Chair coons this hearing will come to order. Thank you to our witnesses for participating today and a particular thank you to mr. Harris who i understand is joining us from hawaii where it is 4 00 in the morning. I would like to thank ranking Member Senator Ben Sasse for working with me to put this hearing together. I am truly grateful we have been able to work together on this important topic, its too important thank you as well to the Chairman Durbin for attending today. Generally when people hear the Term Algorithm you might think of very complicated mathematical formulas or pieces of Computer Code, but as many of us have become increasingly aware algorithms impact literally billions of people and what they read, watch, and think every day. Facebook, twitter, youtube, the three major tech companies represented in the Hearing Use algorithms to determine what appears on your screen when you open and engage with their applications. Theres nothing inherently wrong with that, with billio
paola gianturco has documented women s issues in 62 countries. her images have been in the united nations and field museum in chicago among other risky dislocations. she is lectured internationally and says on the advisory board of three nonprofits. during this evening the corridor and granddaughter turn on along with her sister alex launched a children s program. she conducted interviews with activists girls in 13 different countries and not only wrote sections of the book, also contributed many images. each present wonder grow changing our world please join me in welcoming paola gianturco and alex sangster. [applause] [inaudible] using creativity and confidence and determination. [inaudible] i can stand over here, good idea! thank you alex. all over the world, girls are trafficked, married off to young, denied education, denied equality, and more. but, there is good news. and that is that groups of girls are gathering together, they are finding strength in numbers. and they
i had a teacher i loved, and he took me aside and told me i needed to quit speaking up so much in class. the boys were not going to like me and itwood lady-like, and it impacted me. i was hurt she said this to me. then, many years later in 2012, after my first debate with todd aiken, he told the press after the debate its wasn t very lady-like. so those two incidents re-affirmed in my mind that i have to communicate to other young women that it s plenty ladylike to be outspoken ask strong and opennated and ambitious. host: i was struck as a consumer over the years of a number of politicians enemy mores, many of which are not nearly as frank and outsubpoenas your book is, which is outspoken as your book is, and ing a member of the united states senate is an outlier. people are always blown away when i tell them that in the entire history of the united states senate, only 44 women have ever served from the entire beginning of time. so not are women not anywhere close to th
good morning washington team. eileen giveica, and you traffic and weather every 10 minutes starting at 4:25 a.m. jonathan: a high school s return m winter break shot shrouded in sorrow. a student killed in her bedroom, her mother was also shot at. brad joins us live. what is the latest on this case? many questions remain unanswered. first, what was the motive, and the identity of the suspect? moments ago, we got in email from the howard county police saying they will not release the information today. they say the suspect who shot himself in the head remains in the hospital, and detectives are talking to the medical professionals at shock trauma. they may release more information tomorrow morning. what we do know is, today was the first day back at scho f tough one. afterir first day back the holiday, howard high students heard in morning announcements that 16-year-old sophomore charlotte zaremba was murdered yesterday in her own bedroom. it would be a long, sad day, with ma
remington, remains in serious condition after being shot six times. police say odom was able to board a commercial flight from boise to d.c. despite being a suspect in that shooting. this morning secret service conducted a search of the white house grounds. also in court today, an fbi agent expecting odom to be transferred back to idaho. now, odom will appear before d.c. s chief judge of the superior court on april 6th. at that hearing the only issue will be is the idaho warrant valid and is he, in fact, kyle odom? between now and then he is likely to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. in court today no discussion of his motive, of his manifesto, or how he was able to board a commercial airline flight given he was a wanted man. tim remington has regained consciousness and is talking with his family. doing better, but that he still faces a long road to recovery. after odom was arrested last night, the family released a statement saying they were happy that the suspected shoot