Private companies and universities. It is an hour and 20 minutes. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing. Please keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. If members have documents they wish to submit for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and members and those viewing plotely. Cybersecurity and nasa, ongoing to challenges and emerging issues for increased telework during covid19. In early 2020 the world was caught off guard with the dramatic rapid onset of the coronavirus. It shifted to a telework operations to ensure the health and safety of its more than 17,000 Civil Servant employees. To its credit, nasa prepared for the transition having held an agencywide telework exercise in early march and expanded telework operations. Today 75 to 80 of Civil Servants continue to wor
Hearing is an hour and twenty minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to tulare recess at any time. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to note today the committee is meeting virtually and announce a couple of reminders of this hearing. First, members should keep video feed on and members of responsible for microphones. Please keep muted if you are speaking. Finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Good morning, everyone. Id like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, members, and those viewing remotely to todays space and aeronautics security on cybersecurity at nasa, ongoing challenges and emerging issues for increased telework during covid19. In early 2020 the world was out caught offguard with rapid on set of coronavirus. Nasa like man agencies and consistent with management and budget guidance r
Days take on a life of their own. I want to say good morning. Good morning, dr. Collins, welcome back to hhs to the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say a thank you on behalf of the on behalf of the sub come they for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a real wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease and develop treatments for major depression and shrink cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials and it was a moving and informative, but a very moving experience, as well. Let me welcome our witnesses including the five institute and senate directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins and joined us many times director of the National Institutes of health today joined by dr. Bruce tromberg director of biomedical engineer, the director of
Did not damage buildings. On the peninsula, firefighters spent the night at the scene of a brush fire on san bruno mountain. Its out now but crews are watching for hot spots. We first brought this to you as breaking news on midday live yesterday. The 11acre fire burned in the Guadalupe Canyon area of brisbane. Those flames burned under pg e high voltage lines, but the company says they were not the cause. Right now theyre trying to determine what caused this fire. Still pretty grateful that it is now out. Always, you know, especially with the conditions that were seeing today, they have to watch these hot spots, there could be a flair up. So they want to make sure they have everything out and that everything is going okay. Pg e looking to restore power to everyone impacted by the safety power shutoff. The strongest wind gusts have died down and all 34 counties have been cleared for restorati restoration. Nearly 60 of the customers affected have power back. Line inspections stopped once
Whove had members go, there is a very real while we may never come back uh fear that they are grappling with, we know that of the over 20 doctors at least one is facing significant dehydration and is on an iv drip. But these are doctors who cant get the supplies to do their work and are now also in danger of starvation and medical issues. Care says there is at least one more doctor from the bay area who is trapped, along with three from Southern California. We are tracking doctors in the San Francisco bay area, the los angeles Orange County area, and then texas as well. We have made contacts with, congressman eshoos office, and they have responded back, i, we try to reach out to the state department. Doctor sheikholeslami did an interview with abc seven news before she left for gaza. You can do your part and hopefully it will help, right . For now, our family prays for a reassuring text message and intervention on the part of the United States government. Those people who are making th