Senator howard baker jr. Senator baker passed away today. Howard baker served this country well, and he served it in a fashion that was worthy of admiration, from both parties, all people because he was an american first, a tennessean second and a republican third. He served three terms in the United States senate, served as majority leader and minority leader. He served as United States ambassador to japan. Served as chief of staff to president Ronald Reagan. He was a private practicing attorney as well at the firm of bakerdonaldson, which was a firm his grandfather started and practiced law at one time with his father who served as a United States representative from tennessee. Howard bakers been recognized since his retirent from the senate many occasions and received the president ial medal of freedom and has received other awards. His was a life well lived and a life to be demonstrated to others as a role for legislators to work with both sides of the aisle and work for america fi
To deploy automated passport control kiosks known as abc. These are like the exact change booths. The administrator portion of the arrivals process thereby reducing the overall interaction time with the cbp officer and allows the cbp officer to focus on the security aspects of that inspection process. In the past year 16 airports are launched apcs and several more planned to join by the end of year. All of these airports that have launched these kiosk we have seen average wait times decrease by 30 to 35 after the installation of kiosks. We have also automate the for 494 arriving at seaports of entry. We have the arrival information from electronic record taking into processes easier and faster for travelers in addition to using reducing hc cause. We are are looking for Paper Production formed to eliminate the process. We envision several ways to use the internet mobile device kiosk and seeing the options available like when checking in for flight. Effective secures should be a travel f
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, members of the panel for taking i dont recall time and investing your time and helping us to have a clearer path forward including our tourism, economy and, perhaps, our reputation, as well. F. Y. Appropriations that secure technology that would allow state to conduct visa interviews remotely and provide a convenient solution for foreign access. Can you please give us an update . Thank you, senator. The bureau of Counselor Affairs is kocontinuing to look into whether video can be used. We understand the allure and the attraction of the video interviewing idea. We have serious concerns about the security efficiency and integrity of video interviewing. We believe expanding the pool of lowrisk traveler who is do not require an interview at all will realize far greater efficiencies than would video interviewing. We are focusing technology to help us expand interviews for whom can be waived. That would allow us to focus resources on higherrisk visa applic
Stay tuned for that. But we begin with incredible, shocking enthuse out of syria. A possible chemical weapons massacre with the government of president Bashar Al Assad with casualties from 100 to more than 1,200. The latter figure if confirmed would amount to one of the greatest war crimes of the past several decades. Nbc news cannot verify the authenticity of the amateur video we are about to show you. It purports to show victims of the attacks and contains images of injured adults and children that may be considered disturbing. Reporter this morning Syrian Rebels tell us there was a series of what they claim were chemical weapons attacks. Ten villages at least it to the east and north of damascus hit by what rebels say were surface to surface missiles fired by the regime and tipped with chemical weapons. The death toll well over 1,000. Symptoms before death, witnesses tell us, were shortness of breath, constricted pupils, foaming at the mouth. Weve seen videos posted online showing m
Attending meetings and conferences of a fact of life for mindy business executives. Our guest today is jason yeh of the Taiwan Convention and Exhibition Association to tell if the state of the meeting industry in taiwan. Welcome to the program. Good day, everybody. Is a pleasure. First, tell us a little bit about your association with the Taiwan Convention and Exhibition Association. Ok. Taiwan convention and Exhibition Association actually was founded in 1991. The reason behind this is in 1992, the Taiwan Convention industries was going to host the International Congress and Convention Association in taiwan. During that time, we think we should have an organization who ran the conference. During the time, the bureau and some airlines, hotel, plaza, and sheraton hotel, we just formed our organization. And started working for the conference. Prior to 1991, the meeting industry in taiwan was essentially nonexistent. Actually, it existed during that time, but people were not aware of the