The committee on National Resources will come to order. Were meeting to hear testimony on examining the challenges in puerto ricos recovery and role of financial oversight and Management Board. I ask unanimous consent for mr. Reev, gentleman from new york, mr. Surenno and the gentleman from illinois, mr. Cutearious and the gentleman from new york, ill be alowed to sit with the committee and participate . Thank you. Hearing no objections, that is so ordered. Under Committee Rule 4 f any oral Opening Statements are limited to chairman. This will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner, therefore im asking unanimous consent that anyu other member be made part of the hearing committee. Clerk by 5 00 a. M. Today and without objection that will be so ordered. So first i appreciate the witnesses being on the panel. Lets start with it Opening Statements first and ill recognize myself for the original opening statement. We are here today to look at it hurricane impacted territories at puerto
Population, more people likely to need care all year round, but particularly in the winter . Yes, no getting around the fact people get ill overwinter, but it does sound like this is worse than usual. Speaking about, as Melanie Wasjust saying, record numbers of people in ambulances turned away from hospital as they do not have resources to help them. In record breaking territory, that does not sound good. One of the interesting elements of the story in the telegraph is they are speaking about trying to encourage hospitals not to talk about this in overly alarming terms, not to speak about, what do they cold, black alerts . The guardian speaking about how the red cross is saying the nhs needs to take action to make sure we are taking better ca re of to make sure we are taking better care of people. Terms like red cross and black alert in relation to the nhs, nota and black alert in relation to the nhs, not a good look. In addition, some of the stories, looking at individual stories, lyi
Santoli in for wilfred frost and wanted to take us back to the 80s. That was back when people used real phones to call people. I get it. Lets check in on the global markets. After another pretty strong day on wall street, the dow finished higher above 20,000, again futures indicated to open higher as well. Up 11 points. Sort of a mixed picture. Less strength than we saw this time yesterday. S p futures up less than a point. Nasdaq futures are negative six. We have a lot of earnings to talk about. Google with a miss. Microsoft doing really well. Starbucks, some issues there. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, lets show you the sentiment barometer. Its been a story of higher yields all week. There we are. Bangon 2. 50 as wilfred would say. Not moving much this morning. First quarter gdp, a lot to dig through there. A lot of strength in the Third Quarter gdp. Well see if the consumer con if confidence translated into consumer spending. The forecast is for a downshift for Fourth Quart
A very active scene. Where she Oakland Police along with az transit officials here. As we take a look at the video we shot earlier, this has to do with an az transit bus online 54 heading north on 35th avenue with about four passengers and the bus driver heading north on 35th avenue when there was a noticeable thump. Passengers came out and they realized that through horror that the boy describe about four to five years old had been struck and killed by the right rear wheel of the bus. We had heard from witnesses that the boy was in his yard along 35th avenue when he was chasing a green ball into the street when he was struck. Now lets hear what a witness who was on the bus had to say. We felt a thumping type of feeling. And then the bus driver stopped and we got off to see what happened. And the mom was standing there holding the little boy and she was asking for help and the family was screaming call somebody. I think about my own family, the little ones. Things happen like that so f
Been publicly released. I have an investigation ongoing to figure out how that reporter got it. But the worse part of this is, the reporter did not know how to read the report, maam. So let me give you the actual facts. Today a pilot that weighs less than 136 pounds, if he steps to the airplane, he or she, has a 1 in 50,000 chance of hurting their neck from an ejection. A pilot between 136 pounds and 165 pounds has a 1 in 200,000 probability of having neck injury from ejection. The individual who reported on this is not an expert in system safety. Okay. Let me my time is running out. As i understand it, the test was done under ideal circumstances. Is there any reason to feel that the results would be any different in circumstances where it was going not at ideal speeds but and not going straight but going up . Your time has expired . Generals, i want to thank you for being here. You have continued to provide the information as required by this committee. And we will continue to hold th