Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Vaccine boosted the antibodies in patients fighting the virus well have more on that new development. And as new cases hit a record high here, Tillman Fertitta says this is a mess for business and employees he will join us later this hour. Power lunch starts right now thank you, tyler, as we await the minutes, lets get todto dom chu. It could be the same. With quarters like we just saw, typically the momentum however, tyler mentioned the trading today very mixed the dow is up just 206 points, the s p 500 up about 23, so we are seeing a bit of a move off those session highs right now. Still, though, for the time being, green on the screen namely the s p 500 and however it sits away from the record high we saul earlier this year, remember, from that level to where we are now, were still about 8 below record highs. Well see if they can break out above or below this range. Two stocks to keep an eye on fedex stock after the great Earnings Report that they had. You can see here up about 12 o
And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers li. Thank you. Laura this is announcer this is bbc world news america. Reporting from italy, i am laura trevelyan. It really tries to recover from the economic fallout of coronavirus. Will the crowds becoming . All 50 u. S. States have started to reopen, the death toll in americapa sursses 92,000. Government guidelines on how to reopen safely are finay released. ,000 people in michigan are in vacuum after two dams failed. The governor warns there could be historic levels of flooding. We hear from the u. K. Dr. Who survived coronavirus after weeks on a ventilator. You give yourself goals. My goal was just to get home. Laura to all of you watching on pbs and around the glowo, welcome tod news america. S the whorning that rising numbers of cases are in poor nations. Even thoug rich countries, like the u. S. , are emerging from lockdowns. The biggest daily increase in all 50 u. S. States are starting to reopen, along with much of europe
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Different chefs will reduce classsize and allow for social distancing some schools may use hybrid models with a mix of in class and remote education. Districts will also decide to students and staff will be required to wear masks thurman said the state will come up with recommendations but theres no timeline on when next years budget will be a real challenge. This relates to rising to the challenge to the convenient challenge with education to students, we will continue to meet the challenge together. Some schools that operate yearround, could it be starting as early as july . Other districts will be starting much later than expected, no timeline on when the state guidelines will be published. Im and mackovic at the live news desk back to you. Thank you. Taking a live look outside with gray skies across the bay area this afternoon and, we may be seeing more wet weather soon. Lets get over to mary lee with the details. We are looking at a few showers that im tracking on high deathdopple