Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Before i address the topic of todays hearing i want to say a few words about whats happening in communities across our country today. This is a time of great pain and unrestfor our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video of the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary our nation needs to listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Every american citizen deserves justice under the law. Some of the peacefulprotests have been hijacked by violent criminals. The destructing and looting and arson must stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause for which the Peaceful Protesters first took to the streets. Now in a moment of americans to come together to listen and to heal. The goal of this hearing today is to
Died in their homes might never have been tested and then theres the cases that have not been counted cdc director doctor Robert Redfield tweeted earlier this month. Models predicting an increase in deaths in the coming weeks and a cumulative total exceeding 100,000 by june 1st. According to one of the cdc models that theyre highlighting the u. S. Tax will drop a levying about 11,000 and thats because many people are wearing masks, reporting live gayle ong kron 4 news. Tonight there are almost 13,000 confirmed covid19 cases in the bay area. Alameda county leads the local counties with more than 3,000 cases. But the virus has been deadlier in Santa Clara County where a 140 people have died. The complete breakdown by county is available on our website kron 4 dot com in San Francisco, a large number of covid19 deaths is among the citys Homeless Population, the department of Public Health reported 48 homeless deaths during the pandemic so far. Tonight, homeless advocacy groups are calling
Including best picture and best director with kelly and murphy, also picking up the gong for best doctor the im quite richardson. Welcome. We started in brussels, where swedens flag is being raised later outside natos headquarters, after and officially joined, has to be 30 seconds member of the transatlantic military alliance, swedens, a session and decades of post world war 2 neutrality. As concerns about russian aggression in europe continue to grow, follow nordic nation. Finland joined in april 2023 with nato members cleaning the expansion to be a major blow to the kremlin. Sweden becomes the seconds. No dick nation in the past year to join nato. And its membership brings with its a number of advantages for the airlines. Firstly, by following finland in abandoning neutrality, sweden descending an Important Message to those nations still on the fence about russias invasion of ukraine. Its time to pick a side. So the reason is now leaving 200 years of neutrality, a non alignment behin
Beginning the muslim holy month of ramadan to the basic necessities, out of reach full many, some of the great and the good of holiday was hit. The red carpet was the biggest, not a figure in shelves. Christopher no one on the bus to open the sweeps. The major awards at the oscar scooping best fiction. Best director of this. The gulf is welcome to the program. The swedish flag is now flying at nato headquarters in brussels. A rainy sermon, a has full many welcome, still called into the alliance as its 30 seconds. So you can apply to joy enough to rush us invasion of ukraine in february 2022. Late to the secretary general and sofa back says the alliance is now stronger than if when pressed on tooth and launched his full scaling nation 2 years ago. He wont the less nate, the more control over his neighbors. He wanted to destroy ukraine, southern states. But she said, nato is bigger and stronger. Ukraine is closer to nathan membership than ever before. The security situation in our region
to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to share testimony on a single bill on a very important piece of legislation. it is hr 5444. the truth in healing commission on indianborder school policies at . by representative charisse of kansas. under committee rules are opening statements on hearings to the chair and ranking minority member or their designees will allow us to help members keep to their schedules. therefore i ask unanimous consent of all other members opening statements he made part of the hearing record by 5 pm today or those of the hearing projected first. hearing no objection so ordered. without objection the chair may also declare a recess object to the chair. i want to note we will be having both later on so i might recall that witness and i thank everybody for their patients. i ve described in the notice the documents and motions submitted to the electronic age and rc mail.house.gov. members should provide a hard copy. please note members are responsible