Improve wea message content, delivery, training and outreach. With respect to message content, we would increase the maximum message length from 90 to 360 characters for 4g, lte and future networks. Wed significantly improve the quality of information that alert originators are able to transmit by requiring participating wireless carriers to support embedded urls and phone numbers in all wea messages, including amber alerts within one year of the rules publication in the federal register. This would enable the public to view a photo or place a call to authorities by simply clicking on a link in a wea alert. We would create a new alert classification for Public Safety messages, defined as essential Public Safety advisories that prescribe one or more actions likely to save lives or safeguard property. We would also require carriers to support transmission 5 alerts in spanish. The order would also adopt rules to meet originators needs for the delivery of alerts, specifically, wed require
Up next on American History tv, the Treasury Department hosts a ceremony to rename the Treasury Building to freedmans Bank Building. This is about 30 minutes. Brodi fontenot good afternoon. My name is Brodi Fontenot, and i have the assistant secretary for management here at the Treasury Department. Thank you all for being here today. Those of you joining us virtually as well. It is a tremendous privilege to come to work here at the Treasury Department every day in this historic building, knowing that for more than a century, decisions made in this building have impacted the lives of our fellow citizens. I am honored to work for secretary lew, a tireless leader and advocate for the cause of the institution. Often times in the day to day routine, it is easy to forget the historic significance of the institution we work for, the legacy that we are a small part of, and the people we serve. Today, we take a small step in preserving the history of the building and the legacy of service and i
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Half. Good evening. Tha thanks so much for coming. We have a number of thank yous. Executive deep, nation institute, the guardian and others worked to make it possible. We obviously have a special thank you to watching and who came out tonight. It is being live streamed and taped for book tv and free speech television. So i would ask everybody to check cell phones to make sure it is off. And just so you know it is being filmed. We will take questions and pass around note cards and reading them from up here so they can be part of the live stream and booktv. There is going to be a book signing afterwards as well. Hey market books has a table d gary is going to be signing. I went to washington, d. C. This weekend and had a couple extra hours. I went to see the king memorial. How many people have seen it . It is exceedingly depressing. The original plans for the monument included plans to honor other martyrs but they were scrapped. King towers over us. 14 quotes on the equal. And not one u
The communicators today is ajit pai. This is the week the decision came down and i want to read your response on this for the second time in four years the washington, d. C. Circuit ruled the fcc exceed their authority in attempting to regulate the internet. It is time for the fcc to take no for an answer. That is my statement. Thanks for having me back on the communicators. My statement would be to not repeal the decision and let congress specify what thank you the authority should be. I think we should incentivize the Broadband Authority and create cuttingedge application. Didnt it leave the door open for the fcc . I think as i said earlier the better core, even if the fcc has the option of moving forward with internet regulation, would be to let Congress Take the lead in terms of what, if anything, happens. The new chair, tom wheeler, hear is a portion of his statement we will consider all available option including those for appeal to insure the networks on which the internet depen