Will. Be. On february 25th brazil became the 1st country in south america to report a cold 19 in connection. And as the number of cases increased over the subsequent weeks and months its a president with views to take any strong measures. He fought state leaders who imposed lockdowns and mandated social distancing rules calling their actions economically ruinous. Still refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of the Global Pandemic hes called the virus nothing more than a little flu his priority has been to keep the economy going at any cost. But now brazil has recorded more than 1000000 infections and the worlds 2nd highest death toll. And as pushes for people to go back to work 2 of his Health Ministers have walked away nansen patient taken office on april 17th but resigned just 4 weeks later. Had replaced lisa. Who had dismissed for supporting quarantines the president called it a consensual divorce but mine did the sacking anger across brazil. With many banging pots and pans from the
So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Can i have a motion to not disclose anything that was said . So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Thank you. Okay, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Item 7 announcements. Please be advised that a member of the public has three minutes to make pertinent comments on each agenda item unless the portion commissioner has a shorter period on any item. Note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will dial in participants to use their touchtone phones to register in a desire for Public Comment. And audio prompts will signal to dial in participants when the audio input is enabled for commenting. Please dial in only when the item that you wish to comment on is announced. Item 8, executive directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Michael martin, Deputy Director of r
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state
My concerns about longterm sustainability. President breslin okay. Who made the motion again . Clerk commissioner lim. President breslin would you like to withdraw your motion or modify i think the concern of commissioner follansbee is getting all the commissioners i mean, getting all the health lines answer questions about increases. Id be willing to withdraw this, but remember the timeline, although i wont be there for the next meeting regarding the renewal for next year. President breslin commissioner lim, you will be there for the next meeting in may. Clerk no, he will not, president breslin. His term ends tomorrow. Commissioner simanski would be there, as long as we get others sworn in. President breslin well, i think its fair if they have the same questions across the board here, so they could be done at the next meeting and dispose of this. Just some clarification, and i think mike would be able to help me on this one. Blue shield this is a flex funded plan, unlike kaiser. Its n
Patience along with that mask. New Text Messages shedding light on the events leading up to the death of Ahmaud Arbery as lawyers for the men accused of murdering the unarmed jogger speak out. Attorney Benjamin Crump joining us live this morning. Severe storms striking the northeast and south. High winds damaging this building. Flash flooding leaving cars stranded and the tropical system strengthening in the atlantic. Our weather team tracking it all. And virtual graduation for the class of 2020. High high hopes the starstudded event and oprahs commencement speech. New way forward. The class of 2020, bravo. And the celebration isnt over yet. The preview of tonights graduation special featuring more big names airing tonight right here on abc. Tonight right here on abc. Hello, good morning, happy saturday. I am very happy to note that the whole team is back together, all three of us in the studio once again, although we are doing our as you can see here our part to social distance. Eva d