Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that time and chance to ask theires questions. The question for administrators of the 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in august but how to do it safely. M
Storyteller john flashal who leads walking tours at the site where the statues are located. So you are now currently on the property of mr. Howard hankins, a Business Owner of Hamilton Road materials. Its an Industrial Recycling area. Mr. Hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and partitioned off a couple Hundred Acres to the nearby golf course. And this is a small sliver of whats remaining of the 400 acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 miles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to
That the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his 199033 speech, a quarter of the nation is unemployed. 5000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. You people must have faith. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like around the country to places like toledo. The banking failure of the Great Depression. 26 for Infrastructure Projects of the times impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. We will take you to st. Paul where a depression era gangster and the corrupt police force strike a bargain. We will explore the impact of programs like the civilian conservation corps, as we go to kansas outside of amarillo, texas. We would not have a park here if it were not for the corp. And we will learn about the people who were hit hardest, and their tails. When the sun comes shining announcer we take a trip to toledo, ohio. In the 1
Warning of a second wave of coronavirus and this comes as all 50 states are starting to move back to prepandemic life. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with details on this. Jobina . Thank you, kumasi. Dr. Redfield is saying it is very likely there will be a second wave of the coronavirus. He is pointing to the cooling temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere and the spike in cases there. Hes not ruling out a second lockdown either. He does say the cdc is committed to using the time that we have right now to get the nation as overprepared as possible. Dr. Anthony fauci is encouraging americans to take precautions. As you open up, even under normal circumstances in the best of circumstances, you are going to see infections. The critical issue for a successful opening is how effectively you address those blips. A big part of fighting covid19 are antibody tests to protect consumers the fda has come up with a list of 27 tests that it views as problematic and they have that posted on their
Gov. Kemp good afternoon, our d fire safety commissioner general don king, and our of Community Health commissioner, frank very will be available today for questions if you have them. Before i begin the weekly briefing, i want to provide a quick update on the model aubrey the a mod aubrey case. The past few days, there have been several important developments. As many of you know, the Georgia Bureau of investigation became involved in the case on the evening of tuesday, may fifth. Less than two days later, on thursday, may 7, gregory and Travis Mcmichael were arrested for felony murder and aggravated assault of Ahmaud Arbery. Both men are currently jailed in glynn county. 8, that would have been ahmauds 26th birthday. Georgians all over the state ran 2. 3 miles to celebrate his life and draw attention to the case. As you can imagine, this has been a very emotional time for our state. Our prayers remain with his family, loved ones, in the community as a whole. There are many questions t