Coming up on afternoon live. All the sport, with huw ferris. Thats right. Pyeongchang, day five. The colours campaign thats right. Pyeongchang, day five. The colours campaign has begun. Three matches so far, two wins and one defeat as both the mens and womens teams hope for a medal. All the details coming up. Chris fawkes is with a rather lovely sunset this valentines day. Is with a rather lovely sunset this valentines day. Romantic skiesjust for you, simon there have been some fantastic skies, ill be affecting widely have been so good today ill widely have been so good today ill be explaining why they have been so good today, also some snow in the north. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Thousands of eight and nine year olds at Primary School will take a new times tables test this spring. But does it add up . Well be talking to a master of maths johnny ball. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im simon mignolet. Im simon mignolet. Im simon mccoy. Remainers stay calm, brexits for you
Federal officials in the center for Transgender Equality much of the hearing focused on how the tsa treats transgender and disabled travelers college homeland hearing. The Senate Committee is meeting to examine the efforts to engage with the traveling public and when it is positive, successful for most americans tsa is in Homeland Security component they regularly interact with. By screening over 2 million passengers per day tsa Center Acting with a diverse array tss had certainly look at issues and other times it just operations to improve effectiveness tsa has struggled to communicate with the public. Back of Stakeholder Engagement has led to confusion among travelers, airports and the tsa all personnel. This new procedure called enhance accessible screening was met with some confusion as travelers to not understand the reasoning behind the new procedures. Rises and falls in the agencys ability to consistently apply among the system. Identifying and understanding public needs and eff
Travelers from religious and transgender communities have expressed with the patdown process at airports. Lets get going. The committee on Homeland Security, subcommittee transportation, prodirection security will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to examine tsas efforts to effectively engage with the traveling public in a manner that is positive, respectful and leads to the success of the agencys mission to secure the Aviation System from threats. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. For most american, tsa is the most visible component of the department of Homeland Security, and the only Homeland Security component which they regularly interact with. By screening over 2 million passengers per day, tsa is constantly interacting with the diverse array of individuals all of whom are worthy of the utmost respect, efficiency and security. Over the course of its history, tsa has had to at times skwiftly had to implement new security measures in response to changin
I am excited about this idea. Of course, it really follows through with work that course and my friend, john shaw has done an inspired me to have a new chapter in my life after the senate and continuing to think about the rest of the world, think about ways in which those who withdraw for service might be more effective and more humane. Let me just say at the outset that this is an exciting day to talk about a new book above john f. Kennedy, the pathway to the presidency. It is an exciting book. When i first read i wrote back to him. He may recall this very short letter. John, i wish that i have had this book before i tried to run for president in 1995. It really has been most instructive, and some of the things i learned from the buck book in retrospect, although i do not intend to run again for presidency. I want to reassure you well that you really have to want to do it full time. As this book will illustrate, from the time that john kennedy entered his second term in the senate lif
Okay. Good morning everybody, im particularly excited to introduce this event. When we first began discussing the programming, this is the first panel that we thought of and weve been looking forward to it ever since. People have been writing about warfare ever since we had the book. And all our panelists write brilliantly on the topic but each brings a very different perspective. We have a slight change to our published program in their moderator will be sky montgomery from the Camden Institute of the university of missouri. Im grateful to her for stepping in on short notice so join me in welcoming sky, ishmael beah, Gregory Fontenot, Candice Millard and Whitney Terrell. [applause] thank you very much for that warm introduction. As long as human beings have been waging war, they been selling bad stories. Whether its to celebrate the heroic or merely make sense out of the chaos of combat, we can conclude something of the universality of war to the Human Experience from the fact that pl