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Redirected to the website and the next Virtual Event and you can learn more of the upcoming Virtual Events as well as showing up on comcast so let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan huff lose the Research Seismologist at the Us Geological survey in pasadena. Serving as an editor and contributor for many journals and contributing editor to the magazine and board of directors of the Seismological Society of america as well as a Southern California quake center and the author of f...

Virtual event with susan hough and henry fountain. Before he began i do have some short guidelines. It would like to ask a question for the q a just use ask the question button at the bottom of the screen. Etc questions that seem interesting you can also vote for them and they will make their way to the very top of the list. If youre considering supporting a bookstore by purchasing a copy of, copy of tonight featured book click on the green purchase button directly below the viewers screen. You ...

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The green purchase button below the viewer screen. You, learn mother about u upcoming Virtual Events on our website and on crowdcast. Let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan hough is a Research Seismologist at the u. S. Geological survey in pasadena, pennsylvania, an jett she serve on the boards of directors of Seismological Society of america and the Southern California earthquake center. She is the author of five books including earth shaking science. Joining he is henry fount...

Congresss role in funding fema and other support. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted the event. I am so excited to bring you this event today. We have an amazing several panels of speakers. Project thatture buildars said we need to the loss ofreduce property and life and bring down the cost of a Natural Disaster response. Hit, we convened a task force of former state and federal officials who oversee Disaster Recovery and have had to secure overseas and federal funding. Many of the programs are...

We will not take viewers to the bipartisan seminar webinar underway with the impact on Hurricane Evacuation and sheltering. The former fema administrator will begin in just a moment. Oversee, federal funding. Our goal is to harness their collective expertise to inform the instruction around disaster programs. Recent hurricane has been a lot of tension on how do you safely evacuate and shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent further covid spread . These are...

[inaudible] i know youre familiar [inaudibl [inaudible]. Testing. Can you hear us . We can. From the top well pick up where i left off . If you could start from the top, please. Welcome, everybody. Today is our first hybrid hearing in the subcommittee under the new house rules. Some members will appear in person and others appear remotely via web x. Youre familiar with web x, but remind everyone after few points. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone pursuant t...

Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amend...

On homelandttee security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining the National Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Without objection, the chair is optimized to declare [indiscernible] at any point. Today, the committee is meeting to examine our National Response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. This hearing comes at a critical moment. The number of coronavirus cases is surging, topping 58,000 per day for the first time on july 1, and setting al...

Including preparing to respond to multiple simultaneous disasters during the 2020 hurricane and wildfire season. From the House Oversight subcommittee, this is an hour and 15 minutes. To committee will come order. I would like to point out that we are glad to have representatives here in joining us today. Enjoyed is in the questioning as we pursue this hearing. It and i recognize myself for five minutes Opening Statement. Im convening todays subcommittee hearing in preparation by fema for respon...