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Good friday morning. Its another morning with a spread of temperatures from north to south. Where we have the deeper snow pack is where the cooler temperatures are. Weve also had clear skies for a longer bit of time, compared to the east where the low clouds have lingered a bit longer. We will see a start with some sunshine, but clouds will be on the increase throughout the day today. Road conditions show some patchy areas of partially snow covered roadways on the major highways and interstate. ...

What is on path and technology and i the Computer Science degree. I ended up being a photographer doing underwater pictures. I have been stuck back into technology recently. I am jonathan downey, the founder and ceo of airware. I started at boeing working on helicopter systems. I was briefly an airline pilot. I started airware to address some problems that i saw as an undergrad at m. I. T. In developing drones for specific applications. We develop platform of software and hardward that power dro...

And operate, where there is very little air and where you need an incredibly light aircraft, which is in most cases not incredibly sturdy. But you have to fly through all the other layers of airspace to get up there. That is a difficult challenge. That is an altitude that is nearing space, so you have to harden the electronics and software to deal with things ike radiation. After dinner, you were talking about the fundamental technology. Similar to the technology of atellites. One thing we think...

Coming up with a number so low. Where is the value today . How is it going to evolve over time . Clearly, there is money in hardware. It starts with hardware and then becomes data. It becomes services. Right now, these things are basically a way to get sensors in the sky. What you do is a big opportunity. We make money from hardware today. We are essentially a software company. We are very happy to have other people make the hardware. At the end of the day, no one cares about the drone, they car...

Protect. You have to get into the heads of those on the other side of because you have to change their calculation enough to get them to the table. Talk about what we did in iraq. We had to put a lot of economic pressure to get them to the table. That have to be the first step. What you did in afghanistan and pakistan, trying to get the taliban to the table for discussion. Think what we i have to understand is it is primarily a political problem that has to be addressed. Ascension of the sunni e...

Most of us, dronie, the latest fads, probably will be old news taken by eric, one of the best drone photographs, only just Getting Started on the drone journey. Lets get going n typical churchill fashion, we will start with chris. I am chris anderson, co of robotibs, the editer of wired magazine for over a decade. How i went from the editer of a magazine to a co of anary Space Company is a story we will probably end up talking about. Back in the media days, i didnt have to run my own factory, no...

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 ...

Against technology. That was actually we had this conversation a little bit about some of the limits of kind of online activism or some people say hash tag activism. This ability of just masses of people to bring attention to these issues, right, and we talked about how that kind of bubbled up during the whole Malaysian Airlines hysteria where, you know, we all of a sudden started paying attention to these 200 kidnapped girls. The other analog is joseph coney, coney 2012. One of the most Massive...

Lets go to Nicole Petallides before we talk about anything else. Check on the markets. Good morning nicole. We pared the losses. Were down 41 points on the Dow Jones Industrials. 15,059. Just below the 15,600 mark. We had a nice run though, havent we . S p 500 down 1 00 quarter of 1 . It shows you we had momentum remains to the upside. Traders continue to believe with the easy fed policy the path of least resistance is to the upside. Of 3d systems, largest printer company, looking good. New allt...

House debateek the or can on Training Programs and forgy and water projects 2015. You can see the house live on cspan and the senate on cspan2. Another item is to renew the highway trust fund. It expires at the end of august. The department of transportation is more that allowing the trust fund to go broke would cost the u. S. 700,000 jobs. Twice there than number created last month. It will begin cutting back payments to state and local governments next month. That article is in the hill today....