Live now to our roundtable discussion with20 20 democratic president ial candidate joe biden and a number of military veteransin tampa florida. This is live coverage on cspan2. Thank you for your years of service and continued commitment to supporting our students. Veterans as they pursue their educations. Thank you Hillsborough Community college for hosting us today. My wife jill is a Community College professor and weve known for a long time Community Colleges are the best kept secret in america in terms of our education system. This is just one reasonwhy. You help people take the next step in their lives to getthe training and accreditation they need. Including our vets who after years of dedication to our country are ready to build civilian lives ofmeaning and of opportunity. Less than one percent of the population of our country chooses to serve our country in the military. Less than one percent risks everything to defend our nation and everything we hold dear and the other 99 per
55,000 vets with only 102 beds. Spikhe va predfe suarketh america shut down, the still on the job inside americas Grocery Stores. What theyre doing to keep workers and you safe. And helping hands. Keeping Health Care Heroes fed while also giving a lifeline to struggling restaurants. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin with breaking news and something unthinkable just weeks ago. Tonight the u. S. Has more confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus than any other country in the world, surpassing even china and italy. Since we were with you last night, cases nationwide have surged, growing by mor 17,000 in just one day. Sadly, more than 1,000 people in the u. S. Have died. Another Staggering Number nearly 3. 3 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Thats more than the population of chicago. And this graph says it all since 2000ly claims have been in the hundreds of thousands. Last week
Good morning, everyone and welcome back as we returned from th good morning Everyone Welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue ournu workno in the Economic Opportunities subcommittee without objection the chair is authorized to call for recess at anyny time todays hearing is called reviewing the resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on an important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will discuss department of Agriculture Programs to identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans to provide nutrition assistance to those in need. Specifically todays hearing will focus on how veterans access nutrition resources and recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources and how congress can more effectivelyly support public and nonpublic agencies seeking to end veteran hunger this continues the subcommittees efforts to review economic factors that contribute to suicide which we now include homelessness
Now after all day they are finally doing that. Theyre final finally inside of the home looking for evidence. I asked them what this case is about and they said they would only say it is fraudrelated and wouldnt give us any details. Live in fairfield, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. A couple of teenagers are accused of kicking and punching a pizza hutd worker and robbing the restaurant. It happened at the pizza hut in pannol. This shows the teens Wearing Masks and hopping over the counter and the worker said they pointed a gun at her and kicked and punched her and then stole money from the cash register. This shows the two teens officers were able to spot their getaway car once they left. A 13 and 17yearold was behind the wheel and say the teens through a handgun out of the window before pulling over and they discovered stolen cash and other evidence in the car. A new judge in the highprofile case involving the transient in San Francisco accused of attacking a wom
Live here on cspan three in the Senate Veteran Affairs Meeting testifying on the president s 2024 request for his department. May join this meeting live in progress. I visited there, as you have, as your staff had, you do the right thing. We want to keep working with you. I want to talk about the pact act a little bit. Do you have numbers, up to date numbers of how many veterans are taking advantage of it . I like to say when i do these round tables that this is government and right. This bill passed if, i remember, of august 2022. By january you had it up and running. Hundreds of thousands of veterans were getting care. That is exactly the way governments should run. All of us are proud to be part of that. Do you have an eye to the number of how many people have been served . Yes. Thank you very much. As of may 6th, 251,584 total veterans or survivors have had completed pact act relating claims. We are granting at about 80 . That is the beauty of the presumption we are able to grant a