Good morning, mr. Chairman. I think the witnesses for coming this morning. An incredibly issue an incredibly important issue we need to care about and make a policy on. Your meeting to discuss the state of cybersecurity and the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. And glad to see the doe firm and others taking steps. Our energy grid serves as the backbone to our economy, Touching Every aspect are our lives every aspect of our lives. Reliable grid is crucial to the National Security and a clean energy future. For lawmakers to enable innovative advancements that we can improve the security and reliability of our electric grid, we must work on a bipartisan basis. And, actively engage with leaders as we are doing today. The modernization and innovation of our Energy Infrastructure is already underway. What was once a oneway Delivery System has evolved to a Dynamic Networ
Conversation that he had with russias ambassador would likely be heard by u. S. Intelligence agencies. We will talk about the Senate Hearing taking place tomorrow. Crime has dropped on muni trains. Robberies have increased on the bart trains. Christian kafton will have more. First, rosemary is front and center with the big weekend forecast. We complained that it was cold yesterday but this morning it was chilly. It was chilly. A nice turn around. Today will be a pretty day. Yesterday turned out to be nice. The winds werent as strong as anticipated and the National Weather Service Canceled the wind advisory. A look into areas over san jose, we are starting out with partly sunny skies. Partly cloudy, mostly clear for the afternoon and these clouds associated with the system that we were talking about yesterday. Here is another look at another partly sunny start over mount diablo. 50 in San Francisco. Oakland 55. Livermore 49 san jose 51. Temperatures are about where we started yesterday,
Important is in terms of how do you support really standg up or evaluating real life use cases or proof of concepts or pilots if you will and thats what we see other countries doing is getting these systems up and running to learn from them as quickly as possible. That takes infrastructure support. That takes things the government is best equipped to help execute and manage. I think thats another big area where we would really welcome the support of these agencies. So when youre talking about infrastructure, were planning smart cities. We need to be thinking five years ahead, ten years ahead in terms of the ability for us to have Smart Devices and the like. Exactly. The Vehicle Infrastructure piece of it the markings on the roadways, basically equipping the infrastructure to be ready. If were talking about large investments we should be looking into that. Federal and state. I think ann harbor is a good example. They have come together to create a test bed on the campus grounds. You wer
Multifaceted interactions of humans and Autonomous Systems and complex with the technical systems. I have conducted driving research and provided future Technology Recommendations to automotive manufacturers for more than a dozen years including ford, nissan, toyota, google x, and i was the Program Manager for 100 million Navy Robotics helicopter that carries the very same sense or sensors that you see on cars today and im on the interaction of selfdriving cars and pedestrians. While i enthusiastically support the research and development of selfdriving cars im less optimistic of what i perceive to be a rush to field systems that are really not ready for widespread deployment. Here are a few scenarios that highlight the scenarios of selfdriving cars. Bad weather, including standing water on roadways, drizzling rain, sudden downpours and snow. Coupling this these limitations to follow a traffic policemans gestures especially on a rainy day in a poncho, means selfdriving cars should not
Miles away in rome. Meantime Vice President joe biden landing in turkey hours ago while the war torn country launches a major attack on isis forces hours away. It is in response to the terror attack that killed 54 people at a wedding. Biden hoping to mend relations with turkey. The attack is not far from the capit capital where President Biden is visiting. Is donald trump softening his stance on immigration. He set the record state at a town hall in texas. The policies are still working out but insists the legals will follow the laws of the country. Is there any part of the law that might be able to change that accommodate those people that contribute to society, have been law abiding and have children here . I know you had a meeting last week . I had a meeting with great people, great hispanic leaders. There can be a softening. We dont want to hurt people. We have some great, great people in this country. We are going to follow the laws of this country. What people dont realize, we ha