Ladies and gentlemen, its a you toleasure to welcome brookings. My name is john allen and im the codirector of the center for 21stcentury security and intelligence and with my codirector we welcome you very warmly. It has been a technologist that the underlying acknowledged that the underlying base for power and prosperity requires an Education System where young individuals can excel in science and technology and engineering and math, called stem. As voted by scholars here at brookings, stan intensive dam intensive industries stem producee industries about 17 of our gdp. Ins a principal driver patenting, productivity, growth, and exports from aerospace to renewables. Stem disciplines will only increase. Given the reality of increasing global connectivity, complexity, and economic competitiveness the promotion of stem related skills and knowledge must be recognized as a national priority. Of stement state education in the u. S. Clearly underscores the urgency of this issue. The United
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Another subject of protecting our country from terrorism. Let me say this, thousands of words have been written but the only thing you need to know is one thing, the the check tragedy of almost 3000 people murdered, the tragedies the moms and dads who never came home from work that day, the tragedy of people jumping from the towers, my friends we cannot let that man, osama bin laden, threaten on this country that we love. [applause]. When a refugee crisis impacts our world. Like most people i find the image of that poor syrian boy has not left my mind. Our responsibility is to help those with their lives. So to that we must keep our heads. Lets keep it simple fact, 1 Million People have been made homeless by the conflict in syria. If we opened the door to every refugee the best thing you can do is help neighbors, Syrian People with refugees. And then we do take refugees taken from the region. That encourages a dangerous but lethal journey. We have tos not stop caring about syrians. The
Police are learning more about the shootings. The police are learning about the gunman, they say chris mercer took his over life during the firefight with officers. Police learned he was enrolled in a class where the shooting happened. They had no understanding why he would take such action against the other students. Sheriff hanlin has more about the shooting investigation. And finally, i want to express my mostni sincere appreciation to those most directly touched by this incident. He later went on to say that the town of roseburg was simply rocked by the tragedy and that they can now move on to their path of recovery. Well, the community of roseburg is impressed but not surprised by the level of support and caring that theyre seeing. Nbc bay area Damion Trujillo are report i is reporting on s are coping with it. Reporter well, there are signs all over the campus here. The campus remains closed so the community has been coming here to the gates of the school to bring flowers and to p