The u. S. Chamber of commerce hosted an infrastructure conference in washington, d. C. With members of congress, Biden Administration officials and state and local leaders to discuss legislation by the ten year and how it applied to workforce training, manufacturing and the electrical grid. The event began with keynote remarks by the acting labor secretary. This is about four hours. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the director at united infrastructure. Good morning. How is everyone doing this morning. Fantastic. I know the rain just started, so a perfect reason to get everyone started inside. I love seeing a room starting to get filled up with infrastructure nerds like myself. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024. Very exciting. I am supremely honored. Many of you have been with us just twota years ago its fantastic leading this wonderful coalition of organizations and associations and private Sector Companies so many of you are here in this room with us today thank you for your su
That may or may not exist, but certainly, the u. S. Has tried to be as transparent as possible with regard to Space Programs explaining even in the face of narratives that certain of our capacities are weaponized when theyre not, so i would refer you to some of the Good Communications what were doing in space, the clarification and transparency provided both by the space force you can finish watching this at cspan. Org. We are going 0 to take you to an infrastructure conference. Live coverage on cspan2. Inside this beautiful space, thank you all for taking the time this morning to be here with us. I love seeing a room starting to get slowly filled up with a bunch of infrastructure nerds like myself. Thank you, fantastic. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024, exciting, yes, amazing. [applause] im ross, leading from my post at accelerator for more action. And many of you have been with us since we take the rains two years ago, a fantastic two years leading this wonderful coalition of orga
thank you, thank you very much. statewide leaders, legislators and special guests, thank you for the warm welcome and the honor of being here today to present the state of the state. it was not too long ago that i stood here and laid out a bold plan for the future of missouri. back then, many were worried about the direction of our state. some of you were probably worried about how your new governor would league and address the problems within missouri. but because i love this state and the people of the state, i knew i was ready for that challenge and with your help, ready to chart a new path for missouri, a path that would push just to the forefront of the nation, providing more opportunities for our citizens and make missouri a destination for others around the country ready to embrace our show me way of life. i also want to thank the many of you in this room and the thousands around the state who had confidence in me, supported my vision and offered me patients at a tryin
Health measures. Americans celebrate thanksgiving next week, sitting around the table with loved wunlz is a tradition, would be more welcome after months of covid distancing. Science says dont, or scale back because it is too risky. New numbers leave no doubt. Daily case average is 155,000 infections per day. The United States racked up nearing 1. 1 million cases in just the last seven days. Maybe most troubling, hospitalizations across the country, you see the map there, hitting record levels. 73,000 patients hospitalized monday. Emergency room staff around the country will soon be overwhelmed if not already. And rise in infections guarantees that number indeed will climb. New weekly report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force Says theres zero evidence things are getting better, and the u. S. Is battling, quote, aggressive, unrelenting, expanding Broad Community spread. Most communities are talking like dr. Fauci, asking you to be extra careful and for a few more months until v
cities, k cpd has struggled to replace more than 100 officers who left the force over the past year. just last week chief rick smith called for additional funding and warned that response times would likely go up without it. so with all of the unknowns about the city s new plan and how it could play out, some folks in the community are concerned it could make things worse. where are the police at where the killing at? i m still thinking defining it, would mess it up in that area because we barely got them now. a group of state lawmakers from the areas say the changes are dangerous and radical and they are calling on the governor to call a special session to stop them from going into effect. harris. harris: garrett tenney, thank you very much. quintin lucas, the mayor of kansas city, missouri is in the faulkner focus now. mayor lucas, good to have you on the program. i will start here. other places have tried defund and it has been a dismal