House hearing on the lessons being learned from the coronavirus and how its affecting critical supply chains. Live coverage here on cspan3. Community safe, all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. Weve got to keep track of you even if you step away from the proceedings. Please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally as you know, we may have votes during todays hearing. It looks like theyre going to be later. If we do have votes, it would be my intention not to recess. Members should vote when their group is up and come back immediately. If your turn for questioning comes up while youve stepped away, i will get back t
Hospitalizations, how are you doing . Good morning. Thanks for asking. Our data is relatively constant in the past week or two at the highest levels weve ever seen. Between 3,000 and 4,000 new cases in a state of just less than 6 Million People is one of the worst areas in the country. So thats translating into strained Hospital Capacity in all of our health care regions. Were hearing places talk about Health Care Worker shortages and were talking about icus that are reaching or were trending toward reaching their capacity. So when we hear that, it immediately brings you back to the spring, and what the concerns were in new york in the early days. The fact that you seem to be stuck in this place in wisconsin, what is it you think that maybe people are not understanding, because these numbers are out there and especially when we talk about hospitalizations, doctor, that really tends to put it in perspective for people. It does, and its a little unclear why the message is slow to take on
The president is still demanding an increase in direct payments. Democrats say they will try to pass that today. Its not clear what President Trump got out of all of this. This morning, the New York Post is blasting the president s efforts to try to overturn the election results, with this front page saying stop the insanity and dictionary i declaring you lost. Were also learning new details about the suicide bombing in nashville. Police releasing new Surveillance Video of the moment of the blast on Christmas Morning. Police now have identified the man who they say detonated a bomb inside an rv parked downtown. An american suicide bomber. Theyre now focusing on why he did this. Joining us now to discuss it all, margaret talev, cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor for axios and cnn political analyst, toluse olorunnipa, a White House Reporter for the washington post. Thank you, jim, ill take it. Margaret. Ill start with what happened last night. After 7 00 p. M. , th