running cooler and some are running warmer. You can see Half Moon Bay 5. Hayward 6. Livermore and oakland 5. Napa airport off a degrees from yesterday. The wind is still up. The fog will make an impact today. It will be one tomorrow. 80s and 90s on the temperatures. Well above average for this time of year. 6 01 on a thursday. Are things picking up . Not yet. Right now we dont see me slowdowns at the bay bridge toll plaza. I have a feeling in the next 15 or 20 minutes we will start to see a backup. I do see the toll
60 billion kiwi dollars. It is projecting a contraction of its gdp in the Second Quarter to 21. 8 . New zealand maintaining its benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 25 , all pretty much as expected. The rbnz has been at the forefront of supporting the 0. 5 already. Ates under a lot of pressure for this fiscal stimulus, as weve been saying, to double to 60 billion kiwi dollars. Facing a lot of scrutiny on whether to take rates to negative. We will see if it does that later on. For now, keeping rates steady. Kathleen bring in hays. It does seem like rbnz did exactly what the markets expected. Absolutely. There was no changing sentiment in the key rate. 75 basis points move in midmarch, that emergency front, the rbnz saying they are prepared to cut the cash rate further, taking it lower, then that door gets opened even wider. They are saying that the balance of economic risk remains to the downside. Forhey are looking contraction in secondquarter big that would be quite a hole to fill. They are
Secretary Kaylee Mcinerney will hold a briefing as the house vote on a 3 trillion economic aid bill, a response for coronavirus pandemic. Missouri governor mike parson held a briefing on the response to the coronavirus pandemic, discussed the state legislative session and the work being done to pass bills that are and are not related to coronavirus. Thanks for being here today, Situational Awareness update. Missouri has 796 hospitalized covid19 patients, and 115 hospitalized and on ventilators. Missouri hospitals have 1947 ventilators available with 115 in use. This is good news, hospitals are not overwhelmed. Missouris Positivity Rate continues to decline. People are recovering and we are moving forward. Earlier today, i joined hundreds of citizens and Business Leaders from the good morning springfield townhall hosted by the end area chamber of commerce to talk about an update on the covid19 efforts in the economy, the reopened economy, how they moved together to move the state forwar