This evening as the numbers continue to rise, local counties might be making some drastic changes. Here. This comes as california hits 1 million confirmed covid cases today. Its the second state to hit that grim milestone. Texas was the first. California the most populous state, also hit a record for the most new cases since august. Bay area counties also seeing their numbers rise. Each day were hearing a different plan from almost every county. Today its Alameda County. Heres nbc bay areas melissa colorado. Reporter right now, Alameda County is in the orange teefrie but with covid19 cases on the rise, the Public Health Department Says its very likely the county is going to be heading towards the red tier. Business employees said theyre worried about the purple tier. I kept thinking when should i cut bait. Reporter for the nearly seven months that the rise body works gym in alameda was shut down, owner john beal was carrying a heavy load on his shoulders. You start looking at Bank Acco
The fire started. They say its clear the fire almost instantly overwhelmed them. There was an extraordinarily hot fire and the bodies do exhibit signs of extreme thermal damage. Reporter also a grim change in tactics. Just before 10 00 this morning, this went from a rescue mission t to a recovery operation. A total of 34 people are presumed dead. Only 20 have been recovered. The five survivors are all conception crew members, including the ships captain. All were stationed on the top deck when the fire started. Today we also learned that many of the victims were from northern california. Today a mother of one of those 34 victims showed up at the shoreline memorial. We showed up because my daughter, alexander kurtz, was on the conception. And she died. I can tell you that very poignant duty that we have. Reporter a vly shaken sheriff says hes spoken to many moms and dads who have happen and why were so many lives lost . And they will rely on us to do everything in our power to find out
Employees that looked pornography on their work computer and a third accessed child pornography at work. The Inspector General found another employee made unwelcomed advances between female. Utah congressman is chair of the House Oversight committee. Weve come to order, without objection the chair has authorized a recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled kmming employee misconduct at the epa. Its a topic weve addressed a few times but it doesnt seem to be getting better. We will continue to highlight this as long as it takes because in my opinion the epa is one of the most toxic places in the federal government to work and if you dont get rid of the toxicity of the employees there at the epa, were doing a great disservice to this country. Most of them are good hardworking, they care, work hard, but you have some bad apples at the epa and theyre not being dealt with and not being addressed. Well look forward to talking about this. The Inspector General has done some good quality w
I do have a couple of suggestions that you may find useful as you go out there and conquer the world. Point number 1 when you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt. Take it with a grain of salt. We live in a great nation and we are rightly proud of our history. We are beneficiaries of the labor and the grit and the courage of generations who came before you. I guess its part of human nature, especially in times of change and uncertainty to want to look backwards and long for some imaginary path where everything worked and the economy hummed and all politics was wise and every child was well mannered and america did whatever it wanted around the world. Guess what . It aint so. The good old days were not all that good. Yes, there have been some stretches in our history where the economy grew much faster or when government ran more smoothly. There were moments when immediately after world war ii, for example, or the end of the cold war, when the world be
Letter to you on august 15 signed by 29 other members listing out specific questions regarding the spell. When can we expect an answer . You have yet to respond. I will im sorry, when did you say you sent that . August 15. Okay, i will double check and well get you a tentative date no, that will be great. Mr. Westerman, mr. Pearce, youre saying youre going to get back to people, thats the frustration of the committee. We hear well get back to you. Sir, i havent seen it and i dont want to give you a date that i have to explain away. Well, terrific if you can get back to us on that we would appreciate it. In regards to transparency you said that epa was examining different sites that could suffer an epa meltdown as we saw at the gold keaton mine. Youd identified ten different mines now but that did not come forward until such time as there was an a. P. Report. How is that feeding in with transparnsy . Im sorry, i dont exactly know the context in which youre referring. The context of the