Ground. In the fact that this square in front of Government House in minsk is empty now in the rain is no indication that these protests are losing their dynamism their momentum from the beginning this has been very diffuse protests spread across and then spread across the whole country and people have been coming out for events in the evenings going back to work and theyve really made a conscious decision not to set up a central part of the government then surround and clear arresting people even from where im standing now i can see people walking with flags on the side of the road drivers beeping their horns in support of those protesters so its a very fast moving very diffuse situation here but things looking good for president. You get a sense of people theyve lost their fear of challenging the government out in the open i think that something will be very difficult for the regime here to dial back even if these protests words die out there are stories of policemen who are just ref
Set to expire august the first. A new report from working partnerships usa and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley predicts a looming crisis when that happens. We predict and eviction time bomb of 43,000 evictions which is 16 times the normal rate we see in a typical year. Reporter this, in Silicon Valley where rents are among the highest in the nation and when the moratoriums and tenants will be asked to pay back rent too. Most of these low income tenants that have been unable, they have been unable to pay rent, they are going to struggle immensely to pay hundreds of dollars additional each month to be able to pay the back rent. Reporter the nonprofits say there needs to be action to extend the moratorium and to provide Legal Assistance and to get congress to act on rent relief. We see this crisis compounded what was already a very severe housing crisis. Reporter the California Department association believes there is a crisis too, but sees a different solution, government rental ass
Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
Companies. You cannot do anything about it, just fix it and keep going. Reporter there was a similar spree in the willow glen neighborhood but no word if there is a connection. We want to show you now a picture of the mug shot of the 24yearold who was caught after San Jose Police say he was spotted smashing a car with a baseball bat as henry mentioned, 18 other cars were also vandalized. Now we had to berkeley where police are investigating a breakin and theft at a jewelry store. Thieves hit studio six jewelers on telegraph near channing late last night or early this morning. The owner says the thieves hid behind garbage cans as they cut the middle guard that was protecting the store. He says they made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise and that is not the worst of it. I would like to survive this covid19 shut down. I have canceled my insurance and a lot of stuff during this to save for bills and i do not think that i will be able to open backup without that inven
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person