Committee will come to order good good morning everyone. I want to think all of you who are attending this important hearing. Today we are going to discuss the International Response of the covid19 pandemic and the future pandemic preparedness prevention and response. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced, the Global Health diplomacy act. It is written on paper, not on stone which will we will talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee will take up indeed, probably one of the weightiest matters that we will deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent covid virus type attack from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic is reaffirmed what we long have known and that is Infectious Diseases particularly those of a viral nature do not respect borders but they are a threat, a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on art of a sick responses to th
The a few metric i call ou iphone revenue better than expected at 33. 4 billiondollar. Ive nef due 7 a sequential improvement q 23 down 12 . Mac revenue a bit lighter than but wearables home and accessories better than expected at 6. 5 billion and Services Revenue up 18 . Also better than expected. 12. 5 billion the q 1 forecast, mel, apple a. M. Guiding between 85. 5 and 89. 5 the street at 87 billion one of the metric i call out china revenue down 2 . A sequential improvement in q 3. Down about 4 before i did have the chance to catch you have with tim cook we talked about trends and themes. One the competition in video streaming. Apple tv plus launching friday we now know that hbo max launches at 15. Apple tv plus at 5. I asked cook, is that hard and fast is that going to shift the cook telling me you know 5 is where we start but we will see what the future holds. I dont want to lock oh ourselves into one side or the other. We also did talk about supply of some of the new products th
Next, journalist andrew blum on his book the weather machine where he first the Technology Used to develop daily weather reports. From politics and prose bookstore in washington dc this runs one hour. Good evening everybody. Im the coowner of politics and prose along with my wife in on behalf of everyone here, welcome. Thank you for coming. Congratulations on here braving the weather to get your weather. What a great day to have a book about the weather, isnt it if you have been following the weather and who doesnt these days you will have noticed, at least two things. First, that it is getting weirder and wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures, greater extremes then seemingly of all times of the year. Second, forecasters are Getting Better at predicting what is about to hit us. They still dont get it right one 100 of the time, of course, but their accuracy is definitely improved and so has the timeliness of their reports. In fact, these days we are aware not
Technology used to develop daily weather reports. From politics and prose bookstore in washington dc this runs one hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening everyone of the coowner of politics and prose welcome thank you for coming and congratulations on getting here what a great day to have a book about the weather. If yousn have been following the weather you will have noticed at least two things, first is getting weirder and wilder with bigger storms and freezing temperatureses and greater extremes and second, forecasters are Getting Better at predicting what is about to hit us they still dont get it right 100 percent of the time so with the timeliness of their reports. These days not only of one weather model but of multiple ones simulating the atmosphere the north americanri model the european model, and a number of others forecasting not just todays weather or tomorrow that over the next ten days and beyond. Getting interestedlun he wasnt satisfied with the past explanation to
And wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures and greater extremes at seemingly all times of the year. And second, that forecasters are Getting Better at predicting whats about to hit us. They still dont get it right 100 of the time, of course, but their act rahs is city has definitely accuracy has definitely improved and so has the timelessness of their reports. In fact, these days were aware not only of one weather model, but of multiple ones simulating the future space of the atmosphere. Theres a north american model, the european model, the global one and a number of others, and theyre forecasting not todays weather or tomorrows, but weather over the next ten days and beyond. Andrew blum got interested in this stuff. He wasnt satisfied with the past explanations that attributed the advances in weather science simply to faster supercomputer ands better satellites. Andrews a journalist with a knack for making complex systems accessible as he did in his previous