All three of them have impeccable credentials. I think we can learn a lot about what Advisory Board can do effectively from what drums Advisory Board didnt do. Reporter to start, we can expect the Incoming Biden Administration to emphasize a mask wearing and other Public Health measures. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. Or to take away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal. As fast as possible. Reporter other measures the president elect promised in his campaign. And asked the pandemic dashboard to keep track of the infections and beds. Increasing the production of tests. Hiring of tens of thousands of Public Health workers to step up Contact Tracing efforts. Health experts said Advisory Board will guide the direction of those efforts. It is a good crosssection. These are big complex questions they will have to have strategies to move on. Reporter over the next several weeks the board or
So concerned tonight. 358 new cases of covid19 were reported here in the county just yesterday. Im here to share some sobering news. Our case count in saint claire are starting to surge. Chief Health Officer sounding the alarm about the growing numb of covid19 cases and the number of hospitalizations is up in the county too. Climbing nearly 10 sunday. It could be tied to halloween and pandemic fatigue. Similar to the up tick that we saw in the summer, this is also largely younger adults. Between ages 18 and 34. A large number of new cases have been reported in gilroy. And east san jose. The surge which began in midoctober could mean a return of business restrictions or a new round of forced khloe shushes. Were trending ourselves into the red and potentially the purple tier. Which means more restrictions. Health leaders and the governor are urging everyone to keep wearing mask and remain six feet apart. Do not take your guard down. Businesses are urged to do the same. You can look for t
Are being dumped with no family to take care of them. The search for survivors has gone on through the night in the turkish city of is near after a powerful earthquake the magnitude 7 tremor under the aegean sea brought down buildings and triggered tidal waves in the coastal city as well as in parts of greece i think a live picture is coming to us now from is near in turkey at least 27 people have been killed since has the latest. Rescuers search for survivors and rubble of buildings and is made turkeys 3rd biggest city the epicenter of friday afternoons shallow magnitude 7 earthquake was off the turkish cost. I have a shop on the back side i was talking with someone i felt it while we were outside the ground started to shake while i was watching our building i saw this one collapse. Many of the things collapsed injuring hundreds. And hundreds of. This man says got you are the greatest please protect us it still continues. Emergency responders are traveling from a stumble to support re
Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to
Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soil. Regardless of who was chairman weve held regular hearings examining worldwide threats with leaders from the department of Homeland Security, fbi, and National Counter Terrorism Center. And regardless of who has occupied the white house, whether democrat or republican, weve received cooperation in that effort. Today was supposed to be no different. Unfortunately as we see from the empty chair in front of us mr. Wolf is not here to represent the department of Homeland Security. Let me be clear about how we got here. The committee began engaging with the department over three months ago to secure participation alongside his col