Further legislative session. We now bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] 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. November 18, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate redskin nation between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to f
Spreading amongst elderly people in particular. Nationwide more than 65,000 people have been infected, over 1,200 people have died. Tokyos chie ota ward introduced a system that ranks restaurants according to Infection Prevention measures. The class one category is given to restaurants which take basic steps. Class two is awarded to those with more advanced measures in place following an n site inspection. This restaurant was among the first outlets to be assessed on thursday. Public Health Officials went through a checklist off 40 qu y queries related to the restaurants disinfection measures. Translator its reassuring that a public healt officials are conducting on site investigations. We can now welcome our customers with confidence. Translator taking preventive measures such as these will be beneficial. Our Public Health center is providing support so that restaurants can continue to operate. Officials told the restaurant it will issue stick ergs as soon as its certification is deci
Of the weather with our meteorologist. Reporter its going to be another morning where its a mix of marine layer and smoke. The air quality is exactly the same as yesterday at this time. Thats the view over the east bay. Plenty of clouds in that scene. We will put some numbers in front of the day. Its 57 in concord. 50 in oakland. 56 in san jose. You can see how widespread the marine layer is. We are all waking up to low grade clouds. Here is the airquality forecast. Even though we burned back the marine layer we get rid of that layer of clouds, the hayes sticks around and airquality is going to be unhealthy for sensitive groups today. You might notice a little bit of a warmup if you are inland today. Really settle by a couple of degrees putting us into the low 90s for the daytime highs. We will stay in the low 70s for the bay. Will be back with a full forecast in a few minutes. Another right night of protest. Police tweeted out these videos of people in the ground throwing Water Bottle
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
That mark was probably one of the worlds greatest public successes. The eradication of thedeadly smallpox virus. That so many alive today no longer remember the depth and misery caused by this disease is a testament to global efforts and a cooperative manner. The smallpox virus likely originated more than 3000 years ago and is one of the most devastating diseases ever in the history of humanity. It was barely visible under the most powerful microscope and was known for fiery bumps covering the face and body. Profuse internal bleeding, black vomit and pieces of destroyed skinthat would shed off ones body. Smallpox is estimated to have killed up to 300 Million People in the 20th century. 300 million and around 500 million in the last hundred years of its existence. In 1967 the World Organization launch a historic intense effort to eradicate smallpox. The global eradication effort initially used a strategy of mass vaccination to achieve 80 percent Vaccine Coverage in each country tand the