Right here. I think were all pretty familiar with this new virtual setting. But because this is our First Virtual hearing of this subcommittee, i want to take a moment to provide members with a few reminders before we begin. We will proceed in the same fashion as this committee always has. We will begin with Opening Statements by the chair and Ranking Member. Followed by testimony from our witnesses and an opportunity for every member to inquire for five minutes. We will dispense with our practice of observing the gibbons rule and instead go in in order of seniority for questioning, alternating between minority and majority members. Members are advised that the clerk may mute those who are not speaking in order to limit background noise and feedback. All members are responsible for unmuting themselves. When they are recognized for their five minutes or when they otherwise seek recognition. I want to thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology. In order to continu
Politics. Awaiting the mistakes of the past World Leaders call for any cause at 19 vaccine to be free and available to everyone. For Testing Facilities and examine means the number of covered 19 cases could be much higher in a country already ravaged by war. 2 vs later and still behind bars Human Rights Group calls on saudi arabia to release a group of womens rights activists. In this news hour with jobless figures out of the United States 3000000 people a file for Unemployment Benefits in the past 7 days brings the nationwide cigarette to more than 36000000 since coronavirus lockdowns began at mid march shell White House Correspondent can be how could joins us now live so kimberly how do these numbers add to the picture that were see. Well thats a very bleak economic picture because these layoffs are happening across all sectors of the u. S. Economy and what were also starting to see now is in issue only these were in sort of the Restaurant Industry or retail but now as businesses rea
We are placing people into hotel rooms on a daily basis. We have opened four hotel rooms for the noncovid Homeless Population in a very short period of time. There is another one opening today. And more opening over the course of the next week in rapid in a rapid approach. Reporter okay, thank you. That concludes all the questions for todays press conference. I also want to thank john c. Who is troubleshooting our online meetings and ellen mccue from the board staff who are assisting with the Public Comment line. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. During the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members will participate through the Video Conference system to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Regarding the publics participation and to minimize any uncertainty around which items are accepting Public Comment, there are three public hearings on todays agenda. Two of which are expected to be continued. Item 10, the public hearing on L
A pandemic and civil war when tragedies increase the suffering in yemen and the coronavirus is the tech that in a bangladesh camp home to more than a 1000000 will hinge of refugees. Live think you for joining us a whistleblower has issued a stark warning over the coronavirus pandemic in testimony before the u. S. House of representatives rick wright is the former head of the u. S. Agency responsible for developing a vaccine for the virus he says he was sacked for raising concerns over the u. S. Coronavirus response he told the house that unless urgent action was taken the country would be facing its darkest winter in modern history there have been more than 82000 coronavirus related deaths in the u. S. So far our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett joins us live now with more on this 1st of all what else did rick bright say to the house can really. Well overall he was sharply critical of the administrations response a response he says could have been prevented testifying that he
Conference system to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Regarding the publics participation and to minimize any uncertainty around which items are accepting Public Comment, there are three public hearings on todays agenda. Two of which are expected to be continued. Item 10, the public hearing on Law Enforcement staffing and items 11 through 14, the appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review. Both items are expected to be continued to the near term. The public hearing that is expected to [inaudible]. Please utilize this information. We will also display it once those items are called. And please feel free to submit your written comments to board. Gov. Supervisors sfgov. Org. Thank you, mr. President. Ok. Thank you. We have a we will be having supervisor fewer sharing an update from the Emergency Operations center. So we will come back to this after our 2 00 p. M. Special order. So madame clerk, before we get started, just a friendly re