Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre
A show of strength 6 months on and hong kong hundreds of thousands of antigovernment activists continue their demand for political reform. And. The 49 year old for the new champions battling. There are reports of injuries and missing taurus after a volcano erupted off the east coast of new zealand a plane with white smoke was seen coming from white island a group of tourists was saying walking in the crater moments before the Prime Minister says around 100 people were on or near the island at the time of the eruption and some of those people are unaccounted for. Supporting the National Emergency Management Agency following an eruption at white island off the coast. Do keep in mind this is a situation. Around 100. 00 people were on or around b. Island at the time and some of. The counted for a number of people reportedly injured and are being transported. Joins us now from auckland so rachel what else do we know how how remote is this island how difficult is it for people to get to. Goo
We often hear it said that governments around the world should take more of a lead on tackling waste. The french Authorities Say they are doing just that, and are hailing their new anti waste law as a world first. Its still being debated in the french parliament, but are the proposals Ground Breaking . The french government says its promoting a circular economy, by banning the destruction of unsold non food items. This covers cosmetics, clothing, shoes, textiles, electronics and plastics. According to the office of the french government, around 725 million worth of unsold non food items are thrown away every year. The fashion industry, in which france is a world leader, is notoriously wasteful. A 2017 report by the Boston Consulting Group put the level of waste generated by the fashion industry at 92 million tons worldwide. We are going to pause on this story about french waste because we want to ta ke about french waste because we want to take you live in new zealand with the premise
About ending the fine. Also russian swimmers and all the countries face a 4 Year International but other World Antidoping Agency will decide today whether more state sponsored cheating boren sabbat that includes to the Olympic Games. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us in new zealand at least 5 people have been killed in a bowl cannick eruption on white island a popular Tourist Destination police say a number of people have been injured and more fatalities are likely they say its currently too dangerous to carry out rescue operations around 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time of the eruption new zealands Prime Minister to send our duren has said Foreign Tourists were among. Well for the very latest now lets cross over to journalist caruso who is standing by for us in auckland new Zealand Chris a authorities now say 5 people are confirmed dead in this direction is everyone there accounted for. Terry unfortunately the number is likely to go up still a
Is higher than that. In the east of the country that has killed 2000 since the outbreak began in 28. 1 of the most affected provinces many children have died more are critical sick louise my d. D. s children have been unwell for nearly 2 months. My 4 children have measles and 2 of them are too weak to hook i try to treat them using alternative medicine i hope back to how the this children can at least access treatment many others in the more remote areas where there are no Health Centers and security is a problem that. The conditions in some hospitals that there are no medicine no money or any kind of medical aid coming and we have many cases of measles worse than what youre saying here hugh dont have to go very far to see children in very poor health this is the main hospital in banda children with measles are treated for free but many are brought in when its too late. We try to whats in it of many children of the them but the problem is we dont of appropriate equipment or money for l