Because so many cars have been put out of systems. This right here is called a side wrister. Bart is telling us this piece of equipment is what is getting burned out, receiving that high amount of voltage. This little part is about 1,000 to replace and can take up to 22 weeks on order. Joining us now is bart spokesman jim allison. Are you guys any closer to figuring out why this is happening . We are closer in the sense that we have located one spot between North Concord and pittsburg bay point where this is occurring. Its not intermittent. Its virtually every train that goes over that spot soifnlt that sense we are closer but in terms of saying this is what is causing it were still looking for. That. Reporter so this little part we were shown how its inside the bottom of the propulsion system and could take up to 22 weeks what. Are you guys doing to make sure these trains get repaired faster than 22 weeks . Two things. Were take these out of some of the car, making sure theyre still w
Called, shaping San Francisco. Thanks. Yee, welcome to cspan. Welcome to the vast audience at cspan programing across the United States and across the world. Were happy to have you all with us tonight at our shaping San Francisco talks. This talk tonight is on Synthetic Biology, diy meets big capital is the title they gave it. It is really borne out of a long interest i have had, in some ways the roots of shaping San Francisco which is Community Participatory history project but rooted in ses lendings acritical relationship to technology. We started in the mid 90s during the big boom then of interactive multimedia and kind of way before there was even web 1. 0 really. We were already working on this project. Weve gone through quite a few iterations. We all lived through endless rounds of hysteria technology will save us and take us to the Promised Land and so on and so one of the interesting topics for me is to try to think about what is the moment in history that youre living through
Nasa administrator Charles Bolden talked about the state of s. T. E. M. Previous champ a veteran education advocate dean kamen. This is about an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] i think we are wary. Ladies and gentlemen its a great pleasure to welcome you this morning to brookings. My name is john allen and on the codirector of the center for 21st century security and intelligence and with my fellow codirector dr. Michael ohanlon we welcome new bearing warmly this morning to the institution. Its been acknowledge that the underlying base for longterm American National power and prosperity requires an Education System where young individuals that excel in science, technology, engineering and math comes something called s. T. E. M. As noted by scholars here are kings and the metropolitan policy program s. T. E. M. Intensive industries produce about 2. 7 trillion dollars in added value to our economy and its about 17 of our gdp. Its a principle driver and productivity, growth and
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Americans interests. Like somehow they are running silicon valley. The reality is we started this 70 years ago as a radio enterprise. We still do some radio. But our ability to provide resources behind it is certainly there. We are no different from any other media company. The New York Times just has well has done a fantastic job. That is our mission is to shift resources, energy, focus and strategy to be more in the peertopeer conversations instead of the onetomany. So we can shift away from the stodgy old media to the new media. We cant leave people behind. Today is a good day to discuss north korea. The potential of a Hydrogen Bomb to have been tested. The only way to get into north korea is with shortwave radio. We do a very good job with that. We should not abandon shortwave radio just because its the only way. We recognize there are parts of the world where next Generation Media is critical, but other parts where it is not the time yet. Ron can you be critical of the u. S. Gover