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Show takes us on another journey across africa and you check out some of the ideas and concepts people have come up with to help save the environment im really looking forward to the was in south africa a wonderful species that needs protecting but there it is plenty more installed besides that. And making clones out of fish things. And we also show you how design the seed so many transform faults come with time into something musical. Every year so if africa sees a migration of wells up the eastern coast and he was trying to know from one to take weve been cobbs last year so the largest number of words on record off the coast of cape town scientists call savation ists and tourists continue to learn more about these giant marine animals we went along to find out more. At certain times of the year special visitors can be supported in what is a 1st day in south africa. Where the huge mamas migrate from on to the woman waters off the coast of mozambique to come. Very good after a few mont
Is putting money on hold we have a packed show for you today but lets start by tracking the coronavirus. The global the toll for the crown a virus now at nearly 20000 with more than 430000 come from cases the World Health Organization recommended 6 actions that all government should take to prevent the spread of the coven 19 birds expire on. Your who is clear and probably go to work force and. Implement a system to fly every suspect to a community level. Production capacity. Of testing. For the i didnt adopt coupons you need to see you will use to treat. Patients the last 2 actions were to develop a clear plan for those who are quarantined and then refocusing government on suppressing the virus well europe still the epicenter of the covert 19 as italy saw an increase once again in its death toll this after 2 similar days of numbers suggesting that the worst may not be over for the country spain also recorded a higher number of deaths with a total of 3434 this is the 2nd highest death t
Test of these taking back power from the executive branch is often a challenge that requires overriding a president ial veto which is increasingly difficult. A return to normal appropriations, increase in legislative oversight, particularly by a spending authority, an earmark reform that both returns the practice while strengthening its integrity requires no president ial signoff. In fact each step rests solely within the purview of congress and it would allow legislators to increase capacity, better represent their constituents, uphold their oath and recommit to the spirit and letter of article i of the constitution. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Were going to head into questions. Im going to yield my time to representative scanlan. I know you have another hearing to get to. Thank you so much, i appreciate it. And thank you, chairman kilmer and vice chair graves for holding this hearing. Weve had a number of hearings talking about kind of the Practical Impact of issues so its re
Im chairman kilmer. Im excited to be here the first day of the new year. We had an incredibly productive last year with 45 recommendations to make congress more effective and officiate so it can better serve the American People. Im proud of what we accomplished as a committee so far and equally proud how we accomplished our Work Together. Every member of this committee has been fully engaged in the committees work and taken realtime to think about the issues in our mandate and their own perspectives and really listen and consider their colleagues perspective. This committee has worked because theyre finding Collaborative Solutions to the challenges this institution faces. The key word here is invested. Whether were talking about businesses or organizations or governments depend on people invested in the work that theyre doing and thats fundamental. Successful institutions also invest in themselves, their employees, infrastructure, overall Work Environment and experience. They think and