National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
To public benefits, so i am sad we wont have a huge future at all working together, but i enjoyed my small time. You made a major contribution to the organization and i wish you very well. The very best in your future endeavours. Thank you so much, director. Its been a pleasure working with you. Thank you, director. Do i have any other members . Madam secretary . Vice chair gee. Thank you, chair. Mark, im going to go a little bit different and stay away from the engineering terms. But one of the things in the business that were all in of delivering projects, particularly projects of the magnitude youve been a part of, is what i tell my staff and my teams. Every project that you do you leave a part of you in that project because youre passionate, youre committed, youre delivering. You cannot be passionate and deliver a project without dedicating yourself to it, whether its saturday, sundays, going to cac meetings at night. You give of yourself. So i want to thank you, especially i want
Line as we give a pause for call tim hortoncallers to call in. We have two callers on the phone line and zero callers vented the Public Comment queue at this time. The final reminder to all callers on the line, dial star 3 now if you want to join specific comment. We will wait three more seconds and close Public Comment. Im seeing one caller with a hand raised and you hear a moment of silence as that caller is elevated. Hello, commissioners, my name is inaudible . Welcome, caller. My name is Richard Rothman and i dont know if you remember me but last year i had a lot of trouble with delta dental telling me different stories of what is covered under the smile program and what is not. How do we know this information is correct from delta dental . You know, when i dealt with them, the representative kept telling me different stories. Its covered, its not covered. Its covered. Its not covered. So how do we know for sure that what they say is accurate. They put me through a lot of trouble,
Commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone number for Public Comment is 415 6550003. The access code is 133 1902636 and press pound twice to get on the line. When you are on, if you would like to raise your hand for a specific item, please press star 3. When you get on the line, you press pound twice and then star 3 if you would like to raise your hand for an item and well talk about the comments for each item. Commissioner bernal, would you like to move forward with the approval of the minutes or wait for commissioner chow . Commissioner ball do we have a quorum . We do. Is he dialing in now . I will call. And i apologize. No problem. Well give him 30 more seconds. Thank you to dph staff
Been destroyed or damaged. Firefighters are also making progress on the czu lightning complex fire burning in the santa cruz mountain. It is burned 80,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties, but is now 19 contained. The fire has destroyed 538 homes and other structures, mostly in Santa Cruz County. The good news is there are no new evacuation warnings or orders. The gains made in containing the czu complex have officials feeling optimistic that they will be able to allow more people to return to their properties as early as next week. Jesse gary has details on that. He joins us live this afternoon from downtown felton. Reporter good afternoon. With containment growing by about 5 every couple of days, officials are now working to take the teeth out of this fire by burning potential fuel before it can go up in flames. Although it does make people nervous, introducing fire to the environment, especially from the outside, but you have the best people available doing that job. Repor