look forward to hearing from you, francis suarez. david holt, mayor of oklahoma city since 2013, the first native american mayor of oklahoma city and one of the youngest mayors of the city with 500,000 residents that he served eight years in the senate in oklahoma. the newest member of the bench, kevin lincoln just assumed office which the census bureau calls the most diverse city in america, four weeks ago, january of 2021. previously served in the marine corps and during that time was assigned to marine one during the george w. bush 10 year, worked for the community of stockton in a full-time ministry. in our cities, look forward to diving right in. it would be great to hear a little bit about why you ran in the first place, what got you interested in this job and you can address that in due course when you have a chance but i thought i would start with you, francis suarez, something will take you from a set to:30 so hope we get to you first, and deal with questions after the fact, even after he leaves and get back to you but i wan

francis. i usually do. st. francis is the patron saint of my city of san francisco, and

. >> doctor francis, i apologize . we have audio problems right now. so i want to thank you so much. and i apologize. i have to make the same roll calls the chairman sullivan is making targeted and thank you so much for all of your great and randy thank you for your work as well. when going to put the hearingo into recess into the senator solomon returns party to thank you doctor francis so much. [background noise]. [background noise]. [no audio]. [background noise]. >> the subcommittee hearing will now reconvene. and again i appreciate the witnesses cooperation and flexibility here for voting in the senate. i wanted to give back to you with not only regard to your testimony, but with regard to what the admiral ray and said with regard to the incident that you mentioned there really was not rage with regard to not just to the russian actions but as admiral ray mentioned, there were some miscommunications and certainly by the coast guard. i had been asking for an after action both from the northern command in the coast guard and the u.s. navy. but what

francis: yeah.f the things that has become absolutely clear over the past year is that we need as a global community to set up a global pathogen surveillance system. it is clear that to identify if an outbreak is happening and then to identify the source of that outbreak, we need to be surveilling our environment. and then, we need to identify how this virus is transmitting and mutating as it moves around geographically. and that is true whether it is a coronavirus outbreak like we are dealing with right now, but it is also true for things like antimicrobial resistance or bioterrorist attacks. so what we need is to set up this network of this surveillance system to see which pathogens are emerging and then how they are moving around. that is important not just to know what is happening, but also to drive policy decisions like, you know, should we be shutting down travel to certain regions? all of that needs to be informed by data coming out of this surveillance system. we did not have any, and we ne

. >>> pope francis is suffering back pain. is rolling out its latest covid protection measures. those are some of the headlines on "the morning newsstand." espn reports the nba will require players, coaches and other team personnel to wear contact tracing sensors. starting thursday, they will have to wear sensors during all team activities outside of games including while traveling. the sensors do not record gps locations, they will activate when someone comes within six feet of another person wearing one. those not wearing the sensors are subject to unspecified discipline. >>> the associated press says back pain caused pope francis to skip new year's ceremony at the st. peter's basilica. a vatican spokesman said francis could not preside over last night's prayer service because of sciatica. the pope was also missing a new year's day mass. a cardinal read the pope's previously prepared new year's eve homily. francis encouraged the faithful trying to make sense out of 2020 to banish any idea that god is cynical and pitiless. >>

francis, hey! welcome to the park. so this is where the park begins, you can see the bamboo. is a trench here, this marks the difference for making the communities understand where the park begins, and where the buffaloes cannot come over. ahead of me there is a team of trackers. hey, trackers, i'm lucy, good to meet you! before any traveller takes to the mountain, the rangers share essential knowledge. it's so beautiful walking through here. yes, sometimes gorillas come down to the bamboo. really, they come this far down? they can even come outside. once we come to the gorillas we need us to stay together, we are creating a distance between us and the gorillas, we need to have seven metres‘ distance. we need to respect their movement. there is a sound, they have to do like a... clearing throat sound. once they do that, it is confirmation everything is ok. 0h, 0k. but once the silverback, or any gorilla say... coughing sound. that means that's not good. that's not good. so what i am doing, i have stopped. but then if i hear... low grunting... so i make the situation feel ok.

but pope francis isn't leading the service.r vatican analyst john allen explains his absence. >> reporter: pope francis on thursday was forced to withdraw from the vatican's traditional new year's eve liturgy singing the great hymn thanksgiving to god. and new year's day mass, mary the mother of god, the vatican designated world day of peace. now, all of this because of what the vatican described as a painful bout of sciatica. that's a nerve condition that generally affects the back and the legs. pope francis disclosed he suffered from the condition in 2013. in the year since it has occasionally got in his way. we know he got treatment for it offer the summer of 2017, but there is no indication here that it is in any sense a life-threatening, and certainly no papal health scare in the vatican. for cnn, this is john allen in rome. >> and that does it for me. thanks very much for watching this hour. cnn newsroom. i'm isa soares live from london. i'll be back with you in the next hour. but first we can't wrap up the first show wit

so now i am tagging along with one of francis‘ tourist groups. aggressive gorilla.lla. there he is! chowing down on some leaves. you can just hear the little grunts in the distance, it is quite hard to tell if it is aggressive or playful grunts. how did you feel when the gorilla came out here and ran and jumped out at you? scared! just standing there, waiting to see what happens. whispers: he‘s up there in the tree somewhere. i think he's getting ready tojump down because he's heard how good this food was. we‘ve been planning this trip for 12 months, it‘s been on our bucket list for quite some time. it‘s been amazing. what kind of feeling? a wonderfulfeeling. it‘s very rare i‘m lost for words but these beautiful majestic creatures have just completely taken my breath away and just being able to watch them eating, interacting, and even communicating with us in their natural habitat is one of the best experiences that i‘ve ever had the pleasure of having on my travels. i highly recommend it. still to come: i have signed up to explore some alternative ways to experienc

sun rose on saturday the police moved in hundreds of party goers were aidid in fine for breaching francis coronavirus restrictions. in the cavernous warehouses near the city of crane the party was finally over. police moved in to restore public order. they could please do surest officer security area in an operation that went off largely without incident. we then issued a number of citations to people found to be in file ation of the low. hours earlier the raid had still been in full swing around 2500 mostly young people had gathered on new year's eve define police efforts to stop the event. could listen to a sion got out of hand very quickly 3 officers were injured and so i made the decision to withdraw our forces and while it's run the risk of letting the situation get even worse removing police from the scene allowed them to pursue a strategy of containment. with the police holding back the party continued for a 2nd night the organizers defended their decision to stage the event. i think there was a real desire to come together. most of us are in our twenty's and we feel we're losing o

i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis that skilled nursing facility in question is daly city saint francis convalescent. >>pavilion state officials are reporting more than 100 current cases at the facility. our kron four's dan kerman live for us in daly city tonight with more on this stand. >>well family members clearly upset they say they're not getting enough information. they want the state to get involved they say that from what they are being told and what from state officials can confirm and their state dashboard 88 residents currently are covid positive. and another 20 plus health care workers. there are covid positive. concerns tonight about a possible covid outbreak at the saint francis convalescent pavilion a skilled nursing facility in daly city. >>where super concerned that and you know the facility is not doing enough to protect their residents. this woman who prefers to remain anonymous. >>tells kron 4 news her uncle is in the facility and since christmas. the number of residents with covid-19 has jumped from 9 to more than 85. >>how does the facility allow the rate of infect

lord, make mea francis is our and some. lord, make me a channel of thy peace. light, where there is hatred, let us bring love, where there is despair, let us bring hope. we know that we would be part of history in a positive way today, every four yea rs, positive way today, every four years, when we demonstrate the peaceful tra nsfer of years, when we demonstrate the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next and despite the shameful actions of today we still will do so. we will be part of a history that shows the world that what america is made of, that this assault, this assault is just that. it shows the weakness of those who had to show through violence what their message was. my colleagues, it is time to move on. we have a flag of oui’ to move on. we have a flag of our country, a flag of the united states of america and on it it says one country, one destiny. one country, one destiny. one country, one destiny. written on the flag. that was also what was embroidered in abraham lincoln's code that he had on that fateful night. lincoln's party,

[inaudible]. >> doctor francis, i apologize . we have audio problems right now. want to thank you so much. and i apologize. i have to make the same roll calls the chairman sullivan is making targeted and thank you so much for all of your great and randy thank you for your work as well. when going to put the hearingo into recess into the senator solomon returns party to thank you doctor francis so much. [background noise].

>>officials with the facility would not confirm the numbers but issued a statement saying saint francis convalescent pavilion has been consistent in following state and federal guidance in responding to covid-19. we have an isolated area in the facility to treat any residents who test positive for covid-19 nothing is more important than the safety and care of every person to which we are interested and of our valued and committed staff who are working tirelessly despite daunting circumstances. >>the city of lafayette is working to help keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic the city's business assistance program relaunched yesterday you may remember it first ran for about 5 months at the start of the pandemic at that time nearly a 100 businesses and nonprofits each received more than $15,000 in federal help. well this week lafayette's mayor will be hosting a webinar to give out details about this new round of funds. couldn't come soon enough for struggling businesses, we'll take a quick break here for 21 coming up. >>next on the kron 4 morning news fed up and frustrated with c

senator theodore francis green of rhode island, house majority leader john mccormick of massachusettsrkman of alabama, house minority leader joseph w. martin jr. of massachusetts. secretary to the committee and to the senate minority, mark trice. ♪ >> installation of the special steel platforms for television and newsreel cameras was immediately begun. ♪ >> approximately 540,000 feet of lumber was used to provide seating for 12,000 of the invited guests. on january 3, 1957, the flag flew over the capitol as both houses of congress met to begin first session of the 85th congress. several days later, the president made an unprecedented address to a joint session of the congress, to apprise the membership of the then serious mideast situation. he requested congressional approval for his mid eastern policies and received such a resolution from the congress a short time later. on january 20, the president and mrs. eisenhower, again attended the national presbyterian church as they had four years ago. the reverend l.r. elson gave an inspiring and timely sermon on the subject, a nation under

. >>> the vatican confirmed pope francis and pope benedict received their first dose. vatican city began the vaccination program this week. those vaccines are being distributed inside the main auditorium hall where pope francis has weekly addresses. >>> still ahead, the pandemic is putting an end to a favorite feature at pebble beach. >>> disney fans are disappointed that a popular program being scrapped at the happiest place on earth. >>> no powerball winner yet. tonight, we will show you the san jose market where people are hoping to strike it rich. >>> coming up tonight at 11:00, call it the zoom boom. plastic surgeons explain how the switch to remote work is driving a spike in first-time patients. we always have a big party, it's a big thing for us. everyone gets together... to just have fun. the happy chaos... a lot of noise and... for me, i just enjoy it all... ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the only stars at the at&t pebble beach pro-am will be the players themselves. bill murray, justin timberlake, you are not invited. the pga tour made the announcement today. no spectators. this i

bridges chairman and senator theodore francis green and speaker of the house sam rayburn and john w. mccormack and martin jr. special musical score and music composed and conducted by technical sergeant arranger. ♪♪ in the fall of 1956, our hand cameras were allowed to briefly cover a meeting of a inaugural committee as they met to discuss plans for the coming inauguration. chairman of the committee senator styles bridges of new hampshire, speaker sam rayburn of texas, senator theater francis green of rhode island, house majority leader john mccormack of massachusetts, senator john sparkman of alabama, house minority leader joseph w. martin jr. of massachusetts, secretary to the committee and to the senate minority mark tryce. installation of the special steel platforms for television and newsreels cameras was immediately begun. ♪♪ >> approximately 540,000 feet of lumber was used to provide seating for 12,000 of the invited guests. on january 3rd, 1957, the flag flew over the capitol as both houses of congress met to begin the first session of the 85th congress. several days later, t

francis whose song of st. francis is our cities anthem. youe there is darkness, may bring light. the list goes on. so does the time for healing. unity, down a path of unity for our country. would you encourage cap the members not to resign so that they can revoke -- so that they can invoke the 25th the memo? >> no book let's go over the list. -- no but let's go over the list. inecretary in the cabinet line to the secession of the presidency. by student -- president, vice president, speaker of the house, thene leader, pro tem and secretary of state. have the 25th amendment and vote, that would be calling upon the vice president as we lead ando to take the with a majority of the cabinet to be able to unseat the president of the united states. a very dangerous person who should not continue in office. this is urgent. this is emergency of the highest magnitude. pompeo the secretary of state. do you stand by this president dangerously standing -- staying in office? secretary of the treasury? what is it? is it about success in business later? do you believe in this? do we have the list

francis. san atron saint of francisco and the song is our anthem, lord, make me a channel of our peace where there is darkness, let me bring light, where there is hatred, let us bring hope. we know that we be part of history in a positive way today every four years when we dwemon straight the peaceful transfer of power. from one president to the next. and despite the shameful actions of today, we still will do so, we will be part of a history that are shows the world that america is made of. that these -- this assault, this assault is just that that shows the weakness of those who had to show through violence what their message was. my colleagues, it's time to move on. i gave it to john lewis, the weekend before he left us. and it's a flag of our country, a flag of the united states of america. one t says, one country, destiny, one country, one destiny. that was also what was lincoln'sd in abraham coat that he had on that fateful night. lincoln's party, one message, one country, one destiny. l

francis, our patron saint in san francisco, whose song of saint francis is our city's anthem. lord, make me a channel of thy peace. where there is darkness, may we bring light. where there is hatred, love, despair, hope. the list goes on. and so does the time for healing. take us down a path of unity for our country. with that, i'll be pleased to take any questions. reporter: speaker pelosi, would you encourage cabinet members not to resign so that they can invoke the 25th amendment? but let's goi: no, over that list. -- if you arehey a member of the cabinet, a secretary in the cabinet, you're in the line of succession to the presidency. president, vice president, speaker of the house, senate leader, pro tem, and then secretary of state. just for information of some, when you have the 25th amendment does for the information up some, when you have the 25th amendment invoked, that would be calling upon the vice president, as we hope to do, to take the lead, and with a majority of the cabinet to be able to unseat the president of the united states. a very dangerous person who sho

francis: genomics will play an essential role in dealing with this pandemic in terms of surveillance, two, you are seeing the emergence of genomic driven vaccines like the mrna vaccines from moderna and pfizer-biontech. in will also see big impacts cancer treatments. we are seeing the emergence of these precision oncology therapies. match cancers to patients to the right therapy that will be most effective for them. in the middle of this year, something that we are in the midst of acquiring, will launch the world's first blood test to identify early stage cancer across 50 types of cancer. that is truly going to be groundbreaking. emily: we will continue to follow the groundbreaking work. ,llumina ceo francis desouza thank you for sharing that with us. coming up, the star of the netflix film " the social dilemma" joins us to discuss his take. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang in san francisco. president trump has -- president trump's account has been deleted from twitter indefinitely. the fbi is bracing for more potential violenc

scott shellady with us, francis newton stacy. francis what do you make more to the point wall street's reaction what will be a lot more spending? i guess they see the upside in that, not deficit, piling debt side. they like the stimulus, how it will help the economy and how it will i guess continue to lift stocks? >> you and i both know that doesn't matter until it does but there are some early indicators debt is going to matter. all country world index as opposed to the s&p 500. the s&p 500 was winning out most of last year. that trend is reversed because the rest of the world is coming out of covid a little bit faster with less debt. things like that are starting to show. for right now we have five trillion in assets in money market funds on the sidelines that could jump in at anytime we've also got this two trillion coming in stimulus and the markets are overlooking that against the rise in the 10-year yield which is ultimately tightening. we lost 39 billion off the fed balance sheet last week. that is a little tightening. we

concerns tonight about a possible covid outbreak at the saint francis convalescent pavilion a skilled nursing facility in daly city. >>where super concerned that and you kn

one of the suspects is peter francis sager.e's seen on this video beating a police officer with an american flag. here's what he had to say the day of the riot. >> everybody in there is a disgrace. that entire building is filled with treasonous traitors. >> yes, sir! >> death is the only remedy for what's in that building. every single one of those capitol law enforcement officers, death is the remedy. >> they have to find their own. they have defied their oath. this time -- the bible! >> wow. death is the only remedy. our senior national correspondent alex marquardt jo joins me now. i'm so glad you're okay. you were out in the crowd and handled yourself okay. glad you're around. thanks for joining us tonight. the video and sound from peter francis sayinger is chilling. what are you learning about him? >> it was disgusting. there were so many blue lives matter flags out there at the same time. the sheer hypocrisy is astounding. you can hear in that video he clearly felt a lot of anger towards the people who work in that buildin

sun rose on saturday the police moved in hundreds of party goers were aidid in fine for breaching francis coronavirus restrictions. in the cavernous warehouses near the city of crane the party was finally over. it was over with i mean i'm a nervous about our. police moved in to restore public order. they could upraised you surest officer security area in an operation that went off largely without incident. we then issued a number of citations to people found to be in file ation of the lol those from peaceful to cool. hours earlier the rave had still been in full swing around 2500 mostly young people had gathered on new year's eve defying police efforts to stop the event. a could listen to a sion got out of hand very quickly 3 officers were injured and so i made the decision to withdraw all forces and while this run the risk of letting the situation get even worse is removing police from the scene allowed them to pursue a strategy of containment. with the police holding back the party continued for a 2nd night the organizers defended their decision to stage the event. in your view . i thin

so here is francis proposal. it's sort of in between what the united states is asking for, and with the spanish suggest. the french say, yes, the americans they have get to keep the 13 colonies, they get to keep eastern kentucky, which is known as tennessee, last between ohio and the tennessee river's. the spanish get the florida keys of course because they won them, in the war, and will draw that border that the spanish have won at the tennessee river. you can see that part of what is now mississippi and alabama in western georgia. and that will go to spain under the french proposal. the british they say they can keep the northwest and the north of the ohio river. this seems like a strange proposal for the french to be suggesting that they give more to their british enemies than the americans would give to the british. but the reason for this is that the french were determined to keep the united states as weak as possible. and keeping them weak, and dependent on the french is what france wants. it will be easier

pope francis said they thought only to go on vacation to have fun. >>> warriors steph curry had a historicight on the hard wood. he scored 62 points. it is the first time this season a player has scored over 50 in this game. that's a fete curry reached six times in his career before this game this outing breaks the splash brothers previous career high of 54. >>> much more ahead including the amazing worker a surfer saves a swimmer from bngei swept away. >>> the nfl playoff picture is set. we have your sunday highlights that's next. ret you're unstoppa. no sweat. try it and love it or get your money back. secret. ♪ all strength, no sweat for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about e

. >>> pope francis says he'll get the coronavirus vaccine as early as this week and urging others to the interview with the italian news program tg 5 the pope called the vaccine a life saving ethical obligation. he said refusing the vaccine was quote suicidal. this is not the first time pope francis spoke about the vaccine in his crist mayday message, he said the vaccine should be available to everyone including the world's most vulnerable. >>> california lawmakers are set to return to work tomorrow and they have a lot of lists of pressing issues waiting for them. fixing the state's economy destroyed by the pandemic is at the top of the list, along the lines, the legislature has evictions protections that expire at the end of the month. he wants a one-time stimulus payment of $600 to taxpayers that earn less than $30,000 annually. >>> redwood city woman is spreading cheer during the covid crisis with colorful chalk creations. this is marry kay mitchell. she busted autochalk and drew a heart and rainbow back in march. she's taken off from there. she received such a positive response,

and then the for a reason that can make i and impeachment move on is about the political support as francis was explaining but actually the president of the congress that believe there are the congress he has a very important role because he's the one who are rules are not. so of course he will listen to all of these other reasons he will listen to the society you listen to the elite but he is the one who makes the decision and of course those are a lot of the question behind the scenes here governor how hard hit him go in ignoring polls of him there are some scenarios talking about his popularity could reach into the twenty's or which point it would be very hard for the congress to ignore that and to ignore the impeachment course it depends who are the twenty's and it depends how the 80 percent of the others are stronger not to make any treatment happen so what as i was just saying is that if inside of 20 we have financial power then we will not go on with a ph so the congress are not only listening to the society they are also listening to this is i think there are a lot of other things g

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, whose song of saint francis is our city's anthem, lord make me a channel ofthy peace, where there is darkness may we bring light, where there is hatred love, despair, hope, the list goes on. so does the time for healing. take us down a path of unity for our country. with that i'll be pleased to take any questions. >> speaker pelosi, would you encourage cabinet members not to resign so that they can invoke the 25th amendment? >> no, but let's go over that list. why wouldn't they -- if you're a member of the cabinet, a secretary in the cabinet, you're in a line of succession to the presidency, president, vice president, speaker of the house, senate leader, pro tem, and then secretary of state. when -- just for the information of some, when you have the 25th -- the 25th amendment invoked, that would be calling upon the vice president, as we hope to do, to take the lead, and with a majority of the cabinet, to be able to unseat the president of the united states, a very dangerous person who should not continue in office. this is urgent, this is emergency of the highest magnitude. so pompe

>>officials with the facility would not confirm the numbers but issued a statement saying saint francis convalescent pavilion has been consistent in following state and federal guidance in responding to covid-19. we have an isolated area in the facility to treat any residents who test positive for covid-19 nothing is more important than the safety and care of every person to which we are interested and of our valued and committed staff who are working tirelessly despite daunting circumstances. officials with the facility also confirmed they're in communication. >>with public health officials at the state level and the county of san mateo but they're not elaborating on exactly what's being done. in daly city dan kerman kron 4 news. >>as covid cases surge in san francisco, a majority of the people living on the streets are still there despite the extension of the program for shelter in place house a hotel city leaders extended that program last month but since then leaders as well as advocates of the unsheltered say it's become even harder to get folks back inside kron four's taylor bisac

but by a preacher named francis chance. on the drive to school faith and religion is also a constant presence. there's a christian radio on. at just about anywhere in the country you can find christian radio station. most all of leesburg 22000 inhabitants are christians the small town has 151 churches the situation is typical for many rural us communities. are. along the main street there are numerous self-proclaimed missionaries one of the commandments that jesus left with us was that we needed to preach the good news they tell their respective communities at the people go by listing something that they want to do we know talk maybe in a do still the message that we have. the god cafe in leesburg at 1st sight it looks like a normal cafe. but the. interior displays crowns of thorns crosses jesus posters and religious verses. so i've been given a paycheck i've been given this money why not spend it in a place that you know this president versus a starbucks kerry has run the cafe since 2008 basically what god wants is to be s

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francis, i usually do, st. francis is the patron saint of my city of san francisco and the song of st. francis is our anthem. lord, make me a channel of thy peace. where there is darkness, may it bring light. where there is hatred, let it bring love. where there is despair, let us bring hope. we know that we would be part of history in a positive way today, every four years when we demonstrate, again, the peaceful transfer of power. from one president to the next. and despite the shameful actions of today, we still will do so. we will be part of a history that shows the world what america is made of. that this assault, this assault is just that. it shows the weakness of those who had to show through violence what their message was. my colleagues, it's time to move on. i wear this pin quite frequently, actually, i gave it to our beloved john lewis just the weekend before he left us. and it's a flag of our country, a flag of the united states of america. on it, it says, "one country, one destiny." one country, on

francis. i usually do. st. francis is the patron saint of my city of san francisco, and his song of st. francis is our anthem. lord, make me a channel of thy peace. where there is darkness, may i bring light. where there is hatred, let us bring love. where there is despair, let us bring hope. we know that we would be part of history in a positive way today, every four years when we demonstrate again the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. despite the shameful actions of today, we still will do so. we will be part of a history that shows the world what america is made of. that these -- this assault, this assault is just that. it shows the weakness of those who have had to show through violence what their message was. my colleagues, it's time to move on. i wear this pin quite frequently. actually, i gave it to our beloved john lewis just the weekend before he -- weekend or so before he left us. and it's a flag of our country, a flag of the united states of america. on it, it says, "one coun

for they're in the hard ground can be found the new wealth of the atomic age, uranium, uranium for francisiles. wealth to the north in normandy, pastures for some of the finest beef and dairy livestock in the world. here only 10 years ago was d-day and the blossoms wilted in the fumes of battle. now there is peace again in normandy and plenty. ♪ ♪ milk, butter, eggs and cheese, cheese made by special formulas and skills passed down through generations of peasant cheese makers producing delicacies like come on bare, known throughout the world. ♪ ♪ >> these are pastures whose products make names for the fine menus everywhere, filet mignon on the hoof, the prime materials of the french art of cooking. farming in france is rooted both in experience and in a faith in the soil that borders on religion. and faith in france tend to be strong and religion timeless yet infinitely tangible. thanks to its wealth, france has enough for her own needs and enough to spare to send abroad. so the names of her great sea ports are synonymous with her wealth, sunny marseille, ports along some of europe's busie

francis collins and could not be here today.nd i've asked them to stay on as director of the institute of health and -- at this critical moment. i've known dr. collins for many years. i worked with him closely. he's brilliant. a pioneer. a true leader. and above all, he's a model of public service and i'm honored to be working with him again. and it is -- in his absence i want to thank him again for being willing to stay on. i know that wasn't his original plan. but we worked an awful lot on the moon shot and dealing with cancer and i just want to thank him again. and to each of you and your families, and i say your families, thank you for the willingness to serve. and not that you haven't been serving already but to serve in the administration. and the american people, to all the american people, this is a team that's going to help restore your faith in america's place in the frontier of science and discover and hope. i'm now going to turn this over starting with dr. lander, to each of our nominees and then with -- hear from th