Killed at Miami Beach while protecting his baby. Dustin wakefield pleaded with the gunman not to shoot saying, quote, is he only a boy. Bidens popularity has never been lower, so let Joe Biden come out here and praise the wonderful Job Gavin Newsom has done. Even living in my Acadieux Toast people are fed up. Ainsley the u. S. Telling americans to leave the Kabul Airport immediately as the warns of a Terrorist Threat within hours. Brian where do they go up to 1500 americans. We ballpark everything. No reason to get down to actual names stranded in afghanistan now. Just five day until the u. S. Chose to withdraw. Steve this photography is jawdropping it shows a plane as you can see there looks like its leaving kabul nearly empty Flying Evacuees. Ainsley unbelievable. Steve began da. Kitty logan is live with the very latest. It sound like they are saying get away from the airport because there is a threat at three different gates of car bombs. Thats right. This is a very specific threat
Most infectious Respiratory Viruses shes seen in her 20year career. If you are not vaccinated, please take the Delta Variant seriously. This virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the vulnerable person to infect. So tonight, there is a surge of people who are now getting infected. New cases are up 58 from last week. And hospitalizations are up, too. Up 54 , compared to last week. And much of that coming from states with low vaccination rates. To show you the map of the country this is a map by county. This is a month ago. The red represents counties with high covid transmission. Very tiny, 3 . Things have changed since then. Fast forward to today, the south and parts of the midwest, as you can see, exploding. So now 30 of the country lives in a county that is red. This explosion of cases is why cnn is learning top Administration Health officials are recommending everybody mask up again. Just moments ago, Joe Biden was asked if masks could soon be a reality again
Technology, such as artificial intelligence or products like cryptocurrency, the recent growth of mega banks and mega banks actions to climate risk. I look forward to hearing testimony from all of our witnesses today. Recognize the gentleman from North Carolina Mr. Mchenry for four minutes. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you all for being here today. Were here today for the sequel that nobody asked for in 2019 democrats held this exact hearing to drill ceos. Republicans used the hearing to focus on systemic risk issues to our financial system. Clearly none of us could have predicted what would happen just one year later. The pandemic presented us with a once in a generation challenge. Congress, the fed, and treasury stood together and met this Crisis Head on. Your institutions also played a critical role, as did the financial system generally speaking. Banks of all sizes and credit unions of all sizes. Making sure support was available to families and small businesses. You deserve s
Inadvertent background noise. Members are also reminded that they may only participate in one remote proceeding at a time. If youre participating today, please keep your camera on, and if you choose to attend a different remote proceeding, please turn your camera off. Additionally, i want to announce that for this hearing, it is my intention to recess the committee for five minutes every two hours. Lastly, before we begin, id like to take a moment to recognize congresswoman items who is celebrating her 75th birthday today. Happy birthday, congresswoman adams. Thank you, maxine. Happy birthday. Thank you so much. Thank you. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Good afternoon, everyone. Today, this committee convenes for a hearing entitled, holding mega banks accountable, an update on banking practices, programs, and policies. And of course you know, testifying before the Committee Today, we will have the ceos of Jpmorgan Chase, Citi Group, morgan stanley
And we are beginning our Hearings Today in a very bipartisan way with witnesses that we have before us are the result of a bipartisan consensus and there is nothing partisan about Consumer Protection. We all want to protect against the abuses and deception and lies that all too often we see in the marketplace. We are completing a year of unimaginable Heartbreak And Hardship for all americans. A year of pandemic crisis, Health Care Crisis and consumer crisis. This year of heartbreak for americans its also been a Breakout Year for the swindlers and con artists. They have seen it as a bonanza and in fact, they have made it a bonanza. There have been 460,000 reports of Consumer Fraud in the past year, according to the ftc, at a cost of more than 411 million dollars which represents a 45 increase in the numbers of reports, 83 rise in the dollars lost. So, these reports show the results of a flooding of online marketplaces with fake personal protective equipment, sophisticated counterfeits a