Up next a confirmation hearing for u. S. Postal service governors and other judicial nominations to the d. C. Superior court. During this meeting members of the committee asked nominees questions concerning the health and safety of postal workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. This morning we will consider two nominees for the governor of the United States Postal Service, don lee moke and william zolers. Well consider three nominees for the judicial system to be associate judges in the superior court of d. C. We do have brief introduction of each. Donald lee moke served as president of the Airline Pilots association and captain with Delta Airlines for 31 years. He also served as an officer in the United States marine corp. Thank you so much for that service. William zolers serves red stone llc, hes the chairman and ceo of yrc until 2011, prior to that served in Senior Leadership positions with rider incorporated and Eastman Kodak company. Mark robins serves in office of general counsel
Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne
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So bad that were going to be debating whether were in a serious recession or depression. We have pockets, though, of strength Like Technology and health care. But those pockets cant offset a very weak backdrop, can they we saw it again today. The dow lost 218 points. The s p 500, it tumbled. 7 . But the techheavy nasdaq also had the darn gall to rally. 51 , and was up a percent most of the day. Oh, the indignity. If you make technology that helps businesses cut costs by firing people, or having them stay home, youre doing great. If you make something people literally captain live cant live without, medicine, terrific Everything Else is a drug here staggering layoffs and the big drop in the index i am worried about, or at least a lot of what im worried about which is 9 s p 500. It gets worse. If you run a business leave it to the u. S. Economy and not chinas economy, well, now your stock is getting walloped. Over and over in the earnings season we see Companies Report an incredible 2 1
Ong joins us now live with why doctor says, although the number of cases is going up theres a glimmer of hope tonight, gayle. Vicki and grant were told Ucsf Medical Center is stable with 15 to 16 patients in the last week and that other bay area hospitals are also seeing relatively low numbers. Thanks to people sheltering in place. Well before other parts of the country. The orders are heated empty streets in San Francisco crossing market street. We found few people appearing to be essential workers and no traffic an example of why Health Experts say the city is showing signs of flattening the curve to slow down the coronavirus we spoke with doctor Robert Wachter chair of ucsf department of medicine people, San Francisco listen i think they they understood the science and they said this is the right thing to do obviously causes hardships. Doctor wachter says even know the number of cases continues to rise, theres been a slow search and City Hospitals at ucsf so we have had and her 16 p