We are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This is the third virtual subCommittee Hearing and the ways and Means Committee. As with our previous hearings i want members to know that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantial debate, substantive debate, even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with the Ranking Member, mr. Smith, and his staff to ensure that the rights of all members are resected in these new virtual formats. Before i turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedural to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee willfi keep microphones needed to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for a fiveminute statement. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras
I want members to know that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantive substantive debate, even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with the Ranking Member mr. Smith and his staff to ensure that the rights of all members are respected in this new virtual format. Before i turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their fiveminute statement. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally, we have several members who are waving on to the subcommittee for todays hearing. Given the large number i will recognize members in an
Im annemarie green. We are going to begin with Hurricane Sally. People in its path have been urged to evacuate as the storm comes in. Sally is a category 2 storm with winds of 100 miles per hour. Its eye is expected to come ashore tonight. Storm surge expected particularly in southeast louisiana, mississippi and alabama. Nancy chen is in gulfport, mississippi. How are residents preparing for this storm . Reporter good morning to you. Mandatory evacuations are in place for many lowlying areas. The winds here are already starting to pick up as the outer bands of sally are beginning to impact the gulf coast. Life threatening storm surge when sally makes landfall. Reportees biloxi, mississippi boarded their homes and businesses. Others got sand bags. The storm is moving slowly over the gulf of mexico, gaining strength from the warm water. The longer it stays out in the gulf of mexico the more and higher the likelihood is that it continues to grow in size and scope in severity. Reporter fiv
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Fox news poll says protests in cities are actually riots. Update to the story we brought you, with us tonight, california congressman devin nunes, he is the ranking republican on house intelligence. He says members of special counsels Robert Muellers trump russia team may have obstructed justice after government document surfaced showing they wiped clean dozens of government phones. Many, wiped, quote, accidentally, before the Justice Departments Inspector General could investigate these phones for potential bias against trump. Plus another update. Reports coming in u. S. Attorney john durham may be on the verge of releasing an interim in his criminal inquiry into the trump russia prone. Well talk to former House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz about what could be coming. Plus this story, news breaking in the fight over democrats shutdown orders. A federal judge has stuck down as unconstitutional the democrat governor of pennsylvanias covid19 restrictions, again saying theyre unconstitu