Discusses the Coronavirus Response. House5 am, daniel ober discusses how the u. S. Power grid is responding to the pandemic. Host good morning, it is wednesday, april 1, 2020. President trump in the task force released new estimates projecting the deadly virus 100,000240,000 americans even under the current efforts. He warns those numbers could be much higher if they dont follow the guidelines aimed at keeping the virus from spreading. This morning onwashington journal we get reaction to the projections. Also, you could send us a text this morning. You do, please include your name and where you are from. On social media and twitter it is cspanwj. Very good wednesday morning to you. You could start calling in now. Some of the front pages coming off of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force briefing yesterday. This is Washington Post. Dire, thetoll is front page of the new york and this from the front page of the Washington Times. I want everymp american to be prepared for the hard days
Strong partnership between labor and management that has driven performance significantly where they are producing the work they are doing on our submarine attack fleet on schedule, under budget. A takeaway from the hearing some of the best practices being put in place that we need a better mechanism to share those among the shipyards to ensure that we can learn from each other to make sure that that Strong Partnership is there for excellent performance between labor and management and i know that the naval Systems Command in Partnership Forum is an important start in that effort but there can be more done based on the hearing we had yesterday. I wanted to ask about your commitment to make sure we institutionalize best practices among our work forces and relationships between labor and management among all the four shipyards. Admiral richardson they are a Magnificent Team in portsmouth and our public yards are strategic tools. Even in my current job as director of naval reactors, very
There is no more fair place on the planet than in the military. We embrace every race, every ethnic group, every religion. We are literally generalists and becoming even more so. It is genuinely a place where an irish immigrant can become the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Thats all ive got for you. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey youre welcome. Before we came here this week, we were all asked to decide on a defining moment that changes into we are to do and who we will eventually become. And i would like to know if you have a defining moment or moments that kind of major the man u are today. Gen. Dempsey well, thats a profound question, young lady. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey a good question actually. You know, a defining moment is tough to pin down, but i will fill you this. For about the first on when i we talked about this often. I went to west point because my mother wanted me to go. I had no interest. The mother wanted me to go. I got there and it let my fire and i got enthusiastic a
What weve realized is we can try very hard to keep lead of the hackers but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information on to web sites. Right now there are legal prohibitions from the private sector what we want to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures very narrowly defined so very technical type of information. But for example of the various act that is have taken place, if we could broadly share that information then when one hack occurs one place hopefully at Network Speed we can widely share that vulnerability and so more broadly protect everyone. Tonight at 8 00 eastern. On thursday members of the house agriculture subcommittee heard testimony from federal and state agriculture officials on their agencys response to the 20142015 flu outbreak that killed an estimated 48 million edible fowl in the u. S. The witnesses said an outbreak could be as bad or worse than
Appropriately depending upon who did it and what they did, not how they did it. With regard to the Weapons Systems, the f35 that you mentioned, vast amounts of the code for the f35 systems were stolen before the plane ever flew. So, stolen by friendly asian government. [laughter] you may well think that in the future, if there were a war, if , Weapons Systems might roll out onto the battlefield and not work. Thank you very much. Were out of time. Thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] point weve seen over the years is not just economics, its the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in a news room. Because its troublesome. Its that more than the economics. If youre going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful, that gets those people running in to complain to the publisher and their stories have happened over the years. We were very fortunate all through the 1970s and almos