Two hours. This hearing will come to order. Been aring room has configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between senators, and other individuals in the room necessary to operate kept aring, which we have it a minimum. This will be a hybrid hearing. Be present andll witnesses are hear in person and coming in by videoconference. Once you startne slight there will be a display before you are on the screen if you are coming in remotely. To minimize background noise button until your time to speak. If there is any Technology Issue senatormove to the next until it is resolved. I remind all senators and itnesses that the five machine clock still applies. Should all have a box on your those are operating remotely that is labeled clock remaining. Ime at 30 seconds i will try to the gavelo gently tap to remind senators their time is expiring. Speaking order process support brown and you i agreed to go but seniority. E welcome our federal housing regulators the honorable b
Making premendous progress to get people tested. From 2,000 a day to over 25,000 tests a day. In fact, over the last six or seven days, those numbers have increased roughly 30,000 tests a day. If you want to access the states testing site tool, just go to covid19. Ca. Gov. In the east bay, oakland has opened a free covid19 testing site for anyone that feels they might have the virus. The walkup testing site opened yesterday in east oakland on international boulevard. Its one of the first walkin only coronavirus testing sites in the bay area. Its opened mondays, wednesdays and fridays from 10 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. And you dont need Health Insurance to get a test. Napa county is making Testing Available to anyone who lives and works in the county. San francisco will test any resident with symptoms and any essential workers even if they dont have symptoms. The Trump Administration has a tight grip on what information the cdc can release about the covid19 pandemic warning about a long and
Central part of the country. 202 7488001 for the Mountain Time zone. Send us a text, tell us where you are texting from and your name at 202 7488003. We also welcome your comments on twitter and on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. In many parts of the country, decent weather over the weekend, drawing people out, combined with looser restrictions in some states. An Associated Press story and the Washington Times, wellbehaved crowds coming to beaches and parks. Everyoneweather to seemed to cooperate at an oceanfront park on saturday as new jersey reopened its state parks, people itching to get sand between their toes after months of being cooped up. Island beach state park was among the parks to reopen, drawing several hundred to a beach that routinely handles thousands during the summer. Hours, almost all of the crowd stated six feet apart. They also right that the new jersey governor said he was pleased with the initial reports, not only from the beachfront park, but other state resorts
Arent. Well have a very changeable sevenday forecast. Really cool weather and wet weather will not las lets ta about what is going on and notice the winds on live doppler 7 and they are slow and going to be slow. Those refreshing sea breezes we had the last couple afternoons will not materialize this afternoon. Thats why even though it feels the same this morning, 47 to 53, it will feel a lot different this afternoon with near 70 at the coast and mid 80s to low 90s under a mostly sunny sky this afternoon. Again, even hotter tomorrow. Ill show you the newest numbers coming up. Lets get back to kumasi and talk about the news of the day. Thanks, mike. Governor newsom is expected to announce guidelines for beginning phase two of reopening the state tomorrow but most of the bay area wont be starting phase two. Of the nine regions only napa and sonona and San Francisco, san mateo, santa clara, alameda and marin are not. The number of deaths are still going up and we have not lowered the curv
[inaudible conversations] him him him. The hearing will come to order. Good morning welcome to the labor health and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee todays hearing is with the ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts of the supplemental package we have been bipartisan when we commend him my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Before i began i went to extend they were to our witnesses tom friedman president and ceo and former director of cdc in prevention 2009 through sc 2016 doctor rivers senior scholar that hell security an assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schools of health. Doctor friedman will do is perspective of fighting epidemics including leading the cdc response of where we are and what we need to do to protect americans doctor rivers makes a case where the months and years to come we will need additional capacity heea with Contact Tracing to combat the viru