Facebook questions. Watch indepth with author Michael Lewis sunday live from noon to 3 pm eastern on book tv on cspan2. Next, social Media Company executives from facebook, twitter and google testified before a Senate Hearing about russianbased accounts that tried to influence the november election and what their companies are doing to protect users from malicious and misleading content. Before a coherent order. Good morning, i like to welcome our witnesses today. Before i introduce them, ill say on behalf of the full committee our hearts and prayers go out to the individuals in new york, the families and the trillions of those affected by this senseless terror. Most on this committee have come to expect this. We spent countless hours working through the threats that exist to this country and around the world and its sad that weve come to the point where really nothing can happen that surprises us, but its the responsibility of this committee to work handinhand with our Intelligence Co
The committee will come to order. I now recognize mr. Lobiondo for a motion. Pursuant to rule 1a1, i move that the chairman be authorized to declare a hearing on todays hearing. All those in favor signify by saying aye. The ayes have it and the motion is agreed to. I want to thank everybody for being here today. This is an important hearing were having here today. And were talking about what i consider extremely important legislation. And i believe everybody on the committee, both sides of the aisle, believes reauthorization of the faa, reforming it, is extremely important to all of us. The way america travels, moves goods, and conducts Business Today depends on an efficient transportation network. And in order to remain competitive, we need a 21st century infrastructure with modern 21st industry technology. This is especially true of our Aviation System. But the fact is the faas infrastructure is increasingly obsolete and its technology is still cemented in the last century. To quote
Next three hours you can see nothing going on. How is the day unfolding . Beautiful picture of the bay bridge, 54 to 62. By noon, 62 to 86. And another day of extreme sunshine. Also, poor air quality. I will expand upon that and look at the temperatures in your neighborhood right now. Sue . It is spare the air so suggestions would be to get off the freeway and take bart. 34 trains running now on schedule. Ace train one is coming in on time at vasco station. A bus or a ferry, a great morning for a ferry ride with no problems with golden gate. We will look at the bay bridge toll plaza in a minute. We want to start off with breaking news a house fire in the east bay proved to be tough for firefighters. We go to jessica. Good morning, the fire is out right now but it took them an hour on a relatively small home. We just got images interest our newsroom, moments ago, take a look, firefighters there on the scene and on the roof of the home. You can see glareups in the video as you watch clos
Whats next . Guest well those hearings i think were very helpful at educating members of the committee and other members of congress and the general public about the importance of this issue. Interestingly we have already scheduled a hearing on encryption before the apple fbi controversy broke out to the publics attention and we were right thing pleased with the presentation made by all of the witnesses at the hearing but i think the number one thing that comes across is encryption is a good thing and a very important thing and we have got to find our way through this not be weakening encryption but by continuing effort to strengthen it and you only need to look at the problems that we have had with foreign governments, with criminal enterprise, with hackers stealing millions of documents from Government Agencies and alleys of credit card records from retail establishments, financial establishments to know that we need to be moving toward stronger uses of encryption and stronger encryp
Host whats next . Guest well, those hearings, i think, were very helpful at educating members of the committee, other members of congress and the general public about the importance of this issue. Interestingly, we had already scheduled the hearing on encryption before the apple fbi controversy broke out into the publics attention. And we were, i think, pleased with the presentations made by all of the witnesses at the hearing. But i think the number one thing that comes across is that encryption is a good thing and a very important thing, and we have got to find our way through this not by weakening encryption, but by continuing the effort to strengthen it. And you only need to look at the problems that weve had with foreign governments, with criminal enterprises, with just plain hackers stealing millions of documents from Government Agencies and millions of credit card records from retail establishments, from financial establishments to know that we need to be moving toward stronger