Agency, including questions from members of the House Oversight committee on cash stimulus payments authorized early in the pandemic. This is two hours, 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this subcommittee will come to order. Welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules members will appear remotely via webex. A fact i may be the only member appearing in person, although all three of her witnesses are here in person. We appreciate that. Since many members are appearing by webinar let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance come all individuals attending in person must wear a face mask. And i am wearing mine except to make this statement. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also mak
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this subcommittee will come to order. Welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules members will appear remotely via webex. A fact i may be the only member appearing in person, although all three of her witnesses are here in person. We appreciate that. Since many members are appearing by webinar let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance come all individuals attending in person must wear a face mask. And i am wearing mine except to make this statement. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. Well, actually they are not. I time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For all members appearin
The worst air quality in the entire world believe it or not experts say it is actually worse today than yesterday look at this video this is what it looked like just hours ago pure hasan gray skies, according to purple air dot com. The particulate matter in the air around the San Francisco bay reach the 200 to 300 parts per million range which is considered very unhealthy. Heres a look at purple airs air quality map of bay area, including San Francisco, the east bay, the peninsula and the north bay are in that purple range that is the worst its considered unhealthy for everyone. But especially dangerous for people with prior Health Conditions as he had a little farther east and south the air quality gets a little bit better, but you have to really get outside of the immediate bay area out there in santa cruz mountains, its bad but not quite as bad even in the central valley. Lots of red and purple is out there. As we know the wildfires and weather conditions are combining to create thi
By was johnsons plan passes its first hurdle in parliament. But he faces big obstacles in the house of lords. Heated debate President Trump clashes with california state officials over whether Climate Change is causing wildfires in the region. And the acts falls at the the citi,lls at citigroup resuming job cuts. Anna absolutely, lets talk about the jobs market, specifically in the u. K. , we are getting jobs numbers coming through. Jobless claims arising by 73,700 in august. To give you some context to that, that is lower than the previous number. In the prior month, jobless claims numbers rose by 94,000 in july. Perhaps if you are looking at that rate of change or the pace of the surge we have seen in jobless claims, it is not as much as last month, but we are living in a very strange o job market in the uk given the furlough scheme that is keeping in a lifesupport certain businesses thereby limiting the number of jobless claims. In the unemployment rate, the same applies. For threeo
Over her on Climate Change just come to the state of california. Observe it with your own eyes. Governor gavin newsom not mincing words governor says california is in a Climate Crisis the terrible toll of the states wildfires becoming more evident. Block after block of destruction and now at least 19 people dead in what has become a historic year for California Wildfires than 2 dozen fires burning along the west coast pushing mass amounts of smoke into the bay area the skies still as we are seeing some of the worst air quality on earth. Thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im ken wayne lets get straight to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow morris theres a lot of very unhealthy air still out there yeah we just cant makes it outlawed the smoke. Actually made his way back in the bay area couple of days ago now has mixed all the way down to the surface what we need is some way to kick it further out of the area, but right now not see much in the way of wind at all in fa