Lost a loved ones from the covid19 pandemic. Fay, with Tropical Storm making its way to the northeast, i hope everyone is staying safe. Ofare facing a crisis unprecedented proportion. The novel corona pandemic has already infected over 3 million and killed over 100,000 americans. The scale of the loss is staggering and efforts to produce a lifesaving axing continues, but not all americans have been impacted equally. Communities of data from the cdc shows africanamericans and hispanic populations are three times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from covid19 than white populations. This administrations response to the outbreak has been an utter failure on a multitude of levels. As likely to die from covid19 than white populations. This administrations response to the outbreak has been an utter failure on a multitude of levels. Nowhere is this more acute than its neglect of Minority Health. Since the onset of the outbreak, it has been clear that communities of color a
Minutes of the hearing. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Like to say my thoughts are with those who have lost a loved ones from the covid19 pandemic. Fay, with Tropical Storm making its way to the northeast, i hope everyone is staying safe. Ofare facing a crisis unprecedented proportion. The novel corona pandemic has already infected over 3 million and killed over 100,000 americans. The scale of the loss is staggering and efforts to produce a lifesaving axing continues, but not all americans have been impacted equally. Communities of color are not only more likely to be infected by the covid19, but they are also more likely to be killed by the virus. In my home state of new jersey, africanamericans disproportionately make up the covid19 fatalities. This disturbing trend is observed not only in new jersey, but across the nation. Data from the cdc shows africanamericans and hispanic populations are three times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from c
It drop a little bit around santa rosa and petaluma. Storm tracker too there, you can see it hugging the bay, the usual places, and in fact the entire coast of california, yet again, this morning. Temperatures are nice out there, cooler in the bay, 57, good morning oakland. Nevermore, about 55, and san jose about 56 degrees. Today once we kick the fog it will be beautiful, and we could see a little drizzle this morning. Gorgeous in the bay, about 73 degrees for our high, and 86, inland. Not bad at all we do have a change coming, though, this weekend, as we head to the holiday, we will see warmer temperatures, we will talk about that more in a few minutes. But for now i am going to keep in my friend, sal , he is keeping an eye on the roads. No major issues around the bay, this is a look at the bay bridge, and you can see, traffic is moving along very nicely. Also, a good start to all of the east bay commutes, and we are expecting a lighter commas we get closer to the holiday. Adlines. T
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A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , we are here today to vote on a nominee to be a commissioner at the federal election commission, the independent Agency Responsible for enforcing federal Campaign Finance laws. I am deeply disappointed in todays vote which is a departure from the senates longstanding tradition of considering f. E. C. Nominees on a bipartisan basis and another step in eroding the fra decisions of the the traditions of the senate all for a candidate that hold extreme views towards the agency that he would be appointed to. Prior to today, the senate has voted to confirm 47 f. E. C. Nominees and 42 of those nominees have been confirmed through a bipartisan process. As the ranking democrat on the rules committee, i have repeatedly urged my republican colleagues to work with us to get the f. E. C. Running a