The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in. They are going to work on a judicial nomination with a confirmation vote scheduled for 5 30 for 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Republicans leader Mitch Mcconnell may introduce the republican covid19 recovery plan. Live now to the senate floor. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord god, we again thank you for the life and legacy of representative john robert lewis. Lord, accept our gratitude for his ethical congruence that motivated him to find a moral way to get in the way. Were grateful that his passion for freedom summoned our nation to embrace our best hopes and not our worst fears. Inspired by his exemplary pilgrimage, may our lawmakers strive to live with such integrity that they will stand on the right side of history. Lord, help our senators to strive to see you more clearly, to love you more dearly, and to follow you more nearly day by d
An oakland and traffic is moving along well, heading south or north on 80. We can also look at south bound 880 between hayward and fremont. That is nice looking drive, all the way through the bay. Checking the pass, we dont see a lot of traffic here that is going to be slow. Lots of times we have that. We dont have anything to talk about there, or on san ramon and pleasanton. And on north barry north bend 280, the entire silkfor 101. Lets go back to the headlines. The Supreme Court approved a second federal execution. 68 yearold wesley ira purkey, scheduled for last night, was removed. The claims that he has progressive dementia and severe Mental Illness needs to be evaluated. But the department of justice appealed it to the u. S. Supreme court, and they voted 54 to allow the execution. Wesley ira purkey was accused of killing a 16yearold girl and an elderly woman. This will be the first case of this type since 2003. Here in california, 355,000 people have tested positive for the virus
And promotions staff within Population Health, and those folks are under this yellow block under operations, but that means that theyre also overseeing the Human Services, which is doing housing and feeding. [inaudible] within Population Health, and that modelling that theyre doing is both our normal work of taking in public results of Infectious Disease tests, but its also new work that i think is really an advancement of what we normally do in the department, working with outside assistance for modelling and making sure that we are able to project into the future. And that is led by jim marks, who is an anesthesiologist and many others in that structure. Go forward. Ill let you know that all of the guidance that comes out is part of the information and Guidance Group that is headed by reeta nguyen, dr. Rita nguyen, and she is part of Population Health and leads a team of doctors and physicians and they write all the research about what the current recommendations are. That group had
We now leave this program to get you alive briefing of 40 governor ron desantis. Good afternoon i want to think Carlos Mcguire for hosting us in jackson and thank you to mayor carlos and manus to all the work he has done over many months working closely with us in the state government. We came to jackson and i think early march when this pandemic was really starting to pick up steam, at that point i dont know if miamidade had a case, positive, maybe a couple but it was obviously much different than what were finding here. [shouting] over 4000 people have died, you have no plans and youre doing nothing. Shame on you. At that time when we had when we were here we had a whole bunch of concerns about what would end up happening in the next few weeks and months craig we had concerns about testing, we were able to get test, we were not able to get test for all the people who needed them at the time, in fact there were probably hundreds of tests being conducted today statewide and nationally
That because there are a lot of people who just think if we can break through that then were going to be able to say when we get a vaccine its just going to be game, set, match for the bulls because we are already at this level without the vaccine i think that today is a confluence of goldman puts citi, wells fargo and jpmorgan in the rearview mirror. Its the old Goldman Sachs model. We have moderna talking up a blue streak this morning on squawk with meg making us feel like inject my left arm, please. We have the Goldman Sachs number that looks like the old days david faber, goldman reminds me of when i dont know, what, 18 years ago yeah. It is a report from goldman that is you can liken to sort of some of the earlier years of their dominance when they were only recently a public company, jim, or really lets not forget their record quarters were actually right at the end of the financial meltdown of 08, 09 remember the numbers they printed then but this is a very Strong Quarter for th