You can see and hear speakers, they cant hear you. You can use the chat icon to share comments, if youre here with the girl scout troop we want to know which troop youre in, let us know. We will have a q a section in the evening and you can use q a icon and you can click on that to type in your question and you can see others questions and if you see one you can up load it to make sure we get to that question during the q a. We are recording tonights event, look for audio and video versions later on. I think this might appear on cspan later on as well and importantly tonights featured book troops 6,000 is available for sale from greenlightbookstore. Com. I pasted the link. Bookstores are closed and we are working with warehouses, if you care about supporting careers of authors and independent bookstores buying tonights featured book is a great way to show support. Tonight we are offering 5 off on the featured book when you purchase it from greenlight website y can use the coupon 60000
Postmaster general louis dejoy, and the chairman of the postal board of governors Robert Duncan to this oversight hearing, and i thank you all for being here. In all of our districts we are hearing from constituents about significant delays in the delivery of mail, medicines, food, and other supplies. These delays are especially concerning and potentially lifethreatening during the Coronavirus Crisis. These are not isolated complaints. They are widespread. Our offices have been receiving thousands of calls and emails about the detrimental effects these delays are having on our veterans, seniors, Small Businesses, and families across the country. When we asked postal leaders about these delays they downplayed them. They dismissed them as temporary. They discounted them as a minor, unintended consequences of reforms being put in place. But then we saw National Headlines describing these delays in much more detail. I have a document here that headlines from almost every state in the count
As folks are beginning to arrive i will say good evening and welcome to nides on live interview with green light bookstore. We are so excited to host tonights event with bannon presenting her new look troop 6000 the girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world page youll be talking with the visionary behind troops 6000 gisele and her daughter karina. Therefore it really started just want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen all of our participants for being here the publishers and to all of you for showing up. Storefronts are closed and our community is still here. All of us are still here and we really appreciate that couple of housekeeping things. If you are logging in now you can hear the speakers but they cant see or hear you. They can see her name so they know youre here. You can use the shot icon to share comments and if youre in a girl scout troop want to hear what your viewer with that let us know. If you want to ask a question we will have a
Greetings and sell you to shoot. United states president john f. Kennedy famously stated ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country what makes this message this montra so vital is that it is true not just for us Service Working outside the halls of government but for those working inside those halls as well but quite frankly my friends as we have seen over and over and over and over again our elected leaders and government officials are no longer asking themselves what they can do for the country and they are instead asking what the country can do for them their party and their corporate lobbyists because if they did serve the country and not themselves then the epic water crisis that took place in flint michigan back in april 2014 would never do. Should never have ever happened only now after more than 6 long years the people of flint michigan are finally getting some restitution for having their Drinking Water poisoned by the negligence and greed of
Portions are in still have some of our very worst of air quality and that is bound to shift over these next few days, well keep you updated on your air quality right now were in the 50s and 60s nice cool start to the morning in fact today in general will be a lot cooler than what were about to be so if you have to get some outdoor errands done maybe a little bit of yard work i would definitely recommend today were going to be warmer than yesterday but nowhere is close to as warm as the next few days will be antioch at 93 today hayward and fremont in the upper 70s, oakland to the mid 70s today now to the heat which begins to grip a starting tomorrow in fact from saturday through monday. The bay area all of us will be under either excessive heat advisories in the peach color to excessive heat warnings in pink for areas further inland on the peninsula daytime highs during these days will range from anywhere from 7 to 8 to a 100 degrees at some of our areas further away from the coast, sou