Made in america good evening. And the race for the white house in just a moment here. But we begin tonight with that rare warning from the National Weather service at this hour. It is not often they warn of a particularly dangerous situation ahead, but tonight, they are telling many communities to shelter in place. The pictures coming in already. Tornado watches stretching across hundreds of miles. The gathering clouds outside st. Louis. The heavy rainmaking for a difficult commute already. And at the kansas city airport, large hail hammering the tarmac. To the map at this hour. The concern stretching all the way to the northeast. 54 million americans in the threat zone. But you can see right there in the red, the biggest threat tonight. Karlinsky with the shelters on the ready, right along the highway. Reporter dangerous storms ominous skies in oklahoma, where conditions are quickly deteriorating. Thats fixing to do something right there. Reporter the leading edge of the storms blew t
What can we do to make the data easier to find. If you want to know whats happening to your community, what does your Community Look like . Lets say youre moving to the d. C. Area. What does the Smallest Church look like . How does that compare. What are the people like question my two they have characteristics you are looking for question you should be able to find out but it can be really hard. Then we have the patent Trademark Office. When youre an inventor, you have to look at the patent database. Right now now a lot of that data is very unstructured. Its not machinereadable and not all the data that the Patent Office has is out to the public. Theres an analysis at the Trademark Office where they are sitting on a bunch of data that hasnt even been opened yet. They all have very common themes. If you want to get the data out, there is people who find it and can use it. Lets talk about the analysis of data. Again, i mentioned one mentioned one of the biggest constraints we have in th
Force is growing plus how efficient our economy is becoming. If you add those two up, gdp growth. So what were seeing the last four years productivity growth averaging less than 1 . Historically thats low in the United States. Thats kind of really retarding u. S. Growth. How are we why arent we growing faster in this kind of Data Revolution where we hear all these great things about data . Theres this big conundrum there. Maybe what it is we have all these businesses gathering all this information and they really havent yet materialized the benefits from all this data. But from a macro perspective thats a huge, huge question. So how much all this data stuff were talking about, how much can this improve the u. S. Economy, okay . So im just going to throw out a couple real rough numbers here. Theres lots of studies out there who always talk about trillions of dollars and billions of dollars and so on and so forth. I always find those numbers really hard to understand. So im an economist.
And ochk that extends beyond the courtroom and the actions that we bring. Working with many members who are sponsoring this wonderful weekend and other members of congress as well, weve promoted legislative proposals to resore the Voting Rights act to its full and proerp. Weve profoesed legislation that would expand access to polling places for those living on indian villages and other tribal lands. We cannot have a situation in this country where the original americans are kept out of the participation in the bounties of this land. We cannot have that. [ applause ] we do this also through our monitoring program, we monitor federal elections and weve actively enforced the National Voter registration act to protect those who are registering to vote, as well as the rights of our uniformed members of the military. And overseas citizens who seek to vote as well. Keeping on to what makes them quintessentially american. We will also protect their rights as well. And of course, the right to v
System to have to navigate medicare and medicaid. There is a promise in the fact that the state and federal government are trying to take this on, after 50 years, we have some demonstration in place for this issue that we have highlighted for decades and we really have had no progress. I appreciate the fact that many states are trying to do something. It is far from perfect, it is a struggle. It is a struggle for those states to go a different route where we mandate organizations. This is an important issue for many states, just trying to figure out what the right path forward is, but is clearly something we need to have a continued conversation around, what is the solution for duels and what will best serve their needs . Judy other questions . We definitely did not cover everything. Michael riley. A couple of things, vern, in agreeof provider taxes, i it is a sustainability issue, but it leads to questions whether the whole Financing Mechanism is a sustainable mechanism in terms of th