It is a real honor for us to welcome scott morrison, the Prime Minister of our great ally australia. In his two years of Prime Minister he has heard the country through several crises, the wildfires. The covid19 crisis where australia has an impressive record, and Foreign Policy the Prime Minister led a research and of australias insolent in the south pacific. Australia was the first government to exclude huawei from its 5g network. Australia is currently undergoing, as are many other countries in the world, a challenge in china. States, indiad and japan, and others. Prime minister, i have the Great Fortune to spend three weeks and australia. I had worked for the government in the past and was very impressed by the depths of everything we are doing together. You will be interviewed by margaret brennan. She is moderator of the pbs show face the nation. She is the correspondent for our Great Network pbs. Minister, welcome and we look forward to a good conversation. P. M. Morrison thank y
Warnings no more on the eve of this holiday weekend, officials stepping up at the trailheads. Many people are wanting to get out this easter weekend but officials will issue parking tickets in hopes of keeping people closer to home. Thanks for joining us today. The enforcement comes as the number of coronavirus cases reaches a grim milestone. The worldwide death toll reached 100,000 and cases here in the United States surpassed 500,000 today. In the u. S. Nearly 19,000 people have died. The chief of the Health Organization said lifting the stayathome orders to early could bring a deadly resurgence of covid19. This morning as the Trump Administration creates a task force to look into how to reopen the countrys economy. Bay Area Health Officials are urging people to stay home this weekend and resist the urge to go out for a hike or even just leave their homes. This comes in some areas where enforcement is already stepping up. Debora villalon joins us live tonight from marin where tickets
Our meteorologist for a check of how the day is shaping up good morning rosemary. Good morning to both of you we are looking at a nice day with temperatures very similar to how we ended up on your friday afternoon. This morning, waking up with morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine temperatures for the afternoon, low 60s expected at the coast, low 70s for some warmer locations, but the warming trend continues into the bay area sunday for folks that may be celebrating Easter Sunday. The warm up will continue with dry weather in the extended forecast, details and what you can expect are coming up. Governor newsom says the rate of people being hospitalized for coronavirus is less than expected and that is good news when we look at when the state could reopen. Maybe sooner than later, the state has 21,000 408 cases and 499 death california ranks fourth and fifth in death. There are or thousand 648 confirmed cases in the bay area so far 129 people have died. San franciscos largest ho
Go nats. Were here today talking about good things, reclation. And im going to keep my comments bereave because i know colleagues have been very engaged in this and a couple of you want to make some opening comments as well. But we have three pieces this morning that were kring, s 1665 which is sim pli fooigs access act. Senator hien lak calls it the sore act. I like the acronym. S1723, the ski area fee retention. We all love skiing. Already. Extraordinary. Cant wait. S1967, the reclation not red tape act from senator widen. This hearing is building off one that we held in march where we focused on improsk access ichb structure and permitting to meet the demand on our federal lands. The proposals that were looking at today i think are a good start in addressing those issues. Senator hien wick and widen have put forward legislation to streamline the systems in place to process permits for our outfitters, guides and nonprofits. Senator gardners bill would help facilitate the private inve
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