Has burned 80,000 acres. Containment numbers have gone it is 19 contained. From 27 to 33 . We are starting to make some progress. It is happening. 557,000 square miles of reporter the plan includes learned, which is bigger than the city of los angeles. Setting controlled burns including this area of fall creek trail near felton. 1200 homes and outbuildings have been burned. Thanks to cooler weather and help from the national guard, the czu lightning complex fire has destroyed 538 structures. They are making solid progress. There were no new evacuation it will take time because of orders. Cal fire shared these photos of thick fog and set the cooler the terrain and the size of the weather and more resources have helped. We have a lot of resources fires. To give a little context of this, the size, if you take above Boulder Creek and other allied agencies working that as a sign its roughly 162 diligently. Very difficult to rain. Acres per person. That is not everyone on the fire line by co
U. S. Senate is about to gaveling to get the week started lawmakers considered a a judicl nomination with a limited vote set for 5 30 p. M. Eastern. And now live to the senate floor here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, our hope for the years to come, empower our lawmakers to live with integrity. Inspire them to permit their words to be matched by their deeds. As they strive for this ethical congruence, strengthen them to examine their hearts with the goal of seeking to glorify you. Living by your precepts, may they aspire to be faithful to the noble calling of serving you and country. We pray in your majestic name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and ju
States Supreme Court. Four years ago, i announced my first list of highly qualified candidates and promised to fill the vacancy by Justice Scalia from among those names. Just days after my inauguration, i kept that promise when i nominated judge gorsuch. As you know, he has been very spectacular. A year later, i nominated and the Senate Confirmed justice kavanaugh. By the end of my first term, we will have confirmed a Record Number of federal judges. All of whom will faithfully uphold our constitution as written. What has always made america exceptional is our reverence for the impartial rule of law. People have come from all over the world to pursue the American Dream based on the sacred principle. This sacred principle. Equality under the law is the bedrock of our society. It is the principal that inspired american heroes to abolish slavery and segregation, secure civil rights, and build the most free and just nation in history. Unfortunately, there is a growing radical Left Movement
America, the director talked about covid19 trials, the virus impact on minority communities and issues with politicizing the cdc. This is 30 minutes. The cdc had guidance not that long ago about a vaccine with the state healt Health Agency ay said it was on track for government review imager not had talked about phase three trial in september astrazeneca talked about vaccine in october. Against the backdrop and this happened from astrazeneca what is your best estimate with a safe vaccine being available. One thing i learned is a cdc director, im not in the opinion business im in the data and science. When does the data suggest. Based on whats going on with pfizer imager not that it is conceptual and they will have enough data to present it to the fda for evaluation somewhere before the end of october and the end of november. The reason i cannot be more specific is these trials are event driven trials in the really 100 dependent on how much covid occurs in the volunteer population. If i
Progressed over the last several months, one of the key things is a funding opportunity with investigationsti as you mentiond telemedicine but also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to Fund Investigation and get information out on a very short 4 6 month timeframe so we cann get that out there and replicate it and enhance learnings. We saw one of the key impacts of this with the south in the southwest, what we saw we went through this in early april in new york, new jersey, connecticut and as we were competing Healthcare Providers and Health Systems and they were learning from each other so much of the rest of america was not terribly impacted and then when it did hit places like florida, texas, arizona, Southern California ridge worked very aggressively to essentially bring the Health Systems and Healthcare Providers on the journey new york, new jersey, connecticut went on a couple moismonths before. The idea of learn and replicate and disseminate information out is