[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
For the peninsula, the south bay, the east bay, trivalley as well as for the north bay. Please be safe, stay indoors if you can. We are looking at a record 28 days in a row, going a month with our smoky skies and the spare the air alert for the bay area. It has been an unprecedented, long stretch for us, dealing with this smoke. It is exhausting for many of us. As we head through the day, we have seasonable to below average for daytime highs this afternoon. Tracking some changes, we are going to see a weather pattern change through the week. I will let you know the days with better air quality for the bay area, coming up in a few minutes. Gianna. Wee alregoc wang. Ace brge toll plaza. The metering lights return on at 5 30 and it is slow out of the east bay into the city. Adding to that is a limited visibility. There is an advisory that was issued by chp overnight. The smoggy conditions that mary was telling you about might be an issue for your drive this morning across the bay bridge a
For winds to be around for another day, heres the shot from the golden gate there you see the fog clouds kind of lingering around a little bit of flap around what the flag rather look at our current winds there you can see on shore they are in the delta is going to be quite active later on for today, speaking of which particularly per Solano County and off to the Sacramento Valley, 5 to 11 this evening. We have a wind advisory thats in place as you can see there. And well probably see some winds again for tomorrow so say the models temperatures for us were looking at upper 50s in place some lower 50s up there the north bay 58 was a and breaking things down for you today were to called sunny mostly sunny by 08 00am at 11 about 64 69 coming in at 2 oclock we have a complete look at your forecast coming up in just a bit back to you all right, thank you dave our top story that were following for you this morning counties all across the bay area. Are loosening their coronavirus restrictions
Earlier today the governor expressed optimism that social close quarters, being essential distancing and the stayathome workers. You combine all of this, which order have bought the state valuable time to prepare for a of course in the black community has a history of systemic and historical racism, and youve got a real, real, potential surge in cases. He and the state Surgeon General also spoke about the serious emergency on top of an stress and emotional struggles californians may be having while they shelter at home. The Health Impacts of emergency. Coronavirus go beyond infection so i was on a call, as we speak, about how we address this. First of all, our healthcare and coded disease. Its important to recognize that stress related to the pandemic, many are feeling right now, compounded by the providers, africanamerican, economic distress due to lost wages, employment and financial historically black colleges medical schools have come up with some suggestions on how to prevent this