Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
Gunshots and then saw the men shooting those they caught they slaughtered we escaped into the forest i took 2 children and my husband the other 2 they still have not arrived he eventually theyll be settled in an area with about a 100000 other refugees most of them congolese who have over many years fled from the same conflict Catherine Sawyer aljazeera uganda Southern India now where large parts of the country are suffering the worst drought in decades forcing many farmers to abandon their land as their crops fail they move to the cities but theyre finding life there actually isnt much better elizabeth purana reports now from one of indias hardest hit regions the Western State of maharashtra. You are. A pundit on mordor left his 40000 square meter cotton farm in his village 6 months ago he now lives in this cramped rented room with his family. 2 years of drought have forced him to find work as a laborer in one of the many factories in the city of about. It is very difficult to live in
Valleys so from chicago all the way down towards dallas also to washington we could see some very active weather here on monday now as we go towards tuesday a lot of the rain remains in the same locations really keeping dallas quite wet up towards chicago youre going to dry out but over here towards washington that is where that cold front is pushing through and that is where we do expect to see some Severe Weather as well well across the caribbean really quite quiet for this time of year we are in the Hurricane Season and we are coming towards the end of june which is the 1st month of the Hurricane Season dry conditions across many areas here but for Central America it is quite wet particular over here towards nicaragua and guatemala down towards panama its a little bit dry a few of the time for there of about 31. 00 degrees but we are going to see those rain showers return as well towards parts of mexico for ken kuhn not too bad for you but over towards mexico city it is going to be
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