America about the efforts to improve the safety of airports and planes and what the federal government can do. Security wille now come to order. Thank you, Ranking Member and the panel of witnesses for joining us today. We are here to discuss proposals for how to restore our nations been so system that has devastated by covid19. We have seen passenger volume in the last few months go as low as 5 of normal. Today it is close to 15 to 20 of normal, but that is not good enough to keep the Aviation Industry in business. It is not good enough to help this nation. Know, this pandemic is unprecedented. The lack of federal leadership and interaction, coordination is very concerning to all of us. We ask the question, how can we project our frontline aviation workers and our passengers if consultation and coordination is not there. That is why Sherman Thompson and i recently sent a letter with the leadership of the Transportation Committee to the heads of dhs and tot calling for preferred and do
Coronavirus without objection. The chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today, the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus which has spread around the world and claimed the lives of thousands. Understandably, they have questions about how it may affect them, their loved ones and their communities. How concerned do we need to be about the virus . Who is most at risk . What can communities do to compare prepare . What can americans do to protect themselves and their families . What is the federal government doing . What more should it be doing . My constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise. I shea i am sure my colleagues constituents are as well. I am concerned that the Trump Administration has downplayed the threat and overstated how close scientists are to developing a vaccine
states we are going to show you them shaded in purple on a map that the pro-choice gutmacher institute says are certain or likely to ban abortion based on currently in books or transient states but that is just the effect today of the supreme court s 5-4 decision. what happens tomorrow and months and years from this moment? that, we don t know. in fact, many democrats tonight are expressing concern that the decision could provide legal justification to overturn other rights, secured by supreme court precedent. including those covering contraception and same-sex marriage. and they have reason to be concerned after justice clarence thomas suggesting doing just that today as well. this is what justice thomas wrote in a concurring opinion, quote, for that reason? future case, we should reconsider all of this court s substantive due process precedence, including griswold lawrence, and obergefell. he continues because any due process decision is demonstrably erroneous. we have a
Take our phone, that thats it. Im going to die. Reporter now, israelis try and come to terms with the horror so many have experienced, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned tonight a number of hamas gunmen are still on the loose here inside israel. Norah. Imtiaz tyab, thank you very much. And at every turn, there is another harrowing story of survival. Tonight we want to introduce you to a mother of three whose neighborhood was overrun by hamas militants, putting her familys life in imminent danger. Miriam tells us her family barely survived. Do have you any clothes with you, any belongings . Nothing. Reporter her home on a kibbutz raided by hamas militants and set on fire. What do you think would have happened to you and your family if you had stayed in your apartment . Wed burn to death. Reporter insteady, merry, her husband, and three children escaped from the second floor window. They rushed to a neighbors bomb shelter, where they hid in silence for seven hours while Hamas T
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s column features a newspaper report from the Harrison Daily Times about the death of Sherman Thompson and the confession of Charlie Edwards to shooting him with a sixteen gauge, long, single barreled shot gun so that Edwards and Thompson’s wife, Reba, with whom Edwards was infatuated, could claim the insurance policy on Thompson.