[inaudible conversations] we will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning. Id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing of the new congress on the evolving media marketplace. It also like to thank her witnesses for appearing before us today to discuss these important issues. Five years ago this committee passed reauthorization act this spill extended the operation for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to the satellite tv industry this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural amenities to receive over the air broadcast Television Signals. These customers fall into a few categories per the first is household they cannot receive broadcast content using an antenna for the second as markets where satellite providers do not offer local to local service and the third is short markets where there are no local affiliate stations with any of the records and
Astronauts and the son of late astronaut neil armstrong. Commented on his remarks about Democratic House members. Tomorrow is 50 years since we planted a flag on the moon. We are going a lot further now, to the moon and then to mars. I think importantly, all of you folks know from the standpoint of defense, it is so important. We will be doing the space force , i assume you are in favor of the space force. To be doing the space force, we are close to getting that completed and operating and it will be very exciting. A lot of things are happening. We have with us buzz aldrin, who has been an incredible gentleman. Ive known him a long time and we have been friends a long time. Just a fantastic man. Michael collins you all know flu apollo 11 overhead. Aldrin and armstrong walked on the moon. These are great men and women. Great genes. Tomorrow is a great day, 50 years. Have jim, the head of nasa. Nasa has done a whole different thing. , it isdy wanted that job a love for space that is unp
Station where there are bucks and cones set up for the water this is inside of the bart that is coming down. Sfmta said the tests always happen outside of normal Service Hours and that was the case this time. Of course they again still need to figure out exactly what went wrong. Reporting live in San Francisco, christie smith. The san jose fire crews battled a fiveacre brush fire off highway 237 near north first street. We have ground video to show you as well. 60 firefighters from different agencies took on the fire. With the windy conditions today, they are lucky the fire didnt spread. Worry this whipping wind conditions, it sends embers everywhere. We have to be careful and mindful of the spot fires and things like that. We were able to contain it and firefighters were able to mop it up, which is good. The fire is under control. They did have to evacuate people from a homeless camp, but luckily no one was hurt. Developing at had hour, a disturbing discovery in the south bay. San jos
Theyre also pulling their money out of banks, worried about their futures. They send 30,000 to mexico just to make sure everything was not behind. Mexico got the most money last june from people from united states. Reporter over at this restaurant on Willow Street business is off by half and those who are here no longer talk about soccer while eating dinner. They Start Talking about everything else. They talk about the i. C. E. Its getting so bad for the community. Everybodys scared about it. Reporter the owner says even the sidewalks arent as full as they used to be just a few weeks ago. No one is talking about closing their doors. Not yet. But everyone is looking for the magic message that will convince customers its okay to come out of hiding. The owner says that the items he sells are luxury for shoppers, items theyd love to have but items they dont really need, and they have sold zero items today. Were live in san jose. Im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. . Thank you so much, d
As the administrator of nasa. Thanks for joining us. Jim thank you. Host joining him is christian davenport, who covers the space and defense industries. And a Senior Writer for space news. Both of you, thanks for joining us. Mr. Administrator, on wednesday you announced that you were signing a couple of Key Administration officials including the longtime associate administrator for human exploration operations. Why make that change and why now . Jim we just reassigned him to a different role inside of nasa. He is a great american, great patriot, he has served nasa for 42 years. It is also true that we are moving to a new era in human spaceflight. Where the administration is interested in going fast. Interested in doing things a different way. We believe it is important to have new leadership. It was entirely my decision. At the end of the day, we need to be very clear that nasa is committed to cost and schedule. I thought it was important to make this change at this time. A quick foll