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This meeting will reflect that due to covid19, Health Emergency and to protect Commission Members to the employees and the public, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. However, Commission Members and staff will be participating in todays meeting remotely. This pursuant to the various local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Commissioner members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent if they were physically present. Viewing today and todays Commission Meeting may vary depending on the method used to connect to this remote meeting. Viewers watching, will see only the speaker on their screen while those viewing in we ....
[ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] [ midtempo music plays ] im jamie colby, and today im heading to the annual blueberry festival in plymouth, indiana. Its not exactly the kind of place youd expect to see a massive california redwood, but this tree rocks because it rolls. My name is jamie allen, and, in 1985, when i was 23, my father passed away, and he left me something that his father left him, and its kept me on the road all my life. Jamie . Jamie . [ chuckles ] how are you . Its really great to meet you. And how funny we have the same name. Lets get started, then. All right, here we go. This is one serious tree trunk. [ midtempo folk music plays ] and the root of the story, according to jamie, is in the late 1930s. When her grandfather, james allen, is a lumberjack in northern california. James, a widower with a son in the army, sees redwood trees so massive that several men can easily fit inside the hollowed trunks. One day, during a sudden rain squal ....
Gavel in for a short pro forma session no votes planned. This is live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable jamie raskin to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Compassionate and merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Lord, bless the world. Give health to our bodies and comfort to our hearts of hearts. You ask us to not be afraid. When our faith is weak and we are fearful, this is difficult for us, but you, o lord, will not leave us at the mercy of the storm. Bless those who continue to serve, even though threatened in doing so. Health care professionals, food service workers, and those whose work demands they ....
Good morning, everyone. That poster of the everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. They werent given because they fought very hard for it but that success was achieved. Pass thenother year to process of ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. We are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Carolyn maloney who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of these issues whether it is a womens museum, equal rights amendment, you name it. Wanted to salute her as w ....
Gov. Cuomo good morning. Pleasure to be with you. Everyone knows the doctors, the. Udget director today is day 62. It feels like just yesterday. Before we look at the numbers, i just want people to recall the context for the numbers and remember what we have accomplished. We were faced with a situation where the infection rate numbers were going straight up. That was only 30 days ago that we saw the number of cases, people coming into hospital, infection rate, everything was going straight up. That number would have just continued to go straight up, and that is why all the projections, national projections, state projections, local projections turned out to be incorrect. Excuse me. Because they were all believing that that line was going to continue to keep going up. Is new yorkers, americans, change reality. Literally change reality. They literally changed the path of the virus spread and reversed the spread, and that is what the closedown procedures did. That is what the masks that d ....