Moment and a reflection of the part we all have to play when slowing the spread of covid19. In light of this remote format i also some reminders to the members about conduct of the hearing. Members keep their video feed on as long as they are present at the hearing. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting their microphones and please keep your microphones muted when youre speaking. And finally if members have documents they wish to submit for the record please email to the committee whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Well, good afternoon, and well coom the First Virtual hearing of the committee on investigations and oversight. Today were discussing a critical issue. Research into repurposing existing therapeutic drugs for covid19 treatment as well as scientific basis for the federal governments evaluation of such drugs. I appreciate our witnesses being here under these unusual circumstances, but these are very important issues, and we look forward to your
[indiscernible chatter] the subcommittee on health will now come to order. Good morning, colleagues. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Madam chair, would you yield for a parliamentary inquiry as we start this hearing . I want to do my Opening Statement pardon me . I already recognize myself, but i will recognize you afterward. Id be holding, or that we would be holding a hearing under these circumstances. But i think it is a necessary one. Our country is in pain. Americans are afraid, you they they are sick, hungry, and jobless, and over 80,000 souls have been lost. The government that was supposed to protect them has failed. They haveheroes, and risen, extraordinary, ordinary americans showing courage, compassion, and a sense of selfsacrifice and duty beyond what could have or should have of them. Been asked regular americans have risen when their leaders have not. We are the greatest country on , and we have the most deathsnd the most from co
Now, your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. It may be Easter Sunday and a holiday weekend, but Health Across the country are pleaing with people to stay inside the covid19 pandemic, worried any social gatherings for Church Service or dinner could spiral up the crisis. Good morning, it is sunday, april 12th. Happy Easter Sunday to all of you celebrating. Im liz kreutz. Good morning, lisa. Liz, good morning to you. Plenty of great starting out there and some of you saw it all day yesterday. We got into lateday clearing. Today were forecasting a little sooner. Look how far that stratus extend to southern california. Its a bleak start but it will brighten up. 52 in the city, 51 on the peninsula. Pretty cool in the 40s on the peninsula earlier, and from the golden gate bridge, 53 in livermore. Easter sunday will brighten up and warm up. So cool at the coast. In with the brighter afternoon. We should see highs in the mid60s to near 70 around the bay and inland tonight. Clear night and
This is abc7 news. Easter goes on in the bay area but with a much different tone this year as the pandemic has many celebrating virtual celebrations. There are more than 550,000 confirmed cases in the united states. Thats three times as many as the next highest country. Spain. More than 21,000 deaths have been reported in the u. S. Which is also the highest of any country. New york city alone is nearing 7,000. Italy has the second most deaths from the virus. Now, california is reporting just over 22,000 confirmed cases which is the sixth most in the u. S. Just behind massachusetts and pennsylvania. More than 600 people have died in the state from the virus. The greater bay area now has more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The count right now stands at 5,079. 140 people have died. Santa clara county has the most cases with more than 1,600. North of the bay area, both lake and mendocino counties report having four confirmed cases each. So far there are no reported deaths in ei
Federal agencies are working in response to the coronaVirus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli is acting deputy Homeland Security secretary, and dr. Robert kadlec is assistant health and Human Services secretary. They testified before a senate committee. Topics included supply chain management, sick pay support, and travel issues, specifically, how the coast guard is working with cruise lines. This is just over two hours. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for your efforts as theyre related to the current, i guess weve got to call it a pandemic at this point in time, right . With covid19, the coronavirus. I guess its important to put things in perspective and i ask to submit my Opening Statement to the record. But i think we oftentimes fail to recognize and put this in proper perspective, so let me just rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola. Total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. Now, i remember in the midst of that c