Hearing on the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for innovation. Before we begin i would like to remind members that we have established in the military and the distribution list dedicated to circulating red materials that members might want to offer is part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit that terry will. Send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to you all and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. I also ask unanimous consent that following items be entered into the record. A letter to chairman johnson and Ranking Member roby and the American Association of judges and the results of a study in a recent survey by the federal Bar Association and its members on Legal Practices in the covid19 era. Without objection, so admitted. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. Welcome to the Senate Committee hearing on courts during the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for i
It has been. Temperatures about the same this morning, mid to upperer 50s, even a 60 around the bay. Near 60 at the coast where the clouds will return before we get to noon. 78 to 90 at 4 00. Enjoy a wonderful evening with temperatures in the 70s. Now we want to get to the developing news in the south bay. Police are looking into social media posts identifying this woman seen in this video coughing on a child at a yogurt land shop. Lauren martinez is live in san jose with the latest on this investigation. Reporter tsom intentionally coughing on this child in a dispute over social distancing. The boys mother has identified the woman in a photo lineup are. In the video released by police, you can see the woman walk over to a stroller and cough at least two times over a young boy. The mother says the woman standing in front of her got mad that she was too close in line. The Oak Grove School district released this statement that says in part, we are aware of an incident allegedly involving
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
Good afternoon, my name is scott smith and im a Senior Adviser on the Afghanistan Team and im glad to welcome you all here for a timely discussion on ending the war in afghanistan. Id like to welcome those joining by live stream. You can engage with us and each other on twitter with todays hashtag afghanpeace. Usip was founded by congress 35 years ago as an independent, nonpartisan, National Institute charged with the mission of preventing conflicts under the premise that peace is possible. Usip has been involved in afghanistan in particular since 2002 and supporting sustainable peace in afghanistan is a core priority for us. Our team is engaged at all levels of the process including convening meetings like this here in washington, our meetings with key stakeholders, for discussions on how to bring about an end to americas longest war. We publish details on substantive topics rolled related to peace. We work in afghanistan through our office there at the grass roots level hosting peace
Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con