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The committee will come to order. I thank all of our witnesses for returning this morning. We appreciate the recognition of our interest and oversight responsibilities. This is a crisis that is evolving quickly. Since our hearing yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Cdc has now reported that we have almost 1,000 confirmed cases. That is up from 100 reported cases a week ago. A 900 increase. Americans are worried. They are scared. It is essential that we are able to hear directly from the Health Officials leading this effort with just the...

To be picking up on much rainfall potential today watch out for a couple of scattered showers possible this afternoon for areas like san jose palo alto and Mountain View nothing really much further north and entered temperatures by the afternoon were talking 60s for your daytime highs pretty similar to yesterday a little bit warmer and a little bit clear though. Robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the morning commute which is off to a fantastic start very quiet into San Francisco, heres a live. Look you see that back up over there the cash lanes on the left its been like that. Thr...

People who have already tested positive. They do not want the virus to spread any further so well talk more about how theyre going to handle them once they get and oakland, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher will get all that half a moment first want to check with weather and traffic find out of 30 problems out we did you will begin in the Traffic Center robin thank you we do have a hot spot that were waiting to a clear get out of the way it happened at 5 30 this morning. And that really stacking up traffic on westbound 80 its 80 west after solano avenue. Its a multi vehicle accident that t...

Youre in the low 50s currently later today, its 60s whether youre at the coast or further inland were all the same boat on that one talking more about any chances of rain we do have in your forecast. Still ahead rob just a minor wait at the bay bridge toll plaza most of the folks heading into San Francisco got in early. So were getting some early clearing here at the pay gates, a minor way for some of the cash buyers and fast trackers but this is great. Compared to what we saw earlier when traffic was jammed from the bottom of so thats no longer the case, heres a look at one of your approach i...

Being here, and let me thank our very esteemed panel of people who have spent their entire lives fighting for Quality Health care and disease prevention in this country. Let me just very briefly introduce some of our panelists before we begin. Dr. Abdul al sayed is a physician,epidemiologist for the city of detroit. He was formerly a professor at columbia Universitys Department of epidemiology and director of the club University Science program. Dr. Allison gulvaney is director of the yale center for Infectious Disease modeling and analysis and professor of epidemiology. She is the youngest re...