And how many were enslaved including those born free in the north. Enjoy American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Now, a hearing on the Health Concerns of veterans exposed to dangerous chemicals in uzbekistan known as k2. A veteran told members of the House Oversight committee that more Scientific Data is needed before providing health care and disability benefits to veterans who served at the base between 2001 and 2005. Hearin this is about 90 minutes. Ecur ity all right. Good morning, everyone. O welcome to todays hybrid will hearing of the national Oversight Committee on the committee of oversight and me government reform. Pursuant to house rules, some persons will appear remotely anl some in person via webex. Ce mas. Let me remind everyone from thea latest guidance from the house. Physician all individuals attending this hearing in persos will have to wear a face mask. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaki
By your television provider. Now an update on cleanup efforts related to water contamination at u. S. Military bases. A task force was created in july last year to address the issue. Military representatives on the task force testify about cleanup efforts, coordination between various governmental agencies involved and research on a safe chemical replacement. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this committee of the readiness subcommittee to order. Ive got to do the boilerplate, so stand by. Ill do it as quickly as i possibly can. I would like to welcome the members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of identifying verification when joining the proceeding, establishing and maintaining a quorum participating in the proceeding and voting. Members participating remotely must continues to use the Software Platform video function while attending the proceedings unless they experience connec
Legendary nightclubs have been forced to close because of the and one entrepreneur has found a way to give frustrated party goers a quick fix without risking that. Have a false welcome to the program a Police Operation is underway on the greek island of les boss to move thousands of migrants and refugees into a new temporary tent city many have been sleeping on the streets after a fire destroyed their refugee camp with ortiz say the operation has so far passed off peacefully but many migrants are reluctant to move into the new facility. Packed up and on the move again along with their few remaining possessions. Early on thursday police on the greek island of les bos started moving hundreds of migrants to a new camp thats after a fire at the overcrowded morea camp left almost 13000 homeless. But offices want to avoid violence and have been easing their powers of persuasion to convince migrants to move to the new camp peacefully. The u. S. Refugee agency has also been urging migrants to
A man people are moving because its really broken lot of people didnt have any Running Water or sufficient Food Supplies in the last 8 days no no sanitary facilities no water to wash the children and all of it so at the moment really these last days of starvation also dehydration are making people really go quietly into the camps now however there is still reluctance to to really approach that sides but as you say theres still some reluctance but probably conditions inside that new camp are better than out on the streets why are so many reluctant still to go into the new town. Well the people are really highly traumatized in the years and months in moria where there was no medical supplies no legal advice where people were really surviving. Every day and this big fire that broke us out last week was kind of happening every day subsequently for the last 10 years so theres a lot of people with chronic diseases like us 900 to see the 2nd get any and. Medications and over 170. 00 days in t
Epidemic so we. We knew about our epidemic based on the border testing and this why its spread. Availability of Water Testing is something that discriminated germany from other countries. One reason of this being that we were really fast on the lap level to react another explanation of our about amec start it somewhat later youve already said that we will have to live with masks for a long time to come still even with a vaccine in place so when will we be able to hug each other again grandparents but also strange is that this will be a very original question so in. Parts of the world i wouldnt be surprised to see the population protection during the next year to come. But this means they are. Well have undergone. An epidemic that may not. Appear such a severe epidemic based on their age structure so we already spoke about africa where this could happen. At least this is what i wish that african populations are protected because of their younger age profile that would be a very good. Go