The annual meeting in Atlantic City. It covered electric grid, the permitting process and broadband access. This is 45 minutes. Welcome. The governors action accelerate projects here to open the session is executive director of the governors association. Great. Thank you. Come on, everybody. [applause] thank you. Thank you all for being back. Hope you had a great lunch. We will move forward here. A panel led by two of our great governors. North carolina governor roy cooper. A big welcome to them. All right. I think you will open us up. Thank you. Welcome, everybody. Infrastructure is one of the most common topics that we were asked about as governors. When will the new bridge be built, when will the potholes be fixed, when will my Community Get high speed internet, why is this taking so long to finish. Just take your pick. The pipeline,e, grid upgrade, solar projects, you name it. The United States is among the slowest nations approving and completing infrastructure projects. Permittin
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the open meeting of the federal communications commission. Madam federal communications commission. Madam secretary we please announce our agenda for this morning . Thank you mr. Chairman. Morning to you and good morning commissioners prefer todays meeting you will hear six items for your consideration. First you will receive a preliminary. Reporter the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau on its investigation into the false Emergency Alert that occurred in hawaii on january 13, 2018. Second you will consider a second report and order on recon to enhance wireless Emergency Alerts including the geographic accuracy. Third you will consider an order jesting the remaining issues raised by parties implementing the connect america phase two option nina three in which Service Providers will get support of up to 1. 98 billion to often voice and Broadband Service in unserved high cost areas. For the will consider a Public Notice establish
To address it in its entirety but helps create the conversation and enable the foundation for moving some of these things forward and i think the report accurately captures this broader picture of internet use and identifies vulnerable populations and the role should be to provide infrastructure as we are with the proposed expansion of our Fiber Network sf Wifi Services previously discussed etc. And my role should be to promote pervasive gig byte services in every neighborhood and an opportunity to creatively looking at funding opportunities and different ways to make this available for people in all areas of the city regardless of their socioeconomic situation. So i wanted to address a couple of things the connectivity plan and what we talked about yesterday, is not absent of a Municipal Network vision. What its focussed on right now most prominent ly is the fiber backbone that we want to create to connect primarily our municipal facilities right . Thats the obvious urgent need that w
Costly to provide free hardware or refush refurbished hardware. Supervisor christiansen. Listening to the connection noises that supervisor mar played for us, are there things that we that we should be doing to pave the the way literally for this to happen in the future talk about retro theres lots of neighborhood in the in the city that still have overhead wires and i know that there are plans that the city has to put conduits in streets that are torn up that sort of thing and are some of those programs potentially helpful down the line if we ever get to a point of becoming better wired . Yes supervisor christiansen i think those opportunities would definitely help and the city of santa monica is a good example they have a program now called incremental municipal broadband and they are doing exactly that so as other projects are executed and streets are dug up they are putting in their Municipal Fiber Network and its going a little bit at a time but they get another couple of blocks i
Its believed 1 in 400 outside of hospitals and care homes have caught covid 19. Lets go, well start cutting at 12 01, so come on in. People queue at midnight for much needed haircuts, as new zealand reopens thousands of businesses at the end of lockdown. When tiers are in your eyes. And the hospital choir whose bridge over troubled water got a shout out from paul simon. Good afternoon and welcome to viewers on bbc one and the bbc news channel ahead of the daily downing street coronavirus update. The government has announced that a further 428 people have died with the virus in the uk bringing the total number of deaths in hospitals and the Wider Community to 33,614 people. The news comes as Scientists Say a new blood test, which detects whether someone has had coronavirus, is a major step forward. The test looks for antibodies which could indicate some immunity to covid 19 in the future. It was approved last night by Public Health england, and ministers say they want to roll it out as