Spring. Live coverage on cspan2. This is expected to get started in just a couple of moments. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are live at the Hudson Institute for discussion on effective preparedness, response and recovery from biological and chemical threats. At a long discussion includes the Blue Ribbon Study Panel Blue Ribbon Study Panel on biodefense but among those you will hear from former connecticut senator Joe Lieberman secretary tom ridge, former senator tom daschle and former hhs secretary Donna Shalala. This is expected to start momentarily. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] again we are live at the Hudson Institute this morning waiting for the start of the discussion on biodefense but it should get unde
Specific do you think we couldve done it within 24 hours . Then we look at the information that we had at the moment that we heard about the event and the first 24 hours, 48 hours and you watched how the information changed and you saw that most of the time the initial information was not 100 correct. And evolves over time. So you are dealing with this evolving situation, uncertainty ambiguity, yet you still need act. And i think the importance of leadership is in that type of an environment where the information is never going to be complete but its going to be inexact. Is going to be a lot of ambiguity. You will be looking through the fog. You are going to need to be able to give advice or someone is going to need to be able to give advice to leadership in terms of options of actions. That needs to be as informed as it can be. So i think having someone like a bobcat like whos been in biodefense for a long time uzbek bob kadlec, or an individual like they been able to offer that kind
Accidental hazard material and chemical terrorist attack is the necessity of working with federal, state and local Law Enforcement agencies to preserve evidence and maintain seen security for the criminal investigation. A little bit more complex situation might involve an Infectious Disease such as smallpox and in that event, the Public Health community would play a larger role in working with us to manage that incident. It would be important to track down who was exposed to the disease and who came in contact with these patients in this type of event this is where you see symptoms they not be present or may not arise immediately, but in the doing days. Although each of these agents are chemical involved, might have their own intricacies. There are some commonalities within response to a chemical or biological attack. Firstly Accurate Information is one of the most aspect of that. One of the goals of a terrorist attack is to cause public panic. It is important Accurate Information abou
Rational place should be a complete nobrainer. Its a bill called know before you go. And the idea is quite simple. Lets do to Higher Education what weve done to real estate with the zillow web site or what weve done with the travel pricing, with travelocity and a series of other web sites, and try to take every fouryear institution, twoyear institution, career and Technical Education program, graduate program and make them totally transparent on a single, userfriendly web site, where before you go, you know what your chances of graduating, how much debt you might want to take on. If you major in art history the way my daughter did, whats your chance of getting a job and how much is it going to pay. So that we can actually make People Better informed consumers before they choose Higher Education. Higher education is probably next to buying probably next to buying a house is the most expensive investment youll make in a lifetime. Just maybe students might find out that if you go to u. V.
Incompetence release them early without any kind of records. There was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. These guys are deftly coming here and coming to the United States. Theyre going to wreak havoc and as a result Border Patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and Nothing Happened but the point is because American Immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. Instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers . Theyre more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor Market Conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. They are more concerned with where a highskilled immigrants will take a Conference Call with her is at his home or whether that home is listed as a p