Vaccine development and efforts to address disparities in minority communities. This is abouttwo hours 45 minutes. This hearing will come to order. First i would like to welcome our witness, doctor robert redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to main
Denounce beijings proposed security bill. And under the shadow of coronavirus subdued celebrations for muslims marking one of their most important holidays. Lets begin with breaking news out of libya where russian mercenaries have been fighting in support of war highly for half the are leaving the country the mayor of the town of bani walid has confirmed that theyre evacuating through the airport there after withdrawing from the capital tripoli it follows a series of setbacks for have the us forces have been fighting to take territory from libyas internationally recognized government the way it is following developments from tripoli. The mayor of benny will lead the city that south of the city of god who now just stated that 3 flights left from but he will lead the airport loaded with it the russian mercenaries who have been fighting along with have to his forces over the past year in southern tripoli we do not know for certain where they were heading maybe to burn of ozzy to bimini an
Can blockes this drug the virus. Now for my daily report, as the governor shared, our hospitals reported 4628 hospitalizations and persons of covid19 and under investigation. 1416 individuals in critical care, with 74 on ventilators. The governor reviewed the new cases reported today. In terms of deaths, the breakdown by race and ethnicity basically unchanged. White, 52 point 5 . Black, 19. 2 percent. Hispanic, 17. 5 percent. Asian, 17. 3 . Other, 5. 4 percent. 515 longterm care facilities in our state now reporting covid19 cases. 173tate veterans homes, residents, 362 have tested positive. We are reporting a total of 129 deaths of those residents today. Our state psychiatric hospitals are reporting 12 deaths today. Yesterday, i reported the deaths of a fouryearold with underlying conditions. We have no indication at this time in our investigation that the death was related to kawasaki disease. The cumulative percent Positivity Rate is 37 . The new jersey spot Positivity Rate as of may
If you do think there should be, the number is 202 7488000. If you dont, 202 7488001. A special line this morning to hear specifically from those who have recently lost their jobs, 202 7488002. You can send us a text, 202 7488003 is that number. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on , andl media, cspanwj facebook,. Facebook. You can start calling in now on those phone lines as we show you a chart about what congress and the president have approved so far from it comes to coronavirus relief. Thattrillion, including inst spending bill from back march, followed by the Families First Coronavirus Response act, the bulk of it coming from the , 2. 7 trillion, and the additional money approved in the paycheck protection program, additional money needed to heat that going last month. Of course, the unemployment numbers we learned on friday, stand like this as of april. 14. 7 jobless rate, 27 million in the month of april. Economic projections
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. A massive fire in San Francisco, the emergency evacuation says the building began to collapse. The chp will have every available officer on patrol this threeday weekend. They say they are seeing a dangerous trend even with fewer cars on the road. Good morning. We began this morning with breaking news out of San Francisco. But first lets go to whether in the Weather Center with darren. I want to show you the sunrise and it happened six minutes ago, we have a view that sets off to the east of the Sales Force Tower camera, the current numbers out there, this is going to be a day that you notice a warmup. We will be about 10 degrees above average. 52 in coord, 52, oakland, those numbers are not really all that off the mark or noteworthy but if i show you the daytime highs for today, they require a little bit of reference. These temperatures on your screen, in the mid80s for inland locations, they are 10 degrees above average, itll be 86 in santa rosa, 86 in co