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
Bring it back into daily conversation. Digital producer and cohost is here, he is bringing in all of your feedback, raj, you look at these otherused procedures and it is hard to not know someone that has had one of these. Behind the stats there are human beings stories narrative, family and friends and speaking about our community, we have a ton of stories about this on facebook. Here is margaret, she writes i had degenerative District Of Columbia disease for years. I had a surgeon promise relief, but i came out of surgery unable to use my right leg. Once you are in the it you can see it for the scam that it is. Americans spend roughly 3 trillion a year on healthcare, and some experts estimate that about a third of that nearly 1 trilliondollars is on uns in procedures and treatments. From heart stints to himself recollect mys theres growing concerns that these devices are schedules far too frequently when other less expensive options could be used. Raising questions of financial motive
Was saying he was homeless, needed some diapers for his daughter. Reporter workers on landover road got parker the diapers and he left. Just before this story flashed across the tv screens that are always on next to the registers. It popped up on the news and i was like oh my god. Reporter parker had actually taken the baby and walked a few doors down before his picture came up on the tv news. One of the employees walked down here, started talking to him. Tried to stall him while the others called 911. Police arrived within minutes. They went running after him. With the baby on his hip. He was running with the baby on his hip . He fell on the baby. Reporter Metro Transit Police say the baby is okay and that parker is under arrest. The most important thing overall is that mother has her child. Yes. And nobody wants anybody to lose a child. Reporter thanks to some fast thinking workers, this little girl is back where she is supposed to be. In landover, bruce leshan, wusa9. Happy for the
Experienced in the week before. Were seeing about 50,000 new cases a day. Now, Health Officials and municipalities are bracing for the numbers to rise, after many skipped masks and social distancing to celebrate 4th of july. And the president is lying over the weekend saying 99 of cases are, quote, totally harmless. New yorks governor, andrew cuomo, says by denying the problem, the president is helping its spread. Its going to continue until we admit it and each of us stands up to do our part. If he does not acknowledge that, then he is facilitating the virus. He is enabling the virus. How did this become a political statement . This is commonsense. Cnns jason feral has been following where the virus is surging. And floridas breaking records on the number of cases that its seeing in a single day. Right. Reporter and as a result of that, miamidades mayor has had to roll back on reopening efforts there, closing restaurants for indoor dining, closing gyms again as well. And this is what a