we will launch this air travel revolution by modernizing the outdated system of air traffic control. it's about time. [applause] since the early days of commercial air service, the federal government has owned and operated the united states air traffic control system yet more than a half a century later the government is still using much of the exact same outdated technology. at a time when every passenger has g.p.s. technology in their pockets, our air traffic control system still runs on radar and ground-based radio systems that they don't even make anymore. they can't even fix anymore. and many controllers must use slips of paper to track our thousands and thousands of planes that are up in the air. our air traffic control system was designed when roughly 100,000 people flew at our airports each year. we are now approaching nearly 1 billion passengers annually. the current system cannot keep up, hasn't been able to keep up for many years. it causes flight delays and crippling inefficiencyies, cost ing our economy as much as $25 billion a year in economic [indiscernible]. we live i

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rodgers' statements about the air force and their job for air doll nance. you can't accomplish air dominance without space. everything we do includes space. the question of whether or not the air force can do it or not, it's, you're not taking it away from the air force, you're creating another organization under the air force so they're still doing it. we're changing organizational boxes under the same organization, rather than tasking and funding and working strategically to insure their performance. again, my only concern is is i think there's a whole lot more information that we all should have before we go to that level and that's why i offered the amendment, and i would -- certainly appreciate your intention, the needs that we have in space, but i think we should be well-informed, of both the negatives of doing this and the positives of doing this before we would undertake imposing this. i yield back. >> it if i could reclaim my time. mr. chairman, i think all of us are saying the same thing. we want to move into space significantly. the air force is

the chief of staff of the air force. there is justice shortage across the board in the military, air force, navy, in the united kingdom, in the air forces and also among the commercial pilots. there is an overall shortage which we and our friends are going to have to deal with. i would simply ask you to go back to the department and see on the civilian side and the military side come up with a solution there. >> if i'm as the former secretary of labor what were talking about is the skills gap. there is a larger issue about the skills gap in our economy. i share your concerns about the pilots in the shortage and where we're going to get them in the future and i would love to work with you on that. >> thank you. >> thank you senator for being here. thank you for answering questions about contract towers. it is a very hot topic with our colleagues because there are 250 contract towers and 46 states. almost every part of the country is interested in this. given the question about the value, i would assume then that you would

the chief of staff of the air force. there is a shortage across the board in the military, the air force, the navy, in the united kingdom and among the commercial pilots. which we and our friends are going to have to deal with. so i would simply ask you to go back the department on the civilian side be part of a solution because it is a serious problem. >> what we're talking really about is a skills gap and there's a larger issue about a skills gap in our ecaneomy and so i share your concerns about the pilots and where we're going to get them in the future and love to working with you on that. >> thank you, ma'am. >> thank you for being here. and thank you for answering questions about contract towers. it's a hot topic because there's 250 contract towers in 46 states. so i think just about every part of the country is intertsed in this and given senator wicker's question about the value i would assume you would be willing to say you'll protect these contract towers no matter what? >> i can't promise you that now because

but the demand for current and future air power, air and space power, exceeds supply. the air force's fy '18 budget is our best attempt to apply limited resources to build a more capable and lethal force, one that is ready today and one that is ready tomorrow. as i said, this will be a long term effort. to be successful, we will need relief from bca caps as well as predictable, sufficient and flexible budgets. the importance of air power has not changed in the last 70 years and the demand for air and space power will continue to grow. so we must be prepared no dominate the skies above the earth. our airmen and our joint team deserve it. and our nation expects it. next slide. so as always, we provide you the website to our link that has all our budget projects, our products to include the budget overview book, this budget brief, as well as all our detailed justification material. so with that, we'll open it up for questions. tony. >> reporter: a couple of quick ones. presidential aircraft program, the $431 million for r&d, what does that buy? is that a reduction from wh

over 60 countries are operating safely air air space in similar instructor. best of all, our country will benefit because these reforms will ensure that the united states remains the world leader in aviation and industry that we pioneered. i cannot think of a better person to speak to this issue than someone who has had the vision and the forsight who has steadfastly looked out for the safety of the traveling public and who has made this one of his top priorities. i am so honored to be here to introduce chairman bill schuster a visionary leader who is spearheading reform efforts in the congress. [applause] >> you want to hear from the transportation secretary who spoke after president trump. take you live now to a conversation on tax reform under way at the aspen institute. looking at the the potential benefits for low income workers. >> company will stay in the country. that's the whole point of corporate taxes. you two can go right at it. it makes my life easier. i do not understand how the two you will come together.

air traffic control system. by transportation secretary elaine chao and house transportation committee chair bill shuster of pennsylvania. this is half an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, former .ecretary of transportation [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states accompanied by the secretary of transportation. [applause] leader, chairman, senator cruz, distinguished honoredof congress, guests, on behalf of the first family, welcome to the white house. [applause] and thanks to the leadership of donald trump, welcome erahe beginning of a new for american infrastructure. [applause] since the first day of this administration, president trump been working tirelessly to keep the promises that he made to the american people. our president's been putting jobs and this economy first, rolling back excessive regulations, unleashing american energy, ending unfair trade workings, and he's been with congress to repeal and re place obamacare. and thanks to president donald back. america is [app

air traffic control is a perfecm example. despite billions of dollars of taxpayer investment over severai decades, the implementation of state-of-the-art air traffic control technology is not where it needs to be. so, this administration has j taken a bold step and joined many of our counterparts worldwide by separating air traffic control operations from the safety oversight function os the faa. this administration's proposal will create a separate,count nongovernmental, nonprofit cooperative to operate thehe country's air traffic control system. the new entity will be a fully capitalized financially self-sustaining entity funded by users of its services, all reve surplus revenues would be reinvested back into the system. .. t accumulate surpluses. mindful that the key to any organization's success is the employees, the administration's proposal poses that the new in ty honor existing labor agreements and that employeesrance fer from the faa to be kept whole in terms of pay and benefits, although, they would no longer be fed

clean water act, clean air act. what you put into statute has been disregarded for the last several years. it's not particular to one administration. i think it's just evolved in that direction. you have given specific authority to states to partner with the epa, to achieve good air quality and good water quality. and we're committed to making sure that those are properly reviewed and their answers provided in a mean lful time frame. we have a lack dog of over 700 stated implementation plans that have not been responded to at all. that is unacceptable. on what they've submitted in every category of the clean air act or otherwise and provide answers in that regard. we will act diligently to achieve that. >> thank you. i appreciate that. we look forward to working with you. >> thank you. ms. lowey. >> thank you very much. administrator pruitt, the budget proposes to eliminate the endocrine disrupters program. are you aware of it? >> yes, ma'am. i just didn't hear you well. i apologize. >> no problem. i'm happy to disc

strike, may 28th, by a russian air strike.ou know, diana, there have been rumors of his demise before. this sounds like the russians are seriously investigating this. >> reporter: it does sound as if they're seriously investigating this. it's possible that he was in the surroundings of raqqah. you know, it is highly likely that isis leaders would have fled iraq, given the state of the battle around mosul, that they would go up to syria, but it is also questionable whether he would have been so close to raqqah. i mean, raqqah is the focus of coalition air strikes right now, of ground forces onslaught. this supposedly, according to russian state media, happened, the air strike happened at a command post south of the city. and russian state media is also saying that some 330 other isis fighters were killed in these same air strikes. now, that does raise questions as to what al baghdadi was doing at such a major meeting, which would have been an obvious target. would he necessarily have been so close to raqqah, although we don't k

we will launch this air travel revolution by modernizing the outdated system of air traffic control. it is about time. [applause] since the early days of commercial air service, the federal government has owned and operated the united states air traffic control system. yet, more than a half a century later, the government is still using much of the exact same outdated technology. at a time when every passenger has gps technology in their pockets, our air traffic control system still runs on radar and ground-based radio systems that they do not even make any more. they cannot even fix anymore. and many control uses slips of paper to track our thousands and thousands of planes that are up in the air. our air traffic control system was designed when roughly 100,000 people flew at the airports each year. we are now approaching nearly 1 billion passengers annually. the current system cannot keep up. it has not been able to keep up for many years. it causes flight delays and crippling inefficiencies, costing our economy as much as $25 billion a year in economic outing. we live in the moder

air traffic controllers to a phenomenal job in ensuring that u.s. air travel is safe and efficient. the technology does need an upgrade, absolutely, but that is a procurement issue. if there is a problem with our system, it's that congress does not guarantee the faa consistent and reliable funding to do their job more successfully. the fed they could procure theneed technologies they need far faster than the current rate.ed when we last spoke, i highlighted that the goal is to provide highway and transit workers with the funding they need to make good decisions. in that same vein, if congress was willing to provide faa with funding certainty and speed up nexgen implementation and dangerous reorganization of our air traffic control o system by privatizing it. we are not canada or great britain. we manage the busiest airspace in the entire world. it's not even in the same ballpark. and yet, despite the great challenge the faa has made the air traffic system the safest in the world. it's safer than any of the example championed by advocates of privatization. i don't take our air traffi

you briefly get onto the jet where the humid air locks, but as it brea ks where the humid air locks,t breaks back again and moves across the atlantic with a middle path of the atlantic with a middle path of the week we are on the northern side of the jet stream or the cool air sits, and we will be in that the middle of the week. the jet stream spinning up areas of low pressure that will keep things aren't settled through wednesday and on into thursday. for the middle part of the week, thejet thursday. for the middle part of the week, the jet stream will be working straight across the atlantic, keeping us in the cool air, bringing further areas of low pressure. but there was a hint in some forecast weather models that, by the end of the week, the jet stream might take on more of a bend the appearance and that will initially keep us in the cool air but will bring some warmer air, slightly closer to southern areas and with it, potentially, pressure building, high—pressure trying to edge its way in towards the south. it will be a slow process , the south. it will be a slow process, essen

werenly people who did not air traffic controllers. anyone ad not give break, except for air traffic controllers. shifts, longt breaks. a private corporation would not be that careful. that is all i have to say. thank you. would not be careful enough to give breaks to air traffic controllers as needed? think safety in the skies is paramount to everyone. i don't think they would suddenly be worked to the bone. that is not something that has been an issue that has been talked about. far as the timeline, where do we go from here? guest: mrs. trump throwing his support behind congressional initiative. re-authorize the faa program as it is, or they can thatthis radical change would take about 75% of the faa away from it and put it under the and put it under a separate government entity. like i said, the dynamics and the politics around it are not settled and are not necessarily favor, butident's having his support is meaningful and will be meaningful for some congressional republicans who until now have been hesitant to join on with this pl

often comment on it when they move frus air space to canadian air space. >> is that true >> yes. that's absolutely true. i think the reality is that other countries have shown us how to do this. this is something we absolutely have to do. unless we simply want to let the air traffic system fall even further behind world standards. we got to have a system that's self-financing. we got to have a system that can govern itself, that is govern with the users of the system, the airlines private aviation everybody have an input and we have to have a system that's capable of hiring people that will put in place the new technologies way faster than the faa has been able to do. so this is an important step forward. a very important step. >> carl, can i give you another update on the schedule. >> yeah, go ahead. >> reporter: just as i was giving you that plan for the president to do the signing in to value office and then move to the east room the white house has told the press pool that they are changing up that plan and the president will go the east room directly sign his the letter and

the united states air traffic -- and operated the united states air traffic control service. yes, the government is using much of the same outdated technology. at a time when every passenger has gps technology in the rock t pocket, our air traffic control system still runs on radar and thatd-based radio systems they don't even make any more, they can't even fix anymore, and many controllers must use slips track ouro thousands and thousands of planes that are up in the air. our air traffic control system was designed when roughly 100,000 people flew our airports each year. we are now approaching nearly one billion passengers annually. the current system cannot keep up, has not been able to keep up for many years. it causes flight delays and crippling inefficiencies, costing our economy as much as $25 billion a year in economic output. modern age coming at our air traffic control system is up, painfully, in the past. faa has been trying to upgrade our nation's air traffic control system for a long period of years, but after billions and spentns of tax dollars and the many years

we will launch this air travel revolution by modernizing of air traffic control. it's about time. since the early days of commercial air service, the federal government has -- yet more than a half a century later, the government is still using much of the exact same outdated technology. at a time when every passenger has gps technology in their pocke pockets, our air traffic control system still runs on ground based radio systems that they don't even make anymore. they can't even fix anymore and many controllers must use slips of paper to track our thousands and thousands of planes that are up in the air. our air traffic control system was designed when roughly 100,000 people flew our airports each year. we are now approaching nearly 1 billion passengers annually. the current system cannot keep up. hasn't been able to keep up for many years. it causes flight delays and crippling inefficiencies, costing our economy as much as $25 billion a year in economic out. we live in a modern age, yet our air traffic control system is stuck painfully in the past. the faa has been trying to upg

i want to talk about clean air. we have deep concerns about the cuts in this budget and your approach to this. and i'm looking for any way i can to work with you, but people in my area have deep concerns. your attorney general sued the environmental protection agency, that disagreed with these ideas, that was the head of the republican attorney generals association that got a lot of money from the fossil fuel association. we all get criticized for who supports the work we do. i want to take you at your word. i want you to hear in my state, we've been the 80th -- we're the most oil dependent state in the nation. we know how hard it is to get over our fossil fuel dependence. and we're deeply concerned about cuts potentially to energy independence because if we can't have more solar and more wind, we can't have that healthy balance. and we're deeply concerned about the rollback of clean air rules and the cuts in this administration. we have one of the highest rates of childhood asthma. that's just a tragedy, the fact t

and not only will we be in the fresher air, thejet air and not only will we be in the fresher air, the air, thejet stream could well is bring up areas of low pressure at times and moved across the country. generally speaking, after a brief flirtation with something warm at the beginning of the week, towards the end of the week, we get back to that fresher feel, rain at times, sunshine, breezy, and that weather will take us breezy, and that weather will take us right through the end ofjune and into the start ofjuly. tonight at ten: emergency checks on hundreds of high—rise buildings, following the catastrophic fire at grenfell tower. the kind of cladding that can catch fire has been found on at least eleven other tower blocks, as the prime minister promises every step is being ta ken to ensure safety. our focus is on supporting the victims, finding homes for those made homeless, and making sure this country's housing stock is as safe as possible. in north london, camden council is removing panels from five of its blocks, as labour says it's time for a new approach to social housing. fro

right now, the paris air show is gearing up. the europeans have a very good stealthyo create a radar-evading wingmen drone it would carry on a fighter and launch. it could go ahead of your manned aircraft and do everything the man aircraft might want to do, pave the way for an airstrike or something. opposite queued up ways of getting to the same problem, which is how to make a drone that cannot from the aircraft that can do exactly what you want it to do and have it either be expendable or smart enough to return home or to another aircraft for docking. there is research into making them not disposable. .hese are all design trade-offs when you look at the future of warfare, these are the systems and engineering challenges they have to solve to get this to the next level, to get the drone to be even more ubiquitous in the battle space. host: you mentioned drones becoming even more ubiquitous. drones are controversial because people say they account for the growing number of civilian casualties in paces --places of conflict. tell

a look at the dry air. see it moving north to south along the coast and taking along some of the cloud cover we had this morning. let's see what it's doing to our temperatures. 59 in half moon bay and 67 and delightful in san francisco and a comfortable 72 in oakland. a little uncomfortable at san jose at 82. same thing at santa rosa and 88 at san ramo and brentwood on its way to 100. half dome, 8,800 feet, is that still a little bit of snow right there? that's possible because down in the valleys it's going to be in the mid-90s. if you'll be out today exercising, probably missed the best time of the day. it was probably a couple hours ago. you have to be careful if you're going to be out there later on today because of the heat and strong sunshine. the beaches, yeah, go jog there, right a bike if you can. they will be comfortable. 84 at sunnyvale and 84 in milipitas. a little bit of a breeze off the bay and the closer you are to the water, the cooler you'll be. we'll start at 75 in millbrae. everybody will

that fresher air, from the atlantic but also coming ina air, from the atlantic but also coming in a hard could bring rain into the north west on friday. still warm in the south—east by temperatures back into the mid—20s. into next weekend we will see more of that cool and fresh air coming in from the atlantic because an area of low pressure is likely to move its way in and park itself across the north of the british isles. this low is likely to become slow—moving, bringing this westerly wind. bringing fresh airfrom bringing this westerly wind. bringing fresh air from the atlantic. next weekend should be cooler and fresher, and that's what we ta ke cooler and fresher, and that's what we take forward into the following week. cooler days and fresher night, a mixture of sunshine and showers, but some showers could be heavy. the heat will eventually ease. tonight at 10: police release the first pictures from inside grenfell tower, after the devastating fire, that's feared to have killed more than 58 people. the charred remains of one flat where everyone escaped, is testament to the ferocity o

today another secretly recorded video surfaced showing an on air c.n.n. host dismissing the substance behind the network's heavy coverage of russia's alleged connection to the us election it's the second undercover video in his many days featuring a c.n.n. employee discussing russia project vera toss founder james o'keefe is behind the videos r.t.c. mon del rosario has the full story tonight it's been one public relations crisis after another this week for c.n.n. first the network retracted a story that tried to draw a connection between a donald trump ally and an investigation into russian funds the story had one anonymous source and in the aftermath three reporters resigned and now this on air host and political commentator van jones caught on project veritas undercover camera saying this what do you think's going to happen this week with the russian. president you've got to really. you don't think that's a. good thing and jones you got me i have no idea what is a nothing burger but the video release comes less than two days after project farah tossed f

safety and air security. you see the president there in the east room. this part of his infrastructure agenda. let's talk about it in the room. sarah is in the east room. here with us to share the reporting and insights on "inside politics," molly ball, dan of the "washington post," manu raju, and shannon. this part of the president's infrastructure agenda, but it's a tad odd i guess to see the president in the east room asking congress to do something. they need legislative approval to do this. it's something we were talking before the show this actually is something the president cares passionately about. during the campaign he talked about his own pilot on his trump organization plane talking about how outdated the system is. why is this important? >> it's important to try to get this domestic agenda back on track. health care stalled in congress. tax reform they can't come to an agreement on. infrastructure which, you know, is behind those other two because to do anything substantial on infrastructure as

air traffic controllers... could raise prices for >>> well, senator chuck schumer says that the president's plan to privatize air traffic controllers could raise air prices. >> but is that true? we look at the president's plan. >> this idea is not a new one, and controllers themselves have long complained that the current system is antiquated. insiders tell me that if privization is not handled properly however, it could cripple the nation's air waves, because thousands of air traffic controllers are eligible to retire right now, and they might just do it all at once if they see that privatization is going to be a threatt to the future. >> reporter: the u.s. has the most complex and busiest air system in the world. right now, about 10,500 air traffic controllers are on the job in 367 control towers a around the country. according to the national air traffic controllers association, that is the fewest on the job in 28 years. >> today, we are proposing to take american air travel into the future finally. finally.

fires from air conditioners. so what can you do to stay both cool and safe? first of all, make sure to change that filter, and ensure you have an adequate power supply. no extension cords or power strips. try not to share an outlet with other powered devices. >> when you start using extension cords, they can be problematic. they overheat and can cause a fire. >> reporter: get your unit checked one to two times a year and make sure it has room to breathe. >> make sure you're cle material. >> reporter: david kerley, abc news, washington. >> learned a lot. >> got to go home and clean your air conditioner filter now. >> mine has a filter and all i do is push a button. i didn't know you have to clean it. the light goes away when i push the button. >> you smell smoke, anybody? >> somewhere in the upper west side, there's an issue right now. >>> coming up. from the toilet to the tap. oh. this is what a growing number of americans are drinking. question is, do they know it? >> tastes great. >> we're going to have our own taste test next. >> like the hudson river.