,or cherry Pick Committee today senator casey for serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. They have both been real leaders on this subject. Was the first author of the pandemic and the preparedness act. How do you say that . It the all hazards preparedness act. Helps protectaw us from the full range of Public Health threats. Terrorism,asters, and the outbreak of Infectious Disease. 2013, senator burr and can senator casey led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards hacked act. Many contributed to this committee. Now the bill midst to be reauthorized for a second time. The second weg is have had this year. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations in advance of the reauthorization of the act included from the assistant secretary for preparedness for once. The fda, and the cdc. It is critical we reauthorize the act before many of the provisions expire in september. I hope we can do this in a bipartisan way. I expect that has been the
I like to call the hearing to order. And id like to recognize the chairman of the committee for a statement. Thank you senator burns. Senator casey members of the committee. How to think senator burr for chairing the hearing today and senator casey for serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. Theyre both been leaders. Senator per was the original author of the first passage of the pandemic. He helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats. Natural disasters and outbreaks of net the disease. Then in 2013, senators bring caseys led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards act. Many can be contributed to that time including senators and see in bennett, war, hatch, roberts, and others. Now it needs to be reauthorized for second time. Todays hearing is the second weve have the sheer. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations of advance including from the assistant secretary of preparedness and response the senators for the
Hotels are boarding up and store shelves are getting cleared out. People in hawaii are now preparing for the very worst. The first hurricane iselle is set to hit in the next several hours. Live pictures now from maui. They show cloudy windy conditions. Five to eight inches of rain, 85mileperhour winds and flooding are all expected. Waves could also grow up to 28 feet from this first storm. Kpix 5s Roberta Gonzales is tracking the storms. Were looking at the conditions in maui, thats not even the island that will be taking the direct hit. This is iselle right here. Its location right now is about 225 miles right here from that. That is the big island. That is what well see the biggest damage done because with this hurricane making landfall, expected about 8 00 tonight, hawaiian time, 11 00 p. M. Our time, it will have winds up to 80 miles per hour, gusts up to 100. Its going to hit when we already have a storm surge expected one to three feet. Swells 15 to 22 feet. So obviously there wi
Institutes of healtt biocontainment facility later meanwhile, the cdc just releasing that the second nurse to be diagnosed with the deadly virus, amber vinson, did not report any symptoms prior to flying. That has been a big point of debate. Now a Chain Reaction as select schools in both ohio and texas areas are calling off classes now due to possible ebola exposure. Vinson did visit one retail store while in the akron area, causing store owners to close its doors for the timebeing. However Health Officials are declining to name the store right now. Bring in todays panel. Fox businesss very own charlie gasparino. Shaffer from schaefer asset dan management. Headlines change from second to second with the market on tintter hooks. Weve been all over the map. There may be a qe 5 or 4, depending what you call operation twist. Melissa yeah. I think that is what drives markets for the most part. I will say this, wonderinn why ebola is market headline to trade off of and a big economic story,
Were going to talk about the goingson. And changing its tune on a health class textbook some deem too racy coming up, what the superintendent decided to do with that textbook. And we have a mother who led the petition to get that book out of school. We have a lot coming up. Lets start with a quick check of your Weather Forecast this morning. It is gray and cloudy all across the bay area. A live look at the bay bridge. Temperatures, in the upper 50s around most of the bay area. 61 degrees in san jose. Going to be a little bit cooler than what we saw yesterday and there is some drizzle out there. Youll have to contend with that. Talk about your sevenday forecast coming up later in the broadcast. Anne, this morning, a hitandrun driver this morning, it happened about 12 30 a. M. On interstate 80 just east of the karkinas toll plaza. Two lanes were blocked for about three hours. Its possible the man who died was trying to get to a homeless encampment. The driver in the initial impact failed