Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager and head of Government Affairs solutions here at Bloomberg Government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of our biannual hill watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas, and of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the need for related relief legislation as both parties agendas and plans for 2020. Today were incredibly excited to build upon of a reporting teams expert analysis through conversation with a key lawmaker, and that is senator john thune of south dakota, who is here with us today to discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgovhillwatch to be sure to follow bgov on twitter. I do have a couple of housekeeping announcements just
Approximately 400 and 70 labs 470 labs. The number of cases in the state, 389. There were no deaths yesterday. Activelyntinue to be working with a different facilities eight different facilities around the state. Stateserience of other serves as an example, that number will unfortunately grow. Longterm care and Senior Living they are special and highpriority challenges. As you know, these are group centers, they provide housing and care for our most uniquely and highrisk patients who could be seeing deaths from covid19. The staff and caregivers in longterm care facilities really depend on our response and our support. At the health department, our health care infection, prevention, and Response Team was our First Responder unit. Responsevention and starts with primary prevention, and working with facilities to before any oftion this occurs. Now in what is happening our longterm care facilities in the state, and will happen for weeks if not months. [inaudible] two Rapid Response when a
Cook. Im dave clark. There is fog in parts. Lets get to mike. There was fog when i came up on the estuary. The next system should arrive thursday morning. Patchy fog turns to mostly sunny and then partly cloudy this afternoon. Early tuesday we get rain from the system which is off to the north best between portland and northern california. 30s and 40s are the temperatures. Then at Sonoma County airport, a quarter mile. Around oakland, 24. Last night we had 30s and 40s on the temperatures and we have increasing clouds today. It is 7 no one and lets look at traffic. We are in the peak of traffic between now and 7 30. A 32 minute drive from the car canis bridge to macarthur. At the bay bridge there is slow traffic and the fog has lifted and even on the eastshore freeway, its moving around. You can see traffic on the south bay is getting busier and we will revisit the commute in just a few. It is 7 02. The afc championship game and the winner goes to the super bowl. Lets go to allie. A big
Cspan. Org impeachment and listen free on the cspan radio app. Former Vice President and 2020 president ial candidate talked to iowa about his platform and joined by former agriculture secretary and former democratic governor of iowa. Thanks so much for coming out tonight. Merry christmas, happy holidays. Its great, its great to be here in perry. Last time we were here with our family, it was the hottest week of july and riding our bikes where we live and stayed at the hotel and bowled and ate good food and got on our bikes and went back. Nice to be here in december. Thank you again for coming out. D we are democrats cheers and applause] i met joe and jill bid biden 3 years ago when they came to iowa to campaign for president. I trust them as much today as i did then. Joe biden was rock solid go ahead and clap. [applause] joe biden was rock solid then and rock solid now and im supporting him in the iowa caucus on february 3. [cheers and applause] what do i want from the 2020 elections
2020 president ial candidate joe biden talked to voters in iowa about his platform on agriculture and climate change. He was joined by a former agricultural secretary under the Obama Administration and former democratic governor of iowa. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Vice President joe biden joined by iowas own governor tom and christie vilsack. Thanks so much for coming out tonight. Merry christmas. Feliz navidad. Happy holidays, happy hanukkah. Its great to be here in perry again. The last time we were here with our family, it was the hottest week of july and we were riding our bicycles up from where we live and we stayed at the hotel. Ate good food and then got on our bikes and went back. Its nice to be here in december. Thank you again for coming out. And were Dallas County democrats, so were happy to be [applause] i met joe and jill biden 33 years ago when they came to iowa to campaign for president. I trust them as much today as i did then. Joe biden was rock solid. Go ahe