Refugees are children. More than three million of them. How old are you guys . We visited refugee camps in jordan. Six . When it was 111 degrees. There was no Running Water, no indoor plumbing, but there was a brandnew sesame street, produced with characters that these Young Refugees can learn from, as so many kids in america have for years. ticking this musical prodigy has been performing around the world since he was 11 years old. And hes blind. Which caught the attention of this neuroscientist, who wanted to see what would happen inside his brain. Okay. Shall we give it a shot . Yep. The part thats used for sight when he listens to music. This is what changes in his brain. Jeez, lights up. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking ticking stahl tonight, dr. Jon lapook on assignment for 60 minutes. Lapook 20 years ago, scientists stunned the world when they announced they had decod
To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
Administration when the covid19 vaccine becomes available. Cdc is leveraging its expertise in imization infrastructure to support operation warp speed and vaccine promotion moderning. In coordination with operation warp speed, cdc is working closely with state and local territorial Tribal Health departments and Community Organizations to prepare a detailed, yet flexible plan, for Vaccine Distribution to Critical Infrastructure workers and people at risk, increased risk for serious outcomes. At this time, cdc continues to support partners with its Ongoing Community mitigation efforts including case identification,ing Contact Trace ing, surveillance and reporting as well as testing capacity. To support these activities on behalf of hhs, cdc has awarded 12 billion to each jurisdiction in 2020 thanks to the support of congress. Include nd that amount was more than 200 million to support the American Indian and alaska native community, which have had some of the most significant effects fro
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19 as we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying to build a plane while we were flying the plane, and that is a challenging, challenging thing to de
Microphones anytime you speak. During the any time hearing, the chairman the vice chairman of the committee, congressman kennedy will serve as chair until i am able to return. Beuments for the record can sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an opening statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues its oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Response. Examining the pursuit of a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months that we battled covid19, over 7 million americans have had the virus, and over 200,000 of them have lost their lives. Millions of the phase unemployment and have lost their Health Insurance, and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19s especially on the line as the virus continues to spread across