Olympics. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im wendy in for christine romains. Great to have you in person. Im laura jarret. We have reports this morning from istanbul, washington, portland, tokyo, sydney, and the middle of the atlantic ocean. We start this morning in Surf Side, florida with troubling new information suggesting residents of that condo that collapsed last week in florida were told their building was, quote, in very good shape. Npr obtained the minutes with the 2018 meeting where assurances were made by the Surf Side town inspector. Cnn learned two days earlier, the same official received an Engineering Report Warning of, quote, major Structure Damage to the tower. This morning the senicommunis trying to keep hope alive for the families of at least 152 people still missing in draft Condo Collapse. Nine people are new confirmed dead. The cause of the collapse is unknown. The difficult task of searching through the rubbl
Officials, including brandon wales. The committee will como order. I want to thank each of our witnesses for joining us. The committee will come to order. I want to thank our Witnesses Today for coming together for this set of hearings. We are helping to bolster our nations cyber defenses, ensure that the american people are safe from increasingly sophisticated online attacks. Although it can often be difficult to understand the complexity and the severity of some of these attacks from the outside, they have a significant cost on our national security. In many cases these attacks can also affect our daily lives. As we saw with the recent Ransomware Attack on the colonial pipeline that was reported over this weekend. Officials are continuing to investigate exactly what happened. With the extraordinary measures the country took to shut down the pipeline and the ripple effects that will have on gas prices and our economy down the line shows that attackers will always try to exploit vulner
Today. To conclude our day together, a panel looks towards the future of cybersecurity. It is my honor to introduce them to you. Weve begun the day with a call for a new paradigm for Cybersecurity Delving into the threat of the implementation of 0 trust and now we will conclude with an examination of the future of cybersecurity in a wonderful Fireside Chat. This Fireside Chat on april 13th. It will be led by john simon, Vice President of cyber Security Training and services for Raytheon Intelligence and space. He will interview brandon wales, acting director of the cyber Security And Infrastructure Security Agency at the department of homeland security. We thank you so much to you and your amazing team for making Todays Event possible and your huge support for this groundbreaking summit. Now over to you. I appreciate that. Excited to speak with you today and listen to the insights you have on the most important topic we have as a country. Jump in, i know theres a lot of mainstream news
Morning. Good morning, everybody. I appreciate being here. All of you. I was just this is somewhat an unusual way to meet and i would mention to this to our two distinguished witnesses. Its a little bit more difficult to keep the distances we want. But i think its important for the Appropriations Committee to have this meeting. And the January 6th images of all of us remember that, insurrectionists, flying confederate flags, destroying the u. S. Capitol. Reminders that domestic violent extremism is hardly a new threat. The Nations History has been marred by the actions of extremists. From the Klu Klux klan to timothy mcvay, we witnessed and suffered through as a people extremists killing innocent people in the name of usually morally, always morally bankrupt causes. The violence on January 6th was simply the latest chapter in this long history of domestic extremism in america. Attacks and blots by domestic extremists, the majority by the far right e supposing white supremacy and relate