Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
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Simply based on the long delays that the public has been observing with the work with public works. But we should have an update soon i would imagine. But, yeah, the timeframe i think that theyre reevaluating right now. Theres been many of our smaller projects, however, that were not allowed to proceed during shelterinplace and like neighborhood and traffic on main and the required work by actual work crews working together, they were deemed nonessential. Okay, thank you. Okay. Commissioner safai. Commissioner safai thank you, chair peskin and thank you mr. Tumlin. So i understand the fiscal outlook. Can you talk a little bit more about what some of your adjustments would be if and when and hopefully the cares act passes and theres additional moneys that come down to the transportation agencies, because i know that you have to present the situation based on the funding scenarios that we have. But i also know that the state and the federal government are going to do everything they can
Thank you. Thank you, commissioner yee. Commissioner yee thank you. I wasnt too sure how this fits into the par tic particular ite. When you talk about congestion and the balance of people getting into vehicles and the lack of Public Transportation at this point. And probably the people on the west side see a lack of Public Transportation the most because its just not there. And i feel particularly in my district that its really lacking. Theres a few lines that are running and i want to thank m. T. A. For getting the 43 line back and running. Thats one of the few lines that we have now that go up on the hill a little bit. Theres no plans to bring back in some. And if you take the area around parkson, that when you cut off the line with the 57, youre pretty much like the desert there and so in rethinking and it seems that 57 and other lines like that are not in the plans to come back and it means that we have workers that need to get to work uptown and so forth and so how do you balance
Musicians look full of making money. Because of the virus. Welcome to the program for the 1st time in history u. S. Just crashed into negative territory on monday that means producers have to. Take oil off their hands the crash was triggered by a collapse in demand as the world continues its shutdown because of the coronavirus its an Unprecedented Development well discuss the impact in just a moment but 1st this report. Went. To one thing. We certainly have plenty of oil. In fact far too much of it the president tried to calm nerves after the value of u. S. Crude went negative for the 1st time ever on monday at one point reaching minus 40. 00 a barrel in a month or so go a little bit its at 25. 00 and 28. 00 or so its largely a financial squeeze and they did get squeezed with a traders who found themselves on monday under heavy pressure to sell off their crude futures to the rising cost of holding the oil in the u. S. Is when dealing Storage Facilities means keeping it is becoming too