Eastern. Next, representatives from the faa and the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration join two assistant transportation secretaries to talk about new technology and government regulation. The Transportation Research board hosted this event. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I hope youre all doing very well today. We are all very much excited to be here with you. On behalf of secretary elaine chao. To present to you on laying the foundation for advanced Transportation Technology. Ill let our panelists introduce themselves in a moment. We want to let you know we appreciate you. Youre a critical audience for us representing researchers and thinking that goes into laying the foundation for a lot of tho these advanced transportation technologies. Trv is a fantastic event. People who attend trv tend to be a wonkier crowd. Understand what were saying more times than not. Hearing from you helps inform everything were doing. Were very much looking forward to this panel today. W
In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Can expect reset sounds like a big one its going to be a big one in fact we havent seen a midwinter storm like this in the bay area in quite a while weve had a few weeks storms making its way into the bay area, but this one is pretty typical for this time of year. So lets take a look at our satellite and radar from earlier tonight, very dry conditions. But now we are noticing some more light bands of rain just off the coast going to make its way inland. But this isnt even the storm that im tracking the one that is going to pack quite a punch during the overnight hours and for your thursday morning commute is right now over eureka so its just arriving into the golden state and its going to make its way into the bay area during the overnight hours and its going to wreak havoc for your thursday morning commute so the highest rain totals expected for those of you in the north bay specifically our local hills and mountains upwards of 3 inches of rain or less for the rest of us in the bay ar
Commanders and the federal Court Monitor recommended that five officers be fired and she xonl rated them. Reporter graduates of the 183rd class were sworn in this morning. Young faces full of optimism joining the departent with the dubious history. Seven Police Chiefs in 11 years. The latest casualty, chief ann kirkpatrick, the citys first female chief hired three years ago and fired last night. My decision yesterday was extremely personally difficult for me. I made it because i believe it was in the best interests of oakland. Mayor libby shaf addressing the class. She and the picks holding a special meeting deciding to terminate kirkpatrick. Leaders will could that will and go. Im on my way out in a little more than two years myself. The mission of this department, the commitment to serve the people of oakland have never waivered. They lost three chiefs in year. Kirkpatrick oaklands first female chief was brought in to help deal with the fallout. It was clear that kirkpatrick and the
Windy conditions. A very good morning to you and thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. We want to talk about the rain. Meteorologist kari hall has been following it. The rain is already in the area. What can we expect . The winds rushing up to that storm system moves north to south. Scattered showers. Were able to track that on our mobile radar and some of the rain still north. Weve seen some spotty showers moving out ahead of that. If youre traveling down crossing the Golden Gate Bridge heavy rain there. Were going to see some of the heaviest rain moving through later this morning. As we take it hour by hour that rain approaching San Francisco moving into oakland and then the trivalley around 9 00 to 10 00 this morning and it will be approaching san jose. Also whats happening in the sierra in seven minutes. Ive been looking at your radar. Bringing us surface level traffic sorry, air traffic. Surface level radar. That wind and the rain coming in from the