Of our native communities. As part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. Documents can be sent to rebecca at the email address weve provided. And all documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Let me find that, now that ive said that. I believe that todays hearing is long overdue. Day after day, our nations tribal communities are suffering inequality, unequal access to Drinking Water, energy grid, broadband, and other problems that have created unnecessary hardship and turmoil. And covid19 is exacerbating the existing problems now. And the Navajo Nation has seen rates higher than wuhan, china, during the height of the pandemic. And weve heard repeatedly about the struggles of the native communities to protect against covid19. As the pandemic rages on, access to ppe and testing and proper san
Provided and into the record to the conclusion of the hearing. I recognize myself for 5 minutes for Opening Statements. Let me find my Opening Statement here. I believe this hearing is long overdue. Suffering terrible inequalities. Unreliable access to the energy grid, little or no broadband connectivity, and reliable funds for the federal government and other systematic problems that created unnecessary hardship and turmoil and covid19 is exacerbating these long existing problems. One third of tribal members are at high risk of serious covid19 complications due to Underlying Health factors and Navajo Nation has seen higher infection rates than those in china at the peak of the pandemic. Despite this stark reality the impact of covid19 on tribal communities, weve seen the struggles of tribal communities and access to personal protective equipment and testing to protect against covid19. Is this pandemic redesign and covid19 cases continue to rise in many areas of the Country Access to p
Dow jones up better than 600 points. S p 500 racing ahead. Over 200 day moving average. A lot of technicians Pay Attention to that. Chicken entrails and tea leaves to moi. A lot of people Pay Attention. Nasdaq three or 4 from alltime highs. Already in positive territory but from all time highs. Greasing the skids, hope for a vaccine sooner than later and Nine Companies are into that, thats right, Nine Companies. Well get into that in a second. Optimistic comments from companies as we speak from andrew cuomo. Hospitalizations also sliding. Number of deaths also sliding that could be a Promising Development when we open up entirely the empire state. The whole drill there is up state, down state, new york city region, everything north. Right now there seems to be growing talk eventually getting new york city addressed. Were on top of that as well. Jackie deangelis following all the fast moving crosscurrents. Jackie, what have you got . Reporter good afternoon to you, neil, after a Holiday
support worth over five ilion pounds to give vulnerable people certainty that we are standing by them at this time. dwp will make the payment in time. dwp will make the payment in two lump sums, the first from july, the second in autumn, with payments from hmrc to those on tax credits followed shortly after. there is no need for people to fill out complicated forms or bureaucracy, we will send the payment straight to their bank accounts. our policy will benefit over 8 million households in receipt of means tested benefits from july. operating in that timeframe could only be done for those on universal credit and our policy will provide a larger average payment this year of £650, where as operating the same benefit by 9% would be worth only on average £530. there are two further groups who will need extra, targeted support. many pensioners are disproportionately impacted by higher energy costs. they cannot always increase their incomes through work and because they spend mor
time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. earlier in the programme it was all about money, money, money, now it s allabout about money, money, money, now it s all about highs and lows. the wind is strongest in scotland. we got some sunshine here and some sharp showers. furthersouth, quite cloudy and damp across much of northern england and north wales. we ve had a bit of rain and drizzle. that s moving southwards. this is what s happened over the past few hours. this raining western scotland is petering out as it runs away from northern england and north wales and eventually we ll see sunshine coming through. not much rain arriving in the midlands and across southern england it may stay dry and there will be sunshine particularly in the south east. here, it should be quite warm, temperatures reaching 21 degrees, but quite chilly across northern scotland where we ve got the stronger winds. this weather front is responsible for the rain moving across england and wales