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And good morning. You the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for Disease Control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. You last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. Are you corrective actions being taken. The review identified a fundamental flaw the agency had no written plan to ensure the safety of workers and proper handling of live biological you agents. The department of agriculture agriculturetment of the disinfectant they used was expired. This is troubling, and completely unacceptable. The center for Disease Control is supposed to be the Gold Standard of the u. S. Public h ....
That lets people know when thers been a problem there . There are multiple alarm systems within cdc. In this case, it was a crosscontamination of a culture. So somehow, and we havent figured out how yet, a relatively low virulence Avian Influenza was crosscontaminated with the highly pathogenic h5n1. Is there any evidence of cover up here from employees not wanting to let someone else know that no. Weve seen at this point no evidence of a cover up, but we do see the need to strengthen the culture of safety that encourages reporting. Anytime theres a problem or potential problem so we can assess it and take rapid and prompt action. Thank you. I now recognize ms. Degette for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. Kingsbury, let me just make sure i heard your testimony right. You testified that theres an increasing number of labs that are handling these bioagents, correct . Correct. And you said theres really no one agency in ch ....
Quite a decline for gold. We are just about one hour away giants,nings for tech amazon and google. The air is pregnant with expectations. A good way to put it. Google sold the Motorola Mobility unit. Here with us for the hour is atter isaacson, former ceo cnn, managing editor at time but he is also known for his biographies on steve jobs, and many others. He will tell us about the next book he is working on. Were also watching another piece of news we have talked about, Time Warner Cable reporting results. That was not the big news, but the big news is who is after them. It is turning into an epic takeover battle. The ceo Robert Marcus was talking about how he was sending over this takeover bid from charter communications. There are scale benefits associated with consolidating. We acquired insight several years ago ....
He was walking away from the pulpit to applause. As he approached his secret service agent, he stopped. He kept his distance. He reached for his mask. He put it on, and he continued to walk out. As someone said earlier today, it might have been the most considerate and thus the most president ial moment of the day, which brings us to the current president. He did not join the three former president s paying his respects to john lewis. He did start his day by suggesting on twitter that we delay our president ial election, which for the record is a power only congress has and has never invoked. Quoting here, with universal mailin voting, not absentee voting, which is good, 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the usa. Delay the election until people can properly, securely, and safely vote. Again, america has never moved or delayed an election despite civil war, world wars, other crises, and its not happening this year in ....
He kept his distance. He reached for his mask. He put it on, and he continued to walk out. As someone said earlier today, it might have been the most considerate and thus the most president ial moment of the day, which brings us to the current president. He did not join the three former president s, paying his respects to john lewis. He did start his day by suggesting on twitter that we delay our president ial election, which for the record is a power only congress has and has never invoked. Quoting here, with universal mailin voting, not absentee voting, which is good, 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the usa. Delay the election until people can properly, securely, and safely vote. Again, america has never moved or delayed an election despite civil war, world wars, other crises, and its not happening this year in the face of a pandemic. But it is worth noting perhaps that trumps post came 16 minutes after devastat ....