Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
We still say good morning. Say it is indeed just that. That. Were happy that youre withyou us. Im holly morris. M hoy mor and im maureen umeh. Ndau today is thursday juney ju seconds. Check out who is here, garyy mcgrady, erin como theyll theyl have weather and traffic on a the 5s. Thats coming up soon. Cominup s getting to the news rightws r now a man accused of crimes in n east africa was found workingor as a Security Guard at dulles Al International airport. This morning were digingerg into how exactly that happened. Melanie alnwick joining usning live with the details this morning. In mel. Reporter good morning. So, a spokesperson for the metropolitan washingtonashi Airports Authority told us us that yusuf ali went throughent the federally mandated process p in order to be approved for an airport badge here an accesse ha badge to the airport. E to the a. That means he had criminal criml records check by the fbi b the aSecurity Threat assessment asn by the t. S. A. By he also had to
Traffic coming up on the 4s. Lauren, thank you so much. Happening now in brooklyn, police are searching for a suspect who pointed a gun at police officers. This happened along avenue b in brownsville near 92nd street. Police say officers were responding to reports of gunfire. Thats when they came across two men, one pointing a gun at them. One officer fired at least one shot. They dont believe anyone was hit. Police sources tell news 4 one person right now is being questioned. Happening today, mayor de blasio plans to push for the renewal of the zadroga act at a City Council Committee meeting. Were learning congress may be close to making a deal on extending the Health Care Program for 9 11 responders. It will run out of money next year if congress does not act soon. Its 5 01. Today thousands of people are going to gather just outside our building for a holiday tradition. Its the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting. Security is tight. There are some strict rules in place. Still should be
Have now and there wasnt this consensus around doing those things. Those are two things that have come together that i hope will get carried forward in the next few years to really reach those goals. Anyone want to add on optimism or post 2015 . Let me just say that in my incoming address at the close of the Conference Also tried to share in that optimism but also back away a little bit from putting ourselves in a position where our concerns are 2030 and saying really what do we want to do by durban, which is two years from now. If we just keep the pace were going at, we should add at least, you know, 4 million or so more people on to treatment between now and then. That would be actually where we are plus a little better. And it seems to me that what we need to do with this every twoyear global convening is to start to use it more as an accountability tool and really to use it more as a formal way to measure where we are and what weve achieved. I feel just for myself the new goals, th