Senate committee on finance, subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange, with an empty room, except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless, to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices, a foreign governments especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one, because its growing effect on business in the United States. Is as well as culture. Last fall for example, the National Basketball association has its Market Access locked in china. Because an individual american citizen, using a media platform not even allowed in china, expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has become much more important, the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19, due to chinese censorship has contri
The Senate Committee on finance the subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange but an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair treatment practices of foreign governments and especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because of its growing of facts on this list in the United States as well as culture. Last fall for example the National Basketball association had its Market Access lock in china because individual american citizens used to media platform not allowed in china to express a political opinion. Now the topic is become much more important to the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contri
Beware increased risk during the covid19 pandemic. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members hey, jan. We cant hear you. I dont know, are you are you muted . Im not muted. I can hear her. I can hear you, jan. I cant hear you at least, not yet. I can. I can. Can you hear me now . Not yet. Oh, i think it must be on your end then. Youre coming in loud and clear here. Okay. Can republicans hear jan . Is it just me . Im not hearing anybody. Yes, jan, we can hear you fine. Okay. Im going to continue while somebody helps fix the silent person. Okay. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members and witnesses will be participating Via Video Conference as part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute yourself, unmute your microphone, each time that you wish to speak. Additi
Livermore and san jose are at 58. It nearnormal temperatures. We went from 70s at napa, and 77 in antioch and brentwood to 80s in santa rosa. Of these are pretty close to seasonal averages. The onshore wind, napa is at 57. Things have cooled out because of that win, and the clouds had back to the coast. The coast and the bayer at 60s and 70s. All right. Lets get over to sal. Anything new, or is it okay out there . It is okay, we have nothing new, as a matter of fact it is a nice drive around the bay bridge. A lot of the commutes that we would see normally, you can take a look at the pictures. Traffic is moving along pretty well at the bay bridge. It is not a bad commute. We drive into San Francisco. And you can see it here traffic is moving along quite well with no major issues. No problems this morning on interstate 880. No issues on any of the bridges including the san mateo bridge. Lets go back to the headlines. New, a nine hour Berkeley City Council meeting ended with the council a
Some 80s and linen. Most are running below average. Over to sal, excuse me. Anything new . Yes. We have something new here. We have slowing on northbound 101. It is northbound on 101, but it is dark in this picture. Traffic is a little bit slow because of an earlier accident near 880. We can also see lights in the picture. Money put it on the map. Northbound 10128 80, there was a crash right there. They are clearing the vehicles. It is a pretty good way to go. The east bay commute includes 880 and oakland, and at the bay bridge we do not have a big delay. Lets get back to the headlines. Knew, the Berkeley City Council worked until early this morning during a nine hour meeting, and they had approved a new Police Reform plan. Good morning sara, you have the details . Reporter good morning dave, the meeting wrapped up at 3 00 this morning. This is what came out of it. The omnibus bill approved by the council includes the goal of defining the Berkeley Police department by 50 percent. Unarm