Once again along the gulf coast. The story of this storm, this hurricane will be that of the flooding rainfall. Were talking about a catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding situation. As you mentioned from southern mississippi all the way over into southern alabama including the mobile area, also into the panhandle of florida where the conditions have been very serious out towards pensacola. Now the wind, intensity of the storm coming down, moves further inland this afternoon. It is slowly crawling inland, neil. Only five miles an hour. It means relentless rain will continue over the same hours for hours and hours, resulting in that flooding. If that flooding that were alerting people and businesses to across the southeastern United States as the storm continues to move off to the north and east, that risk for serious flooding is going expand into georgia and up towards the carolinas the next couple days. It is really important that people and businesses be prepared in those areas. T
Pennsylvania and is chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, that subcommittee is really key to telecom policy, isnt it . Guest it sure is but it is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telling mitigation policies and a lot of interesting type of issues with more to come. Host we will explore some of those in this next half hour but i want to start with some news that came out this week which is the sec declaring while way and is et corporations to security threats which what is your view of that . I think there is some validity to that and that is one of the reasons why you saw the bill we passed in the energy and Commerce Committee with greg and myself which is, now were just waiting for the appropriators to put some money in it because we estimated it will take one, 2 million to assist the Smaller Companies that fought that equipment to make that whole so we can remove the equipment and put the other equipment in. We
But essentially, monopolies and Financial Institutions that facilitate that monopolization across the country and thats what we are focused on. We have special concerns about the power of Big Technology platforms but in general we think that a lot of the economic and social problems that we are experiencing in this country today can trace back or be exact exacerbated by the dramatic outsized levels of Corporate Power that exists in our economy today. Host how did you come to that view . Guest we looked around at the world essentially. If you look at markets. If you look at Market Structure you will find that whether it is large markets like media, telecom, healthcare, online retail, amazon for example, or even small markets like Peanut Butter and cheerleading and watch components and software you have seen that over and over a handful of businesses and handful of corporations have rolled up those markets and essentially act as governing agents for other actors in that market. Host isnt
A way around the clock. Im phil gal welcome to the program the number of corona virus cases around the world is approaching a 1000000 the United States is worst hit with more than 200000 infections the death toll in the last day alone rose by 884. 00 a new record President Trump is warning america that there will be a horrific few days ahead the epicenter of americas corona Virus Outbreak the streets of new york deserted but ambulances are a constant presence on the streets the states death toll has doubled in just 3 days. A refrigerated truck was brought in to help this Brooklyn Hospital deal with a sharp rise in fatalities. Hospitals are running out of medications some hospitals dont have protective gear for staff or family members or patients that come to the hospital for running out of medications were running out of atlanta and but even running out of oxygen which is something that isnt to have posted until. The white house is projecting that the virus could claim up to 240000. 00
Around. Welcome to the program the number of coronavirus cases around the world is approaching a 1000000 the United States is worst hit with more than 200000 infections and the death toll has risen by a record 884 in the last day was new york city the epicenter of americas corona Virus Outbreak the streets of new york deserted. But ambulances are a constant presence on the streets the states death toll has doubled in just 3 days a refrigerated truck was brought in to hope this Brooklyn Hospital would deal with the shop rise in fatalities. Hospitals are running out of medications some hospitals dont have protective gear for staff or family members a Police Inspector into the hospital or running out of medications were running out of the building and but even running out of oxygen which is something that has been to have all been run through. The white house is projecting that the virus could climb up to 240000 lives across the country were told just by this pandemic authorities urging r