Hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when youre speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. At time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely i know you are all familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webex set to active speaker view. If you have any questions about this please Contact Committee staff immediately. Second, we have a timer that should be visible on your screen when youre in the active speaker with him know. Members who wish to pen the timer to the screen should Contact Committee staff for assistance. Third, thousand rules require that w
What this might mean for all of us will. Heres what you need to know it is not a lockdown so youre not forced to stay inside your home, you can clearly see a lot of people are not staying inside you can see the traffic behind me as theyre trying to head into San Francisco, thousands of cars but obviously not the volume that were used to seeing at this time of the morning. But you can come and go. But you have to give a good reason why essential services thats the key so take a look at your screen is hes been on the show you some video first before i tell you the alameda counties and all the other counties affected. They may show you video of whats happening all over the bay area in san jose when they found out that today at midnight just a few hours ago that it would be a shelterinplace a lot of businesses went ahead and close for the night closed early telling their workers and less you have an emergency we dont need you to come in. And this is going to be incalculable as far as the l
Essential employee meaning you work with food or you are a First Responder and well give you bigger list in just a few moments, but james terry a i want to show you this is such an eerie sight, ive been in San Francisco for 20 years and ive been here since i was 3 yearsold visiting off and on before arriving. I have never seen this site before look at this what dont you see james and area. Were on california street. Yeah, thats pretty crazy assist to chatting with robin across the studio said 8 oclock in San Francisco. And you see a parking space available. Thats incredible. And you do not see cable cars. Yeah, i mean that is as much as San Franciscos the Golden Gate Bridge and fog but no cable cars because they are trying to limit the amount of people moving about to create social dismiss this is what its all about a slowdown. The spread of coronavirus and it is spreading across at least the shelter in place for 6 bay area counties so take a look at your screen. I mean lets just face
People theyre still out there on the beaches. Thinking this is a party at the time to grow up. You know time to wake up. Here in the bay area parks and beaches were overcrowded with visitors on saturday in fact the marine county Sheriffs Office had to shut down one road that led to the beach because of the crowd in the many people who are not practicing social distancing. Kron fours dan thorn has the story now from fairfax. After days of staying at home and having to do work or doing school work with the kids its understandable that you want to get outside and stretch your legs. But police say an overflow of people at local parks and trails is only adding more stress to an already stressful time. Sky oaks road leading to a popular watershed in marine county shut down saturday afternoon. Deputy say there were too many people taking up too many spots and not practicing social distancing. However we did see some people giving each other space as they were taking in the outdoors in harris
[inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time. With that i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement and mr. Gomez will follow me with a minute in the same will be given to the Ranking Member. Good morning, thank you to everyone for being here today to discuss a topic which is vital to our democracy for this census. The 2020 census is imminent and accounting set to begin in alaska in less than two weeks and across the country on april 1. The constitution requires every person to be counted, every Single Person living in the United States of america, not just citizens, not just people of a particular Political Party or race but absolutely everyone. I am gravely concerned that the Census Bureau may not be prepared to meet this high bar and that the 2020 census could leave communities across the country undercounted, underrepresented and underfunded. The Government Accountability office and apartment of c