Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
, but they dont have the ability to turn this expression into a commercial product and put it on the market. This fund can help these products, which are at levels of, for example, one, two or three, become technological readiness. To be able to products value to the market means that you pay or give Financial Assistance for better commercialization, we are obliged to do what we are obliged to do according to the strategic document of the elites, one of the very important and key measures. This discussion is actually about creating platforms that are not for the activities of academic companies, elite communities , that we can secure credit for , and in fact, in Risk Management for research projects, they can cross the valley of death that these companies have. Well, naturally, this requires a fund, which was mentioned in the same strategic document in the past, which is the Risk Research Development Fund acceptable the name was given to the elites , it was never formed, we are now try
Hazier than others. Now, lets bring in darren peck. We use the sensors to see it. This is a view over the last few hours when you watch it. It will get towards sunset and that inversion becomes clear. You can see how the air is getting trapped in here. The weird set up is that the smoke is getting corraled. It is getting pull into the bay. Look at what happened over the last two hours, look at it, deeper shades of red, you see the pattern all right in through the golden gate within the last hour it shaded back into the unhealthy category. It is the benefit of using the lowcost sensor. There is a lot more of them than the official epa sensors they are higher grade, calibrated better, looked at by technicians regularly. Most of them are set up by people in their backyard. They are a great tool to see patterns like this. We are not out of this. When you look at what happened here is the smoke going back to noon today. See the deeper shades off of the coast. Watch the breeze. It is going t
Festivals. I justha really want to say thak you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on the fence for the public in medicine and just in where you came from today. I also wantt to thank the madisn Public Library foundation. They do all the private fundraising. It keeps these events free and t open to the public. Weve been doing this is our fifth festival at Madison Public Library at all our events have been free. We can break even about that and we hope you do, too. I want to say a huge thank you h to them and to all the sponsors who helped put on this festival throughout the years. I would ask you now to please silence your cell phones. That goes for date as well. And probably me. Youve got to check. I really would just like to start my introduction today by saying im not a scientist
On monday the total Solar Eclipse. It will be the 27th one hes observed in person, by far the most of anyone alive today. Mr. Reboundenberg, for the view ers out there who will be witnessing this total Solar Eclipse for first time, whats your favorite moment of the tot al Solar Eclipse and what are you looking forward to on monday donald well what happens as the First Contact or the first bite of the sun is, taken out by the moon, is the air begins to cool, the sky begins to darken. And what happens when the second contact occurs or the onset of totality, i am always impressed because from early times people have been able to make calculations predicting where this and when this Solar Eclipse will occur. So its a remarkable its remarkable that the mathematics and geography now fit together in such a way that the precise spot on the earth, where you can see the eclipse, is known well in advance. So that is impressive. Then the corona shows up and thats a beautiful sight, a blue white ag