And the medias role in covering the president ial race. Washington journal, live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. March is womens history month. Were honoring it with a discussion with president ial historian Richard Norton smith. He sits down with cspans ceo susan swayne to discuss first ladies. Focusing on the unique partnerships and ambitions of the first ladies. Thats saturday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The future of Space Exploration was the focus of a discussion at the National Press club in washington, d. C. Today. We heard from members of the coalition that released a joint report called, ensuring u. S. Leadership in space. This is just under an hour. Welcome to our news maker this morning. Im the chairman of the news maker committee here at the National Press club. Were delighted to have you here. Im also delighted to say that, david hogue who is here in the front row, not only a journalist but just became the deputy chair of our committee. Glad to have you here.
Connected vehicles or autonomous selfdriving vehicles. Department of transportation thinks of this as connected automation. Its really both. They both give you sort of added safety. Connected vehicles or basically v to v, vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, v to x or anything else, basically theyre all going to be able to talk. What we know is studies so far suggest that even two applications of v to v could prevent 600,000 crashes and save 1,000 lives. So it has huge opportunity overall. Potentially 80 of crashes that dont involve an impaired driver could be prevented with v to v. So we have actually introduced a rule making which has been accepted by omb for review just to try to set up a consistent piece of equipment that would be used for the whole system in the United States. Okay. When do you anticipate this being online . Or you know, are constituents the availability. Give me a timeline on that. Right now its been accepted by omb as under review. Thats kind of where
Bill . We havent hit 80 degrees yet but well see a big warmup today. The temperatures are starting off cool in some areas, 37 degrees, on the chilly side for south jersey. Thats a live view from south jersey, 37 degrees right now. But look at delaware. 46 degrees, will be warming up significantly during the day. And the pennsylvania suburbs right now at 50 degrees but we will see the temperatures climb steadily as the day goes on. After they come down a little more just after sunrise, 49 degrees, 10 00, 63 degrees in yardley. For philadelphia, starting off at 50 degrees and a good warmup, a fast warmup, 51 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00, 62 degrees. At the bottom of the screen, you can see the sevenday forecast. That shows warming temperatures today near 80 but somewhat cooler temperatures to come. Ill go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in just a few minutes. Jessica boyington is watching first alert traffic. Jessie . Thats right, bill, were watching the vine s
That chinas growth might challenge the u. S. Leading position in world. My question for president xi, what is your view of current United States and china current policy, thank you . Thank you. In my view the u. S. In economic, military has remarkable strength and other countries in the world are developing. Still u. S. Incompared advantages. Today an area of globalization where countries are interdependent of each other. People should move ahead with the time and establish a new concept of Peaceful Development and cooperation. If china develops well, it would benefit the whole world and the United States. If the u. S. Develops well. It will also benefit the world and china. Chinas policy towards the u. S. Is consistent and transparent as the worlds biggest developing country and as the world two biggest economist our economy ies and our both sides also have certain differences, but common interest outweigh those differences. Its my sincere hope that will proceed, make joint efforts to
Operations. But even though were doing more than weve ever done before, its not enough relative to the need. Contributions are urgently needed. The second prong of our response is diplomacy on humanitarian issues. For several years, we have engaged government officials in the region to encourage them to keep borders open, allow refugees to enter their countries, authorize the work of leading humanitarian organizations, and allow refugees to pursue normal life, as normal as possible given what they have been through. We are part of a chorus of nations that call for the respect of humanitarian principles, even inside syria in wartime. Diplomacy on humanitarian issues means working constructively with other nations to find solutions. The issue of the refugee and migration crisis was taken up again and again in recent international forum, such as the u. N. General assembly in new york in september, the executive committee in geneva in early october, and the just concluded global forum on m