About an hour and 45 minutes. I want to thank everyone for joining us for the official remote hearing. I want to make sure to note specific requirements. Let me begin by saying Committee Rules and practice continue to apply during the hearings. Members are reminded they are expected to adhere to decorum. With that said, the period designated by the speaker, 965, from the rules committee in a manner that respects the rights of all members to participate. House regulations require members to be visible during the proceedings so keep your camera on. Also if you participate in other proceedings please exit this one and log back in later. Of the member encounters technical issues that prevent them from being recognized for their questioning i will go to the next available measure member of the same party and recognize that member of the next appropriate time slot provided they have returned to the proceedings. Should the members time be interrupted by technical issues i will recognize the n
The Coronavirus Relief packages passed by congress. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I want to thank everyone especially our witnesses for joining us today for our committees hybrid hearing. I want to make sure to note some important requirements. Let me begin by saying that standing house and Committee Rules and practice will continue to apply during hybrid proceedings. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceeding. So, please, keep your cameras on. And remember to remain muted until you are recognized to minimize background noise. In accordance with the rules established under hr965, staff have been advised to mute participants only in the event there is inadvertent background noise. For those members here in the room, i urge members and staff to wear masks while in the hearing room and i thank you in advance for your commitment to a safe enviro
Allowed to open this school year with in class instruction unless the counties remain off the list for two weeks. He was joined by the States Health secretary at the briefing. Gov. Newsom to make sure that we are attending, as anticipate this time of year, to so many other responsibilities. I want to talk about what we are putting out in terms of guidance and guidelines for education in the state of california in the context of covid19. We will go through a list of specific recommendations, specific guidance, as well as allting you, as we do on the information related to Positivity Rates, hospitalization rates and icus in the state. Let me begin first with foundational framework. That is our bottom line. That learning in the state of california is simply nonnegotiable that schools must provide meaningful instruction during this pandemic, whether they are physically opened, the schools, or not. That is what i want to talk about specifically today. Students, teachers, staff and parents,
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So excited. Come on, a little bit more. After 40 days of dry weather, right in the middle of winter, we are finally looking firefighters in Contra Costa County are at rain this morning, not a lot unfortunately but we are ending investigating a house fire that the dry stretch and you can see the radar right behind me. Happened last night. We are dealing with a few scattered showers this morning. So rolling through your morning, we will have mostly cloudy skies and the showers a fire official says when crews are going to continue to march arrived there was across the bay area. Heavy smoke and fire throughout temperatures this morning in the mid40s to mid50s with all the home. Residents who escaped told First Responders an elderly woman was still inside, that woman did not survive. Two of that cloud cover. Other people were treated. This rain is not going to last. By lunchtime we turn dry and there is a new development breezy as we get in the second involving the firing of Oakland Police