Uighur muslims. Also today possible work on a covid19 aid bill. Live house coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, father to us all, we give you thanks forgiving us another day for giving us another day. During these days, these few days before the house breaks for the final weeks of the campaign, send us your spirit of peace. Inspire the members to complete their charge, to promote the common good of our nation. Comfort those who continue to suffer from the coronavirus and protect those who labor still to treat the disease and bring an effective vaccine to the world. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker pursuant to section 4 of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from virginia, mr. Cline. Mr. Cline i pledge allegian
That wraps up todays white house briefing. We now return to last Thursdays Senate commerce meeting on fcc oversight. The serenity they necertaint build at scale. Capital, talent is scarce. Innovation doesnt have to visit. The more difficult it is, the less likely we hare to get it. And its consistent, i would add, with three years of reforms we have made oven with great heat taken. They have been a proven concept for a regulatory approach. I think the reforms, the ones you championed in the steam line act, would have us close the Digital Divide. The period is a marked contrast from the prior eight years. We wasted a tremendous amount of time chasing around partisan little agendas, rather than focusing on what matters. I think this pandemic has pult Telecom Policy in a crucible. That is what we have to focus on. On closing the Digital Divide. That is where we have been the last three years and its paying off results. We have not raised the mission divide yet. And the u. S. Infrastructur
The reason for the arrest of democracy leaders in hong kong. To court as more concerns are raised about the city. Could trigger more turmoil this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. The coronavirus pandemic is interrupted the antigovernment protests that gripped hong kong for much of last year but the tension that triggered the unrest hasnt gone away nor have the phase the beijing is eroding freedoms that were guaranteed in the 1997 the handover from british rule in the latest Crackdown Police arrested 15 leading activists and accuse them of organizing unlawful protests last year they include politicians a media tycoon and martin lee known as hong kongs father of democracy supporters say the arrest of chinas latest attempt to silence the prodemocracy protest movement aljazeera has to be a pollen reports from hong kong there has been much International Interest and what is happening here in hong kong or the u. K. And the u. S. Government have questioned the validity of these
On Public Transportation. The department of Public Health. Like i said, if you could hold your questions until the last speaker, then you will be asked for questions. You will be selected for a question so we can keep it orderly and have everyone hear what the question is. So Francis Zamora from department of Emergency Management will be calling on questioners. Okay, well get started in a couple minutes. Mary ellen carol, executive director for the department of Emergency Management will be the first speaker. All right. We are listening to Public Officials updating us in San Francisco. Were going to come back to this in just a moment. Im mary ellen carol, the director of department of Emergency Management here in San Francisco. Thank you for being here. I just want to remind everyone about the priorities of San Francisco. Our priorities are to protect the health and safety of San Francisco abc new san francis. This is a constantly and rapidly changing situation and we are working hard
Economy heading into recession. Well it may be one i think in terms of recession with engines and the virus kron 4 news at 5 starts right now. Thank you for joining us tonight at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan and our top story tonight, slowing the spread of the coronavirus. And how you can help protect yourself and others as you can see we are practicing socialdistancing here kron 4 catherine an eye. Our different desks hi catherine high were going to be doing this for the foreseeable future we obviously have much more than the recommended 6 feet of the distance between theres lawrence over here to my right is about 8 feet away so the gangs all here but just in a little bit of a different set up at least for the time they together but not exactly. And now to our top story roughly 7 Million People are being told to stay home in the bay area. The legal order does limit activity a travel and business functions to only essential needs. Heres what it means all re