Renter of district 5 and member of the senior and disability actions housing collaborative. There is so much stuff from displacement and high rents before the pandemic. And now, illness and income loss and inability to pay rent due to the virus. Thousands of seniors, people with disabilities, other low income folks, and families of color are most vulnerable to the homes. I urge expanded support for the Legal Council programs and these are life lines to keep us in our homes. We rely greatly on the temporary rental assistance programs and also the permanent rent sub subsidiaries and we need them to be expanded especially now. So, less money for the police and more money for 100 affordable housing, no more market rates luxury housing and it contains just a trickle of affordable. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is chris and im working at San Francisco general and im on San Francisco native as well as a member of s. Sciu2021. Im asking the bo
Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to this Defense Select Committee hearing to consider the International Response to the uk government decision to allow while we to continue to operate its 5g network and implications of the gibbous decision for information sharing across the alliance. Also to discuss International Ambitions and the role of 5g technology and within this specifically look at Cyber Attacks and the distal silk road. Our session date is divided into two parts and id like to welcome senator tom cotton joining us for part on
Good afternoon. The committee will come to order. The today the committee convenes for a hearing on the state of transportation and Critical Infrastructure examining the impact of the covid19 pandemic. I welcome our panel of witnesses and thank them for participating. Today we will hear from mr. John bazella, president and ceo, alliance for automotive innovation. Mr. Randy gill yot, chairman of the board, American Trucking associations. Mr. Ian jeffries, president and ceo association of american railroads. Mr. Alex oler, interim president and ceo interstate Natural Gas Association of america. And mr. Larry willis, president Transportation Trades Department aflcio. Thank you all for being here. I understand, mr. Gilliot is testifying remotely. Welcome to each and every one of you. The committee has conducted several oversight hearings on quid pro quo 19 including a comprehensive look at the aviation industry. We are considering the impact of the covid19 virus on surface transportation a
Confronting congress and the nation. The purpose of the program is not to provide or advocate for any particular political positi position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers and the public about the sorts of issues they are dealing with. I want to first give a few thanks first to the Melon Foundation for providing the funding that makes these briefings possible. I also want to thank our assistant jeffrey who is outside this room for helping to make the arrangements. I want to thank the office of Jerry Connolly which booked the room. And i want to remind or explain why there were index cards on your seats and why i passed other index cards around. What we will do after the presentations by the speakers we will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards rather than ask them in front of the audience. Keep your index cards ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. And so now i will turn this over to m
Coronavirus bill. This as the white house is now floating a new trillion dollar stimulus package that may meann confirmed coronavirus cases continues to grow here in the bay area and beyond. Nationwide there are now 6,000 cases and more than 100 deaths. And the new number just in within the last few hours, there are now 200,000 infections worldwide. Staggering numbers that were dealing with right now. A look at our forecast. What are we in for today . Its going to be raining but off and on. Its on right now for much of the bay area. Well take a break by late morning and see it redeveloping for the afternoon. We are seeing the showers anywhere from parts of Solano County down to marin county, and then just north of san jose. So well see it spreading as we go into the next few hours. And then taking a break as we head through about 1 00 to 2 00. Well start to see popup showers that could bring in heavy rain along with small hail so ill be tracking that for you. Youre seeing flashing ligh