Up next a confirmation hearing for u. S. Postal service governors and other judicial nominations to the d. C. Superior court. During this meeting members of the committee asked nominees questions concerning the health and safety of postal workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. This morning we will consider two nominees for the governor of the United States Postal Service, don lee moke and william zolers. Well consider three nominees for the judicial system to be associate judges in the superior court of d. C. We do have brief introduction of each. Donald lee moke served as president of the Airline Pilots association and captain with Delta Airlines for 31 years. He also served as an officer in the United States marine corp. Thank you so much for that service. William zolers serves red stone llc, hes the chairman and ceo of yrc until 2011, prior to that served in Senior Leadership positions with rider incorporated and Eastman Kodak company. Mark robins serves in office of general counsel
Duty in asia. I continued to fly fighter jets until i refired from the military with the rank of commander in 2001. After my time on active duty, i also became a pilot for a commercial air carrier. As a commercial airline pilot, i was performing my primary duty. And association that was importantly conceived in 1931 to represent airmail pilots. I had many appointed and elected positions in the association ultimately becoming the president of alba from 2011 to 2014. I represented more than 50,000 u. S. And canadian pilots at over 30 companies on contractual, safety, and government policy matters. I lead a team to address complex bankruptcy rein restructuring. Nothing was easy and they had to Work Together to settle negotiated agreements. I also served on numerous safety committees including the federal aviation fa advisory committee. Air traffic services, and appointed as the faa drone advisory committee. Last year i also cochaired the department of transportations Second Committee to r
Countys response. As napa county faces its first covid 19 cases the county says and theyve been prepared. Our priority right now is making sure that were ramping up our staffing in a Facebook Live sunday afternoon deputy county executive Molly Rattigan gave this update to napa county about the quickly escalating Coronavirus Spread you should start to see increases in some of the testing them or us as youve been saying in the last few days here in napa county county officials report as of sunday almost a 100 tests have been completed and at least 30 cases are under investigation. The countys first case was reported in the Morning Hours later a second case confirmed Health Officials say both patients have been isolated one a napa city resident, the other isolated in saint helene a there is no known connection officials wont say their age gender or where the virus was contracted, but are working to trace people who have been in direct contact testing for the virus began last week we are r
Warships took part in it . Yes colleagues again. Hello once again happy holidays the naval apparatus in st. Petersburg is now completed, incredible in its beauty and washing, the event began at exactly 11 00 a. M. With a shot from a naryshka on the bastion of the peter and paul fortress, then a snowwhite boat with the number 001 on board, the Supreme Commander president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin minister of defense and commanderinchief of the navy the boat proceeded along the neva through the alignment of the palace bridge along the solemn formation of ships the president congratulated the captains and sailors with a holiday. And after that , Vladimir Putin delivered a speech and words of gratitude to all servicemen. Lets listen. I congratulate you on the day of the navy. For centuries, our fleet has been and remains an indestructible guardian of the borders of the fatherland, its pride and glory , more than once the russian fleet, an impregnable fortress , stood in the
, return to france, but after passing most of the route and having made several important discoveries, including in the sakhalin region of kamchatka, japan the expedition is gone. The last time la perouse saw his people was by the british in botany bay off the coast of australia only 40 years later. It turned out that the ships were wrecked and the islands of vanikora sank to the northeast of australia, found their wreckage. Many geographical objects are named after the navigator, including the strait and peruse between the islands of hokkaido and sakhalin and the crater on the moon on august 1, 1914. Russia entered the first world war. This happened after the russian empire declared war on germany the leading countries at that time declared war on each other. And this despite the fact that the leaders of germany, england and russia were blood relatives of 10 million. People died in battle. About 5 million more civilians from the bombing of hunger and disease fell apart four empires. O