Come on paul. Hello there she is gone 7 pm here in moscow youre watching International Start this hour by giving you the latest figures on the 19 pandemic the number of confirmed infections worldwide has passed 1600000 death toll stands now at more than 909367000 people have recovered. Well the virus is taking its greatest toll on the elderly with a picture of devastation emerging it can homes throughout europe deaths of surge but exact numbers arent yet known to you to a lack of testing and delays to in reporting in italy the Health Director of one nursing home to tell us there are no resources to cope with the crisis. I would describe whats happened as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible i have not even had time to process whats happened and mourn for those who have died in many European Countries care home residents have been bypassed by overstretched Health Care Services in france almost a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths of happened in such facilities with mo
Defense secretary lloyd austin and joint chief of staff chair answered questions from lawmakers regarding the biden administrations decision to pause weapon shipment to israel amid the countrys ongoing war with hamas before appropriation hearing in the senates 2025 budget request. This is about two hours ying on conflict between israel and hamas and the russiaukraine war. Appointing before a Senate Appropriations on the 2025 budget request. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to welcome our witnesses, secretary austin and general brown. We appreciate you being with us here today. General brown, this is your first appearance before the subcommittee. Your position today, and i want to thank you for your commitment and Longstanding Service to our nation. Secretary austin, lester, when you testified before this committee, we discussed the default. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and we were able to come together with a bipar
Conflict between israel and hamas and the russiaukraine war. Appointing before a Senate Appropriations on the 2025 budget request. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to welcome our witnesses, secretary austin and general brown. We appreciate you being with us here today. General brown, this is your first appearance before the subcommittee. Your position today, and i want to thank you for your commitment and Longstanding Service to our nation. Secretary austin, lester, when you testified before this committee, we discussed the default. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and we were able to come together with a bipartisan matter to avoid a catastrophic Government Shutdown but we have failed miserably in getting the budget down on time. Here we are, more than halfway through the fiscal year and you just got your budget, albeit six months late. These repeated delays have real impact and i hope you will illustrate for us the im
Lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Stocks are lower at this hour. The dow getting another record intro day before the pull back health care attacked the best performing sectors S P Health Care 40 almost flat. Consumer staples off more than 1 good year tire, starbucks and mattel, the biggest drags on the s and a. Exxon, ge and dupont buying on the dow at this hour michelle, thank you very much welcome everybody. Tyler mathisen here. The fda announcing a plan to cut nicotine levels in cigarettes. Commissioner talking about this new proposal at a News Conference a short time ago. The nicotine in cigarettes is not directly responsible for the cancer, the lung disease, the Heart Disease that kill hundreds of thousands of americans every year yes, it got them all dignitied and it kept them addicted for the long term. It got most of them addicted as teenagers. But the other chemical compounds in tobacco and smoke setting tobacco on fire that cause the illness and death, not the ni
Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting friday, march 17 here in city hall in room 400. I want to welcome our new councilmembers and later up in the agenda we will tell you about themselves and their background. So right now, lets start with the introductions. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting today here at city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at grove van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street good entrance is provided via a wheelchair lifts. Accessible listening devices are available at our meeting is open captioned. Sign language interpreted. Our agenda are also available in large print and braille. Please, as that for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this room sound system, and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentation, these, sounds