To try to avoid sliding backward. And marin restaurants being asked to reduce and what Indoor Dining to 25 occupancy. At 10 00, live with how that message is being received. Reporter they have seen about nine new cases a day jumped the past week, even doubled. Restaurants are being urged to scale back. Families celebrating his 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its the first and dining since march. The bug i might feel perfectly safe with the distancing. Even though we are inside. An steppes of utter heat lamps, other customers dining on a 50 degree evening. And they expect to ship more dining out here now that marin top officer once and for occupancy cut by half. If he thinks thats a good idea, we are happy to do that and go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter arendt has been a 50 capacity in only a few weeks. The need to keep guests of part dictates how many can be served. There have been super spreader events described from restauran
Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
H shares in now and hong kong up by. 5 . Pretty marginal gains here in the last half hour or so with it brings us near the top of the 2015 bubble. On the other of the argument hsbc is cutting china to neutral f this rally. Something to keep in mind as we take a breather here from the exuberance weve seen in chinese stocks. One more thing were watching is the hong kong dollar. Now 15. 7 billion hong kong has been injected into the system there. Solid that pair and the renminbi with a six handle for the First Time Since march. The strength of the renminbi certainly helping the equity markets as well. And gold still holding. Some breaking news from sri lanka, the federal bank cutting its lending rate to 5. 5 . Its a big cut, a 100 basis point cut bigger than expected. Economy expanding at a pace of 3. 8 in 2021. Much bigger than anticipated. Lets dig deeper into the ofkets and bring in ahead forpacific thank you joining us. Lets talk about china. Its going gangbusters in the last seven da