At least six people are dead after several cars derailed falling on to a freeway in the inaugural runoff a new high speed amtrak route. The washington governor declaring a state of emergency we have a lot more on this ahead and its a critical week for the white house and republican lawmakers as they inch toward their first legislative win the senate in session the House Rules Committee meeting in about an hour to setup the final house vote on the tax bill tomorrow. We are going to tell you where things stand right now. And protecting the American People our homeland and our way of life President Trump unveiling his National Security strategy. The key details from the speech this afternoon. David meanwhile, stocks are surging to new highs on optimism the house and the senate will indeed pass this tax reform this week, Nicole Petallides is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole how much longer do trader s think this can go up . Theyre very optimistic they think its going to
And how to advance americas trade agenda to President Trump and the 115th congress. This is about an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president and ceo of the u. S. Council on competitiveness, the honorable deborah wincesmith. Good morning. Welcome to the 2016 National Competitiveness forum and the u. S. Council on competitivenesss 30th anniversary. Last night, many of you were with us at the Smithsonians National museum of American History and we were so pleased and delighted to celebrate with so many friends and colleagues from around the country and the world. The councils 30th anniversary and to honor two great leaders of american competitiveness for their contributions. The secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz and the long time science adviser, john hold wren. Today we have a full and engaging day of presentations and recommendations and we hope you all will participate in the conversation. Allow me to just share a few thoughts about todays anniversary forum. I
Tbp trusted Traveler Programs like global entry provide expedited processing for the preapproved participants through the use of automated kiosks. With the cbp officer and allows the cbp officer to focus on the security aspects of that inspection process. In the past year 16 airports have launched apcs and several more that plan to join by the end of this year. Had all these reports have launched these kiosks we seem average wait times decreased by 3035 after the installation of the kiosk. Weve also automated the form i 94, arrival and departure record for foreign visitors it we gather arrival and departure information automatically from electronic records making the entry process easier and faster for travelers in addition to reducing agency costs. We are looking at paper customs declaration forms and ways to automate or eliminate that process. So Waste Nuclear cbp in the future through the use of the internet, mobile device, kiosk. Just like the options of able when checking in for a
Overseas if we had a preclearance locations. We have global entry located overseas. We are working towards that together. The secretary is driven towards that goal and i think we are in the process of doing that. I would differ to my colleague from cbp to answer some of that as well. If you would please. Looking up at different arrival experience. Its getting rid of forms for them to fill out. Its motivating selfservice kiosk that not only gives them a better strength but helps us be more efficient and more secure in what we do. Saying things like global entry that frequent lowrisk travelers keeping a program like that. We are getting 60 to 70,000 applications a month for that program. Its been steady like that for the last yeartoyear and a ha half, tremendous uptick in that program. Usage can vary from five to 10 depending on the day the week but it tends to trend with business travel. Later in the week we see those percentages increase up to 10 of total arrivals. Automated passport c
To deploy automated passport control kiosks known as abc. These are like the exact change booths. The administrator portion of the arrivals process thereby reducing the overall interaction time with the cbp officer and allows the cbp officer to focus on the security aspects of that inspection process. In the past year 16 airports are launched apcs and several more planned to join by the end of year. All of these airports that have launched these kiosk we have seen average wait times decrease by 30 to 35 after the installation of kiosks. We have also automate the for 494 arriving at seaports of entry. We have the arrival information from electronic record taking into processes easier and faster for travelers in addition to using reducing hc cause. We are are looking for Paper Production formed to eliminate the process. We envision several ways to use the internet mobile device kiosk and seeing the options available like when checking in for flight. Effective secures should be a travel f