Please welcome megan mcdonal mcdonald. [applause] happy wednesday how is everybody feeling . Great. Happy friday. Just seeing if you are paying attention. Welcome. I am the new executive director of chicago ideas. Having been born and raised in this amazing city and are raising my own family just down the street i feel incredibly proud as a true blue chicagoan. Anybody else . [applause] it makes me even prouder to be part of this team and to share ideas and chicago ideas to pursue connectivity and to do an icebreaker to take a moment to turn to the person that you dont know and to introduce yourself and share in that trusted source of political news what that might be it might be a not on an oxymoron. [inaudible conversations] okay. It will be tough to try to get this room back. If i can i love you are all getting to know each other theres plenty of time after the program and as i mentioned connectivity i dont mean the cell phone friday this is a great time to ask everybody to please t
Around the world countries are ramping up their response to the coronavirus imposing increasingly drastic measures to combat the pandemic the u. S. Has already banned arrivals from mainland europe from friday italy has strengthened its lockdown closing bars restaurants and shops other than pharmacies and shops selling food 1016 people have now died there with more than 15000 cases several more countries have announced full School Closures such as norway which has seen more than 600 cases and even oland which has 43. 00 infections so far and we have to stop large gatherings as the 2 major restrictions on sporting events the n. B. A. In the us and spains top Football League has suspended all games for now. And Global Markets have continued to tumble on fears of the impact londons footsie 100 suffered its biggest daily fall in more than 30 years and trading was automatically halted in new york after a large drop when the markets opened to angela begins our coverage. Chaos and confusion in
Roma manual was the mayor of chicago and also the white house chief of staff. At amazon they will be interviewed by nikki raleigh who works for the wall street journal. Please welcome them. Welcome beth, welcome ron, will have a couple of lets bring everybody ram up to speed. The 700 Million Dollars that amazon plans to spend to give us a really quick overview and how thats gonna. Work well youve got the basic facts, right 100,000 workers over the next six years, we are really excited about, this and its actually an abrogation of a whole series of upscaling programs. Things starting with our Fulfillment Center workers, so our frontline workers we will give them a career choice, where we prepay before they even start their classes, 95 of to wish in and books for up to three 80,000 a year, so they can learn skills, and feels like medical technology, bookkeeping, other tech fields, things that are actually going to train there for jobs outside of amazon. Very unique program that we have,
That has put much of the country in a deep freeze. It is now moving east. Winter storm warnings, advisories, and freeze warnings are posted from texas to maine. Cod get up to a foot of snow. The snow and ice also caused major problems at chicagos ohare airport. A plane skidded off a runway. A ground stop was issued, and more than 1,000 flights were canceled. Boe this is only the beginning of a chilly week set to impact more than 222 million americans. Chief meteorologist kate bylow of kyw has the forecast. We are tracking a very strong arctic cold front which is ushering unseasonably cold air to really the entire eastern half of the country today and into your wednesday. The cold has already settled in across the great lakes in the wake of the snow. As far as precipitation is concerned, the heaviest snowfall rates up across the highest elevations of portions of new england. The main cities up and down the eastern seaboard mainly looking at rain possibly changing over to a brief period
Current and former ntsb chairs who provided safety recommendations. Both of these accidents were entirely preventable. We cannot fathom the pain experienced by the families of those 340 six human beings who were lost. Many family members were here today and we appreciate their attendance. Themreciate many of meeting with members of the committee. Committee, if this promise their loved ones that we are working to obtain a full answer as to how to prevent future tragedies. ,hese families deserve answers accountability, and action. Deserves no less. Involved inaircraft both accidents is the 737 max 8 manufactured by boeing. International aviation safety regulators begin grounding the plane the day after the ethiopian crash. On march 13, federal Aviation Administration formally grounded the aircraft. The return to service is contingent on boeings work with the faa to test and certify fixes to the Flight Control system. Activated during both crashes. In order to return to service, Internati