People . Have remote 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who will be remote. I dont really have an opening statement. We will hear from judge wilson and a bit. We will let our colleagues from mississippi to the introduction. I will defer to senator feinstein if she was to seining first. Senator feinstein thank you very much. Today we will hear from cory wilson, nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. As i stated during the nomination hearing for the District Court in january, i am interested in judge wilsons views on a number of issues including health care, Voting Rights, womens reproductive rights, gun safety and the rights of lgbt americans. His record of opposition to the Affordable Care act is troubling, particularly because we are concerned with covid19. I hope people straighten us out on that. It has been reported judge wilson has a commitment to undermining the Affordable Care act. He has called
News but the point that different regions of the country have different quote unquote curves, the virus does not hit at the same time at the same rate to you hear about different states in the country and when theyre going to hit their apex, when theyre going to hit their top and when theyre going to come down, its different all across the country. Its also different across the state. Weve been talking about states like theyre uniform, homogenous entities some are more homogenous than others when i was in the federal government i worked in every state, so you have a whole different variety of states. This state, we have very different regions within new york when you say new york, people think new york city. Yeah one of the densest places on the globe. You also have upstate new york where in some counties you have more cows than people. People dont think of new york that way as you see variety across the country, we have variety across the state of new york and you have to watch each o
Our next panel we are very excited to get an International Perspective on infrastructure. Earlier i had a chance to meet with mexicos current chair of the governors the current chair is france just go and incoming as mendoza, swift got both representatives from mexico and canada appear on the stage we are really thrilled to have it with us a total of five premieres from our neighbors to the north, who we very much appreciate everybody making the tremendous effort to come down here and join us. They are joining us for this discussion on infrastructure from an International Perspective. I believe canada is doing some really interesting and Creative Things on infrastructure, silly want to thank each one of you for joining us. We have saskatchewan premier who is the chair of the council of the federation which is our equivalent, sort of like the nga of canada. Quebec khmer fans while ago, ontario premier doug ford, New Brunswick premier blaine higgs, and alberta premier jason, please give
Landed today. Four passengers on the travis plane who tested positive for coronavirus are now at a nearby hospital. Another three were also hospitalized after developing symptoms. Three other coronavirus patients who were on that plane have now been flown to nebraska, along with their spouses. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena is live from Travis Air Force base. Luz . This base has 177 passengers who are not going anywhere. For the next 14 day, theyll remain under quarantine orders. Back on american cile, but still not home. Oh, gosh, fantastic. It was a trip home. Reporter bob and his wife were among the 177 passengers from the diamond princess cruise ship who landed last night at the Travis Air Force base in fairfield. We spoke to them over the phone. Theyre now under quarantine orders at a nearby hotel. Before they left japan, they received a coronavirus screening, then they boarded a bus to a chartered flight to the u. S. They sit on the bus for seven hours, no water. Couldnt get off the
Looks on the ground. All eyes are on the lookout for a local couple vacationing in marin county. They have not been seen since friday and its a big misery. Good evening. Im dan ashley. The search for Carole Kiparsky and ian irwin is expanding. The couple was staying at an airbnb in inverness. Search and rescue crews are looking in the area including Point Reyes National seashore. Anser hassan is live at the countys Sheriffs Office with the latest. Good evening. The marin county sheriff offices say there is no evidence of any foul play. They say the hikers stayed at the airbnb before. They know the area. Theyre avid hikers. There is a sense of urgency as more days go by. Search and rescue crews spent the day searching near Point Reyes National seashore for these two, 77yearold Carole Kiparsky and 72yearold ian irwin. Theyve been missing since friday. Considering that the last time they were spoken to or had contact with family was on friday, i think it definitely increases the urgency o