In Rural Communities, and we think the need is largely met in that program, not only through federal funding, but through state and private sector funding, but we do allow people to come in through our outreach funding to get at the same issue. They could come in for outreach funding or Network Funding for a request in the budget and do the same thing in the sense they can develop a program that seeks to purchase supplies and put them in the communities. The remaining need out there, it can be met through the outreach program. And the hospital Improvement Program youd continue is a 25 Million Program . Yes, sir. That in the current Year Spending 25 and preparing another 25 next year . Correct . The 20 this year for similar purposes goes away in the president s budget . Yes. The program, theres no request for that, funded historically at 15 million and the other 5 million is request for emergency devices program. What are the what obstacles do you see in telehealth. We have people telli
Think, would have made things clearer and simpler and responsibility for the immigration mess were in now lies with congress not with you, and with congress for failing to pass the senates bipartisan bill, which i was strong supporter of. I would like to talk about cybersecurity. There is going to be cyberweek on the senate floor. There is work in the house. We have bipartisan bills pending on information sharing between federal agencies and the Big Communications providers. On Agency Public reporting on the cyberthreat to increase Public Awareness of coordinating National Notification when companies have data breaches. And updating some of the criminal penalties. When we first were working on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation, another main piece of this effort was on the Critical Infrastructure piece. What i hear quite widely is that the dhs led framework process that has pulled together a great number of Critical Infrastructure Industry Sectors is going very well. As a result o
African variant. The number of children of key workers who are still going into Primary Schools is undermining the lockdown, teaching unions have warned. And some nurseries looking after the very youngest children question why they have to stay open and say they need more help to deal with the pandemic. A change in tone from President Trump he now condemns the violent storming of the us capitol by his supporters. Hello, good afternoon. The latest r numberfor the uk has been published and government scientists estimate it is currently between 1 and 1. 4 that means that on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between 10 and 1a people. Before christmas it was estimated to be between 1. 1 and 1. 3. Scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest Data Available up to january 11th and do not include any impact of the Current National lockdown. The mayor of london, sadiq khan, has declared a Major Incident in t
Attending the inauguration of president elect biden hours after condemning the Violent Storming of the us capitol. And coming up wonder woman 1984 tells us the origin story of the superheroine, thats still to come on the film review with anna smith. The uk records the highest number of deaths in a 2k hour period. The deaths of 1,325 were reported in the past 2a hours. Previously the highest level was on the 21st of april, when 1,224 deaths were recorded. The uk also records a further 68,053 new cases in the past day. The news comes as government scientists estimate for the r number thats the measure of how fast the virus is growing, has gone up to between one and 1. 11. That means on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between ten and 1a others. Before christmas it was estimated to be between 1. 1 and 1. 3. Scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest Data Available up to january four and do not incl
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