Chair discusses the coronavirus. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington host good morning. It is monday, july 13, 2020. A threehour washington journal ahead and we begin the day the race from the for the white house and we are three weeks away from Vice President joe biden announcing his running mate. We want to hear from democrats who do you think joe biden should pick to be on the 2020 ticket . Democrats in the eastern or central time zones can call in o 274 88000. You can also send us a text. Please include your name and where you are from. A good monday morning. As a reminder, joe biden has said he would pick a woman to be his running mate in 2020, so that helps narrow down the list, but were asking democrats who runninge joe bidens mate. This piece takes up the 11 most logical picks. The top three, congresswoman val demings of florida, senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts, and the number one pick, senator, harris of california. Aaron blake writes she has be
Now come to order. Without objection members of the full committee got on this task force are operas to participate. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times even when they are not denies by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for meeting and unmating themselves and to meet themselves after they are finished speaking. Each rose 965 only use members and witnesses is appropriate when not recognized to avoid in an ardent background noises. Members are reminded that all house rules related to order applies to this remote area. Exposure notification and Contact Tracing how ai helps localities reopened safely and researchers and i will now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Good morning to todays hearing will focus on the essential tradeoff of the covid19 pandemic is forcing upon us between life liberty privacy and the pursuit of happiness. The role but technology to financial transaction data and Artificial Int
All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get some news this morning in the south bay, the cruise fires burned 5400 acres in Santa Clara County. Cal fire says its now about 20 contained and evacuations are still in place this morning. And the fire has destroyed 2 buildings and one person was hurt kron fours dan thorn has more. Flames chewing through thousands of acres as firefighters battled the crews fire. The dry brush crackling for a second day as the wildfire threatened homes and forced evacuations along kenyada road for this man thankfully his rural ranch home was spared. I was relieved, i was i was only able to make it up last night and i was able to tell couple the neighbors that there are places where intact. The house and the horses were protected from the ground and from the air fire retardant dropped from above even covered some of his animals by horses got red said i have read horses, so thats thats an experience because the flames spread so quickly, hundreds of firefighters from a
Jonathan welcome to Washington Post live. I am jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post. Kate gallego is making headlines for how for her criticism of how the federal government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. Her city and county have seen a surge in new cases, but not testing. Last week with George Stephanopoulos, she said, it feels like they are declaring victory while we are in crisis mode. We are going to talk about that with mayor gallego. Welcome. Mayor gallego thank you so much for having me for having me. Jonathan there is a lot to talk about. You have made multiple requests to fema for help in covid19 testing sites, all of which have been turned down. It was reported that fema said it was getting out of the testing business. A funny thing happened after your appearance on this week with George Stephanopoulos this sunday. You actually heard from the white house . Mayor gallego sunday morning, the white house reached out. They said they wanted to work
Mayor gallego mayor gallego i believe our residents will do the right thing if they get accurate information. I am calling on every elected official from the president on down to send a message that Wearing Masks works and that staying home can slow the spread. Jonathan welcome to Washington Post live. I am jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post. Phoenix mayor kate gallego is making headlines for her criticism of how the federal of how arizonas governor and the federal government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. Her city and county have seen a surge in new cases, but not testing. Last sunday on this week with George Stephanopoulos, she said, it feels like they are declaring victory while we are in crisis mode. We are going to talk about all of that with mayor gallego. Welcome. Mayor gallego thank you so much for having me. Jonathan there is a lot to talk about. You have made multiple requests to fema, the federal Emergency Management agency, for help in cov