First you receive a planetary report on the investigation into the false Emergency Alert that occurred in hawaii in january 13, 2018. Second, will consider second report order to enhance the effectiveness of wireless alerts including the geographic accuracy. Third, in order adjusting the issues raised implementing the auction 903 in which Service Providers will compete to receive supports to offer voice and Broadband Service and unserved hike areas. Then it will award up to 1. 98 billion over ten years to Service Providers that commit to offer voice and Broadband Services to fix locations and unserved areas. Then in order to establish an office of economics and analytics. Six the notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to eliminate. Another documents to the fcc us specified seventh, youll consider an action. This is the agenda. Please note item seven on the agenda as listed entitled amendment this of the commissions rules to delete rules made obsolete by the Digital Transition those de
First trait to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. What is fueling the selloff . There is selling across the board. The stock market is up 42 since election today but today is a big selloff. Were not normally seeing this kind of move. This move, the dow dropping 361 points. A loss of 1. 4 roughly. This is the big offloss for the Dow Jones Industrial average since last may, since may 17th. You are seeing a twoday selloff accounts more than 2 for the week, right . It is only tuesday. Well see what happens tomorrow. That being said, early before the stock market could open, all 30 dow components all in the red. We had a story trending on health care, story on energy. Lets break it down. First backtoback losses weve seen for the dow of this year. Dont forget weve had the s p 500 having the best start to any year since late 1980s weve had a great one but these two days have been tough. 10year bond yields. As we watch treasury yield jumping moving higher, highest level sin
Him or not, or believe that he could fulfill that were not, they were prepared to take a chance. Sunday eastern on q a. Now to hearing on the nations Emergency Alert system. Fcc officials and communication Industry Leaders testified before the Senate Conference irons and transportation committee. They discussed the false alarms statewide Emergency Alert in hawaii earlier this month. This hearing is almost 2 hours. Good morning and welcome to these hearings on our countrys Emergency Alert system. I hope to hear from our panel about whats working , whats not and what we can do to better prevent alerts like we saw with the hallway Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Sharing state and local governments the safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is critical. Alerts not only create an unnecessary panic but undermine the integrity of the alert system learning to distrust and confusion. What happened in hawaii must be addressed to ensure an incident like th
Precisely targeted to areas where there is an emergency. When Deadly Wildfires igniter in Northern California last october, some local authorities chose not to push out a wireless alert. They cited fears you look would have gone out to people who are not in harms way. Potentially provoking a mass exodus that could clog the roads and prevent those action in danger from reaching safety. With todays action of the commission has addressed this problem and made an important lifesaving tool even more effective. These new rules require wireless carriers to deliver alerts at more precisely match the affected area. So i will go to local officials to use these alerts during emergencies, and encourage americans to take alerts more circe. Since folks know any alert they receive relates to an emergency that is in their vicinity. The new rules will require alerts to be preserved on consumers phones for 24 hours which make it easier to access and use the information contained in those alerts. Im poli
[inaudible conversations] good morning welcome to the january 2018 of the fcc secretariats is an empty agenda. Good morning chairman. For todays meeting you will hear six items under consideration. First you will receive a preliminary report Public Safety and Security Bureau on its investigation into the false Emergency Alert in hawaii january 13, 2018. Consider a second report order to enhance effectiveness of wireless Emergency Alert including the geographic access. And considering order with the remaining issues raised from the commissions orders to connect america to auction 903 and compete to receive 1. 98 billion for voice and Broadband Service in highcost areas. With the Public Notice to the connect america find. And not commit to offer Voice Services to those fixed locations in those highcost areas. And order to establish economics and analytics notice of proposed rulemaking to eliminate the requirement with those that submit paper copies of contracts and other documents to the