Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som
Subcommittee will come to order without objection declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the federal bureau of prisons. I ask our friend florida ms. Lee to lead us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flagr which it stands, one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, ms. Lee. Without objection the gentleman from maryland mr. Ivy will be able to participate for the purpose of questioning the witness if the gentleman yields him time for that purpose, i see no objection. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I thank director peters for coming today and the audience, we appreciate you being here. This hearing is oversight of the bureau of prisons. The federal bureau of prisons is component of the department of justice. Bop to protect society in confining offenders in controlled environments of prisons and communitybased facilities that are safe, humane, cost efficient and properly secured and
Worldwide. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. That means about one in every 2,000 of the people in the world have been diagnosed. In the United States there are more than 1. 56 million cases. So far weve lost more than 94,000 americans. Also breaking this morning, more than 2. 4 million more americans filed jobless claims last week. The total now stands at 38. 6 million americans in the nine weeks since this pandemic started. For some context, thats about 1 Million People shy of the entire population of california. 30 minutes from now, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will give that Daily Briefing. Once that starts, well take you there live. As always, we have our doctor on duty to answer our medical questions. Dr. Patrice harris, the president of the american medical association. Well get to dr. Harris in a moment. We have our reporters fanned out across the country covering the crisis affecting all of us right now. We start this thursday with those eye popping jobless numbers
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