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Recovery after the fires. What is clear then as now is those survivors need help. A whole town was flattened, thousands of people left without homes overnight, and nine months later their lives are still in limbo. I know you know this, mr. Secretary, and i want to appreciate your attendance, your presence on maui, but also your ability to listen to the needs of the survivors. I will make it very simple. The survivors need transitional housing. Other communities are dealing with disasters of their own. Baltimore is recovering from the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott key bridge, and as i reiterated to the maryland congressional delegation this week, we are going to get baltimore whatever it needs to rebuild. This past weekend, a Freight Train derailment forest resident evacuations and highway closure. We are still waiting to find out more about what caused the accident but a ....
We stay on capitol hill for live testimony from transportation secretary pete buttigieg, the hearing just about to get underway. In february i had the chance to welcome you, secretary, to hawaii, where we visited lahaina on maui to get an update on recovery after the fires. What is clear then as now is those survivors need help. A whole town was flattened, thousands of people left without homes overnight, and nine months later their lives are still in limbo. I know you know this, mr. Secretary, and i want to appreciate your attendance, your presence on maui, but also your ability to listen to the needs of the survivors. I will make it very simple. The survivors need transitional housing. Other communities are dealing with disasters of their own. Baltimore is recovering from the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott key bridge, and as i reiterated to the maryland congressional delegation this week, we are going to get baltimore whate ....
Yesterday, day before, and well keep it going through the weekend. We do have snow north and west well look at that on radar in a as he can congestion look at this crash scene, theres a vehicle fire impacting the traffic on 695 westbound of the 3rd street tunnel. Well have the latest on that and the rest of your commute in metro. Right off the top. A blast of old care will get you greet you today for sure, bundle up before heading your way. Depending on where you live, you could see if a few flurries of snow, annie yu live in urbana with the details, good morning. Reporter good morning maureen, steve, i know some of you have been waiting to see snow this season, so far out here in frederick county, nothing but the casual flurry or two, we have been watching and well go if different, you know, intervals of leak flurries and it goes away and comes back, behind me is just a, three plows ready to go standing by from mala theyve been out here since 1 00 this morning, basically doing what we ....
Welcome back to crossfire where all Things Considered im peter remind you were discussing bitcoin. Here let me go back to you in cambridge while it is a fascinating concept these cryptocurrency if there is the concern of accountability Illegal Drugs arms and other kinds of illegal activity can stay under the radar of the authorities i mean i think thats a kind of a downside also you know when people talk about it is being a newfie out currency one day i mean you know people are buying big ticket items because they are avoiding taxation and things like that so i mean it kind of cuts both ways here i guess really the most important question will be if this kind of crypto currencies are successful what is the temptation of governments to step in to regulate it and would regulation kill it go ahead. Right now its been very interesting to watch the migration of regulatory intere ....
Next in line to to start getting involved with regards to Law Enforcement question you know its a its a double edged sword for Law Enforcement because on the one hand you know you know these these currencies do enable privacy on dark web transactions but on the other hand Law Enforcement when they catch a criminal whos been using bitcoin and they get a hold of their Wallet Software they get effectively their books and they may have a good chance of recovering some of the funds and thats not something you get with the cash criminal where there isnt Record Keeping so you can use the block chain to prosecute cases and that has been done and Law Enforcement ....