First and then people remotely. First and then people remotely. Members of the public who are calling in, the number is 415 6550001, press to be added to the line when your item of interest comes up. Public comment is limited to 3 minutes, and speakers are requested but not required to state your name. Voice your opinions. The Small Business commission in San Francisco is the best place to give comments during local emergencies. Your opinions. The Small Business commission in San Francisco is the best place to give comments during local emergencies. Thank you for corresponding and please continue to reach out to the office of Small Business. Please call item 1. Item one roll call. Commissioner benitez, commissioner cornet present. Commissioner herbert present. Councilmember curtis commissioner herbert here. Vice mayor montanaro and president on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Respo
Group recommended that cdc develop agencywide policies to provide clear and consistent requirements for biosafety for all agency laboratories. In response, cdc developed a specimen transport policy but has not developed other agencywide policies such as requirements for Laboratory Documentation and emergency protocols. As i stated at the outset the incidents you are examining today are part of a long series of safety lapses. Since 2007 gao has reported on these issues and has made multiple recommendations to improve federal oversight of highcontainment laboratories. The federal departments agreed with our recommendations and have conducted some activities to respond but have not implemented our key recommendation, to establish a single federal entity with responsibility for oversight of all highcontainment laboratories. We recommended the establishment of a single federal entity to, one, conduct governmentwide Strategic Planning for requirements for highcontainment lab rotorys, includi
Like . What i dont want people to believe is if we produce all of the oil the countries around the world now benefiting from it will produce less of it. The truth is every day hundreds of thousands of day people join the middle class they buy cars and use airplanes. It has a benefit to the United States. To have Domestic Energy resources at our disposal, it lowers the cost of doing business in america which will strengthen our economy and allow us to have a manufacturing renaissance but there will be oil and some will be siphoned and used by terrorist groups. Isis themselves sell oil in the Global Market because they have seized refinery that assad has refused to destroy because he hopes to seize them and capture them again. Geopolitically it will allow us to help break the strangle hold that putin has on europe. Europe today relies on natural gas that they get from russia and if the russians can threaten to cut that off, it makes them vulnerable to pressure from putin and the russian
Apartment. The person in the apartment was able to get word to a Family Member who then called. The suspect presented a gun. Pointed it at the officers. One of the officers fired on the suspect ending the threat. Reporter we are told there are seven officers that actually confront had the suspect. We are told that suspect was in the hallway when he actually pointed that gun at officers. They of course returned fire. The suspect is dead here at the scene. We are told by neighbors a k9 that dragged that body out of the apartment. And Phoenix Police are confirming that that did indeed happen. They did use a k9 to help them retrieve that suspect from the apartment. Since they didnt know exactly what was going on inside the apartment. Coming up at 5 30 well hear from witnesses who was at the apartment building. We are live in west phoenix. We are waiting to learn the walking. Heres the scene. This all happened early this morning near 50th avenue. You can see the shoe there. Phoenix police a
Senate special aging committee. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to call to order the very first hearing of the Senate Special committee on aging. In the 114th congress i have had the honor of being a member of this committee since my very first days in the United States senate and i am delighted to now assume the chairmanship. This is the first time that a maine senator has chaired the committee since the mid1990s when my predecessor and good friend senator bill cohen for whom i worked for 12 years served as the committees chair. Im also pleased to welcome new and returning members to this committee and onto about delighted that my good friend and colleague senator Claire Mccaskill of missouri will service the committees Ranking Member. Senator bill nelson, the former committee chairman, has also chosen to remain a member of this committee and he will continue to share his expertise with us. Throughout its history, the aging committee has spurred con