Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Im larry biel and im kristen sze. Yes indeed. Well continue to monitor that breaking news. But first a late night shootout at a hotel in south san jose injured two San Jose Police officers and the man who fired at them. Abc seven news south bay reporter Dustin Dorsey has more on what the early investigation revealed about the suspect. But first, dustin, how are the officers doing . Larry and kristen, we are happy to report that both officers are in stable condition after being involved in a shooting that involved a man with two felony warrants out for his arrest, 1 or 1 officer spent the day in the hospital with life threatening injuries. But the entire city is thankful that both are expected to survive. Our officers families got the call they always dreaded and prayed. Would never come, and we got a reminder of the courage it takes to put on the badge every day. Knowing you would give your life to protect the city you love. Some relief knowing tw
Broadband access. The hearing runs two hours. Two hours and 40 minutes. [bangs gavel] good afternoon. The Senate Commerce committee will come to order. I thank my colleagues, many have been in this room for many hours already today doing double duty on both an aviation hearing, and now, a very important conversation about the implementation of the chips and science act which we are committing a pretty big role in. Less to say, our community has been very diligently working on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think i will thank senator wicker again for his work on chips and science act. I think people may not remember, but this committee, i dont know how many amendments we processed. It was in the hundreds, it might have been in the 300s, but i definitely believe that the regular process was good for the institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that, to understand much
The critical thing and we should visit when we have more time. Let me just say the reports about because way are incredibly disturbing and i cant count on the investigations but we take every threat seriously and investigate to the fullest wherever we think theres some incredible allegation that a company has done an end run around your export controls. We need different tools, im supportive of the guard act which would and the restrict act which would codify our itcs authorities. We need that to have a comprehensive approach to go after connected apps. We would need resources additionally to do that. I think we need Additional Resources around enforcement to do exactly what youre talking about. Candidly we need the threat is different today. The threat from china in 2023 is different than the cold war threats of decades ago. It is technology and a. I. And it is moving fast so i would welcome a broader discussion with you around how we modernize what we do and how we properly fund what
It software system. Mr bates has been giving his version of events ahead of appearances by Senior Executives from the post office and fujitsu , the Company Office and fujitsu, the company which built the software. And hes been less than compliments about the future of the post office itself. Office itself. They need disbanding, it needs removing, it needs building up again from the ground floor. And as ive been quoted quite commonly, the whole of the whole of the Postal Service nowadays, its beyond its a dead duck. Its beyond saving. It needs a real big injection of money and i think that can only happen coming in from outside. Otherwise its just going to be its going to be a bugbear for the government for the years to come. For the years to come. Now, campaigners are calling on the government to ban pesticides. In fact, 25 pesticides, which are which contain so called forever chemicals after the potentially harmful toxins were found in more than half of food and drink samples, pfoa ch
That can only happen coming in from outside. Otherwise its just going to be its going to be a bugbear for the government for the years to come. For the years to come. Now, campaigners are calling on the government to ban pesticides. In fact, 25 pesticides, which are which contain so called forever chemicals after the potentially harmful toxins were found in more than half of food and drink samples, pfoa chemicals, long lasting toxins which have been unked lasting toxins which have been linked to Serious Health issues, were found in more than 3300 samples tested by the uk government in 2022. Out of all the items tested, strawberries were found to be the worst affected as 95 of the 120 tested samples did contain pfas. Tested samples did contain pfas. Now, the government says up to £11 million from Water Company fines ought to be reinvested into schemes to improve our waterways and wetlands. The water restoration fund, which is now open for applications, will offer grants to local groups