This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective vaccines to help protect Heal
Roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. Item 3. Were going to go into closed session. We need a motion to do that and ill ask for Public Comment after that. I move we go into closed session. Moved and seconded. Is there any Public Comment . When we come back into to Public Session ill review the Public Comment rules. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed first item is to report out of closed session. We need a motion. I make a motion. Second. Is there Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Aye. Rules of Public Comment are the standard rules. Well limit testimony to three minutes on any item people may want to talk about. Please read the rules that are posted with the agenda in case you are not familiar. To start with Public Comment i will recognize mr. Winier. He called me wiener. My apologized. I wish to mention the passing of peter ash, who was the former commissioner on this board. In honor of his memory in the marine core Heritage Museum because of the service in the United Sta
Far eastern history from the university of london, and his phd in japanese history from princeton university. He has been the secretary of the navy fellow and visiting professor of strategy and policy at the u. S. Naval war college. Usking professor at the trillion Defense Force academy, where he was a senior fulbright fellow, and a visiting scholar to the National Japanese center in kyoto. He studied the comparative history of war, specializing in Japanese Military institutions and the social and cultural transformation of japan. War, coauthor of japan at in world history, a New York Times best book of the year, and published widely on japanese war experience in english and japanese. Please welcome dr. Ted cook. [applause] prof. Cook its a great privilege again to once more at theo my friends military affairs symposium, which has been a home for me for many, many years. Not quite from the beginning, but close to the beginning. Ince we moved, my wife and moved to new york and number of
Were going to go into closed session. We need a motion to do that and ill ask for Public Comment after that. I move we go into closed session. Moved and seconded. Is there any Public Comment . When we come back into to Public Session ill review the Public Comment rules. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed first item is to report out of closed session. We need a motion. I make a motion. Second. Is there Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Aye. Rules of Public Comment are the standard rules. Well limit testimony to three minutes on any item people may want to talk about. Please read the rules that are posted with the agenda in case you are not familiar. To start with Public Comment i will recognize mr. Winier. He called me wiener. My apologized. I wish to mention the passing of peter ash, who was the former commissioner on this board. In honor of his memory in the marine core Heritage Museum because of the service in the United States army. I simply was to mention his memory. I t
Were expecting to hear from the Prime Minister shortly outside number ten. Labour performed poorly, losing 59 seats, many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing, and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong result for the snp, who now hold 48 seats out of 59 in scotland. Leader Nicola Sturgeon says it sends a clear message for a second independence referendum. Liberal democrat leaderjo swinson quits, after she loses her own seat to the snp and the party fails to improve its position at westminster. Iam i am proud to have been the first woman to lead the liberal democrats. Iam even woman to lead the liberal democrats. I am even more proud that i will not be the last. We will go original this hour, looking at the West Midlands, where the tories had a good