We are funded by these Television Companies and more. s supporting cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Energy secretary on clean energy any factoring investments modernizing the system and helping the u. S. Better compete with china. Our testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is about two and half hours. The committee will come to order i want to welcome everyone. The chair may declare a recess at any time. I now recognize myself for the purpose of making an Opening Statement. Madam secretary i want to thank you for being here today before the committee. After traveling to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates last week. I am sure you are well received abroad. I hope the purpose to booster foster fuels. Especially what President Biden and his administration of the department of energy. Getting to make it less independent. President biden in the secretary should not be prioritizing
And good afternoon everybody. It has been a wonderful day and i was energized by the panel and the networking so thank you all for hanging in with us through a long and very full day. To reduce myself to those of you who may have been here this morning my name is wade warren and im the chief Strategy Officer for development in the chair of the u. S. Chapter of the society for International Development. I am very excited about the panel we are about to have. You cannot come in. Where is alice . I was more excited that the panelists were here. Let me tell you a little bit about this panel. We wanted to have an important plenary here at the end of the day to feature the Millennial Corporation which we have not a lot of time talking about today and will have a fireside chat with Alice Albright who is the ceo. Let me tell you a little bit about them. Ill start with chizi igwe. Chizi igwe is a heartbreaking much appreciated member of the westport she started out leading in our Youth Working
International development. I am excited about the piano. I would be more excited. Let me tell you about this panel, who wanted an important hearing at the end of the day featured the hub fireside chat ego. She helps develop programs in cities and countries where j. P. Morgan served. Before that she worked with oliver and associates and Melinda Gates foundation. She is a proud child of immigrant Family International business is the of international economics. So cute. You dont need much of an introduction to know you are. If you dont know, Child Corporation given working in this area for more than three years. She has been the lead of the education and happenstance. We are delighted you could be with us and ill turn it over. And you all hear us. That afternoon. I hope you enjoy the conference so far. Hopefully we will bring the energy in the conversation, i am excited to be on stage. The legacy had history and where it is going in the future. To start off my shirt congratulations are in
Week actually, cold week before the start of winter where we had our little chance of snow every day pretty much it week. We are dealing with just some real comfortable conditions, this week. Outsideat it looks like, in philly, this is coming from our roof cam on top of Eyewitness News here and it is 39 degrees, with calm winds out there so we also dont have any casino every windchill factor for us this morning. Around the rest of the region, we continue to see those gulf freezing temperatures, even mount pocono, 29 couple of hours ago, now the freezing mark at 326789 so definitely not really cool start to the day. You still probably need a jacket as you step outside but maybe you dont need the heavy heavy winter coat, hat scarfs, gloves, not so much a factor for us here this morning, storm scan3 little light precipitation trying to work it way through the philadelphia area, at this point, dollars good news with our temperatures still warm, it is all just falling we do see any as rain,
Wreckage strewn across a wide area. It is interesting that the front of the train is still intact on the track, but many carriages have come com pletely track, but many carriages have come completely off the track and one is hanging over the freeway, the interstate five which goes the full length of the west coast of america. More than 70 people have been treated in hospital. There are reports of several fatalities. We are still seeking confirmation on that. As for the cause of this derailment, we dont know. There is a lot of speculation locally that speed of the train might have had something to do with it. This was a new route for this train, day one. It was a new route designed to be faster on a railway previously used forfreight trains, faster on a railway previously used for freight trains, but improvements had been made to make it possible for passenger trains to follow this route. So that is clearly one of the lines of investigation. But the focus is still on the injured and get