Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Now palo alto double in livermore concord each in the 30s, upper 30s for these areas while santa rose at 31 degrees or one spot below freezing, san mateo and alameda egypt, 45 some of our fog year areas there little bit more moderated because of that marine layer thats hovering overhead im talking what else to expect today later on in your forecast but robin is talking about how that fog has had an impact on your morning commute. Impact it has had. I dont lost the game, the bridge looking this and driving in these conditions, john is not good its not safe. It is challenging for sure were checking in on the bridge right now you can see daria in the midst the to searching its dangerous on the roads this morning. We have lots of people are doing theyre like where am i less of the toll plaza its going to be like all the way across the span so be careful out there folks headlights and wipers slowdown dont tailgate you know the drill but 40 minutes here over to the peninsula. We cannot see i
From berkeley. Well its a mix of both youve got sunshine over u c berkeley but in the distance, you also see that blanket of fog thats sitting over the east bay, less and less of an expected as we work our way towards late morning here. It has been an unusual morning as fog goes it started a little clear started to clear up and then that fog are really settled into the bay and really has impacted your bridges over the course of the past couple of hours. Temperatures right now are mostly in the 40s and 50s starting to rise berkeley youre at 50 degrees. The lay how santa rosa seen some of our spots that are still hanging on to those 30s so still pretty chilly for parts of the north bay. Im talking where had this afternoon what else to expect this week to as far as robin is concerned its definitely still all about the fog of the bay still a little gray out there maybe not our foggy esta bridges right but they are you write pretty foggy and its carla right car love the fog i got it now too
Now 3 San Francisco mayor london breed warning the city is preparing to announce new restrictions this week as coronavirus spreads rampantly thank you for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im tahernia during a press conference this afternoon mayor london breed and doctor colfax saying restrictions could be issued as early as tomorrow. Kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco with the concerning details. Dan. Well thats right things have gone from bad to worse as far as covid is concern here in the city in the last 10 days hospitalizations have more than doubled cases are 4 times what they were a month ago during an online briefing today both the mayor and the Health Director said changes are coming and they could come as soon as tomorrow. We are now in the most dangerous period. So this pandemic we need to do everything we can stay ahead of our hospitals, not being overrun this is about saving lives, everything were asking you to do on the coming weeks and months is abo