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Humid, between 71 and 76. Christa rich kirkland, happy friday to you. Rich thank you very much. Happy friday to you too. One of the nice things will friday other than its friday is traffic is lighter on a friday morning when the weather is good. The weather is good and were live on route 1, a good ride right now. The expressway usually is much heavier. It isnt, the turnpike wide open from one end to the other, stockbridge to boston, if you will. The t says were just getting going but its okay. Rich kirkland, 7 news today in new england. Christa taking a look at developing news here this morning, the tsa is considering stepping up security at International Airports after the crash of that russian jet overseas in egypt. We could hear about some of those plans as early as today. Jadiann this comes as u. S. And British Intelligence suggest isis was likely responsible for bringing down that plane. Victoria warren joins us from Logan Airport. Theres already talk of changes at airports. Repor
Of adaptations. We took a wall and started writing all over the Different Things on the wall we thought drones were going to be used for. We came up with a lot of the common commercial ones we talked about here. Then we also kind of had a section of the wall where we wanted to come up with some of the things that we hoped and we wanted to see drones really used for. And aerial delivery of medicines. And those are two examples that we have been involved in since. Any other one of the interesting requests we got early days, walmart found us and they asked us if this is something they publicly talk about. They do, they use satellite imagery to figure out how many people go to the stores. But they want to take a step further and find out how many people go to the stores based on their commercials on tv. So being able to map that and correlate that based on i did this ad campaign and 30 people showed up at the store. Globally and regionally, its huge. All the manufacturing plants in china w
Manufacturing a new Competitive Edge in this global economy. The best thing washington can do is to encourage further growth in investment. As president obama noted in his recent speech touting 3d printing hubs, if you want to attract more good manufacturing jobs, you need to be on the cutting edge. Our company could not agree more. Id like to thank the committee for holding this hearing and id be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, mr. Cobb. Our next witness is Peter Weijmarshausen founder and ceo of shapeaways, the worlds leading 3d printing marketplace and community. Prior to shapeaways, peter was the chief Technology Officer at sanjen which he and his team developed satellite broadcast modems. Hes director of engineering at ermiska where hes responsible for delivering a Business Broadband Service via satellite. He was born and raised in the netherland and moved to new york in 2010. Thanks for being here. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman and members of the committee