Test. Test. Test. Its an absolute vulnerability that terrorists can exploit. Its a vulnerability we need to address. Dr. Romney, i guess from what im hearing from you is we dont want to get this wrong. I think ms. Watson coleman was talking about herself being possibly in this pool of candidates that could get somehow mischaracterized. Tell me where we are with the technology. How accurate is it . The very best algorithms weve tested the most recently have false negative rates that are extremely low. The accuracy can range for the best algorithms in a one to many match can range into the 99. 7 range. So 99. 7 accuracy. Yes. Thats pretty good. From a scientific standpoint its a high number for me. Its very high. Youre a scientist. Im not, but it sounds pretty high to me. Its always a balance in this committee and when we deal with security issues, we always have to balance these as americans and i think its important that we balance those factors. Its stopped a lot of bad actors from co
Future of the Affordable Care act. And later, john scott from Pew Charitable trust talks about the potential for Retirement Savings reform legislation. Retirement savings reform legislation. Host good morning. It is thursday, july 11, 2019 and this is washington journal. Following emotional migrant testimony yesterday, and news report says the u. S. Begins raids on sunday. We will start the program looking at u. S. Asylum laws and asking you if they need to be tightened or changed and here is how to join us. Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents and all others, 2027488002. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj and we will look for your posts as well on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Here is the report from the New York Times posted at nytimes. The u. S. Prepares to arrest thousands of family members. Nationwide raids have been scheduled to begin sunday according to two current and one officials. Security to the final details of the operation remain in f
Celebrities, healthcare and worked since the taliban had taken over in august 2021. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. I am an associate for the middle is broken here at the Wilson Center. I please welcome you to todays fifth annual forum for a discussion on womens rights in afghanistan. To introduce todays speaker im pleased to welcome ambassador mark green, director, presidency of the Wilson Center. Great. Thanks. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to this marvelous for. Im grateful that even though i couldnt be at the center today, Technology Still makes i it possible to join you. Not only is she known around the world for her important writing underinvestment in a she holds a very special place in the hearts of all of us are at the Wilson Center. She is a founding director of our middle is program and she led the team from 19982015. This series on significant voting womens empowerment, womens rights globally but particularly in the middle
Virus itself. Lack of knowledge and misinformation has stoked apprehension and fear among many. According to the World Health Organization some of the reasons why we dont know more about this disease include a relatively small proportion of about one in four, some say one in five of people develop symptoms, a virus only detectable for a few days and infected peoples blood. The failure of current tests to definitively distinguish zika from similar viruses such as dengue. Especially pregnant women wear protective clothing and stay indoors if possible with Windows Doors or screened. Or diligently protect against mosquito bites if travel is unavoidable. Currently no therapeutics exist to treat zika virus nor is there a vaccine. But that gap need not be forever. One of our distinguished Witnesses Today, doctor Anthony Fauci will explain the scope of nih research on the zika virus as well as Vector Control. Surely Lessons Learned from years of malaria Vector Control have ek witability to zik
More so this year than other years given that it is his last year in office. And republicans in many ways are treating it as such. It has of course as with any budget a lot of specific proposals but in terms of the actual monies that they will be fighting over this coming year in terms of the appropriations process later on down the line, the top line numbers have already been figured out and were figured out last fall. So this is much more of a political document than a practical guide arguably to what the policy discussions will be this year. In light of that, then, what is in this . What are some of the key details whether its Cancer Research, oil price increases, cybersecurity funding . Theres on the overview of it, basically its about a 4. 1 trillion in spending, about 3. 6 trillion in revenue for about a 500 billion deficit in t2017. He over ten years the accumulated deficits are 6 trillion. Basically what obama did was he raised about 3 trillion worth of revenues but then also i