The hearing on the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning, and thank the senators and our witnesses or joining us from around the country at various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing, and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on her weight in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we returned to our witnesses for their statements of about five minutes each, if they could please summarize them and oh, there it is. And senators will each have five minute rounds of questions. We have a vote at 11 40, so we we will need to finish this hearing about noon and hopefully all the senators will have by that time a chance to ask the questions. The question for administrators of 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in
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Marine county is going to be in clear view to just a couple lingering sprinkles here and theyre mostly offshore besides that it is just colder and clear today. I think will take the cold weather as opposed to the wrong windy d super any weather we had yesterday though 30s and 40s for your current temperatures livermore to dublin hayward same a tale that much of the north bay down into the 30s right now Berkeley Oakland San Francisco among areas in the 40s we are all colder than yesterday most notably in areas like novato map especially down 15 degrees from yesterday. Now working our way into the afternoon will turn this colder in clear morning into a clear and warmer afternoon. Daytime highs into the low to mid 50s cool. But Clear Conditions and dry most importantly into the weekend ive got your weekend forecast what to expect for the niners game on sunday all still to come becca looking for to hear that forecast on sunday checking conditions outside right now your commute into San Fra
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