Public Health Emergency preparedness. He was also the acting assistant to the president for domestic policy during which time he ran the domestic policy council. He is presently writing a book about president s and disasters and how they respond to them. He has a bachelors of science and industry and Labor Relations from cornel and an emmy and ph. D. In American Civilization from the university of texas at austin and our fourth panelist is dr. Tara zubaydah Mission Manager and senior fellow at in detail. Dr. Otoole was undersecretary for science and technology at the department of Homeland Security. She served from november 2009 to september 2013. She before that was the ceo and director of the center for biosecurity at the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a professor of medicine and Public Health at the university of pittsburgh. She also was a major designer and after into major biorelated exercises and before that one known as dark winter in the other known as atlantic sto
I would not say that they were nasty. They tell you how much bush 41 was more engaged, dropping by the Briefing Room from time to time or seeing them in a casual kind of setting. And carter would do all of these things. And that was not the case with clinton, but the very first airforce one trip i took with clinton, he came to the back and was telling these southern eight stories in a funny voice, imitating royal folks. And you cant imagine that today. Obama does come back, but even then it is very, some lecturing. So i think that what we miss, though, to give him credit, he does more interviews than his predecessors, has less to predecessors. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i am not getting these interviews. I am saying, give him credit for at least doing this. What he is not doing in the bread and butter of what the correspondence do is where you take a day in and the. [roll call] are two questions, how about this, that is where you hear the president day and day out about the m
Watching it fall back to earth seconds later in a billowing ball of smoke and flames. This giant blast came and we all jumped back and, um, we all just stood there for like at least a minute just like, oh, oh, no. Reporter the students from ocean city five girls and a boy returned from wallops island, virginia still shaken by what they had witnessed first hand tuesday night. The ferry craft that would take their micro gravity experiment to the International Space station had already been delayed by a day in its launch. Tension and excitement ran high. When do you ever have a chance of really, um, going to nasa and making conducting experiments to go into space . Report roar the experiment a small tube with e. Coli bacteria, lettuce and a fakes fix is a tiff solution was designed to test the effects of space on bacteria inside an astronauts intestine. Why this is important is because, um, nasa is hoping to conduct longterm missions either to mars or to the moon or anything, and they nee
Robert redfield and u. S. Testing czar Admiral Brett Giroir are expected to face questions in just moments on the administrations response to this pandemic, on the race for a vaccine, on inadequate testing, mask mandates and School Reopening plans. All of those key issues on the table today. Now, this comes one day after dr. Fauci said it is impossible to predict how much longer this crisis will last, especially if americans do not significantly change their behavior. And this could add to the pain in florida. Hurricane isaias is barrelling to the state right now. Thats forcing the testing sites to temporarily close. Well get to that in a moment, but we begin with our lauren fox. She is joining us on capitol hill. Good morning, its an incredibly significant hearing. The democrats have been trying to secure for quite some time. What should we expect . Reporter well, you know this is a big deal in part because this is a subcommittee, this is a committee that is charged with looking over
More than 152,000 americans have died. Sandra that hearing is about to be under way, what should we expect to hear from the experts this morning . Good morning, sandra and blake. You can expect fireworks to fly at times. Between their medical advice and these experts and the president s decision, actions, and words. Is titled the urgent need for a National Plan to contain the coronavirus being led by House Majority whip and chairman of his Committee Jim clyburn. This is of course a select committee on the Coronavirus Crisis who was recently created in the Republican House minority whip steve scalise. As you mentioned, the big witnesses, dr. Fauci who wil ard wearing a nationals mask set to testify after the administration previously refused to allow him to appear before the panel. And dr. Robert redfield and it is notable all three of these witnesses who will be in person coming after pelosi just set a new house mask mandate. We are expecting this to touch on a wide range of topics fro