The white house wants to unveil it before the state of the union. Plans beforeo has the consumer conference in las vegas. Also, the 200 billion that are going to be from direct federal spending, we know from the white house infrastructure advisor, they are going to ask for money from existing federal accounts, and when you reach the 200 billion mark, that would incentivize 800 billion in privatesector funds. Now, that is a different debate whether or not you can reach that mark over 10 years. Also 25 billion will be allocated for rural projects. 3t is very difficult to get a p polling facility to be profitable along rural highways. Then you will have a real push on the part of the white house and the administration to streamline environmental for construction projects, these big Infrastructure Projects. The aim is to take it from 10 years down to two years. Critics will point out that is extremely difficult. You know, this is something that is extremely necessary for these major projec
House herech the live on cspan and the senate live on cspan two. Light monday night on the communicators, where on location in bell labs. It is one of the premier Communication Research facilities in the world, providing work in lasers. The president discusses what is new in communications technology. We are presented with a ton of data but not necessarily knowledge. In the next era, we will collect everything in your environment infrastructure, buildings, cities and automate that. Your energy will be automatically managed for you. All of that requires a change in networks. The cloud has to move into the network to accommodate that. The network will become valued again and devices will be everywhere on you, in you, in your devices. Watch the communicators monday night at eight eastern on cspan two. Next, a look at infrastructure needs in the u. S. And how congress and the Trump Administration may approach federal funding for future projects. From washington journal, this is an hour and
Like normal commute and traffic is okay if youre driving at the bay bridge. A 20 minute delay. Nothing unusual getting into San Francisco. This is a live look at interstate 880 in oakland. And the traffic is moving well in both directions. If you look at the Silicon Valley commute, we had not much going on. An accident northbound 87 and driving up to near 280. It was slowing on 87. But all the other freeways in the south bay are doing well. 6 01. Lets go back to the december sk. Under debate, San Francisco has a new interim mayor. Mark farrell sworn in after a tense board of supervisors meeting. The board voted 63 to appoint him to caretaker mayor until that june election. He replaces london breed and farrell is a native San Franciscoan who was a lawyer before becoming a supervisor in 2011. My job is to represent everybody in the city of San Francisco no matter what their race, ethnicity and religion, my job is to represent everybody and ill do that. Some of the critics of farrells app
Nader talks about letters he is sent to george w. Bush and barack obama regarding our domestic and foreign policy. Its great to have you here ralph on cspan thank you. Im honored to interview you on this new book. Yeah the Reference Point those days. Its a message that 103 letters i sent to president bush and president obama in 2001 and 2015 that were not acknowledged or not answered. So i thought i would embarrass myself by putting them all in a book to raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to anil elected official cant be censored, cant be distorted, and not to respect it or even acknowledge it so people dont know its going to some dark hole. Its a major issue i think. Most young people dont realize that a young a written letter to an official has more impact. They get like a half 1 million letters a week, you dont expect them to answer every letter. Yes teams of volunteers go to the white house every morning and they separate all th
Mortgages. , if are predatory in that you miss a payment, you are evicted and you lose equity you have built. These wall street firms that bought these foreclosed properties dont want to invest anything in them. They are trying to sell them off and they cant really read them because they are in terrible shape. They cant sell them with Bank Financing because they would not be acceptable for mortgage. They sell them to people with contract for deed or rent to buy terms. It sets people up. Of whate latest chapter i would consider, a predatory lending. Host why write this story now . Are we seeing an increase in these type of loans happening in this time and what is leading to that . Firms like street vision property, harbor properties, they bought up thousands of these units and they are trying to unload them. They are aggressively trying to get people to enter into rent to buy arrangements. Now people are getting to the what, where they realize they overpaid or it has problems and they a