Announcer this is Washington Week. Funding is provided by life isnt a Straight Line and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work tough the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today and tomorrow. [laughter] announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of adam adams and koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuen foundation. Committed to bridging corporate communities. And contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again from washington, model rator robert costa. Robert good evening. We begin with the latest on the painful economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic with many aricans struggling to pay rent, buy food and cover their health this week the weekly jobless claims jumped to m 6. Lion a Staggering Number with losses in nearly every corner of the economy. And earlier friday the pa ment reported a loss of more than 700,000 jobs in march. Federal authorities prepare for ne
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Minutes. For five mr. Braham thank you, speaker. Rise today to commemorate the efforts of the town of raval, their na, to preserve communitys heritage. School part of the Still Standing is its gymnasium 1960 at did not stop the graduate class from doing something good. Audience on is in the today and the rest of the Alumni Association have purchased and museum t into a showcasing the schools history. Rabal the clerk will designate school, its first graduated students in 1939. It was renamed rabal high school 1949 and eventually briton igh school in 1956 after the
Peninsulathe east bay into the south bay by the latter part of your morning commute rain stays with us well to your noon hour and snowfall heavy at times up in the mountains above san jose and then especially in the Sierra Nevada by tomorrow afternoon showers a lot more spotty so your drive home from work tomorrow is going to be easier than your drive to work is going to be this is your advanced warning just leave for work early because youre going to want to drive to slow or drive slower and youre going to expect a lot slower traffic on the roadways temperatures right now nobly very chilly look at dublin, youre at freezing right now livermore just above at 34 degrees. Oakland hayward palo alto in redwood city right along the bay was san mateo in while Napa Petaluma saint helene and nevado either at or below freezing so bund up this morning. It is a lot colder than yesterday youll feel that cold blast as you step out the door. You definitely want to be nice and cozy issue walking to wo
Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, Public Health officials look at efforts to improve flu vaccines and have developed eight universal vaccine this Committee Hearing is about two and half hours. This hearing will come to order and without objection the chair has authorized to play recess at any time. Lets me say good morning and welcome to our witnesses t. Todays hearing on vaccine, science and innovation, smallest box smallpox once plagued the worlds population killing approximately 300 Million People the 20th century alone it. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio, had just 33 cases reported worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Everyday vaccines save lives especiallyly the lives of childn and other vulnerable population. There is no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. Unfortunately, theres a wellfunded Disinformation Campaign targeting the publ
Welcome back. At this time i would like to introduce our second panel of witnesses. The first witness on our second panel is dr. Sharon watkins. Dr. Watkins is the director for the bureau of epidemiology in the state epidemiologist for the Pennsylvania Department of health. Shes also the president of the council of state and territorial epidemiologists. Dr. Watkins is responsible foror management and oversight of the bureau of epidemiology which includes the division of infectious disease, Environmental Health and community health. Dr. Watkins has led disease prevailed at outbreak response efforts include those with zika, hepatitis a. Dr. Watkinss has over 40 peerreviewed publications and over 20 years of experience in applied Public Health and epidemiology. Thank you for being here, dr. Watkins. Our secondgy witness is dr. Robin robinson. Dr. Robinson is currently Vice President of Scientific Affairs for renovacare incorporated. Director of development for wound healing. Previously se