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Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to lim...

Announcer coming up in an hour, rovnerhealth news julie discusses the future of health care, including legal challenges to the Affordable Care act. Judge Amy Coney Barrett begins two days of questions from senators in the review of her nomination to the highest court. Journal andgton good morning. The second day of hearings begins at 9 00 a. M. , but we would like to hear from you about what you saw yesterday and what you expect today. If you support the nomination, the line to call in is 202 74...

We were out for a walk with the dog yesterday and i was surprised at how hot it was in the afternoon, kari. Its october. Ramped up so fast. The same thing again today. Were going to have a cool morning and a hot afternoon. Here we are in san jose checking out our temperature trend and some upper 50s to start. As we go through the day, late morning into the afternoon, you can see how fast its going to warm up. Were going way above that as we reach the high temperatures into the mid80s today, low ...

Bird will judge barretts family, welcome. Barrettserrick family, family, welcome. I appreciate everyones cooperation. Will have a hearing that hopefully the country will learn more about judge merrick and the and willdge barrett learn more about the law and maybe the differences in the party. As to the hearing room, i doubt if there is any room in the country given more attention and detail to make sure city of the architect of the capitol working with the attending physician has set up the room...

You will probably notice several precautions tonight inside of the studio to help ensure safety against covid19 including the fact theres no Live Audience tonight only the two candidates, the moderator and some studio technicians. In the last 12 hours, everybody in the building and in the studio tonight has tested negative. We quickly you want to review the rules of the debate and it will last for one hour. Then i will submit candidates and the radio Digital News Association of the carolinas hav...

Around the corner which as you guys mentioned could cause a lot of us across the bay area problems, especially if you are in one of those areas. We could lose power as fire danger increases, looking outside this morning at least we do have a beautiful start to the day. Its dark but it is very clear out there to kick off this morning, pretty calm for now, but winds pick up tonight across especially the coast and across the north bay, those winds will gradually spread be really widespread for port...

Committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation title 1 under Veterans Mission act, program of assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace. While officials were invited to discuss the critical programs they oversee, the department chose to...

Congressional Budget Office testify before the Senate Subcommittee on physical response ability and Economic Growth. Thank you all for participating. I think it will be good. Im sorry we cannot have it in a more, what to say, a more kind of formal setting because it may have been better because im not sure if there is any hearing we have that was more important than this. Our Witnesses Today will be philip schlagel, director of the congressional Budget Office and jean todaro who is the comptroll...

Well get to that, friend. Lots of rit . Ye let me take video of this. He could kill me. But let me take video. That is the question. Cant wait to talk about that. What are you doing . Hi, everybody. Lets jump right into weather because im hogging the spotlight there. I apologize. Its tuesday. Yesterday we put everything on hold. We look forward to tomorrow, thursday and friday. Starting at 5 00 tomorrow through 11 00 friday, we have a fire weather watch and this will be upgraded to a red flag wa...

Europes cities out of control. Not much. And it is a pleasure to introduce our guests starting with martin meier he works as a science editor for the german radio broadcaster george folk and he believes despite scientific progress the pandemic will prevail therefore we will have to get along with further restrictions. And its a pleasure to introduce reshad freberg he works as a science editor for the berlin daily tug and he says we are only at the beginning of the cold and indoor season and ther...