the only providers may be primary care providers, nurses, pharmacists. these providers are essential to rural families and there are times when specialty care is needed, and when there isn't a specialist close by, telehealth can help get patients to the medical care they need from a remote location, through the use of technology. telehealth services are also critical in nursing home facilities. in my state, we have strong programs designed to bring on-demand support into facilities to help avoid unnecessary emergency department transfers. by reducing unnecessary senior hospitalizations -- i should say my my reducing unnecessary senior hospitalizations act or the rush act would help facilitate more arrangements like we have in south dakota, allowing medical groups to collaborate with nursing homes to provide telehealth services through a medicare alternative payment model. i'm also pleased to support the bipartisan connect for health act, which aims to expand telehealth services through medicare and is supported by more than half of the united states sena

that can also be helpful in providing the support needed to find mental health providers. the provision of mental health is a critical one to the united states. that's that specific to the refugee community with afghan community. so much is reliant on what the availability of mental health services are locally but we are working really closely with some providers like the u.s. committee for refugees and immigrants and others to deploy mental health resources to critical areas that need essentially an influx of that expertise to provide care to afghans in particular given that, they've endured and it is something were continue to work through, how we can make sure we're not just reliant on some of the places where there's not mental health provisions. >> thank you. >> were out of time. real quick state your question her, and if there's response, will get a quick one and then we will wrap it up. last one will be right here. >> thank you, mayor garcetti. i represent the city of west sacramento. appreciate your presence and the information you provided. i should concerns of th

or provider to provider, there are data caps out there as well. and there needs to be a real conversation about data caps. i think it's an old technology, an old revenue stream. but, nonetheless, especially when it comes to telehealth, people should not be timed out when they're accessing care especially what we've learned from veterans. the va took this on. there were some benefits we saw because of it. rather than asking those questions in this hearing, i want to have a follow-up conversation and see if we can get support with the investment across america. one last check from our colleagues? we're trying? very good, senator young, you are recognized, sir. >> all right. thank you, chairman. i really appreciate it. it's good to be with our panelists and i'd like to ask a question of commissioner carr. it's good to see you again. >> good to see you. so my question, i'll lead into it about indiana and our maternal mortality rate. our state has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the country. although it has improved in recent years. the ho

that can be helpful in providing the support needed to find mental health providers. the provision of mental health is a critical went united states that is not specific to the refugee community or afghan community. so much is reliant on the availability of mental health services locally, but we are working closely with some providers like the u.s. committee for refugees and immigrants and others to deploy mental health resources to critical areas that need essentially an influx of that expertise to provide care to afghans in particular given the trauma that they have endured. it is something that we are continuing to work through, and how we can to make sure that we are not just reliant on some of those places where they are not mental health provisions. >> thank you. >> will -- real quick, if there is a response or question and we will wrap it up. >> represented the city of west sacramento, i appreciate your presence here in the information that you provided. i share the concerns of the mayor from fremont who explains the cost of making sure folks get the resources

whether a patient to their provider or provider to provider telemetry services, there's data caps out there as well. and there needs to be a real conversation about -- it'sen old revenue stream but nonetheless when it comes to telehealth people should not be timed out when they are accessing care. especially what we've learned from veterans. the va took this on. and there was some benefits that we saw because of it. so rather than asking those questions in this hearing, i want to have a follow up conversation about this. and see if there is a way that we can get some bipartisan support in looking at this as we're modernizing, especially with the investment across america. one last check for any of ore ther other colleagues? senator young, you are recognized, sir. >> all right. thank you chairman. really appreciate it. and it is good to be with our panelists i'd like to ask a question of commissioner carr. incidentally it is good to see you again, commissioner. so my question, i'll lead into it by laying the groundwork about indiana and our maternal mortality rates. unfortunately our s

but -- so you will note that what the service provider provided to r.d.a. is really what we've been talking about for the last six, eight, 12 months. we did have our review with the case chair and myself on october 8. and r.d.a. consulted with the dignity fund. that would make zoom meetings more accessible. case and the dignity fund are sending notices and links to surveys as they become available. we are all -- all the service providers at this point are assisting the participants in completing those surveys and sending out as much information as we can about, not only the surveys, but the community forums and the focus groups. then lastly, both case and the dignity fund coalition will provide updates and continue to promote the needs assessment process in the up coming meetings. the dignity fund meeting is scheduled for today from 2:30 to 4:00. and the case meeting is december 13th. this is 5:00. and that concludes my brief report. >> president knutzen: thank you, mr. gallagher. are there any questions from other commissioners about the report? hearing no

this represents vast stretches of this country where health care is not provided by massive providers but by smaller facilities run by local communities. while a 1% also staff may be insignificant to the former, it is fatal to the latter. rural america will face a crisis. the application should be denied and i will open up to the cortopassi has questions. >> would you discuss the preemption issue briefly? >> yes. this regulation, the secretary says that it is intended to preempt an inconsistent state laws with respect to vaccination requirements. the most about example i can point to is 20-7-134 of the arkansas code that prohibits as condition of employment any vaccination requirement. >> that is ironic since the government relies on those other vaccinations to argue for this vaccination. are all of the party states in the same position with respect to preemption? >> the district court in this case at the very least cited that arkansas, wyoming, and missouri are similar situated and there are other states that also have laws that are preempted by this regulation. the key point here is

assist health care providers to provide access. continue to work with us in our work with community and neighborhoods to ensure people have access to covid prevention strategies as well as other health care and balance public health in societal needs. thank you for your attention and i'm happy to take questions and our key dph leadership is here to answer any other questions you may have. >> president walton: thank you so much, dr. colfax. we do have some folks with some questions. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton, and thank you, dr. colfax and team for this update. you know, obviously the surge, you know, hit us very hard and there was a lot of uncertainty and a lot of, you know, concerns about access to testing and particularly as folks were going back to school and so i hope that as we go in the coming months, i know, we don't know exactly what the future holds, but that hopefully we have learned some things in terms of how to respond when we do get hit with such an increase in cases. it did see

provide healthcare for another 110,000 residents under our medicaid program. a 34% increase since the start of the pandemic. and make sure that everyone had good healthcare coverage. at the same time, we distributed critical medical supplies including p.p.e.'s, test kits, vaccines and medicines to protect the elderly rural communities as well as entire states. i deeply appreciate the thousands involved in this task whose scale and complexity rivals anything we've ever done statewide. vaccinations have proven to be our strongest weapon against coronavirus. in all, we provided more than 2.5 million shots at hundreds of clinics across the state. needless to say this effort remains ongoing. but the virus has been relentless in exposing our healthcare infrastructure including shortages of doctors and nurses. we're asking the legislature to fund the expansion of the university of hawaii doctor-residency program in this away, we can increase the number of doctors during their residency on the neighbor island from only five to 50. more importantly, the numbers tell us

providers and teams but for community care providers as well. the first step of that is to take a look at ways that we can create a preferred provider system and network, where community care providers, who are working with veterans, are incentivized to engage in the same training that v.h.a. clinicians are engaged in and in turn, becoming then a preferred provider within the network for veterans, based upon their increased awareness and acumen with lethal means safety. >> and is this the only criteria to obtain the preferred provider status? >> this is the only criteria i am aware of because i am in on the discussions regard to lethal means safety. i don't know if there are discussions outside of lethal means safety training and applied to preferred provider. >> and as we close, do you know if this goal on the requirements will be complete by september 30th, which would be the end of the fiscal year, beginning of fiscal 2022. >> complete by the conclusion of fy twoorks which would be september. >> the goals would be complete. if you could have

i think it will help provider in the city. it is an important step but i agree that there is definitely more that could be done for low-income people who may not afford alone. maybe there is more room for grants for those in existing, existing homeowners to expand and provide more income. this is a fabulous event listening to your conversations about this. i learned so much throughout this thing. thank you very much, supervisor melgar and mar. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: good afternoon, supervisors. i am liz. i work for low income investment and cpac chair. i support the housing innovation program to offer support to purchase their own homes which is much needed in the city. this will help family child care providers who face high risk much of displacement as renters. when they lose their home they lose the child care business and the neighborhoods they are serving and lose the child care spot that are much needed. we hope up support this program and we look forward to ways to support the early child should

. >> comcast supports c-span along with these services and other television providers. giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> david ega has served as hawaii governor since 2014. he recently gave his annual state of the state address from the state capital in honolulu. this is 40 minutes. >> good morning and aloha. before i begin by formal remarks, i wanted to make a few comments. in normal sometimes we would gather together in the house chambers for the state of the state address. we would have family, friends, former governors and community leaders and have opportunity to access and think the many people who have helped us along the way. because of the pandemic i, they cannot be here in person. but i wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for their partnership during this crisis. all of them have answered the call to serve people of hawaii. speaker scott syke, chair sylvia lu and all the members of the00 senate president ron cole chief. senator della cruz and all of the members of the senate. first lady dawn -- lieutenant governor josh green. dr. libb

we are beginning to see a number of products and resources provided $21.8 million provided on 58 projects to try to expand their reach into the community and will. continue to look at 2501 funding and ways in which we encourage both hbcus and other cooperators to provide technical assistance in connection between underserved communities and producers and usda. we've recentlyov t announced $75 million of resource under american rescue planon to create that bridge, thought connection between producers and usda and look for expansion of that cooperative effort. our inner cs announced 50 million initiative, over 118 cooperators contracted to provide information and assistance in terms of conservation programs. rmaia extending $7 million to expand outreach so people understand a wide range of crop insurance tools available so there's concerted effort here to make sure we do a better job connecting hbcus are at the center. >> thank you. i helped author the community farm bill, it's important we work to ensure that but broadly speaking, how can an sia institutions, as it relates to this? >> we'v

provides. and that's the reason here, to make sure that folks have the full range of capacities available with the internet. >> so what does the department plan to do to police the net neutrality? because this is usda, not fcc, if the provider is not living up to the obligations to commit to net neutrality, how does that benefit the providers of services in rural application? >> the point is to ensure in the application that there is a process and mechanism by which we can assure performance. and obviously there are resources being provided over a period of time. and in it turns out that the services are not what people were promised, then their recourse is to basically suggest a repayment of those resources. so at the end of the day, it's financially beneficial for folks to try to see if they can live up to the responsibilities in their application. if they don't want to use that, if they don't want to make that commitment, they don't have to. >> mr. secretary, i'm so sorry, i have to reclaim

if it can provide and then be there provide the opportunity to learn. in the pandemic made us realize we could use virtual classrooms to ensure that every student has every opportunity to learn no matter where they live. empowering schools and teachers to innovate to create projects and me dedicated $5 million to launch hawaii online portal for education which is developing curriculum for distance learning and additional learning for teachers includes everything from stem education one of these projects and with that initiative on hawaii island. and then to work to gather with a career and business opportunities and then to create enhanced learning activity to engage and inspire students beyond graduation. this community led initiative is a model for building communities across the state. and it's time to retool the underutilized community resources. for generations our public library has been quietly supporting our students and community. we wante to reimagine how we use those facilities. we want to be the role model for other libraries across the stat

that's 30 providers across the country. unacceptable. the secretary's response stated without a national mandate or incentive for non-va community providers to take this course, va will likely continue to face notable challenges advancing the mission of increasing the competency of the community, and community-based health care providers to better identify, assess, intervene and treat veterans at risk of suicide, end quote. now, during the committee's hearing with secretary mcdonough in march, i asked about opportunities for the secretary to use his own existing authorities to further expand mandatory lethal means safety trainings, and i was encouraged by his commitment to looking into this critical issue. so, dr. miller, my question is, can you provide an update on any steps the va has taken in the last six months or other actions that might be planned to expand lethal means safety trains for va staff, community care providers and caregivers? >> thank you. this is an important issue. we share the perspective that this is critically impo

we need to provide that 350 kilowatts. as the guest pointed out, be cars have not been able to charge at that speed until recently. the average charging speed of new ev models has gone up three times in the last five model years. it is now up to 150 kilowatts average, which is for those who are not electrical engineers, that's nine miles of range per minute. that is the average. the vehicles coming to market that can use the full 350 kilowatts, they can provide 20 miles of range permanent -- per minute. i think the guess we'll find if he buys a new electric vehicle, it is faster, reliability -- reliability has gotten better. he will be able to charge in 15 or 220 units. -- 20 minutes. the last point about whether the 300 and 50 kilowatt -- 350 kilowatts station we build along highway corridors. we built more than 300 stations today. we are the first to the boy this technology. when we deployed for the first time, it had never been done before. it is at more than 350 stations in the u.s.. this is the future in our view. ped

assist health care providers to provide access.th us in our work with community and neighborhoods to ensure people have access to covid prevention strategies as well as other health care and balance public health in societal needs. thank you for your attention and i'm happy to take questions and our key dph leadership is here to answer any other questions you may have. >> president walton: thank you so much, dr. colfax. we do have some folks with some questions. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton, and thank you, dr. colfax and team for this update. you know, obviously the surge, you know, hit us very hard and there was a lot of uncertainty and a lot of, you know, concerns about access to testing and particularly as folks were going back to school and so i hope that as we go in the coming months, i know, we don't know exactly what the future holds, but that hopefully we have learned some things in terms of how to respond when we do get hit with such an increase in cases. it did seem like for an amount

matt: electrify america is the largest provider of public d.c. fast charging, the fastest kind of electric vehicle charging in the united states. we did not exist five years ago so we have grown quickly, symbolic of this, or symbolic of this whole industry growing as quickly as it is. we now have about 800 stations in more than 35 -- and more than 3500 charges that provide what we refer to as ultrafast charging. chargers have 350 kilowatts of power. that equates to about 20 miles of range for every minute of charging. so, it's not quite as fast as consumers are expecting at a gas station, but it's pretty darn close. you've got the ability to pull into a station, plug-in, get a cup of coffee, maybe use the restroom, come back out and your car is refueled. we think that this move towards the faster, what we call ultrafast charging, is critically important for ev adoption more generally. pedro: how many ev charging stations in the united states? and is that enough to meet demand as far as current and future people buying electric vehicles? matt: it

network providers and unique in network refers to our ppo and premier contracted providers. and then we're looking at specifically that top line alameda county. and there were 924 utilized dentists that are contracted with delta dental that were utilized by sfhss members. when we look at next column as of september 30, 908 of those dentists remained within our network. that change is a negative 16. they are 16 dentists that sfhss members were utilizing and are no longer on our network. and those can be reasons for the great resignation where they have decided to either sell the practice, retire or leave entirely and become a concierge type dentist. and the percentage of the next one over is that percentage of change so what that 16 den cysts who have left the network, what that change is specifically to sfhss and the good or positive information is in total our network has grown in alameda county by 88 newly acquired in network ppo and premier dentist. and here january through september we have added 88 den cysts in alameda county to demonstrate counties that we have reporte

and we provide safety tips. we provide general assistance. since november, we have noticed -- we have received a noticeable increase in requests for safety escorts. mostly for school kids, seniors, and workers, both in the areas where there are large offices and businesses as well as small businesses. and especially in the mission, the bayview, chinatown, tenderloin and mid market areas. so this chart, relative to merchant businesses, there are check-ins. and this shows the documented interaction we've had with merchants in our current area since july of 2020. as you can see, that since businesses have started to reopen, we've increased the number of visits to them. and since july 2020, we have made 11,183 visit to small businesses. next slide. this shows the direct cause we have received from merchants. total since july 2020 is 417 with an uptick this year from may to september as businesses reopened. so the ambassador teams often provide merchants with their mobile numbers, because they receive complaints that they haven't been able to cont

in the country, and they all depend on information noaa provides. but as more private sector companies, noaa must seek to balance its capacity with commercial data, simply put, noaa is no longer the only provider in the market and often times noaa's collection costs more than that acquired and the same quantity from a private sector. we can't assume endless increasing budgets, and at some point the balloon will pop. believe me i want noaa to be successful, and we can stand up programs to acquire data that private industries cannot collect while preparing for a commercially competitive future. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you, ranking member lucas. at this time i would like to give the opportunity for representative suzanne bonamici. >> thank you. it's really a pleasure to introduce dr. richard spinrad, the current administrator of national oceanic and atmospheric administration. he's an internationally renowned scientist, and in 2014 president obama nominated richard spinrad, and he is the head of the national oceanic and atmospheri

but do we have enough resources to provide for the pandemic loans?as we demonstrated that's not a good argument. but the current level of oversight includes just over 180 positions. the problem is a non- supplemental budget authority only provides for 125 and at the supplemental funds by fiscal year 2024 that can be a key moment but i believe that annual resource level i worked with omb and they worked with me and to please support to match the landscape. and then for that deep consideration when the request is made ppp was designed to expeditiously find with the fraud and eligibility controls and rather during the loan forgiveness period. i know oig has identified 70000 loans four.$6 billion a potentially fraudulent ppp loans and this might be the tip of the iceberg. a large majority of the ppp loans partially or fully forgiveness does oig have a better sense of total fraud? i don't remember if you gave a specific sense and if not you have a more distinct picture? the work on loan forgiveness those that are ongoing currently with some indication of

who wish to provide comment onnon-agenda items should call 415-655-0001 .enter access code 2490 734 357 . press the #followed by pound again and once you are on the call this á3 to submit your request to speak . it does not appear there are any members of thepublic who wish to comment on this item . >> .no request to speak i will submit publiccomment. please call the next item . >> next item of business is item 7, reports of the chair. >> chair: i just want to just publicly thank commissioner bycer. this is his last meeting with us. he is moving out of san francisco which is a requirement of this particular role here as commissioner and wanted to tell you , thank you so much. it has been such a joy and pleasure working with you . your heart and your passion and your smarts have really contributed to this commission. and i know i speak on behalf of the entire commission staff to see youleave . but we understand this is a wonderful opportunity for your growing family. and we could only supportthat . and wishyou all the best . i just want to touch my fellow co

i provides very low cost long-term debt to the balance sheet. you can match a one term assets particularly in affordable housing, daycare and other facilities that use long-term financing. it's a very, very powerful program put together in a slightly different way brick works thank you very much. would you like to comment on this as well and is see this as being advantageous to a native cdf i? >> the industry is great that we support one another. i trust frank and john and the work they do. as a person on the grounds during the work, it is nice to have big brothers out there watching out for this. we have been getting updates on them and we have support legislation advance bite ranking member rounds. we are looking forward to learning more from the cdi f. longer term debts to match wits and our committee sounds like a win to me.li >> thank you so much. let me stay with you mr. vogel, senator rounds mentioned make permanent programs in tribal communities it's based on a pilot usda has been conducting south dakota they partner with native cdf eyes

it provides for quality drinking water. it keeps electric generation cost manageable. and it ensures nebraska continues to be the best place in the world to live, work and raise a family. [applause] if we fail to secure our water supply from the south platte river, we can expect that over 90% of the water that comes to us from colorado will be reduced. we must act, preserve, protect, manage our water supply for future nebraskans. i am also requesting $200 million to be allocated to the projects presented by the star wars special committee. i am not going to explain star wars, let the speaker do that. these projects will also secure access to water. and they provide the additional promise to grow the good life in tourism and recreation. [applause] in addition, i am recommending $5 million for the true levy, $60 million to restore and protect drinking water supply systems in our rural areas such as cedar and knox county. in $23 million in repairs for fort laramie canal tunnel. this year we have the rare task of spending $1,040,000,000 that's been allocated to nebraska to

and i just -- actually i just asked my provider about a mental health provider not particularly for mecsf and she said it is very difficult to get a mental health worker right now. it is a huge issue we have. whether it is reimburse -- they say the lack of providers but on the other hand, it was mentioned in the original report that -- >> can i interrupt you. you have gone way beyond in responding to the call-in person and brought up another issue that we're continuing to deal with and will be on the agenda. can you focus on the response for the caller and move on. >> that is my response to the caller. >> provider reimbursement seems beyond the comments of the caller. do you have other comments in response to the caller? >> no, i think we deserve to give our first responders the best care we can. >> thank you very much. if there are no other comments, i close item 5. we'll move on to item 6. >> thank you president follansbee. i will display our agenda. agenda item 6 is the president's report. >> i have no report. i'm going to close agenda item 6. >> okay. thank you. item 7 is the direc

we provide rental housing and grantees that provide rental counseling citywide. there's self-help for the elderly, bayview-hunters point multipurpose senior services. our self-help for the elderly focuses on housing eviction and housing strategy. under our home ownership and b.m.r. bucket, there's emergency home repair programs. these are emergency loans for unforeseen and costly repairs. there's hope -- home rehab loan programs, as well, to meet housing standards and remediate lead based paint hazards and to provide accessibility and modifications. these loans are for low-income homeowners who are unable to secure conventional financing. we want to highlight the dream keeper senior rehab program. it offers up to $50,000 in forgivable loan to make repairs to roofs, hvac, and accessibility loan improvements. the loan will be forgiven as long as the homeowner attends a state workshop, and mohcd is currently working with a partner agency to connect people with licensed contractors. under our new development portfolio, mohcd is available to produce these units due to

provides.rk, 5.8 million people, the population. unrw, 5.8 million refugees in the region. we are talking about a cause ice state that is -- quasi-state that is handicapped. rob: we have less than a minute to go. briefly, if you could, if unrwa 's funding is restricted, as it appears to be, do you think people who are in the refugee camps that unrwa currently runs get to a point where they are forced, feel forced to leave those camps and move further through the countries they are in or further into other countries? are we likely to see the mass movement of people that we've seen in previous years, admittedly driven by war, if unrwa starts to, if for want of a better word, employee echo >> it has already happened. >>the movement you referred to of movement towards europe has included palestinian refugees. it is estimated more than 60,000 palestinian refugees fleeing the syrian war tried to reach europe, usually by dangerous routes. it is something we've already seen happening, and it highlights

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by on their wow to provide. in fact, the save a life saving services for the teachers, contact them at the end of the day. if you have some sort of a, if a blue got a book by, by cutting this iep as far as you was should, is concealed. i don't think that gov it or any other economic bushes that don't notice might be as something like now flung it should be, was as an executors are for these are governments actually to stop eating at one of why? because there is a responsibility by the international community for this catastrophe, which that is the most responsive at the somehow is responsible and to a certain degree, the explosion of the policy is from deal to from being the thumb that land in 194-819-6067 i and i believe these are factors are not genuine in my opinion, because as i said earlier, the political factors are the mean drivers for the donors actually to put brush over on the and the water in order to get certain demands. did for example, that some gold companies on, on refilling here, meet they like

>> the survey still provides a lot of benefits to the agency. first of all it makes it permissible for the agency to set the rate at the acquisition cost is determined by the survey. now the agency has to show a lot more than that. i don't think there's any dispute about the agency showing in this case and i took my friend to accept there is no debate about the data but that's it he goes and craddick about the case because remember hhs runs the program so it has the data but there's all kinds of other data about hospitals hhs could use under the subclause if it took the survey as a basis. a. >> how often have you conducted a subclause survey? >> the agency has only conducted one since the statute was enacted while the case was pending. i would note in the same instructions congress gave to the agency to conduct periodic surveys it instructed them to take into account sub 14 to it told the agency to take into account the recommendations that conducted the original study back in 2004 and the recommendations were don't do very many studies because

it provides much of the natural gas. ukraine gets fees from that. more importantly, in a way it's an insurance policy. because this is something russia cares about. and then finally, of course, it provides natural gas to the people of ukraine. so this is a bad idea. it's become an even worse idea. and we believe that sanctions are appropriate. we also believe that germany needs to step forward, understanding that ukraine is a sovereign, independent country whose territorial integrity is being threatened. they are part of greater europe. and i agree with my colleagues that it doesn't end here if we do not take strong action to deter russia from making a terrible mistake. >> first of all, i disagree with your premise it can't be stopped. it can be stopped. and will be stopped if the administration takes the action that it should take and should have taken some time ago. let's not get the nord stream 2 thing lost in the overall objective here and that is to see that the invasion does not take place. there's a couple other things we urged the administra

assist health care providers to provide access.th us in our work with community and neighborhoods to ensure people have access to covid prevention strategies as well as other health care and balance public health in societal needs. thank you for your attention and i'm happy to take questions and our key dph leadership is here to answer any other questions you may have. >> president walton: thank you so much, dr. colfax. we do have some folks with some questions. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton, and thank you, dr. colfax and team for this update. you know, obviously the surge, you know, hit us very hard and there was a lot of uncertainty and a lot of, you know, concerns about access to testing and particularly as folks were going back to school and so i hope that as we go in the coming months, i know, we don't know exactly what the future holds, but that hopefully we have learned some things in terms of how to respond when we do get hit with such an increase in cases. it did seem like for an amount

noaa provides critical environmental service and stewardship. by looking at the earth as a system we are better able to understand how the weather, oceans, climate and atmosphere interact. based on that understanding, noaa provides essential services and products that serve us all. recently americans have experienced unprecedented string of natural disasters made worse by climate change. we've seen extreme heat and drought conditions out west that set the stage for this record breaking wildfire season and last month hurricane ida rapidly intensified in the gulf of mexico before making landfall. due to warmer water temperatures. in addition noaa atmospheric conditions led to extraordinary flooding along the gulf coast all the way up to new england. this one devastating storm killed dozens and left countless others with property destroyed. each year seems to have more billion dollar weather and climate disasters than the previous. noaa's scientific observations, protections and warnings have always been vital to americans across the country. they'

we're also provide providing billions more for roads and so much more. we saw today when the bridge in disrepair, it literally can threaten lives. >> the infrastructure bill that passed last year will funnel $110 billion to states so crews can repair and replace crumbling bridges. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi in town to promote millions of dollars in funding coming to sfo. sfo set to get $49 million through the infrastructure bill that passed back in november. and the funding would pay for a new checkout lobby at the harvey milk terminal and upgrade the airport power system. pelosi also said democrats are open to working with republicans to tackle the issue of infrastructure. >> you really need to have them take pride in what's happening. there are -- they are eager to vote no and take the doe. but when she show up at ground breakings and ribbon cuttings we have to make them know we have more to do. we need their help going forward. >> pelosi also pushed for the president's build back better bill which promising more funding for infrastructure also for