Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre
He spoke at an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center. Hello, everybody i hope you can hear me. My name is dan glickman. Michael moderator and former secretary my coat moderator and former secretary. We welcome you to this Bipartisan Policy Center food summit. We want to thank you all for being here. We want to thank our guests and secretary perdue who we will introduce in a minute. This has become one of the most talked about issues of the whole covid19 issues. Have to relate to the food supply from production to the processing to the distributing to the conception and how it affects farmers, how it affects processors and how it affects the average persons and the hungry. We are delighted to be here. We cannot delve into every issue because of the time but it is a way to start the discussion. We think you will have an interesting time listening to this very important issue about feeding this country. I would like to welcome everybody and thank you policy center for hosting this
And san jose did a bit earlier and highs only in the 50s today and pattern for us and highs have struggled to get out in the mid and upper 50s with possible thunderstorms and keep an eye on things for later today and coldest air yet to arrive and later tonight and tomorrow and bit of rain shower abilityivity mainly north of the golden gate after that its 50s and scattered showers, thundershowers look to be on the old weather menu with temperatures struggling to get up in the 50s and quite a weather pattern today. Several cars crashed just before 3 00 this afternoon and all southbound lanes were blocked to traffic as chp investigated. Officers have yet to say what led to the crash. 7 02 and number of bay area cases of the coronavirus keeps going way up. Right now theres 886 cases including 17 deaths. This map youre looking at shows the latest numbers county by county and Santa Clara County has 321 cases and 13 people have died. San mateo and San Francisco and alameda counties each have
The ad. You were watching from around the world. Friday it will for your info and to hit and run when they do so much for joining us. We begin with confirmation of a widely expected move by japan that grows more cold water on the struggling korea japan relationship improved and you risk textbooks that claim koreas coco islands and its new diplomatic blue paper shows no movement on the wartime sexual slavery issue of Foreign Affairs correspondent of how he reports and how these measures may have re some of the gains from last months summit talks in tokyo and washington. Eight out of twelve texted that will be used in japanese Elementary Schools starting next spring will falsely state that for mystical island is part of the pack. And the eight expats approved by the Japanese Education Ministry friday. Six acre bn is illegally occupying local known as tacky she met a japanese auntie Kerry Max Beck mark the island as japanese territory though it is physically closer to parity and the body
Delayed nine projects by over a year. The cherry creek bridge in monroe county, pennsylvania. This is an area thats flood prone, that was struck by Tropical Storm lee and hurricane irene in 2011, and the reconstruction for the damaged transportation infrastructure should have started pretty much right away, but fish and wildlife review delays alone cost us two years before construction could even begin. So senator ben nelson recognized this problem, a democrat from nebraska who served in this body recognized the problem and offered a bipartisan amendment for the last highway bill, map 21. What his amendment would have done, it would exempt roads and bridge repair projects from federal environmental permitting if the road and bridges were destroyed by a declared emergency such as superstorm sandy, for instance, and provided that the reconstruction would occur entirely within the footprint of the existing structure, the original footprint. Unfortunately, senator nelson never got his vote