At noon eastern lawmakers are expected to vote on his confirmation. And now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the fountain of wisdom, we cherish your presence and honor your name. Give our lawmakers the wisdom to live with honor, as they remember their accountability to history and you. Lord, remind them that you are glorified when they walk on the path of integrity, striving to please you in all they say and do. May their lives bring light to darkness, unity to division, and order to chaos. Grant that they will be living letters read by those who desire to believe that you continue to rule in our world. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic fo
Lives they force us to close schools, shut down restaurants, shut down major events and temporarily shutter businesses across our country. Ne the sacrifices have been necessary for the sake of public health, to help flatten the curve so our medical facilities dont become overwhelmed. Theyve also been disruptive, frustrating, and in some cases scary. Despite the emotional and economic toll this crisis has taken, we have seen countless acts of compassion, generosity, and selflessness all across theam country. Americans has stepped up to help each other despite the new threat. I want to make sure the americany people know that since the very beginning of this crisis, nebraskans have been on the front lines. 113 americans were evacuated from a cruise ship in japan in late february, they were taken to the National Quarantine unit at the university of Nebraska Medical Center in omaha as nations only federal quarantine unit they were also trusted to care for the americans recovering from a eb
Schools officials today as coronavirus cases continue to climb at home and beyond here are the latest numbers tonight, globally there are now more than 930,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and over 46,000 people have died. The United States leads the world in the number of cases with over 213,4700 people in our country have died in california. There are more than 9,000 cases and almost 200 people have died. This according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker map. The ongoing outbreak is forcing state education officials to prepare kids across california to Distance Learning for the rest of the school year. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how google is helping students finish out the hool year from home. The coronavirus will likely keep california schools shuttered for the rest of the school year state leaders announced wednesday Officials Say districts across the state have either already or will be launching formal Distance Learning plans screen that is not out for
Joining us at 10, im ken way and im pam moore. The decision is what many parents and students had read assumed was going to happen, but the governor does stress this does not mean the end of the school year. We are preparing today to et our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. And other mechanisms to ke sure that were educatingour kids but not doing so physically on school sites. State superintendent Tony Thurmond held a News Conference today via zoom the same platform that many students have now been using to learn through virtually kron fours noelle bellow listen in on that News Conference and she joins us now live from the newsroom was more details noel on the instruction thats going to be given out. Thats right while more specific guidance on distancelearning was being posted tonight for district leaders, the information given during the press conference still left some questions to b
Education leaders are preparing children across the state to distance learned for the rest of the school year. The state superintendent for public instruction Tony Thurmond is hoping the Distance Learning will accelerate everyones education. He unveiled specific guidelines on distancelearning for district leaders. California is also providing additional webinars and resource teachers as well. Will be providing a women are that is focus on how to provide special education through Distance Learning. I like to thank all those who are helping to put it together our special education workforce, california teachers association, the staff of the California Department of education in the state board of education for coming forward to help us answer a question is not been answered in this way before how do we deliver special education through Distance Learning more than 5,000 people have signed up mostly educators to hear about best practices about lesson plans about modules for how we deliver