We are right next to it. A while what i just hit something it had a house neil inaudible, a massive tornado obliterating the town of greenfield, iowa, three people are dedicated devastating storms also touched down in illinois. And wisconsin purex over this year that has been about 27 percent more tornadoes across the country then its averaged. The rough weather apparently is not over yet. We got it is a gordon in a green field where they are Picking Up The Pieces and our meteorologist, potentially more nasty weather to come. Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto, is go over to greenfield, iowa with the latest. It hello, im standing on the outskirts of greenfield, iowa. Stated patrol limiting the number of people who can get into town for residents and people working on the cleanup efforts. From where we stand on the outskirts, you can see some of the damage behind me. Absolute devastation here in greenfield, iowa. Still unclear how many people were injured or how many people died here, though several deaths have been confirmed. The hospital here Idea County Memorial was also damaged in this tornado, doctors in the hospitals have working to help the injured in the aftermath of this tornado, because of the damage to the hospital, patients needing further care transferred to starting hospitals, at one point, the lumberyard had to be used as a triage site here. We talked to one resident here in greenfield was that he ran to his basement as sirens went off and he heard a noise like a freight train. I did not know if i was going to come back out of the house, i really didnt. I mean ive heard this, and its a scary advanced. When the signs go off, you just try to find a cover. To the tornado in greenfield one of several that touched down in central and western iowa yesterday, one other person was killed by a super cell storm in iowa as well. In preston, iowa, a wind turbine destroyed by the storms video showing a toppled over and on fire, an idea of how strong the wind was yesterday. The National Weather service has been on the ground, three teams trying to survey the damage cognitive tornado that ripped through greenfield was at least an ef three. Neil incredible, thank you u is a gordon on that. Maybe more of this to next system comes on through. With us today and tomorrow, you see places like little rock from dallas over towards alexandria as well. Then a quick look ahead towards of those the weekend, the unofficial start to summer, people getting out on the road, potentially watching Severe Weather here across a big chunk of the middle of the country. This pattern does not break down at all, we will continue to see very active period of tornadoes and people will continue to be on guard. Neil thank you wreck, is always my friend u just ahead, the unofficial start of summer, more on that weekend, of course a time when a lot of people are taking to the roads, record numbers are going back to precovid19 numbers as americans get out on the roads, but the president seeing what he can do to sort of ease of that pressure by opening up some energy reserves. Hillary vaughn has more from capitol hill. Hello, the president intentionally tied to this release time to those releases of The Americans will enjoy lower gas prices while they enjoy their summer vacation, the white house saying about the move, the biden hairs administration is taking action to lower gas prices, the sale of 1 Million Barrels of gasoline from the northeast gasoline supply reserve. This bills and other actions by President Biden to lower gas and energy cause including historic releases from the petroleum reserve, high gas prices have been a big problem for President Biden, the price of gas up more than 50 percent since he took office, the decision though to close the northeastern reserve as congress is doing. About her the president got to choose when they do it and they chose to do it now coincidently, months before election day. Former President Trump thinks that it biden is doing it to get a boost headed into november. Mr. Trump from the northeast reserve, lowering the prices right before the election, prices are no higher than they have been in a long time, they are very high. And he is trying to stop that because its not good for elections. It did when he reserves only does so much, the Strategic Petroleum reserve has been drained down to 20 year lows by joe biden to drop prices in the past but they pumped back up so its not a permanent solution to it is becoming of a Pluto Problem for the president. You as oil and Gas Association tim stewart says it is a mistake to get word of this reserve Hurricane Sandy and the colonial pipelines they were attack were difficult learning experiences that demonstrated the need for a modest reserve for the nose the east to make it may potentially lower prices a few cents per gallon for a day or two. Of that is the case, with gas of over 50 percent, lowering get a buy a few cents is really not going to put a dent in how people feel about that. Neil it really hasnt done much for the prices, in the meantime, fill flaunt header, thank you. Following the markets really close oeuvres, fill, no real followed from tapping to this reserve, maybe takes awhile but what you think . You know, i think the bottom line is the amount of gasoline they will release will burn before you have breakfast tomorrow morning, okay q. Mike its a very small amount, and for The Big Picture to come out with his big conference, look away or doing to lower gasoline prices, it will have a shortterm impact. Neil as you know i have been watching the fox weather channel, yeah, very concerned about this upcoming hurricane season, some of the major predictors of hurricanes break to get 20 or more storms. We started playing with our strategic reserves, i was her teacher gasoline reserve, we have a problem, we will not be prepared and that will lead to potentially major gas price spikes when we cant afford it. Neil what happens then, obviously a Global Environment that is a fee to put it a number on, the ongoing war in the middle east, always doing harassed, design and navigator the area. And others. What are we in for . You know, i think we are in for the results of that bad energy policy. When you put bandaids on bigger issues when it comes to a shortage of production to meet future demand, one of the government gets involved with the market, we dont see a normal demand response. You know, because of the lower gasoline prices, maybe demand is all that strong, we wont produce as much, and then to the reserves run out, what he go to then . And he all right, theres nowhere to go. Only the Pain Consumers will stop that and that means you get a price spike, they have slowed down that is fighting, we get into a recession, whatever we want to call it, you will feel it. Neil dont give away your eggs, i remember that. We both remember let me ask you a little bit about when you cap a reserve of any sort, it is meant to be for dire emergency, this is uncomfortable for many people but not at dire emergency. No, it isnt. You remember when we were in school, we had a fire, in case of an emergency . Big trouble when used to pull that i think i couldnt you . At the end of the day, the reason is because when you reacts, you release, you start messing with the market, releasing oil from the reserve, the market cant fix a problem. Because in most cases when you have markets moving to the supply and demand a guide to the markets have a tendency of coolingoff demand when we need to add or increase production when we need to. And when the government keeps being messed with that system, we have a their ramifications along return, costing us more than the short term we get an relief. Neil oleh switch to washington right now. Looking into covid19 cover up, at least i think allegations, lets listen. A movie disturbed by other people who may be thrown under the bus and some of the statements you have made on your personal statements, and that you take accountability and dont lay blame on people its very hard for us to get to the truth, maybe thats the way for me to say up. Of, maam, im here to answer all questions and tell you the truth, and a question when asked me i will do my best to answer it to the fullest of my knowledge. And where to close into the nih in the Archives Records and administration have taken to investigate these matters and i want to share my colleagues desire from expeditious completion of evaluation, an appropriate next steps to hold you accountable. But in the meantime, i want everybody to keep in mind that although republicans have tried to read into your emails for proof that federal officials somehow sparked the covid19 pandemic, there is simply no evidence of it. Theres critical distinction, as i have said in recent hearings, i will always support holding to federal grantees and Public Servants to the highest standards of professional integrity. But i worry that we are once again blurring the lines between professional misconduct and the separate question over the origins of covid19. And i hope we do not conflate these issues and i think what you have done has significantly contributed to that. Thank you and i yield back. I recognize the chairman of the committee from kentucky for five minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. Hearing from your boss about some of your emails and avoiding the Freedom Of Information Act, im sure as you have already testified that you are aware that deleting Federal Records is a crime. And as he have said, you previously testified he did not delete any Federal Records. But on February 24th 2020 when you wrote i learned from our oneman lady how to make emails disappear before the search starts so i think we are all safe. At plus some of those early a month after sending them to gmail. The next day february 252021 i learned the checks last year from an old friend, large more who heads our full oneman office and also hates oneman. Yes or no, is margin more the oneman lady you were referring atikameg soon as she was at the time, i believe she has retired since then. Did the nih oneman office and struck you on how to delete emails or avoid oneman humic. No. On October 25th 2021 another scientist wrote, david is concerned about the privacy of text and other messages from his cell phone, to you and me because he has been using a government phone. This came from tony. So did you ever have any conversations with doctor fauci regarding to using a personal phone email to communicate with a Doctor Daszak max rude i dont remember, its possible. He and i usually never talked about that kind of stuff, it would be unusual if it happened. January 18th he testified that you did not have any conversations with doctor fauci regarding raul ruiz ecohealth. Exhibit fifth 2021 you wrote peter from tonys recent comments to me, they are trying to protect you. You meaning to ecohealth and Doctor Daszak. Did you ever have any conversations with doctor fauci regarding ecohealth . While the ones just mentioned to have no recollection no recollection . No. Let me say what i do remember is one time in a face to face meeting you referred or alluded to some stuff that was in the press, argument think you said what it was but it was about i assumed it was about peters grants and press reports about it. The ending of the grant. And is said to him sort of out of the blue, guessing what he was really thinking, i said to him, tony finau you would have never been involved in getting rid of that grant and he didnt respond, he sort of looked at me soon as a dr fauci was always a big defender of ecohealth and and their right to receive federal funding humic. I cannot speak for him, i think he had Great Respect for them and when the grand problems came about, i think he was troubled by it. I just, i just thought of something that i forgot to say. At some point, somebody, it may not have been tony but a few others, somebody said to me, peters his own worst enemy because he made some mistakes on that grant. I would say that is a factual statement. February 21st 2021 he was a dr fauci is too smart to let colleagues ending stuff that could cause trouble. When june 16th 2020yearold we are all sort enough to know to never have smoking guns and if we put them in emails and we found them we would delete them. Did you ever have conversations with doctor fauci regarding the deleting emails,. I dont remember any such thing sue and i dont remember. No sir. Tony and i dont have those kind of conversations. Did you ever delete to any official records gimmick. Not to my knowledge. We are as the issue of defining what is a federal record . I deleted a lot of emails, i do it every day but in my mind they are trivial things, not related to Government Business. In response to my questions, he said he agreed with every compliance action taken against a dr daszak and ecohealth. And over the past weeks post whoamak and Doctor Daszak had been suspended from receiving federal funding, finally, and proposed for debarment. Do you a you do you agree with nih actions against ecohealth to ask you what i dont know the details, i never seen the grant, i cant really speak to that. I can say of known peter or mike for almost 20 years and in my personal opinion he is an honorable, decent have you had conversations with Doctor Daszak a part of this recent suspension . It not a conversation, i knew about it. He sent me an email. As of the occurred over email . You and Doctor Daszak communicated via email about his Disbarment Humic as to should say gmail, he doesnt send, you sending nih stuff to my email for a long time and it told him not to do that. And thats how this gmail thank started, he sent me in 2020, he send me a message, on my government nih email and i forgot what it was, maybe i never knew what it was but eventually that email was oneman. Can i finish . Foia. And peter contacted me, he said some friend you are, ascend you an email of my personal stuff and it ends up into the new spirit. That really struck me, he was under death threats. I get it, its just one less yes or no question, have you had any conversations with Doctor Daszak about this suspension a yes or no gimmicks who want the suspension . At a suspension, the disbarment. Not conversations email is a conversation. You have had a conversation via email with Doctor Daszak. If you call a conversation yes. We did not talk about it, a just sent it to me. I yield back. s who would recognize miss ross from North Carolina for questions. Thank you mr. Chairman. Dr. Morens i take debate susie these allegations of misconduct and the unauthorized Disposition Of Nih email records calculated disregard for Transparency Obligations under foia end of the manner in which you conducted yourself including disparaging language towards others of Differing Persp perspectives. Not only calling into question your judgement but also your character and on a larger scale, they inflict serious damage on public trust for the entire scientific enterprise. When you work for the federal government youre not just working for yourself, youre working for the people in your working with your colleagues. Since the start of the pandemic hug you have seen a decline in to the publics confidence in his science and Public Health. One study conducted by the Peel Research centre found wutunee april 2020 and october 2023, the number of americans who reported that they had a great deal of trust and the scientists fell from fell by 16 percent from 39 percent, now 23 percent. And what perforations of misinformation about covid19 has certainly fueled this a decline, one of the American Public seas that one of the federal governments own the scientists was potentially trying to hide the workrelated conversations from the public by using a personal email, that will only lead to further distrust in our nations Scientific Community. And, of this decline in the confidence of the scientific enterprise has rippled and has Health Effects that we are seeing even now. For example, we have seen the effect of the distrust and assigns specifically within our vaccine records. A recent survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Centre found of the proportion of respondents who do not believe in vaccines that are approved in the United States doubled, from nearly doubled, 9 percent, now is 16 percent between april 2021 and the fall of 2023. And with new variants of the covid19 letters, fewer and fewer people are getting their booster shots. As we hold todays hearings, the United States that the preface this Wreck Precipice of losing our at measles elimination status due to repeated outbreaks of the disease that have popped up across the country, from florida to ohio, to missouri, to california. This is especially concerning as 250,000 kindergartners nationwide have not received their updated measles immunization, leaving them unprotected from the deadly disease. That is not your fault but what i am saying is, on people dont trust scientists, they dont trust the science. So you have answered this question in another way, what do you agree that your conduct as a scientist working for the federal government betrayed the highest ethical standards that are expected of you and are expected to maintain the