Cdc director dr. Robert redfield. He is the Nations Health Protection Agency and defense americans against dangerous threats and the response to inaccurate information on those threats or record of the head of agency data redfield has been one of the nations leading voices. During this pandemic sharing new information, issuing Public Health guidance and advising americans about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. We are glad to have him with us and what has sadly happened as and a sadly Pivotal Moment in this crisis right now as you all know cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial wave of thekd virus and americans everywhere are hungry for information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season this winter but back to redfield will address thall of these issues and more d well take questions from our audience as well. Without further ado dr. Redfield welcome. What can you tell
Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to limitit efforts and background audio background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unwitting himself anytime they wish to w e heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to be t unmated. If you are on the computer you can view the timer by reaching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen for the active speaker and you can also pin the timer by right clicking or hovering your cursor over the timer and pressing that contact icon. With that, we are ready to b
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Which saw the brunt of the fallout. Billion but in60 the positive this tuesday morning. And now performer coming up by 1. 2 at a 52week high. Samsung among gainers. Numbers we sawp today, 42. 9 declines, a long road to recovery for the singapore economy. Malaysia up 0. 2 . Look at where we are in terms of the dollar, showing a little strength today, up for a third day. Forging rising risks holding the dollar with the november elections approaching quickly. Down 0. 4 , still close to a record last week. Good to see the tencent recovery, but not close to making up for all the losses we saw the last two sessions. Our top story with the u. S. Tensions and china retaliating with sanctions on u. S. Officials. And ahead of those trade discussions. We did a phase one deal, it was a wonderful deal. All of a sudden it means very little, that will never pay the loss of life in our country and around the world. We view china differently than we did eight months ago. Yvonne looking at china differe
Of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards. I have met with our team which we assembled to deal with this bombing. And i have determined to take the following steps to assure the strongest response to this situation. First, i had deployed a Crisis Management team under the leadership of the fbi working with the department of justice, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, military and local authorities. We are sending the worlds finalest vefinal e finest investigators to solve the murders. I have declared an emergency in Oklahoma City. At my direction, james lee witt, the director of fema sis on his way there to help the people of Oklahoma City deal with the tragedy. We are taking every precaution to protect people who work in aor live near other places. We will find the people who did this. When we do, justice will be swift, certain and severe. These people are killers and they must be treated like killers. Finally, let me say that i ask all americans tonight to pray. To