Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
In cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Quite often, and many of our most famous decisions, there once the court took that were quite unpopular. You lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it beans to live in a society of 310 different people who have helped stick together, because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases, our series that explores the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most important decisions throughout our history. This week, the 1952 steel seizure case. Its officially known as youngstown steel and two Company Versus soy or. To get us started, we will start with a piece of vintage film from a documentary. It features president terri truman on april 8th 1952 as he announces to the nation his seizure of the nations Steel Industry. With american troops facing the enemy
Sick leave. Health Officials Say the goal is to slow the spread of the virus in Alameda County where many people who test positive continue to work for fear of getting fired. Heres a look at the numbers in the bay area. There were 973 new cases for a total of over 56,000. San francisco and santa clara had the highest numbers with about 240 new cases each. 16 deaths were reported in the bay area including six in marin county and four in contra costa county. The bay area has now seen 858 deaths. As for the state numbers today, a total of more than 524,000. And there were 202 deaths bringing in the state death toll above 9700. The superintendent of california schools says work is underway to connect up to a Million Students to help with distance learning. The state is getting help from two high tech giants to get those kids connected. The start of school is just days away for some School Districts. Hundreds of thousands of students in california dont have access to computers, have poor in
For the people who are positive. They should be staying at home and i guess it will be nice to help them out. Macon between two kinds of survival, health and financial. Its a reality for people who are covid but cannot get sick leave. People does what she can to survive pilgrimage she runs a clinic testing some 400 people daily. Some are sick. Others exposed and unsure, but . There are a lot of employers not allowing their employees to come back to work without that negative test reporter a test result that my take a while, and if positive requires even more time off work. But they are not getting any kind of income, so how do they provide food for their families. How do they pay for their rent. How do you pay for any other clinic you have pick now, they will refer those people to receive a stipend, modeled in a Similar Program in two weeks pay of 16 an hour, about 1250. Im probably one of those cases that we depend on our hours, the hours we work. The aim is essential workers, daily b
Usually it is conned by 9 30 p. M. Today, big fog bank but there are holes in it. It is not as robust as yesterday. At sfo, 50 degrees on the temperatures. San jose, 11 degrees spread. Temperatures will bump up a little. You can see clearing to the north. That will take us to near average temperatures. Santa rosa, San Francisco, hello for livermore and san jose. Lets get over to sal, it is 6 00 in the morning, is it all right out there sal . Is all right out there. We see it is getting more crowded on the short freeway, as you head out towards macarthur maze. It is not too slow. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza it will be okay. You can see the macarthur maze. You can see the toll plaza, it is not a big crowd. Normally we had a crowd this morning, but it is not there just yet. Lets go back to the headlines. We follow a developing story and oakland where police overnight shot and killed a man who had an assault weapon. This happened at 11 00 and San Leandro Police started chasin