From u. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission members on hazard quus products and consumer safety. They spoke about recent recalls including a fisher price sleeper that was associated with the deaths of more than 30 infants. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to todays oversight hearing on consumer Product Safety Commission. Thank you to all the commissioners for being with us today. I am meezed that were having an on time start. We have votes at 11 30. There will only be one round of questions. That doesnt mean the witnesses cant pretend they dont have all the answers in the first round of questions. We expect you to answer them fully and to the best of your ability. The commission is fully formed and five members. According to that commission, deaths and injuries and Property Damage if incidents stemming from Consumer Product cost the nation more than a trillion dollars. Thats an economic cost, the cost to human
To present today. As well as severe injuries, thank you commissioner for your comments. Severe injuries are really critical focus of vision zero and we look forward to sharing our findings today. All of these analyses are possible because of our collaboration between the Health Department and the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. We work under the Vision Zero Research collaborative of backgrounds and expertise. With respect to emerging mobility, we have been working to create a standardized methodology to monitor injuries related to new modes of transportation through the trauma registry. Recently released our first sixmonth report looking particularly at escooter related collisions. These were shared as a part of the packet. I want to acknowledge our vision zero epidemiologist was critical in leading this work and is in our audience today. Because of the injury prevention Research Collaborative we had a Strong Foundation when escooter hit our streets last year to work with th
Budget i felt was an absolute necessity, and as you know, we didnt get everything that we asked for. I think that we absolutely need fleet replacement and equipment, as well as our hose tenders. We absolutely need e. M. S. , and we need fire prevention. Really, we need more than everything were asking for. Commissioner covington certainly, weve been running at a deficit for quite some time and i mean across the board. So these asks are very serious, not just for fleet and e. M. S. And fire prevention, but there are just so many things that are going on. And these are flush times in the city, so now is the time when we need to acquire these materials and so that we can do the job that needs to be done in order to protect the citizens and the visitors of our city. So oh, that was one thing. And then, i wanted to mention that i received a letter i think all rate payers probably received this letter from pg e. It was in the letter yesterday, and it was regarding pg es public power shutoff.
Priority, what the top three things would be. Chief nicholson so everything i asked for in the budget i felt was an absolute necessity, and as you know, we didnt get everything that we asked for. I think that we absolutely need fleet replacement and equipment, as well as our hose tenders. We absolutely need e. M. S. , and we need fire prevention. Really, we need more than everything were asking for. Commissioner covington certainly, weve been running at a deficit for quite some time and i mean across the board. So these asks are very serious, not just for fleet and e. M. S. And fire prevention, but there are just so many things that are going on. And these are flush times in the city, so now is the time when we need to acquire these materials and so that we can do the job that needs to be done in order to protect the citizens and the visitors of our city. So oh, that was one thing. And then, i wanted to mention that i received a letter i think all rate payers probably received this let
You were in, the cnn newsroom im paula reid in washington. Any moment now at st. Patricks day, tradition, President Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks from the white house. And well bring that to life. Ive just ahead. But for now, we had to russia, where Election Officials say Vladimir Putin is in the lead in the president ial vote polls close earlier today after a three de, vote with no genuine opponent running against putin he is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Frederik Pleitgen is in berlin. Starting with you, matthew putin just spoke. What did he say . Yeah it was a very short victory speech, even though the final results havent come in, it looks like this has been a Landslide Victory as expected for the russian president to secures a fifth president ial term. And these were shot comments at his campaign headquarters. He walked into the room, he t