I would like to start this interview by talking a little bit about you. I would also like to have the audience in story. Like frankly really offended me which is in your introduction. Youre claiming that she would never be a political scientist. Have you ever read about that. I put that in the book because when i was in college. Deborah i wanted to major must consume in College Freedom is really torn about going into science and humanities printer special scientists. And i finally decided on this because i found the questions much more interesting and engaging an urgent. And in one of my Political Science course, we read plato on up and they were all great questions. What is Good Government greatest how could you organize government and organize society make life better for people are encouragingly make us better. Soy ended up to decide to be a Political Science major. Of course. And i already had kind of a lack of confidence as a humanist or social scientists because i didnt get very
Statewide restrictions on thanksgiving celebrations. We will show you the exchange. Chaos in the city in the state. Do as i say, not as i do we have been hearing a lot of that and rightly so because there are so many examples of democrats especially very rich democrats breaking the rules they impose on everyone else. Now, we find california Governor Newsom dined with Health Officials and lobbyists, no mask, inches from each other breaking his own rules. Theres the mayor of philadelphia squeezing in Indoor Dining hours before he banned it. Thanksgiving is one week away. How will america handle the lockdown when our leaders do what they please . Thats the same throughout the show. Not that Much Movement in stock prices of this morning with two days of decline taking the dow jones well below the 30000 level. Not Much Movement at this point. There is vaccine news. Phase two of the astrazeneca vaccine trial shows a strong immune response in older people, good news. It uses Different Technol
You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.
The Threat Landscape is diverse, the best practices are changing, the information you get may not always be reliable. The task can seem overwhelming and the stakes are high. In this context, i have found myself thinking effective cybersecurity cannot move at, quote, the speed of government. By that i mean cybersecurity is a 21st century Public Policy program just not manageable by 20th century government means. Regulations, mandates and centralized action in general, these approaches are inadequate to match the pace of change. Congress needs to make sure that the governments role in detecting and responding to cyberattacks is clearly defined, that theyre focused first and foremost on the security of federal information networks. Today well hear from the department of Homeland Security and their cybersecurity work. How it is evolving about their approach to this complex range of threats. With respect to individual actors and industries that are at their greatest risk of cyberattack, hea
Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll