Good morning. The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First i would like to go through a few administrative matters that weve adopted because of covid. Weve consulted with the attending physician and the department of health and human services, centers for disease control. Individuals in the hearing room are six feet apart. Theres no room for the public in person. The press is covering as a pool. You can watch this on streaming or there will be an unedited recording that everyone can watch. All of our Witnesses Today and some senators are participating by video conference. I would like to Say Something about masks. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk into the microphones since our chairs are six feet apart. So, thats why my mask is off. When im not back here, im wearing my mask in the hall. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the arkt te
To a Senate Committee hearing looking at college ath lecks and athlete compensation. Live coverage on cspan 3. But in the institutions of Higher Education themselves, and then before that in 1929 a report from the carnegie education was being neglected and commercialism reigned. The ncaa had been formed to protect the safety of players and deal with corruption. Now, my second experience forming an opinion about the subject were talking about today came from my service of that Night Commission when i was president of the university of tennessee. Our Commission Recommendation was that University President s take charge, assert themselves, take charge of College Athletics, to take charge of the huge amount of Television Money it attracted and restore academic and financial integrity to the programs. As a result over the next several years academic standards became more stringent, Financial Support for student athletes increased, college presence asserted more responsibility for financial
Shes going to talk to us about the news briefing today, the San Franciscos Covid Response and the latest numbers and give it to you right now. As of today, San Francisco has 7,433 cases. The total number of deaths, 91. Good news and real positive progression in the last 14 days is that the number of new cases per day, that is down. About a couple months ago, we were seeing about 200 new cases per day. As of yesterday, and the day before, the day before that, around 70 new cases per day. Given these positive developments, she is allowing more things to reopen now as you know, just this week, San Francisco reopened gyms, salons, tattoo parlors but at a limited capacity, talking about only 10 right now. People being close to each other, to reduce the density. That is something that a lot of businesses say is very hard to maintain, to make money on and survive, if you will. She is actually signing in now to join us. Well ask her about even though test Positivity Rate is down and again, goo
We do it. Alone welcome to weekend update from our. Thanks for joining us here this saturday these are the headlines stories where across right now yellow vest activists are back on the streets of paris for their 1st major rally since march there were new in their protests over income inequality and unpopular tax reforms so far the more than 250. 00 arrests this saturday. When the tensions have broken through here now we need a new device which is quite close to the uk to feels its ready to get a look up not. See any gas as people are not trying to move away from lets just give you taste of whats happening oh. Protesters and Police Officers have being clashing at what is the real new just a version of the yellow vests it was cooled by one of the de facto leaders jury rodrigue is he suggested he wanted civil disobedience. I am here to talk about the yellow vests about people who are suffering all these people here who are angry and tired of talking about all the brutality this rallies f
The governments promised all students who achieved the required a level grades will be offered a place at their First Choice University. A prominent critic of the russian government is in intensive care his supporters say hes been poisoned. A man is found guilty of lacing baby food with shards of metal in a plot to blackmail the Supermarket Chain tesco. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hashem abedi the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has been sentenced to at least 55 years injail, for the murder of 22 people. Abedi refused to attend his two day sentencing hearing and face the families of those who died, who gave emotional statements about the impact of the attack in 2017. Number 10 have issued a statment from boris johnson, the Prime Minister, on the sentencing of hashem abedi. Mrjohnson says, the Manchester Arena attack was a horrifying and cowardly act of violence which targeted children and families. Those who were taken from us will never be forgotten, nor will the sp