Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
Juan we turn now to the 2020 democratic president ial race, where senator Bernie Sanders Campaign Continues to ride the wave of its decisive victory saturday in the democratic president ial caucuses in nevada. Sanders win came with support from young voters, Union Members and latinx voters who strengthened his status as democratic president ial front runner. Sanders won 73 of the latino vote in nevada, a remarkable victory that supporters hope will bode well heading into super tuesday and races in california, colorado, and texas where there are large latino populations. This is sanders addressing supporters on sunday in houston. And the reason we are going is thatt trump americans, regardless of their political views, are sick and tired of a president who lies all the time. [cheers] trump comevery day, is busy demonizing the undocumented. Just hates the undocumented. But when he was a private businessman, he loved the undocumented. He hired hundreds of them in his resorts so that he co
Less than a week away, many president ial candidate are accusing all you know Michael Bloomberg of buying his way into the election and spreading his wealth to keep critics silent. The New York Times has some are calling bloomberg a wallett too big to happen. We will speak with a lawyer who would you work for the bloomberg bundy, said she was told remove or revise a chapter on antimuslim bias and surveillance of muslim communities in new york that mentioned bloomberg by name a times. Then to yemen, where 31 people were killed in u. S. Backed saudi airstrikes, including women and children. The United Nations called the atta shockinin here. We are this is one of the cars that were targeted by the saudi americanan air force l last n nt and ththey also tarted vilges in residential areas, causing tens of thousands of martyrsnd ininjuries. This is s a civilians cacar. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The