Reporter two days before the accident, a concerned worker filmed an upper floor of the 18story hotel under construction. He points to a series of red flags like this floortoceiling temporary beam supporting concrete slabs. In spanish he says they couldnt remove this one because its too bent. It has too much pressure. This is serious. This was a cascading set of failures. Reporter Civil Engineer Norma Jean Mattei watched the video. It makes me wonder why. Was the brace ged . Was the concrete placed not of adequate strength . Was the concrete just not Strong Enough . Reporter Governor John Bel Edwards said the possible of Tropical Storm winds moving in tomorrow is posing a danger for the two damaged cranes still standing. We are working as hard as we can on a timeline that will allow for those crane towers to actually be taken down safely. Reporter omar villafranca, cbs news, new orleans. To chicago now where teachers in the nations Third Largest School District walked off the job today.
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common
Id ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seats. I apologize for that delay. We went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is Mister Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, columnist, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and also the cofounder of Prager University, an institution of Higher Learning on the internet which produces fiveminute videos in which experts distill complex topics in political science, history, philosophy, economics and psychology. Mister prager was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the us delegation to the vienna review conference on the helsinki accords. He was also appointed by george w. Bush to the us Holocaust Memorial council. Our second witness is facing kint, ceo of Digital Content, a trade association that serves the unique needs of Digital Content companies. Be
Good Afternoon National press club, im Angela Greiling keane, managing editor at politico and a Technology Team editor, past president of the National Press club and journalism institute. For todays headliners event we are pleased to welcome andy parker and hopefully joining us by phone, anderson francoise whose the director of Georgetown Universitys civil rights clinic and the Voting Rights institute. Theyre here to discuss andys campaign to get google take video of his daughter allisons murder off of its platform and to take your questions. During the q a, i will take as many questions as time permits. Wait for the handheld microphone will be brought to you and when i call on you, your name and affiliation prior to asking a question. Andys daughter Allison Parker was an awardwinning Virginia Television journalist who was tragically murdered along with her colleague photojournalist adam ward while reporting the morning news on a live location in roanoke virginia on august 26, 2015. He
Test. Captioning performed by vitac theres no way of knowing what number of people are in homes that have already already have filters and dont even, therefore, know about a video because it just cant be accessed. We know that many teachers try to show our videos in classes and they come up they can do it on their own, but they cant do it through the school. What explanation has google given you for the restriction . You use the great word, frustration. We have gotten none. And actually its almost unbelievable because if you look at the list, like the Ten Commandments being a perfect example of how people will go, youve got to be kidding. I finally found out today, you did, we all heard the representative of google told us why the Ten Commandments video was taken down, because it contains murder. So, as i said, we have a solution, we will put up one without thou shall not murder in it. Thats so absurd as to be hilarious. This will be something i will replay on my radio show for years.