Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I would like to have a few members, congressman jordan, congressman meadows, and the subcommittee to recognize questioning the witness. Without objection so ordered. I recognize myself or five minutes to give an opening statement. We are here to amplify the recent Health Warning for the centers for Disease Control related to 530 ecigarette related incidents of lung disease on 38 states. I want to make clear, this emergency hearing at the beginning of this time. On august 23rd officials from illinois recorded the first death due to a mysterious vaping related lung illness and since then a total eight individuals tragically died. In response to this crisis the cdc considering putting the American Public not using ecigarette. Because the subcommittee investigated the use vaping epidemic we feel it is our duty to draw attention to the recent government Health W
Protect the environment and their future. And cedric the entertainer in studio 57. The star of the neighborhood talks about the cbs comedy and also gets into serious business. Its friday, september 20th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds lets go, guys. Weve got to go. A state of disaster has been declare friday parts of texas. Declared in parts of texas. Ive never seen this amount of flooding in this amount of time. Flooding turns deadly in texas. This is worse than harvey. Reporter worse than harvey . In every aspect. A whistleblower complaint about what President Trump said to a foreign Leader Centers on ukraine. I wouldnt care if he did. He had every right as president of the United States. Reporter canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing damage control after hes shown in blackface. The choices i made hurt people. Irans foreign minister said any attack on iran by the u. S. Or saudi arabia will spark an allout war. We wont wait to defend our territory. An e
Direct pitch for the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. Heres one of the quotes. Theres a lot of talk about bidens son, quote, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. Whatever you can do with the attorney general that would be great. The attorney general hes referring to is attorney general barr. The president used the name of attorney general barr and Rudy Giuliani who he said would be looking into the matter. He said both men would reach out to the president of ukraine and ask him to get started on this. The president of ukraine said he was going to investigate the matter. They had a fairly extensive conversation about this. The president mentioned he wanted to enlist the attorney general. What has the attorney general said about the fact the president mentioned him in the phone call. A rather extraordinary set of events took place after the Inspector General got word of the whistleblower complaint. He referred it to
Seville toward the nation and canola. This is a lot of dry on storm track four were actually encounter some drizzle. We do have some what roles you may experience that are new ways to work this morning the showers are exiting the area. If you headed to the afternoon look for mostly dry conditions but a weak system or rent a few weeks showers in the overnight hours. Erica given with impressive amounts sunnyvale fell over and auntsthe little 1. 2 in. Will continue to see the rain fall go up. It shows mostly dry conditions for the rest of the morning. Take a look at the 9 00 hour we will start the season showers develop from brentwood. We do have unsettled whether offshore and that will push it into the afternoon and evening spotty showers in the forecast nothing to major most of the activity will be north of the Golden Gate Bridge to seven days from the bay forecast will maintain dry conditions into thursday i think friday will see more rain in heading into Early Saturday Morning beyond
Under the influence. A lot of people think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatalities and major injuries to pedestrians and bicyclist by both vehicle miles and by population. I know we can do better. We are a city that knows how to do things so lets get it done. This will call on the Transportation Authority to convene a working group of Pedestrian Safety advocates and lead the major county departments. Including the departments of Public Health, sf mta and San Francisco Police Department to develop and action plan. Within 90 days of this first meeting, an action plan of the Public Awareness campaign will be presented to the board. We have an unprecedented level of support coming from community members, t