Iowa secondhe Congressional District debate. Your voice, your vote. Moderator welcome to the second Congressional District debate in cedar rapids. This is the first of a twopart set of debates. The next debate will be next thursday, october 15. Focus on a few different topics and we will tonight such as education, but still, weve got plenty of subjects to work through for the next hour. James lynch,y longtime political reporter with the gazette in cedar rapids, also to serve as moderators tonight. Audience. Hout an we are trying to keep it socially distanced with the candidates and now it is time to meet our candidates. Democrat rita hart is a former served as iowa state senator in the 49th district six years, covering clinton and scott counties. On the right, Mariannette Millermeeks, ophthalmologist from a tumwater ottumwa. Soft for 60ead a seconds to talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congress. Ms. Hart thank you so much and it is a pleasure to be here. Im rita h
Accusations of foul play. Thank you for joining us germany is imposing a posho law down from next monday to try and stop the record rise in corona virus infections johnson im going to merkel says is needed to avoid a National Health emergency germany recorded nearly 15000 new cases on wednesday as ring in need who is following developments from london so germany needs to germany have been praised for the way its handled this pandemic until now but they seem to be overwhelmed tell us more for us about merkel what merkel has announced. One local service she was responding to a very serious situation indeed she said that the doubling time for the virus housecoat shorter and the numbers in intensive care were doubling every 10 days she said shes been Holding Meetings with the leaders of germanys 16 different federal governments have largely been able to set their own coronavirus rules but what shes looking for is a nationwide concerted effort to bring the spiraling figures under control so
Will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star three to be heard. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You can also submit your Public Comment by email. It will be forwarded to the committee and will be included in the files. I will go ahead and call roll. [ roll call ]. Clerk at this time we have a quorum and its 9 38 a. M. Can you call the second item. Clerk opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the committees jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number listed with the access code. If you havent done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will prompt you to begin speaking. Please note that you have three minutes. Give me one second as i go to see if we have any Public Comments. We have one hand raised at this. I am dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. Later you will hear about the report related t
Like economic development. I know we are not going to agree on every issue tonight, but i want to go to washington to find common ground. We are facing some tough problems right now with the pandemic, the economy, with health care, and with education. The way to get to the best solution is to do it together. Moderator senator, 60 questions for you seconds for you . Ms. Millermeeks i would like to thank the cedar rapids gazette. , am Mariannette Millermeeks my father was a Master Sergeant in the air force, my mother had gotten a ged. No one in my family had been College Educated though they valued education. Burnt in a16, i was kitchen fire and in that hospitalization, i had an epiphany about my future. I was going to become a doctors i left home at 16, got a job, and rolled in san antonio junior college, enlisted at 18 and worked and went to school until i got a degree in nursing, masters in education, and was able to go to medical school and i came to iowa to do my residency in ophtha
Targeted aid maybe, perhaps as much as 25 million for airlines we have details on that. Later, a democraticled house panel calling for a crackdown and breakup of the countrys biggest tech companies. The chair of the antitrust subcommittee will join us later this hour as power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks welcome to power lunch. Im kelly evans. Were digging through the fed minutes just released. In the meantime, take a look at whats leading the rally its consumer and consumer discretionaries. The house panel is going after big tech its a mixed bag but apple and amazon both up more than 2 . With markets rocketing back after the late day drop we saw yesterday, stimulus back on the table. Bob pisani has more on what were seeing here. In fact, were at the highs for the day. Were on light volume again. The volume tends to be lighter on up days than down days recently thats a sign the pain trade is to the downside. Sectors tends to be the cyclical names here banks, industrials, materi