Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
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Commenting on refusal to cooperate have information we do not have but no one would cooperate. And trial data suggests that russias vaccine is 92 percent effective. With hungry becoming the 1st european country just signed up for the job. Its foreign minister told us politics should stay out of efforts to beat the pandemic. International cooperation is now the only judge each other should be left behind. Very good morning to you watching the weekly hear the guns fall silent in the disputed nagornokarabakh region. This week armenia, azerbaijan signed an historic peace deal brokered by russia and ending almost 2 months of bloody battle. As part of the trace, moscow has deployed military personnel to the front line to monitor the cease fire state a place where you should get a break here. What is happening in karabakh is a truly great tragedy. But i want to note with great satisfaction, the outlines of compromise and the agreements reached on ending the bloodshed. And i hope that all the
American, in the european, in their russian, in the chinese, in these really Vaccine Development and research to be successful. Because the more scenes we will have is the better, you know, shooting with everybody, including russia, of course. So its any time political aspects should be left behind and this is the fight. We understand. It is realistic that indeed some are a small scale all of the various be launched in order to make the National National necessary Clinical Trials on their suspect in hungary. And as all for the 2nd part of january, it might be realistic that food by quality from russia. But we are not going to negotiate and go about simply buying vaccine for russia. We are not all shooting localise ation, what the production or at least the part of the production to hungary. There is a Company Operating here in a hungry, which has been producing for other or viruses and diseases. Of course, they seem to be able to transform their capacity in a way that they would be abl