Tell michelle i said hi. Irs commissioner John Koskinen delivered the keynote address at a luncheon hosted by the National Press club here in washington, d. C. Ahead of tomorrows tax day, he focused on efforts the federal agency has made to better meet taxpayer needs for filing taxes. After his remarks, commissioner koskinen took questions from the auds je audience. I served as the 104th president of the club, and im standing in today for our 110th president who is away on assignment because we still has to make a paycheck as opposed to this volunteer gig. Island li id like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences today. You can follow the action on twitter using npclive. Id ask that you each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. To the audience, please hold your applause until i have finish finished introducing the entire head table. Government executive media group. A senior associate editor. Dell wilber, reporter with los angeles times. Mark schiff, Senior Reporter
Table. Government executive media group. Mark wineo, senior associate editor, proud Buffalo Bills fan. Mark chef, Senior Reporter at investment news. Margaret johnson, Information Technology specialist for the irs, a guest of our speaker. Alli verspill, michael lynn, digit digital strategist. Lisa matthews, the npc headliners cochair who organized today. Skipping over our guest for the moment, kelly herb, Senior Editor at forbes. Lawyer ri russo. Thank you for helping out today. Meg megan o neil. And caroline block. Thank you all, and a round of applause, please. [ applause ] in what has become a National Press Club Tradition we have grateful that the commissioner has accepted our invitation to talk about all thing ace soesso with that five letter word, taxes. They run from soccer to taxes to how computers to react to once in one thousand year events. The budget blueprint called for a 239 million cut to the irs budget following the demise of the Health Care Act in the house. Lawmakers
To come together to propose realistic ideas for the coexistence in the upper bands and to do so quickly. Satellite and terrestrial stakeholders have suggested a range of sharing options, and the draft spectrum front to order seeks to provide a balanced solution that addresses the needs of both parties. I am confident that we will adopt rules that will enable satellite, terrestrial and federal operations to coexist and thrive. To make sure we have this connectivity with high band spectrum will require a lot more small cells which means a lot more decisions by local governments. Thats what is important to commission strengthened our environmental and Historical Preservation rules and kind for citing application reduce. Americas local governments will play an Important Role in determining how we fulfill this national priority. Or in addition all the small cells need to be connected so we wanted a lot more back. Thats just we dont address the are perceiving a Business Data Services, the ki
It wont be impacting our area. It will move out to sea once it tries to skim the North Carolina coast. It is starting to move away from the United States right now. Temperaturewise locally we are warm and muggy this morning. Also dont forget your sevenday forecast as always is at the bottom of the screen for you. 68 degrees wilmington, delaware. Mid60s, through 70 through most of south jersey this morning. Well take a closer look at your philadelphia neighborhoods, West Mount Airy coming in at 69 degrees. 72 society hill, fox chase coming in at 71 as well as bustleton. Now, as we go through the day today, well warm up. For now, though, all of our cameras looking nice and sunny across the area. Plenty of sunshine, temperatures will be quickly jumping up as we go through this afternoon. Very quickly with all this sun and a warm south wind. As we go through the 8 00 a. M. Hour, 74 degrees in philadelphia. Already 81 degrees by 11 00 today. Yes, those 80s will quickly be approaching throug
His own house while his mother cooked dinner. I think im shot. I see blood. I couldnt find no hole or nothing. And little mark said no, im shot. And i turned him around, and he had a hole in his chest. That boy was shot late last night in chester in the one place his mother says she thought he would be safe. Nbc10s tim furlong spoke to his family in the hospital today. Saying the boy is lucky to be alive, a bullet missed his vital organs by millimeters. Tonight, hes scared, but you can see from this exclusive video inside his hospital room, he looks like hes going to be okay. Listen to the cell phone video as mark gives his family an update on his condition. Feeling better, guys. Last night, the 5yearold was shot through the window of his home. He and his family were in the kitchen making a snack. Thats when the madness broke out behind their home in this Public Housing complex. Everyone heard the shooting. Good pow, pow, pow, whole lot of that. Marks family hit the floor, mom yanked h