Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority, prepa, welcome, thank you for being here this morning. Mr. Julio rhymer executive director for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. You will be followed by mr. Jose ramon morales, we welcome you. And finally we will have ms. Natalie, the executive director for the financial oversight and Management Board for puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes. Your full testimony will be included as part of the record. But i do know that colleagues have questions. As you have obviously seen from that first panel there were some directed to our governors that they deferred until we had the expertise from this panel. So hopefully youll be able to address those questions either in your Opening Statements or in your follow on questions. So with that, mr. Ramos, if you would like to lead off the panel. Welcome. Chairman murkowski, Ranking Mem
Mr. Julio is the executive director, the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and power authority, thank you for joining us. He will be followed by mr. Jose morales who is the acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you, and finally we will have natalie who is the executive director for the Management Board for puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes, your full testimony will be included as part of the record but i do know colleagues have questions as you have obviously seen from the first panel, there was some directed to our governors that they different so we had the expertise from this panel. Hopefully you will be able to address those in your Opening Statement or in your followon questions. Welcome. German murkowski, Ranking Member cantwell and senators, thank you very much for the opportunity to appear today. Although i am present here physically, my thoughts, my focus are on the people of pu
Life to alexa, with light bulbs connected to firmware. My wife is not very happy with this, but i keep telling her, jen, it is Getting Better and better. Soon before you know it turning on the lights will be as easy as flipping a switch. [laughter] Household Items are the least important part of iot. Enterprise and industrial use will help us allocate resources more efficiently. There were two principal challenges well talk about. First is the network, which is what kind of infrastructure do we need to facilitate robust iot that need complete ubiquitous coverage but dont need to send videos to each other. Second, how do we secure the network. It is one thing for the terrorist to know that i need more ice cream, but its another when you talk about your self driving car or the electrical grid. We have a great panel today to discuss these issues. Again lets introduce them quickly and then we will go to discussion. Ralph alderfer, Vice President technology at cable outcome of Global Innova
101, embers from the structure fire started a brush fire. The chp had to close one southbound lane. Both fires are now out. The crews will be spending the next several hours mopping up. Live in san jose, abc7 news. Thank you. Watch out heads up fire destroyed a house in vallejo today. I started at 2 00 this afternoon. Firefighters did keep it from reaching other homes but this house is a total loss. Arson is suspected in a fire on Howard Street in San Francisco. Firefighters believe someone set far to this parked truck 4 00 this afternoon. Young see the tire is melted. The entire hood is charred. Police have not said if they have a suspect in custody. A major road closure in San Francisco should kole to an en. Doyle construction should wrap up by midnight. Reporter from the looks of things you can get a really good appreciation just how much has been completed this weekend. If you have driven through here you may remember that traffic used to drive around the tunnels. Now you can see b
Over the bay bridge and the port of oakland from the exploritorium and our day map certificate off to a mild start 56 in the north bay to 64 elsewhere, and it should be total sunshine with lingering clouds at the coast and 54 to 76 inland, and pretty warm inland mid80s and mid60s at the coast and in the low 60s to mid70s a very quiet evening. A twist in the forecast with thunderstorms maybe this weekend. I will let you know. Thank you, mike. On the highways this morning . On the highways and the tracks, and now we have an issue at five or 10 minutes delay systemwide on bart because of morning track inspection. All to make the ride safer but that will cause you to have to wait a couple of extra minutes on the platforms. Here is a look at the Golden Gate Bridge working hard to improve the lanes headed into marin is light. Moving over to the san mateo bridge drops on the lens and some drizzle as you travel between the peninsula into San Francisco and it looks like it is on the east bay si