Terrorists turned civilian aircraft into weapons, killing nearly 3,000 americans and injuring thousands more. Today we honor the memories of those who perished and those First Responders who ran into harms way to help their fellow citizens. The tragedy of 9 11 led to the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, tsa, within the new department of Homeland Security. Tsa is charged with protecting our nations Transportation Systems from attack and ensuring freedom of movement of people and commerce. Im pleased that acting deputy administrator Patricia Cogswell is here to update the committee on the progress toward achieving these goals. Americas Transportation Systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency. The enduring challenge remains how to respond to terrorist attacks without unduly burdening travel, the economy and civil liberties. Tsas workforce includes transportation security inspectors, federal air marshals and visible intermodal response teams. Congress has
And welcome to this hearing on detecting the nation, Transportation Systems. We reflect on a summer day in american history, 18 years ago that terrorists turned a address the agencys progress towards implementing modernization the committee will exercise oversight to existing security programs. Notably the passenger screening teams in february administrator pekoske briefed the committee on disturbing testing results from the ig and promised to revamp k9 training. Tsa is committed to making the federal federal air Marshals Program more intelligent space. Improving todays Frontline Security programs is important but tsa must adapt to changing threats and technologies. Emerging Technology Including biometrics, perhaps we will hear about that today. Understand tsa has a biometrics roadmap but we certainly need to do this in light of concerns involving privacy, Data Protection and civil liberties. I look forward to a robust discussion today on the vital role the tsa plays. Madam Ranking Mem
Fireworks expected, but having said that, tokyo up by 2 . It is sitting around 113. Pretty good gains from exports, as well as the banks. Shanghai up i went and six cents and six tenths. Just taking you through some of the movers we are seeing this session. We are looking at banks when it comes to the china session. We are seeing a little bit of weakness, pressure coming. Reports to the pboc, chinese regulators are encouraging inks to pick up banks to pick up debt. We are seeing gains coming through from energy services. Parsons in sydney, of by seven and 3 10 of 1 . Of at 31seas, news billion purchase of property assets. That stock is up by 3 . Kansai electric down, 1. 75 . Just taking you through the aussie dollar, training at. 75 at the moment. This is the highest point we have seen from the dollar from july of last year. Rishaad thank you very much. A heat of pressure on the leadership in china as they try to meet this years growth target, which is at least 6. 5 7 . And retailsales
The latest vote suggests the no count has taken the lead. Shares in ricardo trade higher despite a fall in profits. Chinese stocks hit a high as weak numbers suggest beijing will step up with fresh stimulus measures. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Were just getting the report through that we had expected from the International Energy agency reporting that oil prices, quote, fell sharply in august. As we know, wti declines by 6. 32 to 96. 08. Brent down to 4. 79 to 103. 40. It says a slowdown in demand growth in the Second Quarter caused by a weaker outlook for europe in china underpibed those downward revisions. It said compared with a year ago, Global Supply was 810 thougs barrels per day. Referencing geopolitics, the iea said while conflijt in iraq and libya show in signs of abating, prices remain muted, that because of weakening demand growth and supply. We will be talking to the bnp s
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