Not real front line stuff, but important in terms of back house. We have a lot of skilled professionals within the agency, many of whom are getting close to retirement and we dont necessarily have a lot of folks to come in after them, so we are really happy to be about to launch a partnership with a couple of the Machinist Union recollect local 1414 and Electrician Union local 6 together with the city. Well start apprenticeship programs for a number of our most critical difficult to fill and mission critically important craft positions we need. These are the fonegs maintaining the muneee and traffic and signal systems. We are joining to create these apprenticeship programs modeled an successful programs in place in the sit a such as labors local 261 and in addition we joined a National Partnership of transit agencies that are led by a Organization Called the Transportation Learning Center to develop rail car technician program. A small effort on our part we contribute to a larger effor
The hearing is just under three hours. Committee on health, education, labor and pensions, and the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, appropriations will come to order. In march of this year, Public Health officials reported an outbreak of ebola virus in guinea. Unlike past Ebola Outbreaks that it have been efficiently and effect if there stopped, this outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially catastrophic for the world. Due to the gravity of the situation, the danger poses not only to the affected region but also to our country, i have taken the unusual step of calling together this joint hearing of both the authorizing committee i chair and the appropriations subcommittee which funds it, which i also chair. We have come togetherred to to learn what can so we can Work Together over the coming weeks to stop this daysly plague. The extent of this epidemic is tragic and grows more serious with each passing day. The death toll is already far greater than
And we go to the arctic. Is there a new cold war . Art sales make records in new york. What is driving up the prices . We start in kenya where alshabab fighters have ambushed a bus and killed 28 civilians. The bus was traveling to nairobi. Harry smith has this report. Reporter witnesses say that the victims were forced from the bus at gunpoint. They were ordered to read passes from the quran to separate out the nonmuslims who were forced to lie down before being shot in the head one by one at point blank range. 60 passengers were on board. 28 were killed. 911 women and 19 men. The attack happened near the kenyan border near somalia. The bus was traveling to the capitol of nairobi. Its believed there were about ten gunmen, Kenyan Police say theyre trying to track them down. The kenyan government said it was determined to bring them to justice. They have been identified credit they come from, and we continue to make inroads to make sure that we bring to news those responsible. The Islami
Complete. Ord is yet that is exactly what we expect prosecutors to do in applying materiality standards to pretrial without any sense of the perspective of the defendant. Complicating the problem further, is the prosecutors dual role. Prosecutor is a minister of justice, but importantly a advocater is also an with the skills, the training and ability to effectively winecute cases and convictions. What is inherently difficult thet the prosecutor making materiality decision is that he cannot be neutral within this context. When deciding whether information is material or relevant, that is exactly what expected to do, to set aside their role as advocates, pour through the open mind,th an recognize the importance of the information to the defense, and an objective decision about whether or not to disclose it. Are subject to what psychologists call confirmation bias. Tend tons that we evaluate what we perceive in a way that is consistent with what believe. R a prosecutor with the responsibi
That more accurately was able to define this program in an ongoing manner, what would that look like . Ideally, if every vehicle on the road or at least a large sample on an ongoing basis were equipped with sophisticated Data Collection equipment, including cameras, that would give us a great deal of insight into many of the intervening factors of crashes, including drowsiness. Short of that, i would really like to see in the National Data , which i believe is the only ongoing data system that has the means to make a reasonable determination of andher a driver was drowsy whether fatigue contributed to the crash, not in the same way but much better than simple investigation of police reports. Collection system and to be beefed up in size a number of investigations were to be done each year and of ,ittle more depth were added analogous perhaps to the Motor Vehicle Crash Causation survey, which was a one time ever done to 2007, with not only the drivers but their families, their employees