Seattle, Washington State and ry much are first to experience covid19 and really what seattle has achieved has een a model of responsiveness. Can you tell us a little bit about whats happening in seattle today and what you think how it worked . I think the first lesson we learned is looking at the World Health Organizations recommendations, we had to speak with one government. I think we have been able to accomplish what we had as a city and a region because over the eadership. Really looking at what we have to do in concerted action because we know this virus does not respect any boundaries. I also had the good fortune to be talking to mayors around the globe. Im part of c 40. Ric garcetti has convened those mayors on a regular basis to learn lessons. We are able to look at what other cities who experienced this worse did. We had very little tools. By the time we saw the virus erupt in our community, our researchers here told us that the number of cases actually was far understated an
And wounded 260. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch called it a fitting punishment for a horrific crime. The jurys decision came after 14 hours of deliberation. Don dahler is at the federal courthouse in boston. Reporter its a city that has been holding its collective breath for this. Yes i think that its justice. Reporter but inside, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed little emotion, standing with head bowed as his fate was announced. Federal prosecutors knew they had an uphill battle in massachusetts, a state that has outlawed the Death Penalty in its own cases. Bostons Police Commissioner William Evans you know, not going to blow up our marathon, theyre not going to blow up our city, and theyre not going to inflict any type of terror in our country. I think thats the strong message we sent today. Reporter its likely, this was the critical image for the jury Surveillance Video of tsarnaev pl a deadly Pressure Cooker bomb four feet away from the Richard Family which witnesses said put eightye
Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security grant. Id have to go back and ask. Our role is funding states i met with a big city Emergency Managers a couple of weeks ago. This is at the top of their list. They were talking about what to do during communications in an emergency. We said what would happen if communication went out and they said thats our earthquake plan. We get our units to go out and start patrolling the area. If the center cant
Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe rooms for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce futu
Here. Let me begin with a topic that the chairwoman is familiar with, Cyber Security, particularly the faa. I had the privilege really of watching the chairman work and superb job of pending the intelligence bill and no one knows more and more thought 68 about the issue than senator collins, but i understand that within the faa there is a huge need to protect the system from Cyber Incidents and intrusions. But that there is organization in the air Traffic Organization that basically has to borrow funding in order to help promote Cyber Security from other agencies and borrow personnel, that there are different experts within the faa that disagree as whats the best approach and how to deal with it. Its it is a critical issue. And it seems not only is it a resource issue but its an organizational issue so let me ask you, mr. Secretary, what are you and the director who i have great admiration for doing to get this done. You know, we are late. We wont see problems on the road. We are alrea