Joining us to discuss this issue gigi sohn, former fcc chair tom wheelers adviser currently with the Georgetown Law Institute for technology. And the Senior Vice President at u. S. Telecom, trade Association Patrick halley washington, d. C. Give us of lawyers assessment of what the d. C. Court of appeals ruled. The d. C. Court of appeals ruled that the secs decision was permissible in the industry storing Internet Freedom order. And it was completely upheld. As a big win for consumers and innovators and a big win for broadband in america. Essentially, with the court said to that the secs decision regulate Broadband Internet access as an Information Service as it largely has been for the last 20 years outside of a twoyear. Under the title to order, was permissible. It is consistent with Supreme Court precedent and this d. C. Circuit judge going to make a determination that the fccs classification was incorrect. Because it is within their discretion as the Expert Agency to classify broad
This week on the communicators, discussion of the recent d. C. Court of appeals decision on internet regulation, also known as Net Neutrality. Joining us to discuss this issue gigi sohn, former fcc chair tom wheelers adviser, currently with the Georgetown Law Institute for technology. And the Senior Vice President at u. S. Telecom, trade Association Patrick halley washington, d. C. Give us of lawyers assessment of what the d. C. Court of appeals ruled. The d. C. Court of appeals ruled that the secs decision was permissible in the industry storing Internet Freedom order. It was completely upheld. It was a big win for consumers and innovators and a big win for broadband in america. Essentially, with the court said was that the secs decision to regulate Broadband Internet access as an Information Service as it largely has been for the last 20 years outside of a twoyear period. Under the title to order, was permissible. It is consistent with Supreme Court precedent and this d. C. Circuit j
Caucus along with representative doug collins, senator leahy and senator soon. The internet caucus was created 20 years ago to help inform the debate and discussion about key internet policy questions. Net neutrality is towards the top of that list even though all of us may not agree on how to approach Net Neutrality, this case is important for all of us. Im glad we get a chance to hear from different views on how we should be thinking about this. Net neutrality has been a top issue for many years. This case in particular is important for us. She led an amicus brief cosigned by 100 members of congress. Mozilla, the lead plaintiff is headquartered in our district. In sarasota county, also party to the case and this year we did a couple townhalls focused on Net Neutrality. I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say and others are too. On behalf of the caucus i think the panelists and moderator for spending time with us to inform this debate and i want to thank tim and the acade
So it may only be the nine. Okay, were watching a plane doing a fireso we have fire ret down. Weve got water drops. Can you talk a little bit more about the resources being used . Well, theres six dozers out here right now. We have six crews, six fire crews. Theres 15 engines, four water tenders, and theyre all working in harmony with the five air tankers. All right. All right, bruce lang from cal fire, we appreciate the information. We started watching this just after it broke out at 2 00 and, ama, the eyeball view here, we dont see active flames any more, so it looks like theyre getting a handle on this thing. I want to pinpoint the location for you. The fire is near Lake Berryessa and its forced the closure of highway 128 between markley cove and rag canyon road. People on the south side of the highway are being told that they need to get out, and well keep an eye on this fire and bring you any developments as they happen. But it does look like, as we mentioned, that progress is bei
We have not heard of any injuries or structures being damaged. You can stay up to date on the wildfire and any other breaking news by downloading the a brks krrc 7 news app. Enable the push alert feature to get updates as soon as they come into our newsroom. We dont see any flames there. We saw a lot of pyfires breakin out early in the afternoon. A caltrain struck and killed a person in burlingame. The station is near california drive and burlingame avenue. The person was hit where the north lane crosses the tracks. Here is visit owe from the citizen app with a person on the scene. Commuters should expect delays as long as 90 minutes. Caltrain tweeted ten minutes ago both tracks are open in the area where this incident happened. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. A date a couple marked as a wedding anniversary turn into a tragedy. They were crossing the street yesterday when they were hit by a car. The husband 39yearold Benjamin Dean was killed. His wi