Acknowledging the American Association for their additional support. Im here now for the next 30 minutes with Brandon Wales sampras charity Infrastructure Security Agency for what i hope its going to be a fascinating conversation about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructures charity and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you so much for the presentation but im very happy to be here to talk about important the important work that our agency is doing. Today is december 3. It is hard to believe exactly a month ago on november 3 we were sitting down as the country to watch the first Election Results roll in. It feels like we as a country with about 25 years in the last month and i would imagine for you this is felt somehow even longer than that. I want to start off today by taking you back three weeks ago on ers day after the election. You put out a statement that i want to quot
Agenda and bios of her speakers are available at aspen institute. Org. I would like to thank them for helping organize these conversations and let us talk with a great and diverse set of speakers today along with acknowledging the American Association for their additional support. Im here now for the next 30 minutes with Brandon Wales sampras charity Infrastructure Security Agency for what i hope its going to be a fascinating conversation about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructures charity and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you so much for the presentati but im very happy to be here toalk about important the important work that our agency is doing. Today is december 3. It is hard to believe exactly a month ago on november we were sitting down as the country to wah the first Election Results roll in. Feelsike we as a country with about 25 years in the last nth and i wou
Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Now because you are only the second wealthiest man in the world, right . Many companies are racing for a vaccine. This ceo is emma wants me. Has a vaccine that will help cure covid 19. How me times a day to people ask you when youre vaccine will be available . Regularis a very question. Have alluently, we been delighted to see the very recent years that some of the first results coming through on vaccines. Yesterday, i was on a call last globalith 10 of the pharmacy ceos that are heavily involved in bringing solutions to covid. We are excited and optimistic to see the first data come through and looking forward to seeing more come through in the next six months or so. We have three vaccines and the clinic and to therapeutic treatments. Everyone is understandably inpatient. We wipe off with the pandemic 500 billion of value with the world. I think that we can be increasingly optimistic that the science will win. Mobilizedry that has so fast it will start to bring Scale Solutions and we
Wednesdays program, this latest surge is putting a strain on hospitals as of wednesday. More than 12500 coated patients are in intensive care units, the highest number since early may Health Experts believe the reason for these recent spikes include pandemic fatigue, where people are frankly tired of hearing to social distancing protocols and inconsistent messaging from federal, state, and local officials. So with all of this in mind, lets go ahead and take another look at the trends and spread of the virus globally with our t. Correspondent, saya tablature saya. Where are we . Thursday brand worldwide cases are just surging right now. The global total has climbed to almost overnight, should say, 52000000. 00 deaths over 1287000. Now the u. S. Of course, has a way surpassed a 1000000 and almost hitting 245000 deaths and for a 2nd day in a row. And seeing a record high, like you mentioned wednesday was so 142860 cases, 69 percent up compared to 2 weeks ago. And thats, of course, our onc