Cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Divet. It is now 1 13 p. M. Sorry for the delay. My name is miguel bustos, and this is the regular meeting on committee on Community Investment and infrastructure, january 19, 2021. Following the guidelines set forth by local and state officials during this health emergency, the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including members of public. Thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order is business is item 1, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. [roll call] clerk all members of the commission are present. The next order is business is item 2, announcements. The next reg
We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Conversation on race in america. Barack obama was asked about this in a 60 minutes interview yesterday. We will show you that, come back, get your thoughts on it. Here he is. Is that we have a criminal Justice System in which ,e ask often times very young often times not very well to go intoicers communities and just keep a lid on things. And we dont try to get at some of the underlying causes for chronic poverty. So if we are going to actually solve this problem, there are some specific things we can do to make sure that our contracts with Police Officers to completely insulate them when they do something wrong, putting money into budgets for training. More Police Officers effectively q. Week teaching Police Officers not to escalate, but to deescalate. But it is important for us not to let ourselves off the hook and think this is just a Police Problem because those shootings, that devaluation of life is part and parcel with a legacy of discrimination and jim crow and segregation that
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
There are a lot of people who disagree with Charlie Hebdo theres all this thousands of what you would call is the list is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do deal if the Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely they could be thousands of people on the streets starving one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at this that the individual level when one starts it almost gives legitimacy to the others so the reason that france has raised its terrorism level is because it takes one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to go because it becomes rational you know when you think that you will get legitimacy for it. To ation in france on our website r. T. Dot com and get the latest updates by following us on twitter ill be back with more news in just about half an hour thanks for watchin