Questions so in order to , at 5 30te that gladly we will recess and 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became the chairman and im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and an
That mean that exit subway at china town had takes a stair case or escalator. Escalator goes down and they have emergency evacuation stairwells that come out and go to the street. Trap doors in the street emergency hatches from the inside you can open and up get out. There are elevators. There is in the a lot of combustible materialless in the stations. And the trains are not combustible. But as you remember in the 70s there was the transbay tube fire and an oakland worker was killed there is potential for a terrorist event in the under ground things that happened in japan. With the gas release. So there very little there is in the a lot of potential for a fire to occur. Unless there is debris on the tracks that could cause a problem. I derailment or accident that could cause a fire n. Station there are several mezzanine levels large electric ral rooms and yerba buena station thereof a fire in the electrical walls. This was under construction. And the electrical vault at Union Square S
Humankind having pulled off the amazing achievement of landing a spacecraft on a speeding comet. As we reported on last nights show, one of the concerns about that mission is that theres not very much gravity on the comet. Its only about 1 10000th of the comet would be at risk of floating away, basically not being able to stick to the comet once it landed there. Well, we talked about that last night on the show. The problem of the comet lander floating away, in fact, has happened now twice in the past 24 hours. The little Landing Craft cant stick. It just floated away for a while into space before eventually coming back down on the come et today. The problem now is that it has come back down on a place that is shady, a place that is shielding its solar panels from the sun. So at risk of running out of energy and dying on the comet unless it can get to a sunny spot. The question now is whether theyre going to be able to shove it off into space again on purpose and hope that the next tim
Once it landed there. Well, we talked about that last night on the show. The problem of the comet lander floating away . In fact, has happened now twice in the past 24 hours. The little Landing Craft cant stick. It just floated away for a while into space before eventually coming back down on the comet today. The problem now is that it has come back down on a place that is shady, a place that is shielding its solar panels from the sun. So at risk of running out of energy and dying on the comet unless it can get to a sunny spot. The question now is whether theyre going to be able to shove it off into space again on purpose. And hope that the next time it comes down on the comet, it comes down in a sunnier place. But triumph yesterday became a real drama as to whether its going to be able to live now that its there . Theres space drama today, the Political Drama today was this unbelievable story, literally unbelievable. I thought that this story, i kid you not, i thought that it was sati
The comet would be at risk of floeting away, basically not being able to stick to the comet once it landed there. Well, we talked about that last night on the show. The problem of the come et lander floeting away . In fact, has happened now twice in the past 24 hours. The little Landing Craft cant stick. It just floated away for a while into space before eventually coming back down on the come et today. The problem now is that it has come back down on a place that is shady, a place that is shielding itsds solar panels from the sun. So at risk of running out of energy and dying on the comet unless it can get to a sunny spot. The question now is whether theyre going to be able to shove it off into space again on purpose. And hope that the next time it comes down on the come et, it comes down in a sunnier place. But triumph yesterday became a real drama as to whether its going to be able to live now that its there . Theres space drama today, the Political Drama today was this unbelievable