Confirmed friday. Osaka has signaled its entering a local state of emergency due to the strain on the medical system. Authorities there are calling on people to avoid all nonessential outings until december 15th. Translator the number of people in serious condition will not decrease unless the number of infections falls. We need to practice selfrestraint in the shortterm to save lives. The governor of neighboring kyoto prefecture is urging people to refrain from traveling to osaka as much as possible. The death toll continues to rise in japan. Over the past three days, more than 30 people a day have died. In the week up to thursday, a total of 196 people died. Translator basically, the difference between the virus that spread in july and the virus that is spreading now is not large. I think december and january are really crucial times. Japan recorded over 1,800 infections on friday, bringing the overall tally to more than 158,500. Over 2,300 people have died. Prime minister suga i sho
Pandemic response. We got the gowns, we got the masks, we made the ventilators, you wouldnt have made ventilators and were weeks away from a vaccine. Were doing therapeutics already. Fewer people are dying when they get sick. Far fewer people are dying. Weve done a great job. The president has no plan. He hasnt laid out anything. He knew all the way back in february how serious this crisis was. He knew it was a deadly disease. What did he do . Hes on tape acknowledging he knew it. He didnt tell us or give a warning about it because he didnt want to panic the american people. This year has seen a dramatic rise in racial unrest sparked by Police Killings of black americans. Biden accused trump of fueling racist sentiment while the president attacked bidens views on law and order. This is a president who h ha used everything as a dog whistle to try to generate racist hatred, racist division. This is a man who in fact you talk about helping African Americans. One in one thousand African Am
Officials are asking residents and businesses to refrain from holding parties of five people or more for most of next month. The governor says the number limit was chosen after the Central Government issued vague guidelines around gatherings. Translator the message isnt very clear, so we thought we should present a concrete figure. Aichi reported 167 infections. The highest daily figure since the pandemic began. The southern prefecture of okinawa registered for a third day in a row. But its more than double the tuesdayly ltally. Now a hospital worker became the first person cononfirmed to be infected on the remote island. There are concerns whether hospitals in isolated areas will be able to cope if theres an outbreak. Tokyo continues to be the biggest hot spot with 250 cases on wednesday. The daily figure has been above 200 every day in the past week except once. In total more than 34,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed across the country. More than 1,000 people have died. Europ
This is live coverage of the hearing on cspan3. The country is returning to work here. Many of us here in washington having this hearing while the spearer pelosi and House Democrats continue to stay at home Holding Virtual hearings. We have got to get back to doing the real live work that the people sent us here to do and i would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to come back to washington and do what we have been elected to do. And with that, madam chairwoman, i yield back. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now were introduce our witnesses. First we have rita bigot, an essential worker who died from coronavirus. Next is john costa, the International President of the transit union. Next we have anthony mark perone, who is the unit food and commercial Workers Union and with us Bonnie Castillo who is the executive director of National Nurses united and California Nurses Association and the National Nurses organizing committee. We also have clint odum from policy and advocacy
As far as we know at this hour, no worse than that. A Government Official said that a breakdown in an atomic power plant in pennsylvania today is probably the worst Nuclear Reactor accident to date. There was no apparent serious con ttamination of workers, but safety group said radiation inside the plant is at eight times the deadly level. So strong, after passing through a 3foot thick concrete wall, it can be measured a mile away. Gary shepherd reports from harrisburg. Reporter the accident occurred here at the three Mile Island Nuclear power atlanta a dozen miles south of harrisburg. About 4 00 this morning, two water pumps that help cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building. And that the radioactivitity y y penetrated the walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere, and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident