Round of questions. We expect you to answer them fully and to the best of your ability. The commission is fully formed and five members. According to that commission, deaths and injuries and Property Damage if incidents stemming from Consumer Product cost the nation more than a trillion dollars. Thats an economic cost, the cost to human beings and lives and families is even much more and unknowable. You have a mandate to protect consumers from risks associated with 15,000 Consumer Products including household products, toys, Sporting Goods and more. They were established by the safety act in 1972. The jurisdictionally independent agency chargesen with forcing various federal statutes geared at protecting consumers. Central to the commissions function is the use of voluntarily Consumer Product standards instead of mandatory regulations, requirements when appropriate. This approach allows the agency to have a collaborative working relationship with consumer advocacy groups, manufacturers
From u. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission members on hazard quus products and consumer safety. They spoke about recent recalls including a fisher price sleeper that was associated with the deaths of more than 30 infants. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to todays oversight hearing on consumer Product Safety Commission. Thank you to all the commissioners for being with us today. I am meezed that were having an on time start. We have votes at 11 30. There will only be one round of questions. That doesnt mean the witnesses cant pretend they dont have all the answers in the first round of questions. We expect you to answer them fully and to the best of your ability. The commission is fully formed and five members. According to that commission, deaths and injuries and Property Damage if incidents stemming from Consumer Product cost the nation more than a trillion dollars. Thats an economic cost, the cost to human
I want to break that down. And roads are still closed around the old city fire. My good he is. And the other thing, too, not just the fog. That is little bit of drizzle out there, too, because the air mass so saturated all of these clouds can do is squeeze out some moisture, you so you may run into fine mist, as well. But sometimes these images can play tricks on you, drizzle very tough to detect sometimes when it comes to radar picture , even the low clouds are tough to pick out on the satelite. But regardless, the fog is out there. The moisture is very much settled in. And as a result fock advisory now posted region wide, no less, this isnt even a exclusive thing to some of you everyones stuck in this fog. And im looking looking at some of the current visibility , half mile or less through southeastern pa. I suspect it will get worse before it gets better as we come up on dawn. Now, for now, it is very mild start to the morning. Currently at 54 degrees in atlantic city, not quite tha
Kind of a bummer today. Barcelona fans were waving the flag outside levis stadium. Johnny and his bud dyes for sacramento ready. Once in a lifetime. Dont ever see this unless youre in europe. Were over here to support our team. Two giants in the soccer world, barcelona and Manchester United meeting the bay area for a friendly preseason game. Manchester united fans were cheering on wayne rooney, team captain. Daniel white had his own cheer. He is from l. A. Drove up from Southern California this morning, left at 4 30 in morning. Whan chester scored early against bars lon narks the reigning soccer champion of europe. These manchester fans came from huntington beach. He wears his team pride on his arm. Manchester united all day long. All about the red devils. Its overwhelming. Its so amazing to have this on tv and now were in the same space with them. Many fans say just getting here was pretty tough. Traffic and long lines at security gates. We were late for the game and it was just a bad
Sexual battery. One of the girls went to administrators last month to report that estrada had sexually assaulted her. He had been a teacher at that school since the summer of 2015. I am investigating all of our practices. I can tell you and to your viewers, to be rest assured that everything that is standard protocol, running fingerprint checks, going through cps, going through the fib, going through background checks, all of those steps were followed before this gentleman was [ inaudible ] but you will revisit those . Yes, of course. The acting superintendent says estrada was suspended, as soon as the first girl came forward, on january 17th. But investigators fear there may be more victims. And the school is urging anyone with suspicions or information to go directly to falls church police. The white house is denying a new report that the Trump Administration is considering a plan to guard to round up undocumented immigrants. The Associated Press says it obtained a draft memo. That a