Of commerce. Our principle functions involve managing the use of spectrum by federal agencies, we have overseen a Broadband Access and Adoption Program started with the recovery act in 2009. We are overseeing the Public Safety Broadband Network development by firstnet. Then we spend a lot of time on internet policy matters both domestic and international. Host and that is where we want to start. One of the issues you have been working on is ican and whether or not it should be turned over to a group of international stakeholders. Is that on tract to happen in september . Guest in the community, yes,. In the sense of you have to go back to 1997 and 98 for the origins. But in 97, the Clinton Administration felt given the choice of having the internet grouped by government or private sector the choice was lets make sure the prive private sector managers this. So this started a long odyssey to get to where we could complete the naming. Two years ago, in the hopes of completing the privitiv
Interesting, when the breach occurred for us, how many folks said we have time, we do not need to go to market. We just have to figure this out. Lets run and out as long as we can. Contrary to that, i collect human nature, wanting to slow. Alk it within the boundaries of regulation, do not get me wrong, we made the decision to get to market faster get the message by to our 40 million members both email as well as firstclass mail in order to inform them of the breach. So is something you have to deal with and overcome the personal sense of threat that people have that it exposes, that they do not know what they do not know. Is, thelast thing considerations, which is, i do not have the dollars or whatever i do not have, and therefore i cannot. It is that old saying, if you say you cant, then you wont. I think the final piece of the puzzle, leadership has to project a commanding presence that this is not going to be business as usual. The realization whether it is me as a ceo or anyone of
Theres been flooding progressively more and more as the day goes on. Its just getting worse. Right now at 10 00, the death toll climbs in louisiana and more rain is on the way. Saw a few more shots. Panic at a mall in North Carolina. What witnesses say led to the shooting. Just really excited to have them. Plus a big wish leads to a special delivery for a 15yearold girl, why she is so deserving. Youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Im haley hinds. Im lloyd sowers. We begin with the flooding emergency in louisiana, at least three people have died, more than a thousand people have been rescued as floodwaters continue to rise. As fox 13s will carr reports, evacuations are underway. Torrential rainfall that has swamped the state, causing widespread flooding. The water would get high. The slow moving expected to dump more rain over the weekend. Governor John Bell Edwards said, residents advised to evacuate, should do so immediately. We dont know how wide the water is going t
Cybersecurity and elections very seriously. At the same time we face many other challenges to ensure every vote counts if we count both. Some of the challenges are the direct result of human action related to Older Technology and as we have seen in the past even face risks from natural events such as major storms. I would like each of you to comment on how you would rate the current cybersecurity risk in the upcoming election as it relates to other issues. From my perspective, my entire orientation and of my organization it is looking at the cybersecurity risks and threats and so all of the other things youve talked about our outside of our purview with one exception which is the Contingency Planning that the state and other jurisdictions and local jurisdictions are encouraged to do under the voluntary system guidelines can also protect against these other kinds of natural disasters and other things youve referenced. I would put at risk again as i indicated on election day very low for
And wed like to welcome back to te communicators Lawrence Strickling whos the administrator of the National Telecommunications and information administration. Mr. Strickling, if you start by telling us what it is you do and where you are in the organizational chart. Guest sure, peter. And thank you for having me back. I think its our third or fourth visit to the communicators, and we always enjoy our opportunity to sit down with you and your guests to talk about telecommunications policy. Ntia is the principal adviser to the president on telecommunications and information policy issues. Were not a regulatory agency, thats the province of the federal communications commission. But we do work on internet policy, broadband spectrum, now Public Safety is a big part of our portfolio. So we cover a wide variety of telecommunications, internet information topics. Host well, and i know youre contained within the commerce department, correct . Guest thats correct. Host lets start with the inter