[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
Floor. Follow live house coverage on should and the house on cspan. Earlier today, alabama governor kay ivy held a briefing on the states response to the pandemic. They announce the current stay at home order would expire on april 30 and a new safer at home order would into effect. She outlined medical procedures and state beaches. This is 45 minutes. Well, good morning, everyone. As you can see, i have got a great team assembled with me here today, and i am certainly grateful for each one of them. For their service and participation in this process. I am here to speak today about our stay at home order that expires thursday, april 30. First he we couldnt even be here talking about this order that expires if it had not been for the people of alabama abiding by the regulations and guidelines, for their sacrifices, their patience and their understanding during the last six weeks. What our citizens have done is work it, and i appreciate that so many people have been willing to do the righ
Beaches. Well, good morning, everyone. As you can see, i have got a great team assembled with me here today, and i am certainly grateful for each one of them. For their service and participation in this process. First he we couldnt even be here talking about this order that expires if it had not been for the people of alabama abiding by the regulations and guidelines, for their sacrifices, their patience and their understanding during the last six weeks. What our citizens have done is work it, and i appreciate that so many people have been willing to do the right things to keep themselves healthy as well as to protect others to be well and healthy, too. This has not been an easy not in the we are Perfect World that we want to be. However, the people of alabama are to go the hard things to ensure that we can get back to our routines just as soon as possible. And today we are taking another step in that direction. Before i announce the changes that we are making, i would like to first ac
Through a revolution what will 2020 bring and what names should you buy were going to begin with todays markets and bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange. Happy new year. Listen, joe, we are way off of our lows lets take a look at the major average. All three of them still down, yet things are moving in the right direction. Apple turned positive. Nasdaq down here today dow industrials, youll see theyre down 95. S p we were 3216 was the low there. Take a look at the s p 500 essentially the lows were at 10 00 a. M. And buying came in. Its not heavy buying. The volume is about average for a day. But remember, this is supposed to be a very light volume week, so even average volume is better than normal. What has been weak in the market were way overbought, so big momentum names would be selling off. So semiconductors, Home Builders have been really strong, tesla is weak. Master card and visa, big momentum names, all of this makes a little bit of sense when youve had the price runups wh
Of showers in a short time, thunder and lightning, the best of sunshine for eastern coast of england and eastern coasts of scotland, some gusty winds associated with the showers, quite widely 30 110 miles an hour, somewhere on the south coast you could see gusts of 50 miles an hour. In the sunshine on eastern coasts, 21125, 19 22 in the showers and we keep the showers going through this evening and overnight. They track their way further north and east, through the midlands, north wales, Northern England, parts of scotland, try for Northern Ireland, try across central and southern england but another muggy night, temperatures not lower than 14 night, temperatures not lower than 1a or 15. Here is the area of low pressure responsible for these heavy showers, still with us tomorrow. By this stage its pushing further north and east, the main focus of the showers will be through north wales, midlands, Northern England, starting to work into scotland, not so starting to work into scotland, n