Plan act for the same purpose. Marty walsh took questions on his Departments Budget from a house panel. This hearing is fully virtual. We must address a few housekeeping matters. We will mute participants microphones when they are not under recognition for the purpose of delimiting background noise. If i notice you have not on muted yourself, i will ask you if you would i remind all members that the Fiveminute Minute Clock still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move on until the issue is resolved and we will retain the balance of your time. You will notice a clock on your screen that will show how much time is remaining. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn to yellow. At 30 seconds, i will tap the gavel to remind members that their time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin with the chair and ranking members. They will be called to recognize in order
[captions copyright national Cable Satellite Corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its Caption Content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. April 15, 2021. I hereby appoint the honorable Angie Craig to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Blessed are we who trust in the lord. But, o god, trust is so hard for us to master. We trust that you have called us here, but do we . For if we did we would be as content as a tree planted by water. And yet we find that when the heat comes, the heat of our moments, the heat of our anger, inwardly we find ourselves thirsty for respite, fearful for ourselves an
take the cautions in public by wearing a well-fitted mask and distancing and avoid medium and large-size in-person gatherings. these new recommendations are an important first step in our efforts to resume everyday activities in our communities. however, we remain in the midst of a serious pandemic and still over 90% of our population is not fully vaccinated, though we are working hard to get there. joining me now, nbc s tom costello and dr. ben gupta is back with the institute of health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. tom, this is a big step. dr. john torres has says all along the first and biggest question he gets from people throughout all of this is when can i see my grand kids, and now the answer for fully vaccinated people is, you can. that s exactly right. it s the same in my own family, as would expect. and as you know if you get the pfizer or moderna vaccine, you need two doses so the protection kicks in fully after two weeks. so they re
you don t own pads like that, do you? i was a basketball guy. i couldn t take hits like those in football. it s not my game. you are still tough. i want someone to call foul if i get hit. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have lot to talk with. so glad you are back. it is back to work this week for lawmakers on capitol hill and with the dwindling number of days, their to-do list is quite long. can they avoid a government shutdown? a major question. also, right now tens of thousands of people are stuck in the desert at the burning man festival after a rainstorm turned the site into a mud pit. people are being told to shelter in place. amazon s ceo tells employees to get back in the office or their days may be numbered. they are not alone. we talk to an expert about whether whizzes and their employees can find some common ground. and college sports before to look a whole lot different.
ainsley: a lot of people will because of the epiphany. ainsley: i can t take my garland down yet. i still have my garland on the fireplace so pretty. steve: particularly when it s snowing and looks so beautiful. that s up the interstate where we are sitting. ainsley: you said it might snow this weekend. steve: might sunday night. stay tuned. darn it. brian: might have to get to work early. ainsley: dawn, i m sorry, i m trying. brian: if they ask you to come in and you say no and you can t get in, it s really on you. steve: you know, that was back in the day when we all had the only way to do the show would be in the big studio. now we have these little vans that travel around and can park in your parking lot. ainsley: sorry, i can t make it to work. send a van to my driveway? steve: it was a year ago right now today when i had covid and i was stuck at home and once i was past the contamination zone, i did the show from the driveway for three weeks. it wa