Thank you. We begin the second panel again with distinguished group of individuals. Who are prepared to continue the conversation relating to the after math of hurricanes irma and maria. On puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. The second panel will be led by mr. Ramos. Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Mr. Rimer. Is the executive director the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Rhymer. He will be followed by mr. Jose. The acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you. And finally well have ms. Natalie the executive director. For puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes. Your full testimony will be included as part of the record. But i do know that colleagues have questions. You have obviously seen from the first panel there was some directed to the governors that they deferred until w
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a week ago that senators cassdy, franken and i along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors. For your hospitality. The time you gave us during that visit. It was incredibly important i think for all of us to see to be on it ground and to be hearing directly from you and those that you are working with. I know that some other members of our commi
Reporter a group of mostly African American students walked out of a town hall meeting. Media was not allowed even on campus, but students posted video to social media. These are children that are doing this. Reporter au administrators addressed racially charged incidents on campus. Bananas hanging on campus marked with aka, the black sorority. The new governments president is the first black woman to head Student Government at au. Students are demanding more than town halls. We felt like we werent getting the answers to the questions that we had. We really wanted to get specific solutions to the problem. I would hope that they hear our concerns and that they are willing and able to address exactly what were asking for. The administration does a great job of going around the question. Reporter coming up today on news4 at happening is affecting students who are just beginning final exams. Wendy, back to you. Thank you, kristin. Its a case of murder that has taken years to solve. This ev
Checks on borrowers, particularly those in financial difficulties, as a report by the regulator is published this morning. I will have more on that a little later. In Sport England are into the semi finals of the european championships. Jodie taylor scored the winner, as the Lionesses Beat france 1 0. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Todays the day of sunshine and showers, especially in central and Northern Areas. They will be fewer and further between them were yesterday. That leads us into a showery start to the week. Good morning. First, our main story thousands of extra Mental Health workers are to be recruited by the nhs in england. The Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, said the aim is to treat an extra one Million People by 2021. The Royal College of nursing has questioned how so many staff can be hired and trained in such a short space of time. Here is more from our Health Correspondent dominic hughes. Ministers in england have already acknowledged the treatment offered to
Meeting of the Us Commission on civil rights comes to order at 10 00 on august 18, 2017. A meeting takes place at Committee Headquarters at 1331 pennsylvania avenue northwest, washington dc. I am chair catherine lhamon. With me, commissioner gail meriot, commissioner Peter Kirsanow, say your name, commissioner David Gladney. Are you present . Thank you. In trouble already. Commissioner michael yaki. Im here. The Court Reporter is present, director, are you present . Im present. Meeting comes to order. Motion to approve the agenda for this business meeting . Second . Perfect. I was going to ask for amendments. I have a few to start us off. I would like to remove discussion on vote on lb gt employment determination, some commissioners requested additional time to review the report. I think staff for finalizing the report that we place on the agenda for next months meeting. Second, i would like to add consideration for statement titled the Us Commission on civil rights condemns the admini