On cspan2 at 9 30 a. M. The Dc Circuit Court of appeals heels oral arguments in the perjury case against Michael Flynn and at 1 00 a virtual townhall with virginia senator mark warner and representative gerry connolly. Next a look at efforts to combat fraud and exploitation during the coronavirus pandemic with officials from the Justice Department, fbi and us secret service. They testified on price gouging, the hoarding of personal protective equipment and the filing of fraudulent applications under the paycheck protection loan program. The Senate Judiciary hearing is just under two hours. Good morning, thank you very much for attending the hearing and more will come in throughout the morning. Mister craig carbonito, phil hughes, associate attorney general, assistant director of the criminal investigative division, fbi, the assistant director of the office of investigations of the United States secret service. We are talking about this before, fraud related to the cares act, scams agai
The global headlines this is r. T. International thanks for joining us. Well begin as usual with the latest figures on the covert 1000 pound make the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1400000 802000 people have lost their lives the United States has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy and worldwide 303000 people have now recovered from the disease. Ok lets start in france where the death toll from covert 19 has passed and thousands the Health Ministers warn that the peak hasnt yet arrived and that the nationwide lockdown will have to continue and the World Health Organization has supported that view saying any countries that lift restrictions too early could trigger a new wave of the pandemic charlotte reports for us from paris 4 weeks into lockdown in france and the countrys economy is being brought to its knees will probably be more than the minus 2. 2 percent in 2009 versus the magnitude of the economic shock. As the pandemics taken a stranglehold
Has managed to spread through modern developed societies especially britain is a crime you know in 2016. A drill cold exercise sickness and that was a drill to practice for a pandemic happened in london and the very the whole the whole drill was was laid out to be the result of but was but the Health Service was overwhelmed there werent enough beds. There werent enough i. C. U. Beds there werent enough ventilators. There there werent enough clinicians in the right place the whole system which had been the Health Service which had been battered by cuts and privatized sation for years failed and the chief medical officer then in 2016 asked the government to heed the warning of walked played demonstrated very clearly and yet the department of health in london suppressed the documents which had the conclusions of this drill they kept them from going public now that is only 4 years ago. So they knew the whole preparedness for this short of being in place but of course they knew they couldnt
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Who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. Before i address a set of amendments that were going to be putting forward today, i want to say a few things about what this proposal is and also what a Navigation Center is. San francisco piloted its first Navigation Center in 2015. The model was dubbed more than a shelter and was carefully c