At the hearing will come to order. I am pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasas fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot my works well together during his tenure as the director of nasas Flight Center in huntsville alabama. Mr. Lightfoot thank you for serving as nasas leader during this time of change and i appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 from the current year level. While this overall cut is less than many other agencies that have experienced the president s budget request reflects a significant reduction of 561 million dollars. This budget request attempts to navigate a challenging fiscal environment that would disrupt Ongoing Missions and delay future explorations for years to come. There are proposals to eliminate the entire education director at using the ration
Im pleased to the subcommittee hearing to the budget request. We have worked well together in his tenure for nasas marshall license center. Mr. Lightfoot thank you for serving as nasas leader during this time of change and i appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 from the current year level. While this overall cut is less than many other agencies that have experienced the president s budget request reflects a significant reduction of 561 million dollars. This budget request attempts to navigate a challenging fiscal environment that would disrupt Ongoing Missions and delay future explorations for years to come. There are proposals to eliminate the entire education director at using the rationale that nasa can do without these programs under a budget. Other Research Programs are left with Financial Resources which make it impossible for nasa to meet its own management plans. Hu
Ambassador altidor. [applause] i know we had to leave shortly, but will turn to the next panel for judith to take over. Thank you very much, ambassador altidor for those remarks and being so candid and open with us and passionate about the future of haiti. Thank you. So now, we are going to turn to a panel of people who will bring some experience they have encountered working on the ground to tell you about some of the important accomplishments and challenges they are encountering. But pamela coe, have a coffee break at the end of it. At the panda will go for about an hour. Each of them will speak for about 20 minutes and then have a joint question and answer for both of them. You have their biographies and a section of paper attached to the program, so i wont read it all to you. But just to say that to my immediate left, its a great pleasure to have Elizabeth Lake with us who is Senior Vice President for advocacy and Governor Affairs for habitat for Humanity International. Youve all h
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Im excited about this underwater lab. They call it aquarius. What was Kerry Sanders doing there . He was preparing. Oh, yeah. His mask. He is not the guy thats going to try to set a record. Hes going to be the guy that shows us. Regulator. Hes very regular right now. Sometimes irregular. Anyway, well check in with kerry a little later in the show. But we want to get right to our top story. Its the latest details on the troubled life of the man responsible for the mass killing at the navy yard on monday. Officials dont yet know the motive here. Theyre getting a clearer picture of the events leading up to it. Nbc justice colonel correspondent Pete Williams has the update. Good morning. Good morning. Theyre finding evidence that aaron alexis w