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Thank you. We begin the second panel again with distinguished group of individuals. Who are prepared to continue the conversation relating to the after math of hurricanes irma and maria. On puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. The second panel will be led by mr. Ramos. Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Mr. Rimer. Is the executive director the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Rhymer. He will be followed by mr. Jose. The acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you. And finally well have ms. Natalie the executive director. For puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes. Your full testimony will be included as part of the record. But i do know that colleagues have questions. You have obviously seen from the first panel there was some directed to the governors that they deferred until w
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a week ago that senators cassdy, franken and i along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors. For your hospitality. The time you gave us during that visit. It was incredibly important i think for all of us to see to be on it ground and to be hearing directly from you and those that you are working with. I know that some other members of our commi
Your money, your life, your future. We begin with a cyber threat to your health. Medical devices like insulin pumps could be vulnerable to an attack from hackers. Reporter meg tirrell with a Cyber Security risk is something you may not have thought about. Hacking your health is had weeks cover story. Reporter more than 100,000 people with diabetes eventually got a strange letter from johnson johnson. The health care giant was warning them of a Cyber Security risk with one of its insulin pumps. The onetouch ping insulin pump system comes with a remote control. To enable delivery of insulin. J j says no one has been harmed in this way but it is possible someone could hack into the device and control insulin delivery. We need to give users and patients the information so that way they can determine if its too risky for them or if its not risky for them. Reporter Jay Radcliffe is the researcher who made the discovery. While he works in Cyber Security at firm rapid seven, his work on the in
With the nasdaq sitting just points away from the an alltime high, the five largest publicly traded companies today are all in the tech sector. Apple, which is worth more than 600 billion, alphabet, parent of google, microsoft, amazon and facebook valued at more than 360 billion are the companies with theiggest market capitalizations. List looks a lot different than it did just a handful of years ago. When industrial names like exxonmobil, General Electric and tech name ibm held the title of worlds most valuable. So what does this shift to Tech Companies being the most valuable publicly traded companies, and what does it suggest for the economy . Particularly since Tech Companies hire less workers . Kathryn rampell, columnist at the Washington Post joins us tonight where she focuses on economic and public policy. Nice to have you with us, kathryn. Welcome. Good to be here. Lets start with what you think this does mean for the economy. Obviously, you know, technology has been the drivin