Tuesday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Heres new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on the process of reopening his state. He also praised fridays passage of the most recent covid19 relief bill by the u. S. House. The measure, called the heroes act, now heads to the senate, but as of now, they do not plan on taking up the bill. Joined by the woman on my right who needs no introduction. To her right, another familiar face, state epidemiologist dr. Christina tam, thank you for being here. Pat callahan, director of the office of security and preparedness, jerome mcnichols. Good afternoon. Thursday, we announced a plan by which the jersey shore could reopen in the summer season, and today im proud to announce that in addition to enjoying our beaches, our sure goers will also be able to enjoy time on the water as well, so today, i am signing an executive order that will allow Fishing Charters and other chartered vote services and watercraft
Shelter in place order. Specifically he will address reopening businesses and schools. The hope and expectation is we will be in a position in a number of weeks to make meaningful modifications but again the data will guide that and the indicators will guide that. That was the governor yesterday talking and earlier this month Governor Newsom did lay out the six part plan to bring california back to normal life. It included widespread coronavirus testing and protecting those at most risk. Today again expected to discuss redoing floorplans at schools, childcare facilities and businesses like restaurants and to still encourage social distancing. Here in the bay area six counties are extending their stayathome orders all the way through the end of next month, alameda, contra costa, marin, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara, and official more detailed announcement will be made later this week. No date has been given but we know when the announcement takes place it will include easing
House. The measure called the heroes act heads to the senate but as of now they do not plan on taking up the bill. On thursday we announced the plans that we would be opening the beaches. Today i am signing an executive order that will allow Fishing Charters and other watercraft rentals to resume effective at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow may 17. We will require social distancing and sanitation measures to be followed including the implementation of online or telephone Payment Systems to further lessen direct persontoperson contact among other procedures spelled out in my order. One of those will require all passenger and customer logs be properly maintained for the purposes of Contact Tracing should that be required. We are confident in taking these steps for getting our state back on the road for the reason we have been able to take the other steps we have announced to restart our economy and begin our recovery because the data says it is possible. Public Health Creates economic health. Data d
Listening in washington and around the country and around the world. I am mike ohanlon at the Brookings Institution. We are honored to host mark esper who, after being introduced by my boss, retired general john allen, he will offer remarks on how the covid19 is affecting the armed forces and anything else. I will ask questions and then i will hear from you. If you have not already submitted your welcome to do so. Apologies that we may not get to all questions. Ado, let me hand the body the baton to john allen. Good morning. My name is john allen and i am the president of the Brookings Institution and it is my great pledge to welcome you all to , featuring dr. Mark esper. Esper was sworn in as the 22nd secretary of defense on 2019. 0 323, he served as a secretary of the toy from november 20, 2017 the summer of 2019. He is no stranger to service. He is a 1986 west point graduate and upon graduation he was commissioned in the infantry and that makes at least two infantrymen on this call.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am the president of the brookings institution. It is my great privilege to welcome you all to todays event. Secretary esper was the 27th secretary of defense. He had served as the acting secretary in june and july of that year also served as secretary of the army to the summer of 2019. Secretary esper is no stranger to service. He is a west point graduate and upon graduation was in the infantry. Upon completion of ranger training, he served in the 101st Airborne Division and participated in the 1991 gulf war with the cherished screaming angles. Eagles. He retired from the u. S. Army in on7 after spending 10 years active duty. For much of the decade that followed, secretary esper continued his service. The former Senate Majority secretary forthe defense under george w. Bush. She would go on to a distinguished career in the defense industry, most recently serving as Vice President of relations for raytheon. Honored. Especially given the ongoing crisi