Also number alexis is deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. She is the adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and she spent a couple decades studying these issues extremely intensively as a student and then as a member of the staff at the un mission. Of the state department, and also just thinking very deeply about them which is so clear from this book which i really admire. So quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] this book is about what you call met states, maybe you want to start by taking a minute and showing us what those are and why you felt like we needed a new category for them. Thank you for coming, its wonderful to see you here and i think the best way to describe what it is is to talk about how icame upon the idea to write this book in the first place. Back in 2015, ther
Information trade how big tech conquers countries, challenges our rights, and transforms our world. Can you hear me without the mic . No, okay. Can you hear me with the mic . Also know. Heads up in the back. Alexis is the deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who cana devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens ofpr new york. She is an adjunct professor of media and communications and she spent a couple of decades studying these issues extremely intensively as doctoral student and then as a member of the staff of the u. N. Mission, of the state department, and also just thinking her guilty about the witches so clear from this book which i really admire. A quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right in. This book is about what you call take a minute and tell us what those arent what you felt we needed a new category for them. Sure. Thankdo you all for coming. So wonderfu
good morning. welcome to today on a thursday mornle. al s got a busy morning. this is a massive storm system impacting 75 million people in nearly two dozen states. you re looking at some of the damage, the torrential rains, damaging winds that lashed parts of michigan. we re just beginning to feel the impact of these storms in the northeast. we re going to get to al in a moment. we want to begin with kristen dahlgren in chicago. she will show us the damage that s already been done. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, savannah. a sigh of relief if chicago. things have cleared but a different scene here overnight. now millions more as you said bracing for this massive and dangerous system. a rough night across the midwest with tornados touching down in bellman, iowa. in yorkville, illinois lightning strikes and thunderstorms blanketed the area. outside of chicago, the weather channel s mike seidel took cover with his crew inside their vehicle near joliet. yo
javier is the second child who has beenç placed on the adult list for organs. a judge temporarily made an exception for sarah moynihan to be placed on the list. so now there is a ruling for children under 12 years of age to be placed on the same list as adults. joining us is a bioethicist from stanford university, and also, howard from the gift of life organization. howard, why are children not under the age of 12 allowed to get adult lungs? well, the concept was that kids need kids organs and typically the organ has to fit inside of the child, and that is the most important part, and not only how sick they are, but how the organ fits into the child. and i think that the concept was that to put them on the adult