covid-19 associated deaths accounted for 1.7% of all deaths in this age group. also note that11 there is an increase. the context the table shows the top ten causes of death for children 5-11 years of age for the year 2019 the most recent years of complete [inaudible] statistics available. in the one year period of october 3rd, 2022 october 21 there were [inaudible] i am now going to move on to discuss for rsv. this is a severe hyper inflammatory system occurring after the infection developing awide range of manifestations ad complications. reported nationally as of october 4, 2021. ages 5-11 is the age group most frequently affected. the median age of cases was nine years with 39% of cases occurring 6-11-years-old. 61% are hispanic or black non-hispanic. and adjusted estimates that 600 casessp per million. during this age and region. to talk about post-covid conditions we encompass a wide range of ongoing health problems including physical and mental health consequences experienced patients. the conditions are lacking however it does appear it's less common tha

she spoke at the national association for business economics meeting. [applause] >> good afternoon. it's my great pleasure to welcome to the stage federal reserve board governor lael brainard. and dr. brainard took office as a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system on june 16 of 2014 at prior to her appointment to the board come she served as undersecretary of the u.s. department of the treasury for international affairs pitch is also anls associate professor of applied economics at the mit sloan school and i fed the privilege of knowing her sense of those days. and she received both an ms and phd in economics from harvard university as a national science foundation scholar. please welcome governor brainard. [applause] >> well, first of all thank you for the kind introduction, elaine. it is a great honor to join the exalted community of nabe fellows, and i want to thank the board of directors, dave, connie, and men well in particular, , and it's always nice to see you. to svon. -- see lavon. it's no surprise the recovery is not proceeding in a straight line.

travel association, california hotel and lodging association, pennsylvania restaurant lodging association, the florida restaurant lodging association, the south carolina restaurant and lodging association, the coalition of franchisee associations, and the georgia statewide human trafficking task force. you are recognized for your opening remarks. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i look forward to sharing with you the hotel industry perspective on how to revive travel and tourism and bring back our work force in response to covid-19. i serve as senior vice president at the american hotel and lodging association and for more than a hundred years ahla has proudly represented all segments of the u.s. lodging industry including our associates, brands, and hotel owners. for our members what matters most is serving their guests, creating good jobs, and uplifting their communities. senators, this is the most severe crisis in the history of the hotel industry. without relief we are facing catastrophic, economic impacts for the entire american economy and for the communities you r

the national school board association has removed their memo that it was based on. it looked like to some extent a rug had been pulled out under. >> harris: he really had no answer. and then when texas senator cornyn went after him and pressed garland on the effect the memo would have on parents, it got quite a response from the democratic chairman. let's watch it. >> can you imagine the sort of intimidation, the sort of bullying impact that a memorandum from the department of justice would have and how that would chill the willingness of parents to exercise their rights under threat of federal prosecution? >> the only thing this memorandum is about is violence and threats of violence. >> and you consider the chilling effect your memorandum might have on parents exercising their constitutional rights? i think you can answer that yes or no. >> i don't believe it's reasonable to read this memorandum as chilling anyone's rights. it's about threats of violence. >> harris: it went on. at the very end of it, it was described as a back and forth and dick durbin, the chairm

south american associations. not well, let me finish. let me finish. there cannot be, the high value will grow, but an can't are clubs in europe was out. the high value play is in and many of them come from africa, right? so, so then form for europe to pick and choose what they like and what they don't like is undemocratic. they must come to the congress and conference, the congress. now, as soon as a proposal is not from europe, it must not even be placed on the table. though it is a 100 years old. what is the legacy of africa? we are now in the body of legation. we are battling to be talk about group and then the 10 group were play 5 to play to, to go to the world. got 5 out of 54 from africa. well, you go back for 32 years. every good did not at this point. another 48 years africa only had one represent in the world to be africa as high as 30 now is us the global squad did to one day, right? when i don't even look at what is the model as well? what is the model? what, what is it the same like last? just becaus

linked to violence. >> there is a right of association, but there is no right to incite violence. you're right. we have to be very careful to protect people's first amendment right to say what they will, to associate with whom they would, but we draw the line, and the first amendment doesn't preclude us from doing so, that you cannot conspire to commit crimes. you cannot incite an i'm nant attack on others. so there are limits, and also where we see evidence of a plot to, in the case of some of these white nationalist groups to kidnap the governor of michigan

travel association ms. barnes leads the government relations, policy department, communications, marketing and research team for the nation's leading advocacy organization for travel and tourism issues. ms. barnes, you are now recognize for your opening remarks. >> chair rosen, ranking member scott and the members of the subcommittee good afternoon. i'm tori emerson barnes executive i present a public affairs and policy for the u.s. travel association. we are the only association that represents all sectors of the travel industry. thank you for inviting us to participate in this important hearing. while i always prefer to meet face-to-face i am thrilled to be testifying virtually from your home town of las vegas, nevada, with this travel association is hosting its annual trade show ip w. in fact, i pw is a perfect example of why today's hearing is so important. and and i pw international trl buyers from around the globe meet with american travel businesses and destinations to purchase bookings for future tr

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travel association. miss barnes leads communication, marketing, for the nation's leading organization for travel and tourism issues. miss barnes, you are now recognized for your opening remarks. >> ranking member scott, and members of the subcommittee nice to be here this afternoon. where the only association that represents all sectors of the travel industry. thank you for inviting us to participate in this important hearing. i always prefer to meet face to face but i'm thrilled to be justifying from our hometown of las vegas nevada, where the u.s. travel association is hosting its trade show annual trade show ipw. this is one of the reasons ipw is why this hearing is so important. this is where travel buyers from around the globe come. and look at future travel to united states. in 2018, travel bookings at ipw was 25 billion through the u.s.. which supported 83,000 american jobs. this trade show demonstrates the economic power of the business and international travel. two vital segments of the industry

what about the african and asian football associations? earlier, they seem to be more positive on this idea than the european and south american counterparts. right? that's true. and this is because it gives us a higher chance of actually qualifying for the world cup. let's not forget that. starting in 2026, the world cup is going to be $4800.00. it's no longer going to be $32.00. now just on that subject of changes, you know, big ideas. this is become something of a renaissance, at least in people's eyes. they expanded the world cup. they wanted to extend the club world cup. there were these considerations for shortening matches last summer . and so football isn't this transitory period. but for asian and african countries, the pro would be yes, but they can qualify every 2 years. and with more teams in the world cup higher representation at the time. and now on the flip side, one of the pros being being floated around is that more countries, especially smaller countries, could host the world if it's over 2 years. but i disagree with this

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it is about speech, your speech, your freedom of association. it is about your school districts.is about your kids in the classroom. it is about your neighborhoods and communities, all of which are under assault by the biden administration specifically the attorney general of the united states merrick garland and his department of justice. let's begin at the beginning. the 1st amendment to the constitution, which you would think they would understand over there at the department of justice, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or bridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. to petition the government for a redress of grievances. we're focused on free speech, freedom of association, and the petition the government for a redress of grievances. the 1st amendment of the constitution of the united states, the bill of rights is under attack by the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland and h

and we know that the national school board association wants the white house and the association were happy with the letter. the national school board association sent the letter to the white house and the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. and that's what i mean. the white house is the profit here and you're just the vessel, correct? >> sir, i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. the memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials from violence and threats of violence, while at the same time protecting parents' ability to object -- >> i get that. i heard your testimony. were you worried you'd be fired if you didn't issue the memorandum? >> i'm not -- i signed on this memorandum on my own. i said from the very beginning. i've taken this job to protect the department of justice and make independent determinations with respect to prosecution, and i will do that. >> i'm sorry to interrupt but i don't have much time. now, when you got the letter from the white house t

paul: the national scoreboard association, are you saying they generated this?oing this and who were they working with? >> they were working with people at the white house, there's reporting on that now which is interesting in the context of this story but the national school boards association was not consulting with its own board sending the letter, not consulting with its own members some of whom were very upset about this. paul: . her mother have been significant blowback, do you think the attorney general was caught off guard? given his reputation on this reasonable moderate person, what is going on here with the ag? >> one of the questions, and we need to know more, we know national scoreboard association was in touch with the white house, was the white house in touch with the department of justice? was this in order, command, was he pressured to go down this road x we don't know and he's not going to say but it's remarkable, they knew this was coming in the context of all of these parent protests around the country, it's remarkable he'd go there given com

the school board association consulted closely with the white house and sent this letter and less than a week later, garland cranks out this memo, which isn't a case long and dispatches f.b.i. to essentially harass parents and suppress their decent on circumstances he knows there is no federal jurisdiction. he won't apologize, he would have to acknowledge what he did. >> john: we want to jump back into the hearing, senator marsha blackburn. >> knowing you helped bring to justice those that caused the oklahoma city bombing, would you really, honestly put parents in the same category as a terry nichols or a timothy mcvey? >> absolutely not. >> why would you ever release a memo, i mean, did you write that memo, did staff write that memo? what would have led you to do this? it is so over the top. >> senator, there is nothing in the memo that in any way draws any comparison, anything like that. this memo is about violence and threats of violence. >> i have to tell you that may be your opinion and many times perception is reality and reading that memo myself, tennesseeanss reading that memo,

your a freedom of association.ut your school districts and your kids and the classroom and neighborhoods, all of whichm are under assault by the biden administration. specifically attorney general of the united states merrick garland and his department of justice, let's begin at the beginning. first amendment to constitution. you would think they would understand there at department of justice, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment a religion or prohibits free exercise there of -- >> >> to petition the government for redress of grievances. we're focused on free speech, freedom of association and petition the government for redress of grievances, the bill of rights is under attack by attorney general of the united states, merrick garland. and hisac staff. now we learned also under attack by joe biden's staff. and others at the white house. a coordinated attack to try to silent parents and taxpayers, citizens of this nation. who elect their school boards, sense their children to the class rooms, why?

national school board association apologizing for a letter sent to president biden that likened protestsby some parents against school policies to domestic terrorism. following that letter, attorney general merrick garland instructed the fbi to take the lead on a task force to address threats against school officials. and we are learning new details after alec baldwin accidentally shot and killed a director of photography with a prop gun on a movie set. we will hear the 911 call. we have live fox team coverage, alexandria hoff from the national school board association and matt finn on the tragic baldwin shooting. live in virginia, hi, mark. mark: alicia, good afternoon, democrats are deploying the biggest names throughout the common wealth to try to race support for terry mcauliffe, former chair of democratic party and someone struggling get back his old job as he races for the governor's mansion. on the stage is the sitting governor of virginia ralph northham who not too long ago was considered dead man walking and we are expecting to hear from former president barack obama. he's one o

. >> well, members of the campbell high school teachers association making their voices heard. they are in the middle of salary negotiations with some teachers say they're not going well. it was an active scene outside the district's board meeting and some teachers argue the contract talks are an unnecessary distraction and say the students are the ones who suffer the most four's. amanda hari has more for us. >> dozens of community members, teachers and students showed up to show their support for the campbell high school teachers association. and even more supported from afar. >> high school history teacher and president of the teachers association, ken mccarthy says it's been a tough year and a half. >> it's just been very difficult. i never have heard so many teachers talk about leaving the profession as this year. mccarthy tells me the black balloons you see are supposed to be symbolic of the black cloud over the district. this protest is after the board and teacher's association declared a joint impasse on september 29th in negotiations over changing working conditions and

it's former law firm and its no longer associated with it. is that valid? >> from what we understood it, he left to run for governor. this law firm has been essentially doing the dirty work of school systems ever since they were on the wrong side of brown versus board in the 1950s. they hired him in 2019 and paid him over a quarter million dollars a year and since that time in 2019, fairfax county public schools has paid hunting ,huntington andrews. they do it to fight parents, they do to fight kids who allege they were wronged in schools by the action or inaction of school system officials. and so he says he supports the educational establishment, that's what he needs. and they are trying to get this poor girl as you described it, it's worse that the allegations, it's worse than allowed in case. just last month they were trying to get that case tossed out of court on the procedural basis involving the girl's desire be anonymous which i think we can all understand why our victim would want to be anonymous. >> laura: another case involves another student in

we know the national school board association wants the white house and the association that was unhappen my with the letter. national school board association sent the letter to the white house and the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. that's what i mean. the white house is the prophet here. you're the vessel. isn't that correct? >> senator, i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. this memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials from violence and at the same time protecting parent's ability to object to policies -- >> i get that. i heard your testimony. >> harris: senator kennedy, we know he doesn't mince words. you're just a vessel, aren't you to attorney general merrick garland. >> emily: i want my attorney general to be a master of law. >> harris: you wants him to be extraordinary? >> emily: yes. who we're seeing now is a men that is less than ordinary and a master of evasion. he comes out there and says it's his job to protect public officials against violent

i'm not here as a spokesperson for the national school board association.uthority to be a spokesperson or representative of the national school board association. i'm here just to tell you that there have been across the country a number of very serious threats that have been communicated by u.s. mail, by voicemail, by the internet, and those are federal crimes, and i personally as a local school board member have been concerned that the justice department was not stepping up and investigating those federal crimes. i have no reason whatsoever to believe that any of the threats in the worthington school district were initiated by parents or by people who live in our district. i have reason to believe that these were outside groups funded by outside groups that are stirring up this kind of violence and threats in our community. >> uh-huh. charlie wilson, we appreciate you talking with us today live, of course talking to our colleague in his piece. appreciate you. >> you're very welcome. >> thank you so much. >>> all right. still ahead, another water crisis in

or national school board association prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> you don't know if anyone else in the justice department did? >> i don't know. >> did you or anyone at the justice department communicate with those organizations prior to the letter? did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> again, i have had no such conversations. i would be stur surprised if that happened >> will f.b.i. agents being attending local school board meetings? >> no. there is nothing in the memo to suggesting that. this memo is about violence and threats of violence. >> the same day you did the memo the justice department sent out a press release monday october 4, 2021. the press release says justice department addresses violent threats against school boards and teachers. a question to one of my colleagues you said parents are domestic terrorists. according to the attorney general's memorandum the justice department will launch efforts designed to address the rising criminal conduct directed towards schoo

the national school boards association., to the president of united states, an inside job, there is no question. they want the federal government to use patriot act to investigate what they call -- domestic terrorism. the violent interference with federally protected right statute. there no federal nexus for this. i guess we can conclude that the biden administration benefit of justice 100% in, in the racist marxist ideology, poisoning our children. >> that is right. we have seen as context that national education association, na, over -- the summer they endorsed critical race theory, there is pressure built up on the school systems, they have shut down are in over a year, adopted the insane mask policies, now exposed for forcing malign racial ideologies down the throats of people, parents and american people are revolting, rather than win in spirit of public debate, they have gone to their ally in biden administration, including attorney general said time to unleash the fbi on parents, this is not only designs to launch a

or the national school board association prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> sandra: did that surprise you jonathan? >> it does, and that with a host of legal experts as destroying the integrity of the justice department. and the beginning of the investigation of the customs officer has declared them guilty and said they had been stopping these individuals trying to come into the country. that's really out of line and it's a direct sort of flap of the justice department independence. in total and nothing but crickets in response to that. the president has made repeated statements about pending investigations most recently in saying that anyone who doesn't comply with the subpoenas in congress should be prosecuted by the justice department. the record here is not quite as redeeming and i don't necessarily say that those are an and proper and those are not public statements who should and -- the justice department. >> john: you mentioned a moment ago that the attorney general is somewhat like sergeant schultz and hogan's heroes, i

, the national school boards association, prior to your memo? i did not. i don't know. >> you don't know if anyone else at the justice department did? >> i don't know. >> did you or anyone at the justice department communicate with those organizations, aft, nea, national school boards association, prior to the letter? did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> i have had no such conversations. i would be surprised if that happened. but i don't know. >> will fbi agents berd meetings? >> no and there is nothing in this memo to suggest that. i want to again, try to be clear. this memo is about violence and threats of violence. it's not -- >> the same day you did the the press release, monday october 4, 2021. the press release says justice department addresses violent threats agaials and teachers. now are you said earlier to a question to one of my colleagues on the republican side that parents aren't domestic terrorists we're not going to treat them that way. paragraph. according to the attorney general's memoran

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his response would be i imagine the word former law firm is no longer associated with. is that valid? >> he left to run for governor. if he wasn't running for governor he would still be there. this law firm has been doing the dirty work of school systems ever since they were on the wrong side of brown versus board in the 1950s, paid them over a quarter million bucks a year and since that time, 2019 fairfax county public schools has paid andrews $9 million. why the school system pays that much money to lawyers, they do to fight parents, to fight kids who allege they were wronged at school by the in action direction of school system officials. when he supports the educational establishment, it is a special interest of administrators who have their own interests which are different from parents and they are trying to get this poor girl, it is worse the allegations, then allow the rate case. just last month they were trying to get that get tossed out of court on a procedural basis involving the girl's desire to be anonymous which we can understand why she would want to be a

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the republican national lawyers association to make appropriate revisions and follow the law. what we see about things discussed here earlier today lead us to ask a couple of questions. number one, is that statute being followed? or maybe even referenced by the current administration with respect to immigration law and the handling of the crisis on our southern border and other areas. these are reasonable questions based on what we see. we have the absolute perfect person to talk to us today about those questions and many other things. matthew whitaker is the former acting united states attorney general for the united states of america. in 2018 and 2019 during the trump administration. before that he was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of iowa. and has a lot of great opportunities. he's with the graves garrett law firm. i give you right now matthew whitaker. >> good morning, everyone. i'm glad to join you today as my fellow republican attorneys. i know that we are mighty and so many of us do important things all over this country, so thank you for being here. this

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jane from the homecare association. _ system. jane from the homecare association, we _ system.rs of older petrol or diesel cars which produce the most emissions will have to pay £12.50 a day to enter the ultra low emission zone. although that only applies to one out of five cars, it could affect tens of thousands of motorists. bbc london's tom edwards has more details. a radical change to london's roadster is one of the largest pollution charging schemes in the world comes into force. the extended ultra low emission zone. the scaffolding company in harefield in north—west london, while they welcome the scheme and uncertain times, they think it be delayed. what impact will it have on you? it is going to cost £2500 a week and on top of that we are committed to £350,000 worth of expenditure on new vehicles and loss of value on existing vehicles that we are having to dispose of. the existing vehicles that we are having to dispose of-_ to dispose of. the principle is the olluter to dispose of. the principle is the polluter pays- — to dispose of. the principle is the polluter pays. t