Noise. Members are responsible for on muting themselves when they wish to seek recognition. Somebody is not muted right now. Can you check to see if you are muted . Required tobers are leave their cameras on the entire time they are in official proceedings, even if they step away from the camera. Hearing, theremote Committee Chair is officially closed. Members who sit with their devices in the room must wear headphones to avoid feedback, echoes, and distortion resulting from more than one person on the platform sitting in the same room. Use are also expected to social distancing guidelines including the use of masks, gloves, and wiping down the area in the hearing room. Questions, if the witness is also in the hearing room, it would help if you mute while the answer is taking place , because the answer is picked up by your mike and that echoes back and there is usually distortion. The rollcall is not necessary to establish a quorum in official proceedings conducted remotely. When there
[ ] [ ] yeah, baby all right [cheering and applause] okay yes yes happy happy monday, everybody. Good to see all of you. Good to see all of you, except for you. So at a Campaign Stop in pittsburgh, joe biden told supporters to send me to congress. I know. Its clarified that he actually meant to say [laughter] also in pittsburgh to the Police Department is reducing the number of cops on duty from 3 00 am to 7 00 pm and calls not considered in Progress Emergencies will not be assigned to a Telephone Reporting recording unit. Police agents will also be placing the sign on their precinct doors. [laughter] as spring break begins in florida there are already gearing up for the wet tshirt contests. Heres a photo of one of the top content test contestants. [ ] altleft. [laughter] jack matier just no reason for that can really. At the altar last night, white people one in most major categories including best actor, best actress, best film and best director. Will at least the horse [laughter] [a
Good morning, bay area. Lets get up and get going. This is abc 7 mornings. It is sunday, august 27th. Good morning. Thank you for waking up with us. Lets start with the first look at the forecast. Here is meteorologist lisa argen tracking live doppler 7 for us. We have some fog out there. Not much. Well have a shallow on shore push that will allow for a comfortable day at the coastline. Thats about it. Another spare the air alert today has been issued. East bay and the south bay will have the poor air quality and were already 6 to 7 degrees warmer than yesterday, even in the city 5 degrees warmer. Look at all the sun. Cloudy here just a few moments ago. 63 in the city. 70 Mountain View. 71, san jose. We have mid70s in livermore, 78 by the delta. If youre not under an advisory for excessive heat warning, probably on the coast or the san mateo coast, everyone else will experience excessive heat today. So 60s to 90s by noon time. 106 in livermore. Relief for the week ahead. Ill tell you w
less than seven hours until president obama delivers his fifth state of the union address, in what could be his final chance to set the agend for what he wants to accomplish in his final years. one official tells the hill, he has one shot here, and he can t afford to miss it. the question, the big one, anyway, now is how far will the president go? we re learning the president will announce an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal workers on new government contracts to $10.10 an hour. he will also call on congress to do their part and raise the federal minimum wage for all workers, a move that tea party republican congressmen steve king calls a constitutional violation. i think that it s a constitutional violation. we have a minimum wage. congress has set it. for the president to simply declare, i m going to change this law that congress has passed is unconstitutional. now, while house speaker john boehner was not as strong in his remarks this morning, he
bart stupak said he had up to 12 house members who were willing to vote against the bill. so, that is an issue that could prove troublesome in trying to get the bill through the house. there are some other issues they need to work out as well. at this point, it is all but certain that some type of bill will pass. host: south carolina, you are next. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have a question i would like you to answer if you can. regarding the mandate and the subsidy for coverage, my situation is, long term, unemployed, pre-existing conditions. some retirement savings which is what i ve been surviving on. if this mandate goes into effect, would i be able to qualify for a subsidy for the coverage or would that have to come out of pocket. would this have to be income tested or means tested. my other comment would be that this whole thing smells a lot like mitt romneys republican plan in massachusetts which is basically mandating you pump private insura