Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and get these hikers out the rescue operation had to be called off last night because as you can see in this video the smoke just got too heavy and too dense for the helicopter crews. We have a picture of the hikers they seem to be doing in fact this photograph shows you theyre all hunker down right now at the vermilion. Campers and lake edison volunteers are helping them stay fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued again theyre in good spirits for now because they are still a little bit of ways
The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
App at the center of the storm. Meantime, travel as we knew it is over according to airbnb ceo brian chesky. He sat down with us for a wideranging and rare interview. To worldd the pandemic war ii. Tankdid teens on tictoc attendance at President Trumps rally in oklahoma over the weekend. Andrew yang will join us to talk about that and the future of the biden and drum campaigns, plus his latest initiative to get Tech Companies like facebook and google to pay you for your data. First, a check of the markets. Stocks rising despite concerns about a resurgence of the virus in different parts of the country. Walk us through the day. You had all three major averages closing higher by 0. 6 or more. Seems to be there consensus that the virus is nowhere near over but there also seems to be consensus that it will not entirely derail the recovery we are seeing. Small caps also were up by about 0. 5 excuse me, 1 . They have been really kind of a proxy for the recovery story, given that they are mor
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