John ticket all of these wins. Yesterday, we had winsds gusting around 46 Miles Per Hour. Today, around 39 Miles Per Hour. We had sustained winds of 25 Miles Per Hour. You can see the highest wind gusts in anderson. In the highest elevations, they are well over 40 Miles Per Hour. Snow showers in the county. Even some of these snow showers could move into the western part of coney county. Some pretty good snow showers moving through. This is up through barton county. I showed you those pictures earlier from the live shot. The temperatures continuing to come down. It is a very wet snow. The Winter Weather advisory continues through the night tonight. Total snowfall acumen clay accumulations, probably 14 in ches. The heaviest the closer you get to the tennessee line. We will look at it again further ahead. Nigel tonight, people still without power. Progress is being made. At its peak, 127,000 people were without power in the carolinas. Gabrielle now that number is down to 27,000. 3000 in
Story. When i woke up this morning, nobody was thinking about wives and other things. When you hear a hijacking story and an explosive belt, you immediately jump to the terrorism activity. This one sounds a little different. First of all, hes actually released most of the hostages. Usually dont hear its about a woman. Its about reuniting with his exwife. Thats what this is. Its, i guess, different than if he was im just saying, a very different opinion. Its not fun. He wants to reunite with his wife. I could maybe see the other situation. He wanted to leave, get me out of here. The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the guardian this morning hes not a terrorist, hes an idiot. Terrorists are crazy, bus they arent stupid. This guy is. Im sorry. Its not funny. No, but its so that was a quote. That was a quote. Hes not a terrorist, hes an idiot. Thats what apparently the Egyptian Ministry of foreignguas morning. Again, there are some hostages still being held. Hopefully we can recei
Policy director at the Benton Foundation and daniel lyons is with American Enterprise Institutes Center for Internet Communications and technology. Hes a visiting scholar there from boston college. Amina fazlullah, what is this Lifeline Program . Howd it come about . Guest so the Lifeline Program actually came about during the Reagan Administration in order to provide a subsidy to make sure that low income persons would have access to Voice Service, Telephone Service. And, you know, this comes from the notion that having everyone on the network, having access to public safety, having access to each other and commerce is incredibly important. And for low income be persons, making sure that they had Additional Support to do that seemed necessary, and so thats where the program began. Host and how many people participate in this program . Guest as of this past year, about 13 million. Host and whats the cost . Guest well, so the cost of the program is, so its a 925 subsidy per household. H
For you and the party as you observe this process unfold . Guest is a crucial time in the history of the country so it is very important to actually have a unified or unifying convention so there is a nominee somebody who gets above the majority of votes people need to rally around that person. If it is a contested convention so nobody is going into the convention with a majority of delegates the moment you showed gerald ford calling Ronald Reagan down to the stage as to signal the unity of the party party is absolutely crucial. It can be a positive for the party to have democracy flourishing in public but you do have to unify things in the end. Host veteran of the and george w. Bush campaign, ben ginsburg former counsel for the Republican National committee, thank you for explaining all of this. Guest thank you. Here on cspan2 tonight the communicators is next with a look at the fccs Lifeline Program which provides nearly 12 million households access to phone service in the u. S. Host
First, strengthen competition, and advance innovation. At the top of that list is the agencys vote last month that will make it easier for consumers to buy a settop box or an app from someone other than their cable company. Is Technology Neutral proposal means that any company will be able to manufacture a settop box or design an app and sell it to consumers. Should a consumer wish to continue renting their settop box from their paytv provider, they can. No one is going to take it away from them. I dont know if theres that much of a love affair with a settop box i that if they wantt they can keep it. Very importantly the fccs proposal is an opportunity to enhance access to independent and minority programming giving consumers the ability to choose between settop boxes or apps with improved search functionality and user interfaces. Nearly 50 years ago the fcc took action to give Consumers Choice as to whether they wanted to rent their landline telephone from ma bell. Consumers not only