[indiscernible chatter] ms. Eshoo the subcommittee on health will now come to order. Good morning, colleagues. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Mr. Burgess will you yield for a parliamentary inquiry . Ms. Eshoo i want to do my Opening Statement. Pardon me. I already recognized myself but ill recognize you afterward. I never thought id be holding or that we would be holding a hearing under these sad circumstances, but i think its a necessary one. Our country is in pain. Americans are afraid. Theyre sick. Theyre hungry and jobless. And over 80,000 souls have been lost. And the government that was supposed to protect them has failed. There are heroes and they have risen, extraordinary, ordinary americans showing courage, compassion, and a sense of selfsacrifice and duty beyond what could have or should have been asked of them. Regular americans have risen when their leaders have not. We are the greatest country on earth, and, yet, we have the mos
Reporter for politico. I am joined by democratic congresswoman karen bass of california, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ,ew york citybased physician founder and ceo of advancing Health Equities which partners with Health Care Organizations to tackle Racial Health disparities. We are here to talk about the disproportionate impact the coronavirus pandemic is having particularlycolor, africanamericans and latinos. It is an issue i have spoken to epidemiologists about over the last two months. We will discuss the push by lawmakers and Public Health racial for more holistic and ethnic data on coronavirus cases, the historic neglect of black and brown health that led to this moment, what immediate action is being taken to mitigate the impact of coronavirus on minorities, and finally, what can be done to address the longstanding Public Health issues that this crisis has brought to the forefront. We will incorporate audience questions at the end, soaked tweet us at political
The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d
Todays briefing is from general hr mcmaster senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Twentysix National Security advisor to the president of the United States. Serving as a commissioned officer before retiring june 2018. His latest book is entitled battlegrounds. And available for preorder on amazon thank you for joining us today. It is a pleasure to be with you. This will be an outstanding discussion. You been watching the briefings and the aspect of covid19 we have been focused on the pandemic so i would like to discuss the rest of the world with the geopolitical risk that have been accelerated by colon 19 so i will take you a tour around the world which should be fun. What does post coronavirus us china relations look like . The intensification of the competition that was ongoing prior to the crisis. Prior to the crisis. Based mostly and what is motivating the Chinese Communist party which is first and foremost the parties grip on power along with rejuvenation. It intensifies the In
Drizzle possible. But really actually pretty quiet picture on satellite radar right now assuming it across the bay you do see cloud cover certainly moving but we are still quiet as of right now it just some of those clouds no showers not even really any drizzle showing up on the radar at this moment so smooth sailing for your morning commute and your afternoon commute that will be accompanied by some showers first for the north bay into the early afternoon and then spreading all across the bay area torture evening commute around 05 06pm, tonight expect some areas of slick conditions on roads now obviously a roadways are pretty pretty empty lately, but if you are an essential worker this could affect you. Now as we work our way into tomorrow showers will become or sparse but certainly still possible on into tuesday and even a wednesday, this storm just stay with us for a couple of days before we do eventually see skies clearing out on its the middle of the week today, definitely cloudy