Riders are delig this is kpix 5 news. Free rides on muni. Courtesy of computer hackers. Good evening. It is throwing people off, and causing confusion. We are live at the embarcadero to help us make sense of the chaos. Reporter we spoke with a lot of riders, some assuming that sfmta was giving away free ride. Were going to give you a look at what our source says was the message hackers sent to sfmta. Reporter a source who works with sfmta shared in image with us, showing what popped up on employees computers the day of Transition Agency system was hacked. I think its terrifying. I do. If they can start doing this, you know, here, were not safe anywhere. Reporter the message said you hacked all data encrypted with Contact Information for a key. Tonight, a sfmta spokesperson confirms the system was hacked but it has not affected any services. It has affected metro fare gates. I noticed when we came through, everything was open. So i figured its free day is this part of black friday . Sho
Remarks in just a moment from ron dermer, the israeli ambassador to the u. S. He is one of the speakers at the Antidefamation Leagues annual leadership summit. Follow that a panel on the agenda and the 2016 collective. This is live here in washington, d. C. [applause] welcome back. How our workshops . So it seems that earlier today we slide atlanta and i want to apologize. We would like to both recognize the regional Board Chairperson from atlanta and the National Civil rights chair. Thank you. [applause] we are seeing a lot of great reads and posts from social media. Please keep at it. Dont forget these are social networking sites to share your discussions with friends and family. And please use the hashtag adls somewhat. Thank you. Adl summit and hashtag might adl story. So welcome back to the National Leadership summit at Antidefamation League. The nations premier civil rights and human relations agency. For more than a century we have worked to fulfill our dual mission of fighting
Administrations guidance to Public Schools over allowing transgender students access to bathrooms and other facilities. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. 202 7488002s,. You can post on our facebook or twitter pages as well. This guidance came out last friday. It was a joint letter by the Education Department and Justice Department. It says that as a condition of receiving federal funds a school agrees they will not exclude separate deny benefits to or otherwise treated differently on the basis of sex any person in its Educational Programs unless expressly authorized to do so under title ix. The letter also gave specific guidance when it came to the use of restrooms and locker rooms. Heres some of that section from the letter which you can find online at the Justice Department and education to urban. A school must allow transgender students access to facilities consistent with their gender. Themchool may not require to use bathrooms inconsistent with their gender. A scho
Average daily volume of 150 million individual transactions. Yes. We compared that to amazon. And amazon has only 27 million transactions. That was the case back on cyber monday in 2012. Now, we understand that much of this i. T. Is at its core cobalt based. The computer language developed in 1959 essentially before color television. And many of the i. T. Managers acknowledged that a cobalt based system works, but they also have indicated that its less efficient, and agile, than more modern computer languages. So what can the agency do to update the technology that it has to have to manage this eyepopping amount of data that youre dealing with every day . Well, i think one of the underlying challenges you just mentioned, theres a tremendous volume of data that we process. We recognize that we have to move away from cobalt to some extent, but not fully, because in some instances its the best language. There is a transition to modernize our systems. One of the challenges will be how quic
So i support your nomination, and i think youve addressed the concerns of the senators here, and im doing it because i think you have the experience. You really had several stints at the agency, so youve seen the changes over time. And i think youll work with us particularly in an area im very interested, make sure were using modern technology. Because i think with 21st century challenges. And then we got things that were in place before, color tv, sort of 20th century technologies, thats why we have to play some catchup. We have to Work Together and we have to move quickly, and we have to do it given the challenge with constrained resources, and i feel youre going to work closely with us, and i intend to support your nomination. With that, with the finance committee, were adjourned. Let me know the committee record will be open for questions until 5 00 p. M. Monday august 4th, and now we are officially adjourned. This weekend on cspan, the Kentucky Senate race, Mitch Mcconnell is seek