gsa is gender and sexuality alliance clubs, with the exception of a few athletes. at the end, two football players accompany, the gsa officers to the stage to give a small gift. when asked if could say something to the audience not knowing what he would say, i nervously agreed. listen, before i came in, i was uncomfortable, he said to the mic, you know, i can't do i can't speak. i just want to sit over there and stay quiet. but when i came in, it was a very inviting environment. i was like, i can this. there ain't no difference. you we're all the same. he then turned to me and continued, and i want to say thank you to you for opening up my eyes to a brighter future. the audience is applause, almost drowned out his voice as he finished this reality. this is life, he said. i just about cried. really. i had to try very hard not to fall on stage. and while this is still one of the most touching moments i've experienced at a speech, such unexpected empathy has not been unique in my moments like this happened over and over again. people thinking, they would find themselv

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them >> and of course this as more than 30 million people are under wind advisories this morning with gsato 55 miles an hour, causing travel delays and power outages are weatherman van dam tracking all of it, derek, good morning. what are you looking at? >> yeah, good morning, kasie. this is the storm system that just will not quit. so last night will take you into the western suburbs of pittsburgh. and this is what it looked like. people traversing through flooded roadways, not recommended. obviously, we've got that slogan from the national weather service turn around, don't drown because especially at night, you cannot see how deep that water is. nonetheless, it was a very difficult night because there were there were actually some water rescues that took place. and this is going back to a very heavy rainfall event that occurred yesterday that you set it wettest record april de on record. but we did some digging into the data and we actually saw that april real second of this year was also the previous wetter wettest april day. so you combine those and the other showers in-between that

we had a lot of help from people at gsa. we have a lot of help from the u.s.ital service in tiparticular. who brought agile technology product expertise. work side-by-side it was inspiring to visit that team room. see the energy and excitement to different parts of the government working together so well. ultimately and this is a little geeky it was agile technology that was the eye-opener. there is a whole discipline around how you move more quickly to delivert incremental functionality. how you strip through bureaucracy and get decisions made more quickly. you take calculated risks more regularly. the irs is so different but federal agencies tend to not be after when they do technology but that is when you hear about projects taking five, six, seven years. by sizing this increment increment thatha impact. were able to be more agile, have executional certainty and launch something we can all learn from. y where direct buyout goes from here. were not ready to announce that but one thing is for sure taxpayers who have a positive experience with it and we all le

gsa hr is coming out of market and dhr is moving the training center from 1740 cesar chavez. on the 13th floor, vacant moving the mayor office of disability and the department of the environment again from 1155. 16th floor, cmd and tax collector from 1155, and then on the 17th floor we have the assessor and dcyf moving from 1155 in the case of the assessor and 1390 market street of fox plaza in the case of dcyf. this is just another visual presentation of those moves. you can see on the left the department, the floor they occupy at 1155 and the square footage and again, where they will be located in the hudson building and again their square footages. the reasons for these moves are to take advantage of the competitive rate. it allows for additional consolidation over time of other city departments and it also presents a buying opportunity for the city. again, just a different visual representation, this is dhr. we also have shared conference rooms that will be part of the stack at the hudson building. we will have a shared conference room on the 12 and 16 floors. lastly, aga

we had a lot of help from people like gsa and we had a lot of help from the u.s. digital service in particular who brought agile technology, product expertise, they worked side-by-side in a tea room in -- team room in irs headquarters. it was inspiring to visit that team room and see the energy and excitement and see different parts of the government working together so well. ultimately -- this is a little geeky -- it was agile technology that was the eye-opener. there is a whole discipline around how you move more quickly to deliver incremental functionality, how you strip through bureaucracy and get decisions made more quickly, that you take a calculated risks more regularly. the irs is no different, federal agency tended to not be agile when you do technology. that is why you hear about projects taking 5, 6, 7 years. here, by sizing this in an increment, increment that had impact, we are able to be more agile and have executional certainty and wanted something we can learn from. where direct file goes from your, we are not ready to announce that, but taxpayers