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Today will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of challenge on the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple role call votes may be up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had the great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, i will not give it but ask that without objection so ordered. Would you like to speak or put your statement for the record . For the record, okay, guys. Movin...

Burning in all directions. The focus is saving lives and saving property. There are some homes Still Standing among the ruins. I am lucky. I am lucky. I dont know why, but my house is still up. Residents say the fire is a beast and running from i was terrifying. 400 homes have been destroyed, two apartment complexes, and ten businesses. Residents say just horrified that it happened here and right here in a neighborhood not in a rural hillside but right here in downtown and it is shocking. Thank ...

Syria, air strikes as well. Part of its intelligence sharing with our allies around the world and part of it is coop race from Tech Companies in an age when it is a key start of the isis strategy. We examine our strategy to determine when additional step are also needed to get the job done. Thats why ive ordered the departments of state and Homeland Security to review the Visa Waiver Program under which the female terrorist in San Bernardino originally came to this country. Thats why i will urge...

From hayward to foster city crass the water only nine minutes. Interest concord we have this accident involving a car that flipped. Eastbound highway 4 at port chicago highway is blocking a lane and now we are seeing delays pulling away from 242. The driver get out of the vehicle and is walk around so maybe we do not have severe injuries. It looks like traffic is slowing and we have crews headed to the seen and it will cause more slowing and spectator slowing westbound. You will remember Charlie...

Peter slen and our guest this week on the communicators is tj kennedy, acting executive director of firstnet. Mr. Kennedy, welcome, and what exactly is firstnet . T. J. Kennedy it is the first six the First Responder network authority. It is similar to what people use today with smartphones and having the ability to share voice and data, but doing it in a critical way that will support paramedics every day to do their job. Peter is there an issue with First Responders where they need their own n...

For a long time on land mobile systems, and they serve a great purpose, but theyre very focused on Voice Technology and most of us are leveraging what broadband can do. In the back of an ambulance or police and fire, the unique things that could be done to enhance safety and security if you were able to leverage broadband for Public Safety day in and day out. Host so is, mr. Kennedy, whats the current status of firstnet . Is it online . Is it available for First Responders at this point . Guest ...

Los angeles. In this case the suspect refused to identify herself and was booked into jail for resisting arrest and trespassing. At 4 31 we have developing news. The coroner said the son of a bay area billionaire appears to have died from Natural Causes or an accident. Andrew gettyies what found dead in the bathroom of his home in Hollywood Hills year. The coroner said it appears the 47yearold died of Natural Causes or an accident. They say Prescription Medication was found at the scene. Getty i...

Security. And, lastly, and this is important particularly in light of the metcalf incident, that has been talked about here, and theyre in the early stages of this but the, they are working on working on a project to develop security, security protections, physical protections and others for substations. So thats going to be extremely critical also. Were very proud of the work that is done at the Idaho National laboratory. Like i said they are reknowned when it comes to Nuclear Energy but there ...

Facility. This is the geography and so on. In addition, these and other agencies in the dhs and the we i have done a 13 city tour around the u. S. And canada to explain the lessons and local Law Enforcement is one of the main attendees as i understand it at these meetings because as he said it could happen in any community. Thank you for the question, senator. The most important and most Effective Security measure is the relationship between the Utility Company and Law Enforcement and we recogni...

Thank you, madam chair. And thank you for holding this hearing. I appreciated. I know this is a focus, this panel on cybersecurity but weve also talked about reliability and a new the next panel can focus on the. I appreciate your willingness to move forward on figuring so quickly after your taking the chairmanship. I like to ask a couple of questions because we have great experts here who may be can give us a preview of what were going to next also for us to be able to compare and contrast with...