Playing out on the front lines of healthcare, and how those harms can drive the decisions and the policies Going Forward that can affect other platforms are held accountable and how they behave. So lets start with a short video if we can. To illustrate the damaging impact that disinformation can have on healthcare professional professionals, on consumers who turn to social media for information, about covid19 generally and about how to protect themselves. Take a look. I have had colleagues that shared with me tragic cases of intentional bleach that were aimed at preventing or curing covid19 by patients who had been misled by social media. That is how the disinformation has spread in our communities. All the disinformation is putting my patient at risk in the sense if people come in that it had symptoms and they havent gone to see a physician because the decided the virus isnt ist real. They were told its just like the flu. By the time they came to the hospital, one of them died on the
The decision and the policies Going Forward that can affect how the platforms are held accountable and how they behave. Lets start with a short video. To illustrate the damaging impact of disinformation on Health Care Professionals, on consumers who turned to social media for information about covid19 generally and about how to protect themselves. [video clip] emotions that healthcare care workers are feeling of fear and excited. It is the first time i have ever been scared. As a nurse. We are fighting viruses. We are fighting the virus of covid19 and fighting the virus of misinformation. Im not even sure which one is harder at this point. I had colleagues that shared with me of intentional bleach in gestion aimed at preventing or curing covid19, misled by social media. That is how the bleach misinformation has spread in our communities. All the disinformation is putting patients at risk. People comment that have had symptoms. They decided the virus is not real. They were told it is ju
[inaudible conversations] id like to call this hearing to order. This hearing will be a little bit different. It is perhaps the first congressional hearing held during the extenuating circumstances of the pandemic. We have a sparse crowd and expanded bias the committees hearings to the guidelines put forth by the rules committee and attending physician. Id like to thank our members and staff for their patience and understanding as we work through the logistics in holding this hearing a part of the eversight of Intelligence Community. Members will be joining us on a rotating basis throughout the morning. And again this afternoon, as we move to a closed session. Their absence now is not a reflection of the importance they place on this matter. We have asked members to watch as much of the hearings as they can from their offices, only coming into the hearing room to ask questions. Id also like to thank the press corps for your accommodation of the restrictions were facing as we seek to fu
Getting ready for some rain and i want to show you the forecast for the rest of the week. As you make plans, youll see waves of rain coming in late tonight into the north bay and the rest of the bay area for tomorrow morning. And then some more scattered showers early on thursday. Well also see some more rain coming in on sunday while our temperatures stay warm with upper 50s and low 60s. Well time it out hour by hour and thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, youre giving me the thumbs up. How is it looking . The bay bridge toll plaza, look, the fast track lanes are moving well and hov lanes with no problem. Toll plaza itself and coming off the berkeley curve and the entrance off of 880, those are all slowing. 601 on a tuesday. Not bad. Mild slowing from walnut creek and also coming in out of rodeo and in from richmond. And that is a good drive. Good news, also, that tom jensen said that judah is open again. He is on that scene and updating us, as well. Were looking towards the rest
Prevent him from unearthing what he calls the grave abuses involved in the bogus russiagate scandal. As we await the hearing to begin and the attorney general, lets start with our senior justice correspondent evan perez. The democrats have a lot of things they want to ask about 92 days from an election. This is guaranteed to be contentious. Thats right, john, and you know the attorney general is coming out swinging. He is defending himself. He knows that the democrats have a lot of questions regarding the influence of politics, and, in fact, president s hand in things that are going on inside the Justice Department from the attorney generals intervention in the roger stone and the Michael Flynn case to his handling of any number of other matters inside the Justice Department, including the deployment of federal police and Law Enforcement officers to portland and to other cities. Now, ill read you just a part of what he says in defense of what he says are these attacks from the democrat