Changed . Certainly, the infection is spreading through our state. Most have made all of us stand up and wonder, if were going to say its not safe to be inside of a restaurants dining, why would we think it will be safe inside of a classroom with the kids and with a teacher . And so i think the spread of the virus caught our state laet leaders by surprise, there is a reevaluation at every level including if our kids are safe to go back to. It is a political batlet. President trump says he wants schools opened and number, kids being able to attend each and every day. The science should not stand in the way of this. That was her quote. Although later on she says the science is on our side here. What are the 69 signs you are looking at. We have heard from them as welted and the tests should not be because i want one thing or another to happen. It should be is it safe for our kids and our community. Tat should be the standard. None of us want to see political dictates from any direction, l
Are likely to continue under the state of emergency, at least until the end of the month. But the Central Government seems poised to lift the declaration for at least twothirds of the country where fewer infections are being reported. The governors held an Online Meeting on tuesday. Those from the most severely affected regions argued that lifting the declaration will send the wrong message to thee public. Translatotor itts been wi reported that ththe statete of emergency will be partitially lifteded on thursday. I a am very much concernrned th will make p people too relaxed. Translatotor the second a thirdd waves are coming. We have to p prepare for that. The statete off emergency gi governors the power to ask people to limit social interactions and to request businesses change their hours. Leaders from other areas hope they can retain somome of that influence. Authorized to issueue requests ththe public. Liftiting t the declaration not the end. We must take further steps. The governo
An hour and 50 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Welcome. Im very i think the committee is privileged to see our distinguished careful joining us. Ed rice. Thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing with nikki haley, our ambassador to the United Nations, and important briefing in the afternoon was on the congo. Thank you chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elections one year ago this month. In order to achieve the required transition by december 19th, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government of the drc failed to hold elections last year. And relied on a constitutional provision that Joseph Kabilla could not step down until an election was held to select a replace. Both the chairman and i and others have had ongoing meetings with the officials, including high level people who have flown here to washington. Time and time again we have admonished them stick to the schedule and
Accusation of inappropriate sexual behavior. We are devastated and we are still processing all of this. Sitting next hoda cohost savannah said she was heart broken for lauer and the colleague who came forward. How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly . And i dont know the answer to that. Nbc news released a statement saying on monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. While its the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years hes been at nbc news, we were also presented withreast have been an isolated incident. Lauer becomes the latest high profile media personality fired this year over allegations of sexual misconduct. Including fox news Host Bill Oreilly and cbss charlie rose. Roses colleagues at cbs this morning reactioned to this latest scandal. I have a six kenning feeling of de ja vu certainly because were dealing with our own situation here bu
Tutoro, National Association for decade and won numerous awards and he has a digital poetry book called we, the Book Publishers of america in 2014 and if theres anything i left out, steve, please [inaudible conversations] [laughter] you dont . Thank you, joanne. I have never heard a poet before get the words putana and madonna in the same phrase, its priceless, its priceless. This is im here today, there are a number of people who are my former colleagues from the cuomo administration, a number of new friends, fellow writers who i met here and representatives of some 50 colleges and universities and sharing the panel with fred is really this is de ja vu all over again. 20 years ago i was working in an article about stereotyping italian americans, who did i call . The expert at soony brook and we had never met in person until today. Its pretty awesome for me to be here with fred on the same panel. Federal District Court uniondale number 1998, i sat shoulder to shoulder with my 22yearold