Remote hearings certainly arent the same as sitting together in our Committee Room but this new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American Peoples while keeping our staff, family and broader communities safe. This is the second official virtual subcommittee hearing in the ways and means committee. As with our previous hearing i want members to know i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantive debates. Even as we conduct our business from afar i will continue to work with our Ranking Member and his staff so to ensure that the rights of all members are respected in this new virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for the
Journalists and Science Fiction novelist discusses his book and activism. After a day of social distancing, get close to a good book tonight printed book tv from cspan2. Kathryn good evening everyone and welcome to book passage. Thank you for coming up tonight on a tuesday night. There are so many things that you could be doing. You made a really good decision coming here, this is a smart crowded pretty you will be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight in the vein we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you will not need them. Do not look at your cell phone for the next hour. I guarantee it. You will be completely mesmerized by our authors. We are so proud to bring you today. So thank you for supporting book passage and we are an independent bookstore, one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause]. Thank you and we are very proud of that fact. Thanks for comingan to our location here. We also have a beautiful store in the ser
News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple
Television news, talking about the role agencies provider. The other thing that fs virus . Guest because of the disaster is really not relevant to fema. Whether it is a virus, a pandemic, hurricane, and , it is sort of agnostic when it comes been what we think of as natural disasters. Deal with any sort of disaster. That is the design of fema. It is this allpurpose agency. Host is a power that is currently being applied to covid19 from fema . Guest they have got about 1200 people out of a workforce of 14,000 assigned to covid19. Actually, fema has had some staffing issues in the past. They are in relatively decent shape right now. Toyou go back a year ago, when we had these massive floods in the great plains and upper midwest, fema was stretched a lot more thinly and they have done an ok job in the last year adding staff. They are ok, for now. The question will be, what happens in the coming months when the spring flood season arrives and you start getting all of these communities in m
Bay bridge toll plaza has been cleared. But were learning new details about what happened in the moments before this fatal accident. Were also seeing Surveillance Video that shows how this all began 04 22am. A dramatic scene as this white pickup truck smashes into the front of the Tobacco Outlet store in el serino. 2 men dressed in black start rummaging around inside the store. The owner at home asleep receives a security alarm alert and calls 911 elsa Rio Police Department officers arriving on scene, find the truck and its 2 occupants fleeing the area they pursue along westbound 80 until the truck changes direction starts driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of 5. 80, near the bay bridge. Moments later, the truck smashes into 2 other vehicles, a white utility van and a gray bmw. According to the california highway patrol, the 2 occupants of the truck and the driver of the van all suffered major injuries. The driver of the bmw died at the scene back at the tobacco shop. The front o