Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by xq institute. Bnsf railway. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff he is spending most of his time out of public view, but today, president elect trump was suddenly much more visible. Items on his agenda the cost of new president ial planes and prospects for new jobs in the telecommunications industry. The day started with a surprise appearance in the lobby of trump tower in new york. Mr. Trump lit into the boeing company over its contract to build two new versions of air force one. Its going to be over 4 billion, for the air force one program. And i think its ridiculous. I think boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money.
Out of the metro area. Zoom in and show you the area north and west of town, especially toward reston and fairfax. That is where the heavy duty rain is. It moves northeast and we will be dealing with it for a couple more hours. We will pull back a little bit. Here is a big picture of the heavy rain. Break to the west. Dark colors of the purple indicate where snow may be mixed in, in the higher mountainous areas of west virginia. The forecast on track and the rain will end. We m by dawn. Winds from the northwest 5 to 10. That is one story. The next story is the big cold blast coming in on friday. Jamie, we have a lot of wet leaves on lynn street. Is that messing up the rush hour or just the rain itself . Jamie its great combination that both of them wont make for a pretty afternoon commute. You can see behind me how wet the roads are. The leaves, that is where we need to focus on the side streets, the secondary roads. Its the visibility that drops down. We dont have any crashes but we h
What is on path and technology and i the Computer Science degree. I ended up being a photographer doing underwater pictures. I have been stuck back into technology recently. I am jonathan downey, the founder and ceo of airware. I started at boeing working on helicopter systems. I was briefly an airline pilot. I started airware to address some problems that i saw as an undergrad at m. I. T. In developing drones for specific applications. We develop platform of software and hardward that power drones. One thing we dont do is actually build the drones ourselves. I am the founder and ceo of skycatch. We build fully economist ground robots for collecting data. Some of our clients use these robots to collected all across their job sites. My goal is to help all of these companies with logistics. Help them optimize process and safety. I am very thankful to be here. First question is for chris where are we today with the underlying technologies that make these possible and where is it heading .
And operate, where there is very little air and where you need an incredibly light aircraft, which is in most cases not incredibly sturdy. But you have to fly through all the other layers of airspace to get up there. That is a difficult challenge. That is an altitude that is nearing space, so you have to harden the electronics and software to deal with things ike radiation. After dinner, you were talking about the fundamental technology. Similar to the technology of atellites. One thing we think a lot about, are we competing with satellite . The microsats, between elon musk and planet labs, map box, just bought by google, we saw this before. 15 years ago it was satellite phones versus cell phones. You put 64 satellites out there and cover the world. Why would you put cell phone towers every three miles . That is crazy, so expensive. Well, we saw how that ended up. It turned out the higher bandwidth and resolution of the terrestrial network beat the reach of the satellite network. Right
Guest it would be easy to buy a drone that has a camera. It would be easy to buy when they can fly 500 feet. To have someone read it with a weapon and fired from Remote Control, that is a military grade weapon. Just like people in the United States cant buy tanks, cap by fighter jets, there would be restrictions on that. This is not the kind of thing that someone would be able to cook up in the garage. I am sure the authorities would have concerned about anybody flying a weaponize drone. There would be a stop put to that very quickly. By the end ofid this year they will introduce proposed rules for flying small drones. They mean it five pounds or less. They mean 55 pounds or less. This is where the burst in market will be. They dont need to fly at high altitudes. Aircraft youind of can fly. Here is where you can fly them. Here is who can fly them. It will take another year or so to take them Public Comment and finalize the rules. That will be the first days that we will see in the next