Dobbs and his team. And all that has gone into mississippi being one of the states that is testing at a higher rate than virtually any other state. That has not received significant federal help. When you look at the hot spots in new york and new jersey and even to our neighbor to the west, louisiana, city of new orleans, the federal government put significant resources in there to help them testing. Understandably so. Whereas they had a significant peak that went up very, very quickly, mississippi appears to have at least for now slowed the spread of the virus and we are becoming more and more confident each day that for where we are currently plateaued that we will not be putting the kind of risk on our Health Care System as was the case in those hot spot areas. We are also seeing now that some of those hot spots are spreading out a bit. When you look at the boston metropolitan area, the detroit metropolitan area, and to a certain extent the chicago metropolitan area as well. Those a
With state officials. Gov. Mcmaster we all thank you for coming. We are trying to be sure that everyone is kept uptodate on the progress of the virus and our efforts to fight that virus without destroying jobs and families, so today, im issuing another order. This is a mandatory order. Weve issued several that contain mandates and others that contain recommendations. Today, most of those recommendations are becoming mandates, becoming orders with criminal penalties attached. Im issuing a mandatory home or work order. That goeswork order into Effect Tomorrow afternoon tuesday at 5 00 p. M. Close of business. Everyone under this order should stay home, unless they are working, visiting family, or recreating outdoors, unless they necessary goods or services, and those are the limits. We are closing no additional businesses. Those businesses have been closed in previous orders. Also. We are requiring mandates of the Retail Stores that are open, and that is, they must limit the customers. W
For president. Former Vice President and current president ial candidate joe biden made a stop in one of the richest parts of the country today to shake hands and collect donations. First stop was a small private fundraiser at the home of venture capitalist greg sands and palo alto. Theres nothing like meeting someone in person. Reporter bidens visit comes after a new berkeley poll shows he has work to do in california. Right now hes in third place among likely voters trailing Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren. This is a good time for people to come here and raise money. Then theyre going to be with the folks in iowa and New Hampshire and beyond. Reporter still supporters are confident biden with move the needle with voters in the golden state, including people who previously supported Kamala Harris who dropped out of the race last week. I dont think senator harris had near the support the major candidates had. The day he takes office hopefully, hell know where every instrument of go
Test. Test. Test. And part of that reason is because of the research that is going on at our National Labs. And im going to, again, ask paul to share with you, just because hes fresh out of seeing some of this and has to do with the Battery Storage. And the progress being made on Battery Storage is really fascinating. And ive always said that Battery Storage is the holy grail. If were able to get to that point where we can use our renewables, solar and wind in particular to power these batteries that have long time storage, and what were finding now is that the the elements that are being used to create some of these batteries are not Rare Earth Minerals and theyre elements that we have right here in the United States, so were going to be in control of our future substantially more on the Battery Storage if you just kind of give them a glimpse of whats going on here and i think thats pretty exciting stuff. So a couple of examples, the complex, r d business, beyond lithium ion batteries
We are delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities , so i hope we see you more frequently and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs most faired well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a substantial increase in the International Fusion project which i advocated for as well. I went to visit that project a couple years ago,