Now, testimony from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Monetary Policy and the state of the u. S. Economy amid coronavirus. He spoke about low Interest Rates, unemployment numbers and what future Economic Growth and recovery could look like. Help in front of the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. So the committee will come to order. Thank you. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when theyre not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying h res 965, staff will only mute members and our witness as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. T
Clear and we have dry air in place in livermore is down to 352 and a high fire danger elevated in the hills north and east bay hills and that takes us through tonight into the north bay hills and look in vacaville and davids and travis west. Eastern Solano County and counter contra costa and up in the hills is the areas of focus and a pretty big system for the end of june. It was a wind producer for us but we bump up and 70s, 80s or 90s in santa rosa. All right. We think this will be a quiet week. Quieter than what we have and lets ask the man himself. Good morning, sal. Good morning, steve. As people queue up lets go up and take a look at what we have with interstate 880 and the traffic is moving along pretty well. I do want to mention there has been a deadly crash in byron and byron highway and in fact i will mention that port byron highway in Clifton Court road is good area to avoid. 880 on your screen and that looks good in both directions. Lets go back to the headlines. Happening
State of emergency for about a month but theyre forced to lift the declaration for 80 of prefectures. Of those, 5 are likely to see a change. Tokyo and neighboring prefectures were among the first to introduce stay at home measures and will almost certainly see those continue for the time being. An early draft of the governments plan suggests criteria for reopening that says theyll needd to have fewer tha 0. 5 infections per 100,000 people in the recent week. That means tokokyo will need to see a drop of fewer than 17 new cases a week. The minister in charge of japans Coronavirus Response says even prefectures need to keep some antivirus measures in place. There c could be further outbreaks if people begin to let down their guard. He says folks should continue to avoid travel to and from prefectures on special alert. Residents shohould also continu social distancing and stay away from places where the virus can spread including large scale events and fitness centers. Japan has over 16,
Virginia senator quarter and the founder of world central kitchen jose andres talk about the credit virus pandemic, hosted by talk about the credit virus pandemic, hosted by the Economic Club of washington. Mark is a native of connecticut. He wanted George Washington university where he got a 4. 0 average and valedictorian of his class and later went to harvard law school, came down and got back into washington. He got involved in the cellular telephone business, formed club your capital, made money doing that. And ultimately got involved in government and politics and became the chairman of the Democratic Party in virginia and also later became governor of virginia and then elected senator from virginia in 2018, reelected in 2014 and he is up for election again in 2020. Mark, thank you for joining us. Enormousyou got an round of publicity publicity from your tuna melts. I assume the microwave behind you or the kitchen behind you is where you cook that why was there so much attention t
Its proposed conditions to the government on thursday morning. Later, participants, including cabinet ministers will discuss whether it is appropriate to lift the emergency state for the region. Prime minister shinzo abe will make an announcement in the evening. 39 prefectures are expected to have restrictions lifted, including five of the 13 prefectures under special alert. Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures were among the first to introduce stay at home measures and will almost certainly see those continue. An early draft of the governments plan suggests criteria for reopening. It says prefectures will need to have reported fewer than 0. 5 infections per 100,000 people within the most recent week. That means tokyo, for example, would need to see a drop to fewer than 70 new cases a week. The minister in charge of japans Coronavirus Response says even prefectctures with lor infection rates must keep at least some antivirus measures in place. Translator there could be further outbrea