>> coming up, the king has spoken. with a max contract extension on the table. lebron james explains why he will not be signing it. >> josh beckett going for win number four as they continue to play in the bronx. and tiger woods is right where he wants to be at the bridgestone invitational. how far back is the world's number one? let's start right now . [closed captioning provided by espn, inc.]

>> all right, they are still playing in the bronx. 0-0. going into the bottom of the 11th. derek jeter was up with the winning run at third. struck out by jonathan papelbon. they continued to play. and we'll continue to monitor as we move on. with that, what's up and welcome into my house. i am the coach. a busy weekend straight ahead as the dog days have turned into training camp, enshrinement ceremonys and unsigned extensions, we start in the american league central. tigers and twins. miguel cabrera. tigers playing at home. and they like it there. cabrera. at the three-run shot. his 22nd of the year. tigers go on to win 10-8 is your

final. tigers win their third straight in four or five. armando galaraga picks up his first career win against the twins. not good. seven runs on eight hits in one inning. twins continue to fall. they lost three straight and six of seven. >> all right, white sox and the indians. 4-2. off mark buehrle. second of the game. ninth of the year. the indians win 6-2. fourth multi home run game for chavez. jeremy sauers was 0 had-6 prior to tonight. let's go ahead and take a look at the american league central standings. tigers up three on the white sox. the twins continue their free fall. they are now five and a half back. of the tigers.

take a look at the notable home runs on friday. >> all right. marlins and phillies. joe blanton on the mound. top r first, dan uggla. things getting ugly. hanley ramirez, and the marlins go on to win 3-2. florida now continues to stay within striking distance of the philadelphia phillies. they came in having dropped a horrible series to washington. but now with this win, they were in striking distance, and still within striking distance of the wildcard as well.

>> cardinals and pirates. that's chris carpenter. he may be looking at another cy young. that would be his second. ryan ludwig to right. here comes matt halladay, not the fleetest of foot. but he scores anyway. cardinals win 6-4. chris carpenter wins his tenth straight decision versus pittsburgh. his eight home runs in 22 games, seven of them have been solo shots. a scary moment in the 7th inning of this game friday night. the game was stopped for ten minutes when a fan fell on to the field while trying to catch a m foul ball. the fan cut his forehead wide open, but was conscious and responsesive when he was taken

off the field on a stretcher. albert pujols was the first player on the scene as the fan lost his balance clinging over the rail and then falling on to the mostly clay track. >> brewers and astros. houston five back to start the day. in the nl central. jason on michaels. three-run home run. second home run of the game. astros go on to win 6-3. houston has won three straight. 7 of 9. but 2-0 in his two major league starts. so the astros, don't forget about them. don't sleep on them in the nl central. lebron says i'm cool for now. james said on friday, it is unlikely he'll sign the contract extension they offered him last month. he would be a free agent after next season. rachel nichols was in akron and has more on this unshocking

development. >> there had been hope in ohio that lebron james would reconsider his opportunity to become a free agent in 2010, and accept a contract extension recently offered by the cavaliers. on friday he made it clear, that's unlikely. >> i signed a contract in 2006 with an option on. it would have made no sense for me to sign that contract if i didn't want to keep my options open. so i'll let you fill in the blanks. y'all start making some noise for my man, lebron james, bring it on out here, boy! >> james was in his hometown of akron to launch his latest ul nike shoe design, but addressed a range of other subjects. he joked about doing karaoke with shaquille o'neal. and said cavs management asked him about making that trade. >> any man that wouldn't say yes is a fool. so, you know, i was excited about it when it hit. and when it became official.

>> he also addressed recent video of him being dunked on by a college student. >> if you like to call yourself a shot blocker like i call myself now and then, that may happen. >> if you do my ratio of me getting dunked on and me dunking on people, i think it, you know, i think you can times mine by like 50. >> back when lebron signed his current deal the trend was to take maximum money for maximum years. but lebron personally wanted a shorter deal to free up the franchise to spend more money on role players and give him the option of leaving if he wasn't convinced cleveland was a place he could win. apparently, he needs more convincing. in akron, rachel nichols, espn. >> who can afford lebron? chad ford projects that nine teams could have at least $10 million worth of cap space in the 2010 nba off season. of those nine, the nets, knicks

and heat could conceivably have $0 million in cap room. >> still to come, as if he wasn't public enemy number one already. wait until you hear what jay cutler had to say about the fans in denver. the world's best from firestone in akron. we'll update tiger's progress. undefeated professional boxer floyd "money" mayweather has the fastest hands boxing has ever seen. so i've come to this ring to see who's faster... on the internet. i'll be using the 3g at&t laptopconnect card. he won't. so i can browse the web faster, email business plans faster. all on the go. i'm bill kurtis and i'm faster than floyd mayweather.

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a whole bunch of late games going on now. rangers and angels. texas, 7-2 on the year against the angels. they need a sweep would be great. but at least two out of three. top three right now. 5-1 there. the mets out in san diego.

2-0. the braves on the mound for atlanta. they're up 2-1. ryan church, an r.b.i. single. tim lincecum on the mound. they're up 2-1. bengie molina, six of his home runs have come with tim lincecum starts. so it's going to buy him something down the road. we'll continue to update those. back to highlights now. second round of the bridgestone invitational. tiger woods has won this event six times. he entered friday four strokes back. tiger started on the back nine. here on the par 5, 16th. even par for the day. putting for birdie. drops. tiger improves to 1 under. now second shot for tiger. the 17th hole of the day, however. lands within a few feet. tiger birdied into the #th. went on to 2 under. ninth hole for tiger. just off the green. putting for birdie. tiger said he was hitting the ball great.

his putting was so close. taking time off to take care of his wife and his mother. here's the second round, six shots back, the second shot on the par 5, second hole. that's another eagle opportuni opportunity. mickelson now, putting for the eagle. phil makes the putt, the eagle drops him to two under. mickelson on 18. second shot from the rough, directly behind a tree. but this is what phil loves to do. up past the gallery. he would go on to save par. he's # under for the tournament. phil here with the nice chip. lefty says his game's in good shape.

padraig harrington's game has been in horrible shape. now he's got the lead at this tournament. the bridgestone invitational. >> here's tiger. >> it was all right today. i hit the ball pretty good. just made absolutely nothing. but it wasn't like i was hitting bad putts. i was hitting beautiful putts out there. had a hard time hitting the putts hard enough. i just had so many putts that hit the front side of the hole. it was frustrating. because they look faster in their putting at least in my eye. and i had a hard time making that adjustment. >> even though he is five strokes back heading into the weekend, the rest of the field should beware. this was nearly the same position he was in two years ago. he had a 138 through two rounds trail bid four. and went on to win the tournament by eight strokes.

to football now. when jay cutler left denver in the off season, it wasn't exactly the best of break-ups. cutler and josh mcdaniels not getting along. and now this. cutler made some comments about the fans in denver. >> how has your experience been so far with 0,000 people here this weekend. >> yeah, we had a few fans out. it was fun. in denver we weren't even able to accommodate that many fans. so, you know, that's chicago bears fans for you. they're proud of the bears. >> how different is chicago with denver as a football town? >> it's a lot. denver's like a six, and chicago's like a nine. it's quite a bit different. just the fans and how passionate they are, that's the biggest difference. >> usually week three of the preseason is boring. but you're going back to denver. >> am i looking forward to?

no. just the whole hoopla that's coming along with it. i'm excited to go back and see some of the guys there of the i've got good friends back there. to get back to denver to see if my husband is still standing, other than that yeah, that's about all that i'm excited about. >> i hope that house is in a gated community. take a look at who the bears face. chicago heads to denver to take on cutler's old team. the broncos, no on doubt cutler will hear from the fans august 30th at inves cofield. >> all right, he may be one of the game's best return men. but devin hester wants to be a great wide receiver as well. so this year, hester will not return kickoffs at all. that will be daniel manning's job. however, less ter will still return you -- lester will still return punts where he is equally as dangerous. >> knowshaun moreno who was the first running back taken in april's draft, finally signed his deal on friday after missing

eight days of training camp. the deal is for five years, $13 million in guarantees. the kansas city chiefs have finally signed their first round draft. jackson signed a five-year, 67 million dollars deal. the important number, 31 million in guaranteed money. jackson was at practice in river falls wisconsin friday afternoon, and put in some extra time. jimmie johnson has never won on a road course. why that may be about to change based on today's qualifying at watkins glen. college football preseason coach's pole was released friday. where do the defending national champs rank? and who are their stiffest

>> the coach back here with you on espnews. defending national champions, florida have been voted number one. >> a quick look at the entire preseason top 10, a good newses for the gators, this is the first time florida opened the season number one in the coach's pole. the bad news is in the other seasons they were preseason number one, 94, 97 and 201. florida failed to win the national championship. chris mortensen's world tour.

continued on friday. the bus rolled in to indianapolis. also to terra hawt, indiana. chris mortensen, cition the bricks. and did looks like he has some pull with the colts. >> there's nortony dungy, no marvin harrison. how different is it? >> in my point of view, it's the biggest transition, biggest change since you i we had coach dungy. it's the most he's done for all of our players. that will be hard to replace. i really feel like coach dungy will not be here though. just the winning environment atmosphere that he's created around here, that will still linger in our building and on our practice field. he won't be on the sidelines, and coach caldwell's going to maintain a lot of his same philosophies. and coach was doing some things differently in his own way. in his first meeting with the

team, he said i'm 54 years old. i've had influences on me, and there are certain things that i think need be to done a certain way. some things will be the same some things will be different. and marvin harrison. i'll be in debted to marvin the rest of my life. i leaned on mar vin early. and he was always there. like i said, i don't know how you replace that. i think to both of them you adjust. you adjust. and coach caldwell is putting his stampp and identity on this team at the receiver position. and a good healthy competition there. obviously reggie wayne is going to be huge as always. anthony gonzalez needs to step up. >> explain why this is a special training camp after last year? >> after missing last year, i've always known how important training camp is. this is where you form the foundation of your team. when you're out there sweating it out in two adays together, people don't realize that training camp is the only time that ones go against the ones.

so to miss that and not be out there with the other guys it felt like i was back to normal. jumping around, and it's definitely where i want to be. >> definitely explain it then what the bonding part of training camp whether you think it's fun or important? >> i think it's important. if you're back at your own complex everybody's driving home to their homes and going their separate ways. after 10:00 o'clock, everybody kind of gathers in either me and dallas's room or brian he is room. we play cards. there is team chemistry that i think it wins the geam for you somewhere down the road. there is a fourth and one in the game where i believe being together, being around the guys, spending time with the guys you

know, there is something to that that i think is special. i'm glad we still go away for training camp. but we're excited. we're healthy for the most part. like every team, we feel we have as good a shot as any. but there is still a lot of work to be done here in terra hawte. >> thank you. >> all right, mort continues camping on saturday. when he'll visit the lions who are looking for their first win since 2007. sunday he'll be with the browns and then it's on to pennsylvania. on sunday he'll be with the check jets to check in on this are quarterback. >> qualifying for nascar at watkins glen. denny hamlin, the winner last week at pocono. looking good early. hamlin finished third. with a time of 1:23.0932. how about the point setter tony stewart. he would finish 13. the man of the day, jimmie johnson. second in sprint cup points. he'll have the pole. now as great as he is, jimmie johnson has never won on a road

course. does this change what you think of his legacy? nicole man ski tackles that very question. >> there was a time not long ago when jimmie johnson wasn't a nascar champion. >> i don't know. the people in the crowd and everybody was making some noise, freaking out. i don't know. i still got some adrenaline. i want to be out there racing. we've got a good day going. i wanted to let everybody know i was all right with my arms in the air. johnson has won three straight series championships. he's won 43 races. more than any other driver in that same timeframe. but johnson has never won on a road course. >> he's the guy i call superman. i don't think superman needs a road course win to complete that. you know. he doesn't have to win a road course to continue to be superman in my book.

i don't feel like i need to complete my resume. it's been shocking to me, and i think time is helpful, and i'm usually a slow learner, but once i get something i own it and i don't let go of it. i'm chipping away at it, and i'm sure i'll be on it and do well with it. it is not the only track. bristol motor speedway hasn't exactly been he hasn't won there either. which win does johnson want more? he fought long and hard to come up with this answer. a road course win. he said watkins glen might mean a little bit more. from watkins glen, nicole man ski, espn. >> earning his first career pole, jimmie johnson will now start in the top 10 for the sixth consecutive race at the new york road course. the results have been mixed

though. he has three top 5 finishes, but an average finish of just 13.1 in seven races. >> quite a homecoming on friday for sidney crosby. crosby flew to his hometown in novnova scotia to celebrate his birthday. and he brought a friend. of the stanley cup. crosby is from cole harbor, which is a suburb of halifax. other news and notes. ben wallace agrees to return to the city where he celebrated the 2004 nba title. jason giambi was released by the a's on friday. and the number 8 rising senior dominique fergusson verbbly commits to play for new head coach isiah thomas. >> all right, the king has spoken about his contract extension in cleveland. it may not be good news for the cavs. which team may be in the lebron sweepstakes. and josh beckett in the classic pitchers duel into extra innings

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to do, where to go, how to go about those things? there are ways we can empower people and give that information and connect them to those who've been through this experience

before that didn't exist and now are available. it's going to take some resources. >> kristen? >> i have a question about global piece setting in this area and putting aside the statistics beth shared regarding the bid are there specific examples internationally that we can look to that we should be taking a serious look at in terms of the plan we will be developing models for what it is a democracy, civic participation more broadly? anything come across in your work that we should be focusing on? >> just what we just witnessed with the twittering and posting of videos from iran should get people interested in what civic engagement might mean but also give totalitarian authorities pulls what it means. sure there are problems.

you can't be sure that the veracity of the tweet or the date or time of a place or radio. but we are clearly seeing a connected world of 7 billion people, 80 to 90% of them by the year 2012 are going to be connected to cell phones and it's called the 3g phones because by the time we hit 2012 the phones are going to the iphone of today look like a motorola break from five years ago or ten years ago. ..

>> in the context of 5t and legislature there is a strong example in the global center for itt parliament's organized out of the united -- says they provide a great example where sometimes countries in africa or that are still developing have a stronger or more transparent legislature

because they do not have to fight against entrenched interest or legacy systems they have already invested that is one where you can see strong coordination and sharing of best practices with a rigorous study of what is necessary to make the legislature transparent. >> we have one question for you john this also applies to from our online audience, what to wear three specific would you recommend the average person take for a more engage government and what steps should a citizen take now? >> i would say one of the first is to find out what is going on here you to understand what your representatives are and what different levels of government are around due to engage in that if the first question to me one should ask yourself is

what is noble in this space? that is the one of the most powerful things you can do because that information is what allows you to be an actor and beyond that, the other big saying is to become technologically competent and experiment online and engage in communities and a lot of people jumping in and commenting or e mailing a letter to the editor that is very uncomfortable they can be addictive and the baring so experimenting online generally feels it is okay to make mistakes would be the other piece of advice. >> to echo the comments before that there was finding out what is out there as we do these meetings through chicago, each of these the

constituency is unaware of what is available and as we see with the programs we talked about earlier this morning things become easier to follow and find and a little user-friendly with the dashboard bloated to look things up we have done the same thing with our site trying not to bury things and makes it easy to find to know what they are looking for. and asking for its. that is the other thing to ask for elected officials and talk to them. these meetings that we go through that they're there and they are taking those notes they want to hear what those people are looking for in their government. >> i will open the floor to our audience in washington if there are any questions? >> we solve the problem.

[laughter] >> will we ever see online voting and would that be desirable? >> the latter answer is no. we're already running into a significant problems with votes by mail and other kinds of remote to voting. the difficulties that we see with a much higher level of corruption when you lose the privacy of a voting booth we're nowhere is the point* you can have it without the possibility of some massive intervention or ways of corrupting the process. we had a conference that cisco systems is sponsored the brookings where the giants of the internet world were saying to do this with any level, of real certainty that you do not have somebody to manipulate the process would take a long time but even if you could get

there, voting should be a community experience, a collective experience and we should encourage people to go to the polls delay and to vote, to be with their citizens to do the private act with a closed curtain of a voting. good did -- damage to the civic fabricate you do this at home is very great. but does not happen but even if we move in that direction perhaps we will because people like convenience and it is cheaper. we have to take a long time to solve some of the other problems that would come with the. >> i am completely contrary and i believe we will see it with the proviso that term on line will be redefined and the term protein will be redefined 1a example to create something f

value is wikipedia where there is over 200 million of time putting together were reputations develop a consensus about what they think is the most important information on any given topic they may not have gone into a voting booth but they voted through a process that was collaborative and crowd source and technologically enhanced. of you think about our democracy failure to expand voting beyond a tuesday, the lack of ballot access because of technological lack of imagination and a lack of vision to create a cynically engaged society that does more than palaver but could conceivably leave a comment which may not change the votes but can you imagine the comments what would not look like after the election we have the opportunity to

reinvent approaching in our lifetime to make it as we think of it today in a voting booth look like a horse-drawn buggy says to somebody. >> please join me to it thank our panelists thank you for contributing your thoughts and insights today. each has demonstrated that broadband as a disruptive technology can energize open government initiatives and transform civic engagement of like to point* out that in our use of new on-line technology we have at the peak 100 and 35 individuals participating online over 125 individuals through the platform and 15 individuals at its peak on second line. two hour audience in

washington he were joined by more than 175 others online presley close i invite and encourage each of you to continue your participation by providing your thoughts, questions and insights online at broadband dig of. thank you to each and everyone of you for being here. i look forward to seeing you at the next workshop [inaudible conversations]

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welcome you to department of health and human services and i am kathleen sebelius the secretary of health and human services and glad to be here with three great leaders of our country jenna napolitano from homelands security and at secretary arne duncan and tom friedman who is the director from the centers for disease control and prevention we have been working together to prepare for the flu season literally from the moment i walked in as secretary in april i spend my first evening in the situation room being briefed on the balding flew in the late april and that work has not stopped. today we are announcing the latest ups to get ready for the flu season this fall. new guidance from schools, centers for disease control and prevention we are releasing today we'll help schools prepare and respond to

the h1n1 is seasonal strains as kids get ready for school so kids are buying backpacks and we want you to know we're taking steps to make sure that children and teachers are safe and secure when schools open. the guidelines are only the most recent product of the a bomb administration national framework for response that guides our efforts. is starts with medical surveillance which means we work closely with doctors and public health officials across the country and across the world to identify outbreaks as soon as they have been and share that information. we're also developing and cheering mitigation measures a huge range of strategies to limit the spread of the flu. encouraging people and children to wash hands and stay home with her six, advising committees on how to respond to outbreaks.

the best way is it vaccinations and our scientists are working hard to have a vaccine ready for consumption by mid october. they have already prepared a seasonal flu vaccine that should be available very shortly so we first recommend people who are ready and willing to get the seasonal flu vaccine do that quickly so we can be ready for the h1n1 vaccine by mid october. the fourth part of the strategy is communication. they national defence is only as strong as the weakest link that is why we're reaching out to state and local governments public health officials, employers, doctors teachers american people and certainly with allies and colleagues in the media to reach the american people with accurate information and

timely information about steps that can be taken. the best place to learn more about all of these efforts and to keep updated on the flu is to visit the web site flu.gov. it is a combined website and we are sharing information and strategy's it is where it is being strained for americans across the country before i turn the podium to my colleagues with our joint efforts on blue preparation and the guidance we are releasing a 12 points out that when you came into this building today hubert humphrey after whom this building is named made this quote what he said is the moral test of a government is how they treat those that and

the dawn of life, the children and the shadows of life, the sick that is the driving mission as we keep the american people safe and secure we will do everything possible under the president's direction to keep our children and americans' healthy and safe this fall but we appreciate you being here now will turn it over to secretary napolitano. >> thank you secretary it is good to be with everybody this morning to talk about our ongoing response to the age one and one flu pandemic. and to talk about specifically guidance for schools this pandemic is a test of how we will respond to any sort of issue that crosses lines, local, state, tribal, a

territorial efforts nonprofits, for-profit comment in the non-government sector, a government world, and the like. the cooperation, collaboration that the president has been leading to open this summer as we get ready for the school year has been quite extraordinary. one of the things we recognize after the spring of break of the age one and one -- h1n1 schools must have clear guidance how to minimize the spread of h1n1 and that needs to be ready for the opening of the 2009/2010 school year the decision to close schools is local and is one of the most challenging for school leader or community. once you close a school as we saw last spring, that causes

eight significant ripple effect because children need to stay home. we do not want kids going to the mall or anyone else -- in a warehouse we want them to reduce transmission so parents need to think about their own plans should children need to stakeholder we saw a big ripple effect. the guidance we are announcing today developed by the cdc is the base as we have said consistently through this outbreak we are relying on the science for the guidance we are providing the guidance we are announcing will give local school officials the tools they need to make informed decisions about how to decrease exposure to the flu while limiting the disruption of day today a burning and the

schools. we have 55 million students and 7 million individuals 130,000 public schools across the country this is a significant population and and school age youth and we can talk also about college-age youth are specifically prone to catching this version of the flu. so what we are attempting to do with this guidance is allows schools to stay open and informed them to send six students and staff home. specifically they should be separate and given protective gear such as a mask until they can leave. hand washing and coughing a etiquette is essential.

these have an enormous effect on the ability to slowdown the transmission of the flu. high-risk students and staff should seek medical care immediately if they get flu-like symptoms. and only schools with high numbers of high-risk students getting the flu should consider closure. this the guidance of being announced today applies to public and private institutions covering grades k-12. we expect to release additional guidance for other institutions in the near term. when we say that not just community colleges and universities but working with employers and what should there guidance be as we work our way through the flu pandemic? we will continue to look to

the cdc for advice the department of, and security will continue a very robust our reach efforts throughout the private sector and last but not least we keep reminding the american public this is an evolving situation. everything is not cut in stone so our strength and flexibility will be important as we work together to reduce the transmission of this planet and as it comes back into the united states that we reduce the ripple effect that it has and with that i am happy to introduce my colleagues secretary of education arne duncan. >> they do secretary and thank you for all three of you for your sense of collaboration and hard work and has been a joy to work on this together

because of the hard work as we approach the start of a new school year it is an exciting time a bill with promise and opportunity but we know it can be a tough time of anxiety and this year in addition to all in here and changes we're faced with the resurgence of the h1n1 flu virus which has affected many young seemingly healthy individuals. as a parent of a second grader and a kindergartner and a former superintendent of i know in everything we do to prepare this fiscal year must put the health and safety of children first. our team the department of education has worked very closely with the cbc comment hhs and dhs to provide guidance we're putting that out today as a communication tool kit as secretary napolitano said our higher education and guidance is

coming. the bottom line as you will see as we set out to make the guidance balanced, measured and clear and concise as possible and most importantly reflects the best science available. we hope no school will have to close by realistically some schools will close. and it is incredibly important to all of us that students continue to learn educators need to start thinking about having temporary home school plans in place using the internet whether just a few students or for an entire school and release guidance for college and universities by august 23rd and additional days cdc will issue a per cent -- version of k-12 with 3k and early burning groups based on that knowledge we recognize the potential benefit of preemptive

dismissing the kids from school are outweighed by the negative consequences and no one-size-fits-all solution should be applied. i am confident it will serve as a good guide post and help them think through the situation of like what to do if you have a few cases of h1n1 or if the impact is so severe you must close the school to prevent the spread of the virus? we must continue to make prevention our collective business. students from kindergarten through 12th should be encouraged to wash hands the frequency and cough into their sleeves the school should have sanitary facilities and a room set aside so if a child shows of sick there is a safe place to stay until they can be sent home and parents must me diligent to identify signs of the flu we want parents actively practicing

prevention, a close monitoring and common sense. the department of education will provide school districts and states with as much flexibility from program requirements as possible to address the issues resulting from the outbreak of the virus i will now turn it over to the director for centers for disease control he has working extraordinarily hard and his leadership is fantastic. >> . >> thank you secretary duncan i would like to spend a couple of minutes saying where we stand with the influenza in the united states to set the context. it may be the least predictable of all infectious diseases we need to carefully track what is happening and be flexible. influenza continues to spread in the united states and globally could good news is globally the pattern we have seen does not differ

substantially from what we saw in the united states. that means for example, that we have seen mostly disease among younger people, most people have had mild disease although some have been severe it some have died project early those with underlying at medical conditions, a pregnant women at it or others flexibility is the central and local decisions are essentials the guidance today we'll help localities, states, make decisions based on the best science that is appropriate for their area. what we anticipate is the vaccine will be available in october and so far it looks like it will be a big match but what we don't know is whether or when h1n1 will return. it is quite possible it will come back with school israel but also possible it will not

and if it does not it does not mean we're out of the plants it means we have time to take additional steps we will need to continue to prepare throughout the fall and school year and continued to track what is happening in our communities. we also know in different parts of the country we saw a hugely different rates of h1n1 so some places have a lot and some places had very little and if and when it comes back we suspect it will not be the same another reason why local decision making is so important. there are also significant challenges we will face. not only do we have to track how the virus changes but also have to address the fact we're dealing with a public health system around the country that has not have had the level of investment it should have and faces significant fiscal challenges in the health-care system we have to work closely with the has difficulties with

coordination come information systems and focus on prevention. the vaccine will most likely for children required to doses separated by three weeks or more. and we will have seasonal flu vaccine which the secretary indicated is going to be available shortly. we are providing today is a series of planning tools. we know from this spring where there was h1n1 there was very large explosive outbreaks. but we also know in the spring we have much less information than we have today. we know more how it behaves and how to control its. it is now clear that closure of schools is rarely indicated even if h1n1 is in the school. there are measures we can take to protect the students and staff and allowing learning to continue it is a local

decision based on local information the balance is a definite harm of loss of learning, loss of wages, unsupervised children loss of support systems of food and other matters with a possible benefit which is less a spread of h1n1 or perhaps a temporary time frame. was health commissioner in new york city throw the l break this past spring we had a very large outbreak in new york city perhaps as many as 800,000 cases or more. there were hundreds of schools that had cases and sometimes many cases which we did not close and we're able to continue teaching, functioning as important social environment for our students and teachers and parents and there were more than 50 schools we decided to close for a variety of reasons perhaps to have close fewer if we knew then what we knew now

but some for example, children who have special medical needs who had trouble breathing on their own without was president we closed it for a brief period of time about five calendar days and when we reopened things were called. there were key things that schools can do that are simple and straightforward keep sick kids and staff of home of sick people stay out of school they will not spread h1n1 or other diseases. washer hands and cover your costs. there are other things that are important like separating sick kids make sure or staff who have diabetes are pregnant if they become sick with fever or, they should be rapidly treated so they do not become severely ill.

for certain schools that have most students with serious medical problems like muscular dystrophy or severe cerebral palsy have difficulty coughing, they may wind to close in a certain circumstances. guidance release today will have the outline of what we might do if the virus were to change and become more deadly that is a possibility and we have to play and so we can address that situation if it were to arrive. in that situation we would for example, suggest local schools and public health officials coordinate closely to actively screen kids when they walk into the school each day and consider asking people to do have serious underlying conditions to stay home if we have a more deadly form of flu. also to increase distances within the school may be dull bring kids together for a

joint glasses or have students sit and further apart from one another and consider a broader school dismissals these are things we would consider if the virus changed to become more deadly. h1n1 is a shared responsibility there are many parts of the federal government working together and at the state and local level we need parents, teachers, students, s chools, business community, healthcare community coordinating that is why we provided resources, a technical guidance, funds of health department to extend that coordination process. there is a crucially important role for states and localities to monitor the situation, prepare for any medical care needs that might be present and prepare for vaccination when vaccine becomes available and be ready to pivot as the virus changes

and as we learn more about it we will respond with the best possible action based on the best possible scions and to do that we will continue tracking it intensively. we cannot stop the tide of flew from coming into we can reduce the number of people who become severely ill from it. we will now be available to answer a few questions. >> could you please undergo the scenarios under which schools may want to consider closing? >> in the current context where there is no change if the flu comes back similar to the spring, we would say if you have a school where most of all of the kids have particular medical needs either pregnant and there are some schools for pregnant tease -- teenagers or medically frail four kid sit who are on the

ventilators, oxygen comment have trouble clearing lung secretions you may want to close that and in addition there may be localities that have some a cases they decide administrative leave they cannot stay open that would be another example why you may close. also a situation in despite telling parents please keep your kids, they have the fever of a lot of kids are coming into the school. that was a situation in the new york city that we could not ensure the six kids with fever were staying out while we decided to close the some of the school's one renewal little less. one thing that is important and is at the change the number of days we ask people to stay out previously it was longer now based on studies of how the flu spreads and of laboratory studies of the flu we are saying people stay out 24 hours after the fever is

gone that is a shorter period of more practical and that will be done so the period of exclusion is 24 hours after the fever is gone whether or not you are taking medication for the virus like tamiflu. >> i have two questions. first if schools are to be used as possible vaccinations sites is at a local decision or a recommendation coming from the federal government? how will that have been? also in making these guidelines did you take into account the financial impact of local school districts for school closures as well as homeschooling if necessary? >> we have on our website already you can find it on flu dick of guidance for localities about school located faxing clinics because not a lot of schools vaccinate

against the regular season and it will be challenging to get kids vaccinated the vaccine is our strongest defense and when it is available we hope all providers and all venues where it can be given will be used includes wherever possible school located clinics it is a a great way to get kids vaccinated that means a schools need to think and plan now how will they get consent forms back from the parents? how will they coordinate with their child's medical provider? school located vaccine connex are important and we hope they will occur in many areas. it is a local decision but we will provide resources. >> part of the allocation from the supplemental bill that congress passed i will point* out response to the flu has been a very bipartisan effort

in congress. they are eager under the president's direction to help make sure we do everything we can. we're talking to rally public vaccination program which is different than the seasonal flu or vaccine for children program. we have already pushed out to the state's 260 million and resources for this kind of planning we had a major flew summit were over 500 officials from state and local and tribal governments came to nih with emergency health personnel and education personnel to look at the updated plan they are submitting specific plans for the cdc not only for orders of the vaccine but where the best sites are. that is a local decision and it may be schools or national guard armory or through a

rural center or a variety of things but that planning is under way right now we have provided resources to update that planning that is part of the ordering process to identify where that vaccine should go throughout the state. >> just quickly we met yesterday with all major associations teachers' unions, principal association, a school board, and nurses, counselors and there's a tremendous outpouring of support to have schools be the location to distribute their children are at risk that is a natural location where the students are so there is a universal support for the idea for the schools to be a part of the solution. >> had a a second question? >> whether not when you develop the guidelines if financial considerations were taking on the local districts?

>> we went to be flexible with average daily attendance rewind schools to make the right decisions for the right reasons we have flexibility going forward and we wanted to do that just to amplify that. >> is a balancing act. when you close a school you have real social cost. you may reduce the spread of flu for a period of time we will also increase the number of kids who may be unsupervised or social stress in the community or reduce health-care workers who are available in the system to provide emergency response so there is a definite balancing in a decision to close a school that is why the guidelines provide general information but leave the decision to the local double. >> -- level. >> what would you say to parents to may see that there are a few cases in the school

and even though you say they do not need to close they panic and keep their kids home what would you say to reassure them it is okay to send your kid to school. >> we think it is. we think local health officials and schools will make their rate decisions. we thing going for the opportunity to receive the vaccinations and is important that is a huge opportunity it is a two shot process starting in mid october but if there is a handful of cases in the school the goal is to keep the school opened up a handful not to be in the school and bring them back to school 24 hours after the fever breaks. >> as dr. frieden says it looks very much like seasonal flu so far. closely monitoring. we do not know the twists and turns but even though it is a

novel stray which is why we have an independent vaccine program big issue will not be immunized without a separate vaccine, it is presenting itself like seasonal fluke. we're watching it very closely we're watching the southern hemisphere which is dealing with their winter season with no vaccines and we will learn a lot from watching australia and chalet and other countries in the southern hemisphere and learning from them and surveillance teams are on the ground but of parents understand not only is the vaccine being prepared the same way that is seasonal flu vaccine is prepared with the same safety protocol but also that is how it is presented typically parents would not keep their children home if some classmates or friend came down with the flu. >> two questions. our schools liable legally for

the decisions they make? if someone could go over as we learn more how is the recommendations changing from the end of the last flu season? >> double take the second. and in terms of how the recommendations have changed one changes period of exclusion it used to be seven-- now it is 24 hours after the fevered goes away that is based on new information about how the virus spreads and both and a laboratory and from person to person. a second change is providing more information about was school should consider in the decision whether or not to close and at the end of the spring and now the fundamental points are the same is a local decision. it is more clear than it was before that there are brevity of the few or rare times when

it makes sense to close a school just because the virus is present but from my experience we had hundreds of schools which had one dozen or more cases which remained open without a problem as long as we can follow those three steps to keep the sick kids out, a cover your cough and wash your hands. >> and the vaccination program falls under the planning and preparation act that was put together by congress in 2005 so there is no legal liability for any step along the way for the vaccine from the time of manufacturing to the shots in all arm. schools participated in the clinic protocol there is no liability in that instance. i assume in terms of the overall liability that

individuals may bring some legal challenge but at least we have seen schools are clearly following the guidance and working with the best information that we have and we continue to say that we know this will change. it is a work in progress we monitor closely but we need to expect the unexpected. >> in terms if the school decides not to close and kids get sick they will not be liable? >> i am not a lawyer although i like to practice without a license. >> i am a lawyer. [laughter] am i the only lawyer up here? [laughter] these are local decisions made locally. , i must say these decisions need to be based on science and the best public health interest of the students and

community and that is what we are encouraging. >> a lot of students are already heading back to college weather for rush or just to get ready. do expect the recommendations to come on august 23rd 2 be much different or is there anything significant they should know as they head back? >> we expect them to be along these lines wending that is different is the storm so there is an importance of looking at dorms in addition to help colleges can get vaccinations done for their students is important to think about. and in terms of college looking at the balancing factors in terms of education so kids can do learning online through the internet and that is a way to reduce exposure if

there is a lot of h1n1. >> we do think there may be practical challenges with isolating sick kids and hope we can work with college and university faculties across the country because if you think of a dorm situation there are roommates of like a grade school you cannot send a college student home it is often full of other people so having some places set aside so the sick kids can be isolated and recover may be one of the more important features of that living situation for college kids. the dorm environment presents some challenges but thinking through that the four kids get sick -- citic we are eager for them to have them participate

that includes most to the ins and college as a top priority group of if you are on the seven or eight year plan you may be outside the priority group of colleges can be an important site to make sure they make it easy for kids who were there to get vaccinated. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] on c-span radio.

. fifty-seven at the table a familiar face to dr. anthony fauci of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases with h1n1 known as the swine flu who is expecting it this fall? >> reno it is here and spreads easily refers noticed in the spring here in the united states is southwest texas california and mexico and it appeared it to win world wide we know it is here and at the pandemic level. if you follow it through the severity it is acting more like a mild through moderate flu if you compare it to the seasonal flu. the expectation is since we still see outbreaks and getting hit in the southern

hemisphere -- amazon year it is unpredictable but when we get back to the early fall we wl see a resurgence but how all intents or severe it is tough to say we will be prepared for that. by a variety of ways but we expected and prepared for the worst. >> host: what is the preparation? >> guest: if you look at it you talk about surveillance keeping an eye what is going on in the southern hemisphere because it has not gone away you talk a lot the development of vaccines and preparation of and getting ready to implement the the program and just literally next week, monday and today we will start of the vaccine trial that will give us the adm of the right dose, short-term safety, a good communication to let people know so we are

transparent and good mitigation in that strategy if we are hit hard the plan was spurred -- prepared a couple years ago in preparation for the bird flu which luckily never came so low that was the implementation of that plan so things are going on to prepare for the fall. >> host: our guest is torture anthony fauci talking specifically about the h1n1 or the swine flu we will take your calls in a moment. dr. fauci speak more of the trials you say they are under way how will they work and what else you hope to learn? >> the process takes a couple of months. these are vaccines made by the same companies with the same process that we do each year with seasonal flu so it is something we are quite familiar with so it is

a -- and not a fan to new -- brandi process because we have made a vaccine similar you want to ask fundamental questions in a limited number of individuals. first, immediately is it safe? does anything strange happen? it is very unlikely but you want to look but what is the right dose? isn't a standard dose with the flu virus or one or two viruses or doses? hopefully we'll get that which it is in coincide with the implementation program for the new h1n1 but is seasonal flu will go on like it does every year anyway because that is something we do no matter. >> is there infrastructure to manufacture the vaccine? >> yes in general there is not

enough infrastructure for everybody in the world and that will never have been from a practical feasible standpoint but in the preparation for the pandemic possibility, we the federal government funded a number of companies to get the infrastructure in place to make enough vaccine to get us to where we want to me if we were hit with a pandemic. >> host: cases here in the u.s., just over 5500. deaths reported, 353. the total number of states and territories reporting cases would be 47? guest: yes, plus some territories. >> guest: it is widespread throughout the country. >> host: what is the difference between the epidemic and pandemic? >> guest: epidemic is up rick over and above the

standard level of disease. the pandemic is the epidemic of disease widespread drought multiple regions some 50 of the outbreak here in washington d.c. or in a few states it is the epidemic but if it is all the world is a pandemic. >> it is a more alarming term. >> no doubt our first call is on the republican in line. >> caller: i have two short questions first how much will it cost destitute americans for these shots? part two what percentage goes to the obama administration? >> the federal government is purchasing these doses of like the seasonal flu where it is made by companies and distributed then you have to buy either through health plans or whenever you have to

buy the vaccine this is one of the federal government has bought so strictly speaking it will not cost anything. there is no profit the obama administration or any situation in fact, the federal government has put out a few billion dollars to get the program going as well as giving to the states about $350 million for preparedness at the hospital level and local level so there is federal government putting money into it to make it available for the american public as opposed to getting something and out of it. >> host: the average person that wants to get a shot it is free? >> guest: yes. >> host: they go to the doctor they still pay for the doctor visit. >> guest: obviously those things would have to be paid for but the dose is purchased

by the federal government. >> host: how will it be decided to get sick? you talk about kids and who else? >> guest: there are five target groups discussed with a committee that we use frequently that the cdc relies on with the immunization practices and it is targeted with five groups pregnant women is at the top of the list because is pregnant women in general are prone to severe disease and we see that with h1n1, caregivers of individuals of babies less than six months, health-care workers people on the front lines, young individuals healthy for between six months through 24 years and adults non elderly between 18 to 64 which have underlying conditions that compromise their immune response in drugs

comment transplants common diseases that compromise cardiovascular later. >> why not elderly? >> it is not that they cannot get this vaccine i want to make up point* between this and the seasonal but if you look at the history of this pandemic over the last several months it is appearing to spare the elder of the very strongly suggesting if you were of the older age group have been exposed to a similar virus or have been vaccinated with a vaccine that gives cross protection sometime earlier in their life where younger individuals are not even born so if there is a less impact of severity among elderly. >> host: that is why they are not in the five target groups. the independent line?

>> caller: my first question is who will there be a nasal method or non mercury based for my children? >> let me stop you there. >> guest: there are two types of vaccines available. one is the injectable which is the inactivated vaccine. there will be lesser doses available during the seasonal flu vaccine program of what we call the one that you inhale that is made by a company called the medimmune. it has a preservative that prevents contamination and there will be in some of the doses a trace amount because multi filed those is when you have a vyyo view inject multiple times come the one to make sure there is a preservative that does not cause bacteria but they will have pre-filled syringes for children that will be mercury

free. >> caller: that is good to hear i went say you make enough doses because that is the direction parents want to go. the other question is it an kern county we had terrible layoffs of people in the emergency preparedness area one guy who was studying this virus alone and we laid off and i am terrified because you're in kern county we're laying off the very people that we need it the most knowledgeable at a time in which we need them. we'll there be any emergency funding or direct federal assistance to get the people that are most knowledgeable back on the ball? we have dropped the ball here. >> caller: thank you.

>> guest: that is a terrific point* we anticipated the local authorities have when you deal with a crisis and a few weeks ago the department of health and human services allocated and authorized 350,000,002 be given to state and local authorities some of which 90 million goes directly to hospitals to handle just what the caller was talking about. >> host: new recommended the five groups but in the number of doses, what is the target? >> guest: and the first round is to ultimately get about 195 million doses. that is not all delivered at the same time over a period of time through the months the projection of having 120 million doses by mid october. i say that hopefully we will get there but when you deal with the production of a

biological, that is with a vaccine is, you cannot give a guaranteed number but that is what we're hoping for. >> host: is there anything people can do? >> guest: first of all, good hygiene and respiratory hygiene. it seems solo attack that people don't pay attention but if you get sick or a cold you sneezed into a tissue you cough this ways you do not spread it do not go to school of your sick or do not go to work. a variety of issues avoid crowded places if possible there are a number of things that can be done in anticipation or throughout a pandemic if the vaccine is not ready. . .

>> guest: on any given year, with seasonal flu, for getting pandemic flu, and i will get to the point why we worry more, not worry that have concerned more about a pandemic than we do seasonal flu. seasonal flu and of itself as a serious disease. people don't appreciate each year 36,000 americans die from seasonal flu and there are 200,000 excess hospitalization, so influence isn't a trivial

disease or something to be taken lightly. you bring up the good point if you get chicken pox you tend to have lifelong immunity and never made a chicken pox vaccine or any kind of protection because you're in an system will protect you. the difference and difficulty with influenza is even on a seasonal basis it changes in half from year to year and we call that a draft of the virus that you don't have full protection at all from previous exposure or previous vaccines. sometimes rarely a influenza virus changes radically such that it becomes a virus to which there's very little experience in the community and little background and unity. we call that a pandemic strain and that's exactly what we are seeing now with this novel h1n1. it's a fire risk is the march on society for which there's very little background immunity. that's the reason why we are trying as best we can to get prepared for it with vaccines to be offered to the american public.

>> host: annapolis maryland, you are on the air, democrats line. >> caller: i would just like to make a couple of comments and then can i ask a question, paul, before you cut me off? >> host: sure. >> caller: one of the calls yesterday made a great point and reminded me of something i already knew. the people, actually the government, this doctor works for the government, i used to work for johns hopkins hospital in the department studying for the aids research and worked for the national institutes of health and mental health which are also the government. but it seems like we were constantly being overshadowed by the initiative that is part of the french government and i just wanted -- i just wondered if the doctor could comment on that. also this might seem bizarre but i had a swine flu shot i believe it was back in '76 because my grandmother insisted on it. she was really -- she remembered the flu epidemic very well, and she was an adult then, she was

born in 1903 so she insisted i had a shot although all my friends laughed at me. i just wonder to i have any protection because of that? >> host: let's hear from dr. fauci. >> guest: i have so many good colleagues in the institute in paris. it's a great institution. i think that if he were to ask an unbiased person that the pastore institute does not overshadow the united states scientific establishment at all. we are good colleagues but i think it would be a stretch to say they overshadow less. the second is the issue with you and/or receiving the 1976 swine flu vaccine. it is conceivable if not likely that you have some cross reacting in unity to the current circulating h1n1 strain. as a matter of fact there's a good deal of similarity between the us beat and now and the swine h1n1 den. in fact that could be the explanation why people who are in older age groups who may have been given the 1976 swine flu,

why they have some background and unity that seems to be protecting older individuals. we don't know that for sure. hasn't been proven that it is a feasible hypothesis. >> host: here is a question on the order. for the last few shots and effective against the flu people contacted in the same process used will that be in effect it? >> guest: each year when we make a decision, being the federal government and the who make a decision about what components to put into the seasonal flu, you tend to make a very educated guess of with the new strains that were circulating in the southern atmosphere and towards the end of the season and we are right 85 to 90% of the time. sometimes we don't hit it on the bull's eye and you have a mismatch between the vaccine you are using and austrian circulating. right now the stream circulating in the southern hemisphere is no different from what we isolated in april of this year and that

is the strain being put into the vaccine, so we are hoping, there's no guarantee it will happen but we are hoping that that strain will stay as it has this for the last several months six ackley this seems a when we start seeing the return in the fall that the vaccine will be as perfect a match as we can get. >> host: portland oregon. christina, independent line. >> caller: i have a question going back to the allocation of resources. i remember reading somewhere where the swine flu had broken out about the prevention and the aid infectious diseases in the original stimulus plan this administration had proposed. that being said, i have read about a week after swine flu epidemic that the package should eventually been cut down. is that true or false? >> guest: well it's not completely true at all. as a matter of fact, the

national institutes of health, the institution that i represent and i direct one of the institutes in the nih, the infectious disease institute that the stimulus money that we have received as part of that brought $787 billion stimulus the nih has received about 10 billion of that in the compound and that went to the infectious disease institute we used a considerable amount for preparation for the vaccines that we discussed. >> host: explain the connections between the swine flu, who, agencies like yours, the states, localities, the schools, how does that work in terms of communication? >> guest: that is a great question. the w.h.o. was an overarching organization that involves the country of the world. they are more of a coordinator of health issues that go beyond the borders of countries so we are in constant communication with the w.h.o. about matters such as we are discussing today. the agencies of the federal

government if you take health and human services agency of which governor sebelius is the secretary that has a number of components the continually are interacting with each other such as the centers for disease control and prevention, cdc, fda, nih, a variety of groups. we are working closely with the department of education because this involves schools. the department of homeland security and the white house. the cdc has a close connection with state and territorial health officials so the link between the federal government and what goes on a local level is very strongly channelled through the cdc. so it is a very nice network that talks to each other quite well. >> host: if you are a parent or pregnant or any one of those other five groups you recommended get a shot who should they be calling? >> guest: its of the local level because we just described this chain that goes down from

hhs and education down to the state and local officials said the local health authorities and a state or city or the people that are going to be responsible for how this is going to be distributed. where can i get my vaccine? what should we do in the schools, will there be a modification of the schools' schedules or not? in a pinch, the websites for the cdc are terrific so if you go and just go flu.gov or cdc.gov, it will be answered. >> host: you are on with dr. fauci. >> caller: i haven't had a flu shot since the mid-70s when the gerald ford hong kong flu debacle happened. do you have a study of people who don't receive flu shots on a

yearly basis and as to someone in my age group? >> guest: first of all 1976 was in hong kong flu, it was the swine flu of 1976 but i get the point. sure, certainly people who don't get they may have enough background immunity they get exposed to the flu and they actually don't get infected or ill. we certainly have done studies over the years and the studies point to the fact that your chances of getting the flu if you don't get vaccinated or greater than if you do get vaccinated, and that is the studies that we do whenever we get involved with the new vaccine, and they are usually done after this season or during the season. having said that there is no guarantee at all and you are one of them, you are lucky, good for you and i mean that sincerely that you haven't gotten a vaccine but have done quite well and haven't gotten the fluke. there's a lot of people like

that if you do a statistical analysis the chances if you are a young healthy adults to get vaccinated and be protected are much greater than if you don't have protection, i.e. you don't get vaccinated. >> host: what role do the media have and what is it doing to this story since it broke? >> guest: one of the pillars of the hhs is pandemic plan is communication and one of the best ways to communicate is through the media. they provide an excellent vehicle. i think they have done very well on this. they have kept it up on the front burner. some people say we are making you panic by seeing it in the newspaper of the time, but i really up-to-date real time being on top of the issue that should not be interpreted as being panic, that should be interpreted as being all over the issue so that in case something does happen that's very serious we are prepared for it. my response is i think the media

has done a good job and i hope they keep it up. >> host: plug in health care reform, the potential for major legislation on the hill leaders here, and items like the swine flu. what is the connection between the two? >> guest: everything is connected to the issue of some people not having access to health care. so, any time you have a situation where there is a disease that could potentially impact large numbers of people, certain percentage of those people who don't have health care insurance or good access to health care are going to suffer disproportionately. so health care reform is positive in many ways. it becomes and real-life positive when you're dealing with something like this. >> host: duluth minnesota mary ann, a republican line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. good morning, good morning dr. fauci. i don't know if my questions were answered by people ahead of me, but i want to ask you this: we have a two-year-old granddaughter, and i have not heard you mention at all

tamiflu. what about tamiflu and anti-virus, and what are the dosages -- what is the dosage schedule? >> guest: well, tamiflu, let me just mention tamiflu. tamiflu would be available for children 1-years-old or older. tamiflu is a drug that is used influenza. it is shown to be effective in decreasing the intensity and the duration of symptoms. the policy with antiviral drugs, for something which we are preparing for now, namely a large number of individuals getting infected should be done with some fought, and in a measured response. so, if someone gets mild symptoms and is in a situation where there is flu, and that person is otherwise healthy you don't necessarily need to give an antiviral to that individual.

if someone gets seriously ill and has symptoms that it's very clear are making the person on comfortable and compromise without a doubt that person should be treated. the other group is if you are a vulnerable individual, namely you are on the risk people who would tend to do more whirly coming and you get infected with the h1n1 flu or any flu, you should be receiving. and one of the examples of people who should be getting drugs if they are infected are pregnant women as well as very young children, so those are the people i mentioned a while ago are among the list of people at risk of complications, those people want to be very, very ready to treat them if they get infected with h1n1 or if any influenza. >> host: we have joseph on the line in dependent, bethesda just outside of d.c.. >> caller: the low, dr. fauci i want to see it is an honor to speak with you.

i know you are very important researcher and director. i guess the question i have for you is maybe a little odd, but there is a paranoid that i have noticed lately imam, i don't know, you could say the a.m. radio crowd, some alternative media groups that are very afraid of vaccinations in general, and also the idea that, you know, there could be sterilant's or something. i know mercury is an issue, and they are also afraid there is going to be forced inoculation at some point, there could be emergency declared and the government has plans for forcing, you know, people to take -- i was wondering if you have comments about this. >> guest: yeah, let me take the first question first and first issue. there will not be any mandated

or compulsive that sagacious -- vaccinations on influenza city, off the table. there is an issue regarding vaccinations that some people are suspicious about, and i think it is an understandable lack of appreciation of the seriousness of the disease you're trying to prevent. when people were in a society in which there are not diseases as there were decades ago, which killed and maimed people, a disease like measles, diseases like polio, disease that are very, very serious potential, hepatitis, they don't see a lot of disease are around them the cost of vaccines have been actually successful. so when you are trying to get people to be vaccinated, they look at potential risk some of which are very, very, very rare and they say it isn't worth getting vaccinated. that is something that we have to do a better job of it ticketing people to realize the risk of not getting vaccinated. when you're dealing with influenza there is no doubt that

this virus is out there and it's circulating throughout the world so i think is going to be easier to convince people to get a vaccination now when they start seeing and reading a newspaper what is going on right now in argentina, and australia, new zealand, south africa. there's a lot of disease and we are seeing it in our own country. >> host: we will take the news conference later today, actually it is happening this morning the updated fighting for schools for the upcoming flu season. secretaries of health and human services, homeland security, education and health of the cdc will be there and we will have it on tape and show it later. what are we likely to hear from them as far as school and exactly what the government is expecting right now? >> guest: i don't want to jump ahead of the conference, but i think the broad issues fell will be discussed without giving any decisions to be made, certainly could discuss could schools be involved as part of the distribution process of the vaccine? is that an easy and convenient way or not to get vaccine

distributed and there are issues of school closings in various parts of the country in the spring so we will be hearing perhaps guidelines what one should consider in the issue of closing schools or not. i think the will likely be discussed. i don't know exactly what they are going to say but i think there will be open for discussion. >> host: time for a couple more calls. glenda, good morning. >> caller: good morning. dr. fauci, i read that in the 70's when we had the swine flu vaccine is one of the side effects was the number eight. my son has the hombre -- >> guest: that is reason for vaccinating. even though the adverse each and which did occur with in 1976

influenza vaccination program is a very rare even and we have not seen before year subsequent to the 1976, but anybody who has that kind of a propensity for that kind of reaction to be careful about vaccination. >> host: last call maryland, washington, d.c., democrats line. >> caller: thank you for taking this call. dr. fauci, what makes a diverse seasonal? how does it know it's the right season? and if it is a fall and winter season -- >> guest: when it is fall and winter. this spring and summer in the southern hemisphere and i know it is the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere, so they are going through what it is likely we will see when we get to their fall and winter. but in answer to the first part of your question, it is likely, though not 100%, multiple factors one of which is in the fall and winter people tend to congregate in a closed places

with closed ventilation but also by resist tend to do better in dry, cold climates as opposed to warm and humid climates. so when you have a warm humid summer and people are outdoors is less likely for the virus to spread. >> host: our guest has been dr. anthony fauci, director of people center for infectious disease. thank you for the update on h1n1. >> guest: good to be here.

the economic stimulus package passed in january calls on the federal communications commission to develop a plan for providing all americans with access to high-speed internet known as broadband. as part of the process, the fcc is holding a series of workshops on national broadband. this one from fcc headquarters in washington is almost two and a half hours. [inaudible] [laughter] i hope we have avatars for all of our workshop panelists today. over time panelist avatar for all of america. [laughter] it's my pleasure to welcome everyone here for the kickoff of the omnibus broadband initiatives public workshop

series. we have a plan to host to a dozen workshops in the next month. a goal some have said is impossible. to them i say the washington national have won four straight. [laughter] this is a very important day i hope we can have a discussion and let me be as informal if i can but see if i can put today's event in a little bit of context. the president and congress a few months ago and trusted the fcc with the very important responsibility developing in national rot and strategy. we should have had a national strategy years ago. we didn't. but now we have the directive from the president and congress for the fcc to develop one. this is a very serious responsibility that the agency is taking with the seriousness it deserves.

broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of our generation. it is possible railroads, electricity, highways, telephones were to previous generations a platform for commerce, for addressing major national problems and for civic engagement. it's not an abstract exercise. i think a lot of americans when they hear universal broad and they are not sure and part of what we hope to do with these workshops is an innate the meaning and importance to ordinary americans of broadband. we know from a data point of view that every point increase in broadband deployment will lead to an increase of 300,000 jobs according to a study by brookings. i had a chance last week to meet with some people who are starting to use broadband to do

a job training, and i met at the valencia gardens, a project in zain francisco, some people who were able to find jobs through broadband and because they were trained in and using the internet. i have a similar experience in cleveland a couple of weeks ago, where i met people who, before they got involved in some training programs and before they learned broadband and internet skills, had great trouble finding a job and were able to find a job using the internet. i also saw last week when i was in california at the lucille packard children's hospital some incredible programs that when you see them you can't help but think how can we live in a country where this isn't available to everyone? for example, we saw a program where doctors use imaging technologies and broadband to

diagnose newborns for this particular disease. it is a long and i will try to remember, but it causes blindness. it's very treatable if it is caught. of course there are too few doctors that have the skills to diagnose this particular disease. and what happens now all over the country is that doctors with this specialty spend their time driving around, examining as many kids as they can. some kids are sent, newborns are sent with their parents to go with a special store. of course this doesn't make sense in a world we have imaging technologies and we have broadband connections, and so you can actually get better images, better diagnoses of more newborns for last cost up front and clearly stating the country cost over time. this is up and running now in palo alto. it should be up and running everywhere. that is the kind of opportunity that we hope to tackle with the broadband project.

last example. i was an elite pennsylvania and i met a farmer. i met a farmer who sit, he farmer in his sixties who said when i went into farming, the last thing i thought would matter to me our computers and internet connections. but today, i don't think farmers can do their job without computers and high-speed internet connections. for real-time weather, crop planning, pricing and selling their product. and he asked us to do everything we can to extend plebeian to all americans. here's the challenge of course. about 40% of american households don't have broadband. in some communities, low-income communities, minority communities, rural communities, that number is closer to 60%. this is why the president and called crist it to things in the recovery act.

they started addressing the problem -- this issue through $7 billion in broadband grants and why they gave the fcc this important responsibility of developing and national broadband strategies. as the blair levin and the team started tackling the challenge we set some goals. we want this process to be the most open ever at the fcc. the most participatory ever at the fcc, the most data driven ever at the fcc, and the most innovative ever at the fcc. encouraging experimentation to find solutions, to make sure the commission meets this moment. as i said yesterday, when we welcome the broadband staff, we welcome and encourage experimentation and innovation, and we expect mistakes. today is the first hearing. i am so proud the commission is doing this. i fully expect it won't go perfectly. we are streaming live. something will go wrong.

someone will get off on the wrong street. we are providing for public participation. brenau is exactly what will happen? that's okay. this is a real time, blight experiment in participation. i think we will have an excellent day today and it will get better as we go through the workshops. i'm particularly pleased the first workshop is on how word and civic engagement. one is because it gives us the opportunity to begin to show how we government can work. of course we have people who have been working very hard on e-government in the white house and in indiana. the second reason i am so pleased that this is our first topic is that everything flows from civic engagement. an active public offering its best ideas as the foundation of the solutions to all of our challenges. and in the 21st century there is no excuse for not finding ways to connect all americans to each other and to their government through high-speed internet.

these workshops take on some added importance because the first round of filings in this proceeding did not advance the ball forward as much as it should. we are where we are, but it is essential through this process we have full and participation. we have ideas that meets the moment and we have received data that tackles the hard questions the commission has to address in this proceeding. so with that let me say how pleased i am that we have the panel that we have today. i am honored on behalf of the commission that we have, the country's first chief information officer, vivek kundra. [applause] we have beth noveck, occupying a new position in the white house,

deputy chief technology officer for opening government. [applause] drama richard, one of the most innovative mayors in the history of the country, especially around digital, creative digital solutions to problems that americans face. gramm and richard, thank you for coming. [applause] and we have, let me do this because we want to get to the workshop. let me do the names, all of whom are great and save their well deserved applause at the end but we have extraordinary do worse and thinkers working around engaging in the public, thinking about these targets shears. norm ornstein, and from personal democracy, ellen goodman, who i see some rare, i hope she's here, john wonderlich from the sunlight foundation, and beth white, who somehow in order to make sure that the country receives the olympics in 2016 in

chicago had the great idea seeing if we could elect a president from chicago. that worked out. [laughter] next step is the olympics. the immediate next step is to ask eugene huang to take over. i want to welcome to the fcc as well as everyone from the broad and team. eugene until recently was at the treasury department working on issues around china, and before that, he was in the state of virginia as a secretary of technology, between eugene and noveck and -- we are proving there is innovation east of the mississippi and we look forward to some innovators from rest of the mississippi joining us in this effort. thank you, everyone. i'm looking forward to a productive workshop, and thank you all for being here. [applause] >> thank you, mr. chairman, for

those very warm and inspiring opening remarks. it's my distinct privilege to welcome each and every one of you to the first workshop of the national broadband task force. my name is eugene huang and i will be serving as the moderator for today's workshop. joining me today from the fcc is kristen kane director of national purpose for the broadband task force. mary beth richards special counsel for fcc for the office of the chairman and steve van roekel took director of the management of the office of director. i would also like to extend a special welcome to those of you joining online in cyberspace. and i understand there are over 100 individuals and entities that are registered including individuals through the wind online platform and second life, and clearly it is demonstrating the power of broadband technology to promote a more open and transparent government. this first workshop covers to topics: open government and

civic participation. for both topics with a leading practitioners and experts who are using a broadband to build open government and transfer civic engagement. before we begin i would like to note this is the beginning of the conversation. today's workshop will not answer all the difficult questions before us. but it is a strong and important start. with the officials gathered here today, the conversation among the commission staff, panel participants, and the public at large, we aim to learn about and discuss best practices, generate ideas, and altman the knowledge of members of the commission. today's discussion will help frame and shape the work of the national broadbent task force and guide the development of the national broadband plan. for the first panel i would like to welcome the distinguished speakers, vivek kundra, gramm richard, former mayor of fort wayne indianans and beth noveck federal chief technology officer for open government.

we will hear ten minute presentations from each of our panelists falling 15 minutes of q&a from the fcc panel and at the conclusion open up to the public for 15 minutes of questions and answers. also before i begin, i would like to ask the audience here in washington, d.c. to please turn off yourself or at least put them on vibrate. we want to make sure that our participants online don't hear the buzzing of cell phones. washington, d.c.. with that, vivek, the floor is yours. >> thank you, eugene, for the kind introduction and mr. chairman, thank you very much for holding this important hearing. on a subject that affects the united states government and more importantly the very people we serve. if we think about this in a macrolevel there have been three major revolutions that now lead

to the technology revolution. the first was the agricultural revolution. been in the agricultural revolution if you think about the movement of people and the movement of capital, it was limited to essentially 25 square mile and individuals could literally spent an entire lifetime with means of production and distribution of food and distribution of goods. then came the industrial revolution as the chairman said with the trains and ability to move goods and people and much higher velocities. and now as we entered the technology revolution, one of the things that has happened is we fundamentally change the way we interact with our government. if you look at the major innovations that have happened within the federal government and how we serve the american people what we have been able to do as a result of broadband penetration across the country and the ability to engage the

american people as has changed permanently how we operate. yet there are too many people who are not able to participate. what i want to do is highlight a couple of things we are doing within the united states government that are showing the idea of open government and democratizing data and how they are actually producing results. one of the big things we are focused on is to simplify access to government services. and what underpins that is the infrastructure that powers the modern economy. one of the big problems we have is the ability to access some of these services in a way that allows people to on a real-time basis see how their government is performing, be able to participate and actually move towards a participatory democracy. there are unprecedented opportunities as a result of some of the work we are doing in

terms of citizen participation, transparency and open government, how we democratize data. o2 big fun, we are looking at is one on the computing side which is how do we take the 76 plus billion dollars the united states government's plans today on information technology, a majority of that money is actually spent on integration services. how can we take advantage of innovations that have happened in the consumer markets where there is darwinian pressure to innovate and where we have seen massive gains in productivity that haven't been matched within the federal government? secondly, how we look at agencies that have done a great job such as the u.s. patent and trademark office to fundamentally change the way the agency operates? why want to talk about is from a precipitation perspective the president ultimately a new foundation that is built on transparency and open

government. one of the key things we did is we looked at the problem of optimizing and rationalizing the $76 billion to discover expends. we asked a very simple question which is how can we engage the american people to help us shape the way we spend that money and recognize the fact that the federal government does not have a monopoly on the best ideas out there? so what we decided to do is fundamentally change the way we are actively managing by engaging the american people. the old model was a very opaque close exclusive model of managing $76 billion. it was very static and there was faceless accountability. in 1994 there was a report issued buy then senator cohen that talked about billions of dollars being wasted on information technology projects. last year there is a report that talked about $30 billion of i.t.

investments that were in trouble yet the reporting that was there was management watchlist which is a static list that congress, the gao and the administration issued. the president talked about a culture where we move away from secrecy where we can change the default position of the federal government from secret to open and transparent so what we did is built the negative word that would lift the veil on i.t. expenditures. as soon as we launched this dashboard which exposed every layer of spending from who was responsible for the project with a picture of the cio on the project so you could see who was running the project, which contractors were working on it, where we are in terms of milestones on the project and we saw -- not only that, we

actually made sure that we created this platform so we could engage the american people getting ideas on how we could move the needle and find the innovative path as we invested in this i.t. project and what we saw quickly was a whole new model of looking at i.t. projects, the point also the administration recently announced its temporary halting 45 i.t. projects. one of the worst offenders out the project was a project that was 110% over budget and over 17 months behind schedule. and you can see as we move forward d.c. i go not really looking at the project historically and analyzing them we set a deadline and we announced publicly that within 30 days it had to evaluate every single project and as you can see from that charge we have hit that mark and the public was --

the congress was calling, gao was calling and asking each of the cio is where they were and the office of management and budget. what that led to is better governance in terms of what we are doing. but this is one of also is quick to take a lot of hard work to move in that direction. we also make sure we democratized the data so people could actually slice and dice and give different views of the risk across the board. we allowed people to actually take any of the projects they are interested in if you're interested in public health or education or energy you could and did those projects on face the court twitter or on your own personal blog. so we essentially created communities as a function of releasing the data and allowing the public to participate. every day now this giglio is are getting new ways of thinking about the problems and it is not limited to just the federal work force and we are looking at innovative ways of approaching the problem.

another area sinking more broadly is around democratize and data across the board. we embarked on an initiative called data.gov that would release as much as the public data as possible recognizing there is information that is classified or sensitive in nature. as of now we have got over 100,000 data figures from every aspect of government operations from how the faa is looking at flights, the average times delays across the country to toxic data from the epa to the data from the health care system, medicare and medicaid, and what we are finding very quickly is that innovation is happening in the market as a result of democratizing this data. within 24 hours of launching this, the sunlight foundation actually launched a competition called apples for america --

apps for america. what was time online u.s. where a developer recently took the data that the faa had put out and created an application that would allow you and i to map out from one city to another the average deily times of flights so we could make better decisions where we want to book. not only that but we issued a challenge to see ipos across the country for every state and local government to create a data.gov so that for the first time you will be able to now see what is happening across the transportation grid or for that matter broadband so you can actually think about comparing whether it is cellphone plans or thinking about where you have a broadband deployment and where you don't and what is the delta to applications being developed

where the intersection of multiple data feeds allow us to see spikes or disparities in terms of what is happening as far as health outcomes or if we are looking at how we can address the toughest problems this country faces today. when it comes to broadband deployment though, what we are seeing in the federal government is there are some agencies that have led some because they were looking at broadband and to allow working as a mechanism to drive productivity and essentially make sure they are attracting the best people and others that are reacting to adverse circumstances. so the patent and trademark office is a good example where you have a federal agency that has got a program in place close to 50% of employees are actually tell working. and the u.s. bto will tell you they are already seeing over $2 million in cost savings and

14,000 tons of carbon emissions that have been saved. the other example i would like to highlight is the gao. after september 11, the gao had to vacate its building because of the anthrax attack and as a function of that they had to come up with a solution of how to continue operations of the united states government in that environment and the employees actually turned to tele-working and from the forest service to nasa to the department of defense, as government consumers of the technology that is deployed out there in the consumer space, and it's very important for us to be able to leverage that in times of need as a matter of fact as a policy as we think about the of the nature of work in the 21st

century. i would like to close with talking about the huge opportunity and importance of the great work that you are doing today. as we think of health care and education and we think about fundamentally changing and introducing disruptive technologies across the board we have an imperative to make sure communities that are not able to access broadband or are not able to access the global economy and the digital world are disenfranchised and what we need to do is redouble efforts to make sure we have an infrastructure across the country that will allow us to take this nation to the 21st century. thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak and i look forward to the discussion. [applause] >> thank you. we will now hear from graham richard the former mayor of fort

wayne in yeah. >> thank you for a match for the opportunity to be with you today and syria story about the kennedy in the midwest that perhaps maybe both metaphorically and perhaps physically as we look at a signal that has to hundred 50,000 people and when i became the mayor in 2000 we were facing recession, not the recession but a recession. and the great history of the community is one of innovation. when i look back, in 1980 there were 13,000 ge workers, 10,000 international harvester workers, 105% average wage for the citizens of the city, i paid low-skilled jobs and by 2000 we were 83%. president obama was just in our neck of the woods and water rose

indiana where there's 20% unemployment. so the issues about broadband, helping retain and gain jobs, and becoming part of an economic development strategy is what i want to talk about. so, in our case, we decided early on that if this young man was going to grow up to enjoy over 100 miles of trails and greenways and lots of wonderful assets in the community, we had to start thinking about how he as a young person would be able to compete in the world we all know now to be much more competitive. so we set three goals. we wanted to be a city that retained jobs, the safest city of a worse lies in the country and build excellent government services using technology and teams. john chambers says it this way. i might change the board to

collaborative government. so when you look at the classic infrastructure that vivek was talking about, if the city does not have a broadband plant as a part of the plan to invest in those things that will make a difference in the lives of their community they will lose. so what we did say how can we have smart, fast, agile, green city government to support the things we knew our were citizens would need? so in addition to using lean six sigma and business management team from companies like ge and raytheon and itt and others we were able to find ways to reduce the pothole filling time from four days to less than four hours. we were able to take a head count. we have 2,000 city employees part time, nine different labor unions seven of which now have performance based pay, and we said how can we engage hearts and minds of city employees to be able to help keep our head flat and preservers. technology is a key part. the leadership however to work

with and please the can a critical part of empowering them to be able to help solve problems. you can see some data about the change in the population principally by annexation. we are a large county, the city is nine square miles and a large county. this is an example of savings. technology was always a part of every project. what can we do to make service is more effectively available at lower price? if $50 billion. you take things that are common like looking at safety. 50% of most city budgets are more, sometimes as much as 70% go to public safety yet we were all save with our own employees. here is a down exceed the technology. because of the expansion -performing december. they said we need more

sweetstreet sweepers, and i thought maybe we weren't using the sweeper as efficiently as we could so we used real-time wireless monitoring of when the sweeper was actually sweeping versus the time it was going to the location writ was going to sweep. and you can see that we actually had very inefficient use of that vehicle. that is just one example of many where technology helped us improve our public service. libraries. we have 90 languages spoken in community schools. more burmese residents in ft. wayne than any city in the country. many of them do not speak english and health challenges they come to a hour country. so the library is a place where people go. we have not connected all libraries with the system. we have wireless wi-fi free and available, we have library sites

in the 14 locations. people are now lining up, scheduled to use those sites because that is how you get on line to file unemployment compensation, medicaid, medicare. that is the public outpost. schools. what if we could get every school student in the community to have access to the very best on the internet and the web? you will hear from beth about collaboration and about the government. one of the things we did here is to say let's connect, and we did this with an rfp three private not-for-profit entity with indiana where we have 11,000 students serving as the hub, connecting all of the libraries with a system and all of the schools with a good system. but does this mean? this fall we will be offering for the first time in the community mandarin chinese education, language instruction for any high school student at once it, japanese and arabic. that will be offered from the campus to students three days on an online learning program with video connection interactivity

today's at the university. i do as the mayor did virtual town hall meetings. we came to fort wayne to visit the hub of the midwest area when gte was purchased by verizon. we said we don't want to be the last to get fiber to the home. i am a big, borrow, build kind of guy and a strategy of having fiber-optic access, competitor to comcast was a strategy that was a win for everybody. so we were able to convince by verizon in the midwest, the first in the midwest built, passing 150 million-dollar investment and we promised to improve the cycle time for permitting, make sure that we work to get all the utilities located quickly and to create innovators forum three we formed a capital fund to invest in companies that would develop new broadband applications and we created innovation teams for broadband. again the cool working through

the innovation center, 40,000 ft incubator adjacent to the campus, i would use a couple. there are more than 40 different teams. i am going to talk about health care. when it be great if every person in our community that went to a neighborhood health care clinic had electronic medical record and could get access to health care in an emergency room that's what we have today? over 90,000 electronic medical records. this is a not-for-profit no federal funds, no government funds large, one of the largest in the country health care clinics, dental and medical. with the electronic medical records and ability to diagnose potential red negative for type two diabetic patients, remotely we have had eyesight saved where people have lost their eyesight if they hadn't been able to take that digital ret anaya examination, send it to a surgeon and have that right quickly and accurately.

hearing impaired, simple and important. individuals who cannot hear or findings by using a digital bridge through an interpreter in the indianapolis who is calling a computer repair call center in salt lake city, the individual using signing can now be able to get resources and communicate in ways that make them more productive. senior connect, digital and literacy. you've got the broadband, you've got the combination of high-speed wireless and fire optics. why aren't people using it? many people don't have a computer, they don't understand the power of broadband. this is a case where seniors in high school get refurbished computers from vocational technical school that were given by local businesses. we put them in the homes or community centers and work with senior citizens to get them connected to the web. can excessing their own digital medical records, begin communicating with their grandchildren. and the two years before i became the mayor we had a

terrible tire fired, 2,000 people evacuated in the heart of the center that has the most single moms. we thought about building new suburban homes with porches but in an urban style and let's connect them with fiber-optic. let's put fiber-optic is through the homes and take 95-year-old home and retrofit that helm to make a smart green home so the single mom and the helm can remotely see her latchkey kid communicate with a good visual communication when he comes home, and throop wireless internet contacted remote handling of the appliances and the speed and at night she can take a course for indiana and purdue or i.t. tech without having to have child care and without the cost of transportation. we did an analysis. low-income family and at a community, the household energy

cost and the transportation energy costs are two of the fastest growing costs over the last three decades. if you can reduce that cost, the person can invest in education, down payment on a home, health care and other facilities. crime. mayors spend a lot of time on crime, and local and public safety hometown security. why? because we are the closest to the problem. you call 911 and or folks respond to get the lowest crime rate in 28 years strategically one of the things we did is say how can you use broadband to deploy your public safety personnel? you got expense of people and equipment and how can you get them to do patroling and local police work rather than paper work? and so early on, we called a summit and pulled together all of the public safety partners from the state and federal level and we began to figure out ways to communicate data more effectively including and search

to quickly identify an individual and with the problem or challenge might be if that individual. dod we of a partnership with department of defense. that little orange robot, think of columbine or a terrible fire where your public safety personnel are in jeopardy. while we were doing a training for this demonstration site, we actually had a live action hostage-taking in a suspected drug lord. we took that little orange dye, we were able to blast open a door, put him in the house, thought the guy was in a closet, found out he climbed into the attic with a periscope. remember no human being has entered the house at this point it was done by remote. we graybill to apprehend the individual finding he was crouched against the chimney and the attic without a hostage. none of us is as smart as all of

us. broadband allows us to build new collaborative networks of innovation and problem solving. eugene, i have three ideas on what like to present quickly. as it relates to the broadband plan, if we could see a collaborative effort at the federal level with all the other national plans taking place, we have got plans coming from hud, transportation, homeland security plan, health care plans, we all know the president's energy plan. i can see broadband in this plan being the innovation platform to support all boss. and we can suck up the great information that will be coming from the proposals in the first round of the broadband

stimulus money. last point can this one is, how do you take the innovation success stories of places like the national institutes of health. how can we create maybe 100 cities, network, competitive process where you say green cassel, north dakota, new york city, you have highspeed broadband. let's create an incentive to help people get better health care, improve energy costs, higher levels of education, and maybe that innovation can spread and we can be the leader in the world in terms of innovation and use of broadband. thank you for the opportunity to be with you. >> thank you, mayor. [a >> for our final presentation

for the first panel we have this noveck cement i want to thank the entire team for having me today and might go panelist it is said honored to be on the platform i have to cleanups so i will cover some other examples that make many similar points that have been echoed by the president to which it is broadband is helping to create the glove four -- the platform of the intelligence and expertise of the american people so look outside of washington to find new ways of tapping the intelligence expertise with the experience of ordinary americans to solve the problems of our time. more americans today on

cellphones and dishwashers so the question is what is this growth of technology the adoption of devices that allows us to connect to the broad band of superhighway that the sick is quote working to put in place was a man for political as additions the future of government and democracy? i am delighted today is the kickoff of the workshop that will take place all of these reflect a commitment to open this come up preservation of the first workshop should be about open government and the e- democracy it does not act go it doesn't go the very first memorandum battle on the side was one about transparency and open government that signals a commitment this administration has to be more participatory and open and to create a policy that enables through the use of broadband and other policy mechanisms through open

government policy to create us the most participatory collaborative and transparent democracy of our time it is the error that we have the technology to do this to work together in teams, groups, committees whether to build software plot fault -- platforms white crowd sourcing information with h1n1 or participate with wikipedia or people participating from second life in this workshop today. the gold is as the president said to work together to solve problems because the problems we face are many as craig tata we can solve them better working together. this issue is how do we say

bring innovation through broadband through the use of technology the way the government works to provide better services and create dated transparency and creates a better and more open ways of working and more open policy making? we put up the innovation gallery on the white house website to showcase platforms and we're looking for more examples also to the national team to help us identify more examples of the excellent use of broadband and government to open up the way that the government works and showcase the way we're doing everything from the projects we're spearheading and making data more open to work at making procurement more open out of the dod, the way many government agencies now have to say we have went from one at the beginning of the administration to half a dozen that use new technologies to

consult employees through electronic suggestion boxes to help connect people on the ground in the institution to how do we improve the way that they were? just as in india and net they have become more active to tap the intelligence of people that worked in the institutions but also with the public that interacts with and works with government. this is why we created an open government policy making process as we thought about whether the ways we can begin to lower and the race policy impediments that make this the adoption of broadband technology by government to engage the american people we turn to the people to ask us how to do that? instead of drafting a policy then go out for comment when they come too late we actually

very much like this process turn the policy making process inside out and went to the people first for their ideas and government employees about how to do this we launched-- three phase process of brainstorming and discussions of the difficult i.d.'s that we are facing and then turning to people in the last few weeks to use a color ever tint drafting tool to create the language we may use to craft open government policies to allow was to use wiki to move to greater openness and have more participatory innovations market is why regulations.gov team the portal run by the epa to participation in will making with 180 government agencies launched a

probe -- program to imagine what participation might look like orme for an american to participate in crafting the 48,000 rules the government makes every year? we're now working with a private program to bring broadband technology into the agency to make these innovations possible and reinvigorate the democratic right. i mentioned in broad-based and suggestion boxes witching-- is 50,000 government employees you mention in the united states patent and trademark office of would be reinvests to not talk route appeared to pact and project that uses broadband technology to connect volunteers scientist to help the institution of the patent office make better and smarter decisions informed by the expertise of people formed by the institution.

water the ways we can connect people using new tools not only to consume services from government but to provide there expertise to tap the intelligence of the american people that we make the best possible decisions? that is a reduced blogs technology policy of the white house created a blog to help the board -- publix vs a pay with recommendations with integrity pursuant to a request from the president needed to come up with new ways to think about how we tap notches general expertise but scientific expertise for the way we make decisions just beginning of thinking about what is the potential for using broadband tools to improve the way the government makes decisions and have a more participatory democracy?

how might we use web based games like the virtual worlds we see involved in this presentation today to deepen the ties between the u.s. and muslim communities around the world to fill the president's commitment from his speech in cairo? another commitment is around the science technology and engineering and math education. how can some of the new techniques that are being explored by the team help us to actually tackle some of the major issues we are confronting? how do we solve the major problems we face today using the new tools available? the one to close with a couple of examples not only how we may use broadband technology to foster participation but how we may use it in our broadband with 17-- to enable people to solve problems in

their own community whether blogging done with this is more in new york and indiana, whether gathering data, whether to analyze data test that comes off of dated dick gabor supplying data sets of our making commitments 21 another if you participate in cleaning up the part by will donate $100.02 help buy the a garbage bags. whether it is helping to get networks of people involved like identifying possible so they can be fixed or identified. whether it is using on-line technologies for people who have problems this is my favorite example because it involves senior citizens and

young people involved in cleaning up derelict building sites in municipalities and what is wonderful is the collaboration the government undertook with citizens to help solve the problem by bringing down crime, drug use and other urban blight programs -- problems taking place because they were all connected together on broadband basin networks using visual technology to help work on cleanup and solving problems together. this year more recently applying a similar idea is san francisco the project connected citizens in local communities of to pool and collaborate on there buying power to direct purchasing power to the business is that were the most green and committing that with the extra

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to tell us how are using broadband technology to promote civic the engagement and open government? if you want to jump ahead to teams like education that are reflected in the workshops today or the examples you bought from indiana this is a place we want to hear about them because we can only talk about a few examples in these workshops but we want to invite you to participate sick -- open-ended of did i.d.'s -- i.d.'s skill and not only in real space but to the

virtual world where this event is live streamed today allowing again more people to participate than what could be here think you to those people it is 6:00 in the morning better joining us and demonstrating in practice the potential for the use of broadband to create truly open and participatory government. thank you. >> my first question is for mayor richard uk's of grated vice to the broad band task force to prioritize but i would love this same top three

advice for mayors in the country that may -- may be don't have broadband whether the top three things they should do right away? >> convened collect and collaborate pull together people in your community there are 40 small indiana town safe that have fiber to the how most of them through funding. there are ways and only two of them are municipal. the advice is to go to people in your community that already using broadband manufacturing plants, hospitals, colleges, u niversities and every single indiana town many communities have fewer than 10,000 people as residents. it is a function of local leadership to convene people, connect and figure out a plan who is out there that would like to work with us and move ahead.

get wired i don't care whether it is just get it. then work to serve the underserved with programs that will connect people that need to be connected. >> i am reminded of the build it and they will come we have all of these great ideas of we get people in the government to learn about them and use them? what's are the best practices? >> parts of broadband, the argument or the way to would vance the agenda has to be at a higher level. what i mean it is the value to create such as how we live fundamentally change the way medicine is practiced in the united states? however fundamentally change

education or change the way government operates? i think it is less about the technology or the deployment of technology itself to make a very powerful case in terms of value it will add to the public sector but more importantly to the it american people. if we look at the gao example, it was not driven just because of the broadband technology underneath it but because there is a demand, leadership in terms of adopting new technology to make sure they are changing the way those institutions were running. in the same way what we need to do better with the federal government is to make sure we look at ourselves and self-image of the $76 billion consumer and think about how we can leverage some of these

technologies and ensure we are scaling these ideas or the good work that has already happened at gao across the u.s. government. >> let me say briefly in response, first i think the best example of how one engages in best practice is throughout leadership what he has been doing it the woman tells me he has been an inspiration and a model for many people was a talked-about house they localities there is a challenge to copy the data.gov model and adopting their own version of the memorandum or open policy making process. i will talk to a mayor on monday that i want to do open policy the same way so

leadership and the bully pulpit is important but project examples that drive toward outcomes with real success are extraordinarily important but one way we created the innovation gallery and we invite others to use the technology themselves to engage in best practice sharing so when we talk of data and examples and models redo that to allow people to share those models and their own committees not only coming to us through the gallery but allow a data sets me downloadable so they can take those into their own communities but it allows that as of a way to think about of best practice share it also through platforms. we're working hard to make it easier for agencies to acquire the use of new tools by lowering impediments by making sure those tools are available so when the general services of mr. shan negotiates

contracts with technology providers of agencies can copy them when we move to a cloud based sir structure to share tools and makes it easier for people to create eight blog gourde wiki to allow them to engage not only an open policy making but some of the best practices of broadband technologies. >> we have a follow-up question from our online audience. many examples that you cited are impressive how can citizens find these projects and opportunities and is there a web site that lists these examples? >> i think that is something i felt very frustrated about. in the silo of federal research you can find wonderful examples but there is not something that i hope

this plan and putting cagey and creating that national clearinghouse, a place you can get these best practices. many are anxious to see the video based 9113 were at the scene of an accident somebody holds up the cell phone and take a picture than they used the phone that i am calling 9111 person who appears to have a heart attack. but yet they just had eight cellphone or her a picture why can't we have a video 911 system? then issue back? this innovation of 100 cities where we test, say to the world, let's get the best services to serve people in these communities and let's make it immediately shared and

let's as best stocks right in her book. [laughter] let's have the ability, she cannot do that, i could, let's have expert panels like the peer review panel and the patent process to give feedback to these ideas. no one is as smart as all of us if we can collaborate and that is the power of broadband. that is one of the most critical things that you can do as a recommendation to the congress to come up with a very practical way to quickly get innovation out there to folks that want to use of our hungry for and will change and modify it and adapt it and make it their own. >> i first of a quick request of the mayor which if you would not fleshing out for us in in little more detail some of the powerful strategies you

have recommended particularly about the 100 cities and give us more detailed ideas how we may bring that to life and contemplate would be enormously helpful. >> will try to put my passion to paper. >> the question that i have this similar to mary beth question and it is for each of view that gets at the challenges of folks in any level of government not only adopting innovative technologies but taking the next step to innovate themselves. and beyond the sharing best practice is which is one hurdle are there other challenges we should be cognizant of with regard to basic capacity of word digital literacy are their strategy said each of you have used to help people me able to take

advantage of all of the opportunity? >> you raise a very important point* about the fact that with regard to the open any government that we are focused on today at their haccp to be a two-way street both in terms of what government can do to proliferate more opportunities for service engagements and purchase a patient but for citizens and organizations and to step up to the plate and in particular organizations and groups that have through the fault the government have become used to a model of the closed model the lack of accountability model that were used to yielding a certain sets of tools and a more limited set for engagement so as we open up and think about

more open ways of providing data, webcast of live events, creating on-line policy forums there does need to be a degree of civic literacy and education and strategy on institutions that are being invited to purchase of a for the first time enable the pride technology i can report that i came from a workshop that happened earlier this week called strengthening our nation's democracy that brought together 100 institutions representing the democracy movement they took upon themselves as the commitment at the end to say we need to build a tool kit a civic literacy and lotus kills people need in order to work together in a broad band future? working together none of us, and now i have messed it up. it is in the book. [laughter] what does that mean in terms of technical literacy but what

does it mean more generally in ways to collaborate or work together in teams or four organizations to say we will step up to the plate with the white house asks about government policy your declassification or to run a forum on the cookies policy for example, what is a mean to change the way that we were? one example of the zero when the runs the four rum on how to revise our policy on web analytics and web cookies. and we're getting people commenting on the blog and responding but there are the traditional lawyers to send in their letters at the 11th hour and we'll be posting them on line even though they have access to a computer because we want everybody to see the comments and want everybody to comment on the comments so we want to make very clear we

take seriously these new ways of working there require some investment and civic engagement and it is an important point* to how we think of research what we need for a civic literacy skills? >> from my personal experience when you look at some of the challenges this country faces k-12 system, being at the third grade reading level it is vital and literacy is important as we think about the three windows with a television and computer and cellphone but i would encourage you to have a huge focus when you think of the broadband plan on the cell phone networks and the opportunities to be unleashed through cellphones. we have heard a lot about the penetration of cellphones with the third window china and india and africa you can go to

villages and you create an information market and how it is distributed in the same way the story that has been told in the united states is as you look at schools and literacy and some of the challenges one of the most common factors it is a lot of the people have cellphones. one of the primary means of communication is through text messaging. really figuring out how we can tap into that space and look at the cell phone networks and communications and figure out what context do we think about democracy and the cellphone itself and not just broadband in the second window? . . mom might get, but not always,