Youre so gracious. Carry pop back to the earlier panel real quick . Engaging. You are very accessible in terms of answering questions and how are you doing this and what are people wearing. ,y question for this panel is how many people are in the press corps . Is about 40, im guessing. I wouldve thought twice as many. Peoplee are a number of who wear multiple hats. You could be sent off to boston and all the sorts of things. We are all aware of the strains that journalistic institutions and the media are under and the need to have fewer people covering more things. Technology can help with that. The number of people in the press room who are devoted to the Supreme Court correspondence has gone down materially. The core people you rely on, that you have known like these , those institutions remain committed. There are a lot of regional papers that have completely , some of theerage Television Networks have retrenched considerably. It is a smaller and smaller group. When i read something
Thinkprogress. Org. On december 1, is night and day from where it was. The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity at a greatly improved performance. Here is more. We start at the top of page six on Response Times. Response times, this is the measure of how quickly responds go to a user request. You can see on a bar on the lefthand side that in late october, the Response Time was running around eight seconds, which was clearly unacceptable and very frustrating for consumers. We now have much faster Response Times. The line graph shows average Response Time by day in the last three weeks. You can see the average Response Time is well under one second. The chart on the bottom of page six shows system error rate, another key operating metric. Oftens a measure of how the system presents an error message. You can see the progress that has been made. The far left shows where we were in late october with an error rate of approximately six percent. We got that down to two per
The phone conference with reporters is scheduled for this morning. Saw some articles this morning and Opinion Pieces looking ahead to 2016, elections in 2016, and some potential candidates for the president ial race, including governors. We will ask you whether you think governors make better president s. Here is how to join the conversation. We have also posted the question, to governors make better president s . On our facebook age. We would like to hear from you on twitter as well. cswj the next president should be an outsider just for sums perspective just for some perspective, this is from the center for the american governor at rutgers university. Particularly the last five governors to serve as president. Go back to franklin roosevelt, jimmy carter, Ronald Reagan, though clinton and finally george w. Bush. The question for you this morning, do governors make better president s . Caller good morning. , governor bushay of texas . Really . Do we really think you made a good preside
6 00 p. M. Eastern here on c span. It was like shock and all. I saw it, that looks that he had on his face, and i could close my eyes and i could see him on the stretcher right now. I could see him putting his hand up, i could see his eyes, i can just close my eyes and i could just see it. I will never forget that first case, that sort of bringing me to reality of what was going on here. Tent,ter he got into the there was this initial sort of triage, he gets there, we get the report, we see him, he goes into the tent, the team starts in,ork we got pulled myself and my colleague that gote the forward, we both pulled in because the other team wanted us to begin right away. It is not want us to be bystanders. They said you guys have to get involved right away. And once they did that, and they pulled us in, it was like a jolt. Wake up. Now you have to act. You have to be a doctor. You have to be a surgeon, you have to be a care provider, you have to dismiss your emotion, you have to, you k
I was part of the procuring team. Myself and some of our team members will outofstate to retrieve and harvest a heart and bring it back to a patient. It was a long night. Go . Ow far did you have to midwest. You live here in town. Yes or. What was the condition of the person you apart from . Obviously dead. Unfortunately, it is always a tragic story. Typically a young person because those are the most ideal candidates for organ transplants. Motor vehicle accident in this case. That is typically what it is. Some common denominator among all of the donors is that they have a brain death. That is what they succumb to and that is when they become candidates for organ donation. In this case, it was a Motor Vehicle accident, traumatic brain injury and the demise was brain death. Secrecy means you cant go too far with this. Absolutely. We have to protect the privacy not only of the donor and their family, but the recipient as well. It is something that we regard as a very precious gift that t