The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
Gov. Ducey good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. Saying i begin by talked to Health Care Leaders from around the state on friday and they told me some incredibly moving stories about our frontline workers. Our doctors, our nurses, our hospital staff. Everyone that works in health care and all of our caregivers. So, i just want to reemphasize to all of them how grateful we are for what they do. How much we appreciate their hard work and commitment, especially at this time of incredible stress and how much we value them. I know everyone in the room likely knows a doctor, nurse, caregiver, somebody works for a hospital. Please also extent your appreciation. These folks are the heroes on the front lines today for the people of arizona and im grateful for everything they do. I also want to say i am thankful for the people of arizona. Ive asked for a lot of patience and im going to ask for some more patience as we go forward. This pandemic is incredible in terms of the sa
Would be delayed until august 17. This runs one hour and 15 minutes. Saying iwant to begin by talked to Health Care Leaders from around the state on friday and they told me some incredibly moving stories about our frontline workers. Our doctors, our nurses, our hospital staff. Everyone that works in health care and all of our caregivers. So, i just want to reemphasize to all of them how grateful we are for what they do. How much we appreciate their hard work and commitment, especially at this time of incredible stress and how much we value them. I know everyone in the room likely knows a doctor, nurse, caregiver, somebody works for a hospital. Please also extent your appreciation. These folks are the heroes on the front lines today for the people of arizona and im grateful for everything they do. I also want to say i am thankful for the people of arizona. Ive asked for a lot of patience and im going to ask for some more patience as we go forward. This pandemic is incredible in terms of
Schools reopened they are expected to have inperson instruction with a mixture of face to face and distance learning. We have the professor of Infectious Diseases at usc, they will be reopening schools. It would seem in Santa Clara County with an emphasis on distance learning. The cues it sounds like you are going to be the physical distancing among as many kids as possible Wearing Masks and a lot of handwashing and an emphasis on keeping things clean. Are you confident this will be enough to keep everyone safe in the School Environment . I do not want to say i am confident. It is very heartened to find a balance and provide the best education to our children and at the same time make sure if they are safe. When you mention this its important that we keep the social distancing, we need to wash her hands and wash the childrens hands and make sure that they follow the guideline to minimize the exposure to the virus. I feel that it is important to really help the in Person Education but a
Testing limit down down by 5 as far as they are allowed to trade down before the open the number to watch this morning is down 136 for the s p. We have touched those lows and bounced off. We are not far off dow futures are down by 4. 74 . Nasdaq down 4. 6 after the opening bell, there are other Circuit Breakers you with watching. They would be kicking in with trading halting over a period of time down 7 this morning if that were to happen, youd see a 15minute halt after trading started. Next is if markets dropped by 13 . Then the third level is after 20 . That would be a halt of trading for the day. We have not seen these tested since 1997 until the last week of trading thats what we are watching so closely. If you take a look at the treasury market, you see the 10year note is 0. 71 . We got back to. 8 or so yesterday. With the yield, i was hoping they would have sold off talking to folks yesterday worried about what looked like it was better than going and maybethere could be problems