Bill good evening. My name is bill leggett. I am a bookseller. On behalf of the entire staff welcome. , its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting sonia shah. And hearing her discuss her book, epidemic, trekking from cholera and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, take a moment to silence them now. Sonja will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes. And then she will sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, if you great help if you fold up the chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book sailing book signing, and the books are for sale when you walked in. Sonia shaw is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and scientific american, among others. H
The difference in temperatures as compared to yesterday daytime highs only peaking at a range of 60s to 70s as compared to the 80s in some spots we had yesterday talking more about what to expect for the rest of the week and some some rainfall just around the corner too. Still to come from an off to the golden gate taking a peek at one o one an easy trip so far from the north bay to San Francisco looks good right. We dont have any problems were 34 minutes thats normal from highway 37 to the toll plaza. Much heavier into San Francisco. We have the usual crawl here at the bay bridge toll plaza your backup spilling through the maze but it continues to be a nice trip and a quiet rip across the upper deck in over to the skyway a quick peek at shore freeway because we had a little fire burning next to the freeway at a homeless encampment so 80 east at university all lanes open traffic looks good eastbound and westbound the usual crawl. The 33 minutes from crockett down to oakland chain start
Legislative affair here in washington. We really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to listen to this great lineup of speakers. Weve convened this group today to talk about a specter of issues critically important to do 5g and broadband deployment. We will move to an expert panel. Its my pleasure to introduce matthew polka of aca knex steven berry of welcome everybody my name is matthew polka president and ceo of aca knex americas communication association, formerly known as the american cable association. We are very pleased to be here today along with our partner charter at to cca talk about this important issue that certainly affects all of our members except there are members of in aca knex every state providing phone, Broadband Services in remote areas, hard to reach areas. Doing a great job on delivering that broadband promise. Today we are also very happy to talk about our 5g plus plan because we think that the proceeding thats on the way the is very important
Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding expires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system than the rest of the United States. Congress funds the him to block grants which can be depleted early if theres a hurricane or other Natural Disaster. A hearing on why states get continues medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committee is meeting today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the areas under the Affordable Care act, also known as the use learning areas medicaid cliff. Under Committee Rules, any oral Opening Statements at parents are limited to the chairman and the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent all of the members statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 p. M. Today. I ask anatomist consent the gentlewoman from the u. S. Virgin islands be allowed to sit on the dice and question the witnesses. Hearing no objections
Along with the forbes media chairman. Its great to see everybody this morning. We have the Federal Reserve. With the pmi coming out. Thats where we first saw the weakness in the economy. The thing to watch for is hong kong. If you get a bad situation in hong kong its can affect the trade negotiations and a lot of other things as well. He was so adamant in terms of this extradition. The demonstrators also realize that beijing has been engaged in stepbystep. This is it for them. Thats where the protesters are. They see the future threatened by all of this. And they dont have a place to go. This is it for them. A does he really feel threatened by this affront to beijings power. The trade talks where theyre going to be be somewhat influenced by that. He thinks it is completely unlike 2015 this is a really serious Pressure Point for beijing administration i think thats pretty serious. To your point its a different crowd coming out. He feels it feels very different in terms of the crowd and