what we do is we educate, we train, we connect civil engineers across the world. re planning, designing, maintaining our infrastructure. that includes technical engineers, transportation engineers. we deal with a wide variety of connecting the built environment with the natural environment. host: we use infrastructure a lot as a catchall term that means just about anything and everything summary wants to do. define for us exactly what you are talking about when you say infrastructure. guest: we do a report card on america's infrastructure. we had 16 categories. to give you a sense of how we define infrastructure, these include aviation, bridges, energy, hazardous waste, levies, sports, rail, roads, schools, wastewater, and now storm water is the one we are adding. all of these things impact our quality of life. the clean drinking water we have that we rely on, that is brought to you by civil engineers. and we flush our toilets, civil engineering the energy we bring, we work with electrical engineers for the distribution networks. all of these things are part of the

. >> roy roberson's father, also named roy, was a civil engineer by trade.r most about your dad? >> i remember as a child thinking my dad was a little nerdy because he was an engineer. he was an outdoorsman. as i grew older, i realized that those interests were quite sophisticated. >> such as roy sr.'s favorite hobby -- scouring the southwest for antique firearms. >> that was his passion, after his family. to him, that firearm represented american freedom. >> riding shotgun on many of these gun-hunting trips -- fellow history buff garland richards. >> i met roy at a gun show, and his interest in collecting guns and my interest tied us together as friends. >> roy sr. collects rare firearms for almost 50 years, but only he knows the true extent of his armory. >> he had everything in a couple of safes in the garage, but he never laid them out for anyone to see the scope of how many were actually there. >> this is the 1866 rifle. >> he most certainly never shares the combination to those safes. >> that was his power, his control over the pandora's box. >> this i

another educational challenge to begin work as a civil engineer building railroads. he would later find love. again he would marry barbara and have six children beginning in 1837 and three of his four sons would go on to serve in the military. the union army during the american civil war. and when war broke out in 1861 green and his family were living in new york city. and when lincoln would put up that call for volunteers after the firing on -- and charleston harbor as we heard from his presentation and the virtual some podium green didn't volunteer his services. he would wait and wait and wait. but finally in general of 1862 he could wait no longer. green decided to offer his prior military experience to the union army. he would be assigned command of the 60th new york volunteer infantry. between january 1862 with the battle of gettysburg in july of 1863, little had been written about green and his performance of the battlefield. there have been several knows here and there by other officers in the brigade of which he served. several of his subordinates that fought

civil engineer must defer morty's is supervising the project on behalf of the municipality. in the district of catan or the tracks emerge above ground and cross the bridge it is supposed to be safe for an earthquake up to a magnitude of $7.00 but the soil poses a risk is a remote site we have to cover a long distance here but the ground is very muddy and unstable. this is dangerous during quakes robert and that's why we dug very deep into the earth to connect the bridges pillars with stable ground. a 70 meter long steel structure will anchor the bridge to firm a ground. in the subway control center this is where emergency plans should take effect in the event of a quake stop elevate his switch escalators to move up only slow down and evacuate trains. legal. and then while we're filming this happens. i think i was. a moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hits the city. it's the 2nd quake within a matter of days there hasn't been a situation like this for many years should maybe i was a 1st i thought something struck my chair and started shaking we were evacuated immedia

civil engineer. is supervising the project on behalf of the municipality. in the district of khatami the tracks emerge above ground and cross the bridge it is supposed to be safe for an earthquake up to a magnitude of $7.00 but the soil poses a risk. we have to cover a long distance here but the ground is very muddy and unstable. this is dangerous during quakes robert that's why we dug very deep into the earth to connect the bridges pillars with stable ground. a 70 meter long steel structure will anchor the bridge to firm ground. in the subway control center this is where emergency plans should take effect in the event of a quake stop elevators switch escalators to move up only slow down and evacuate trains. legal. and then while we're filming this happens. i was. a moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hits the city. it's the 2nd quake within a matter of days there hasn't been a situation like this for many years should maybe i was a 1st i thought something struck my chair and started shaking through evacuated immediately now i'm here to pick up my c

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but general greene -- instructor of mathematics at west point, civil engineering background, degrees and medicine and law. incredibly smart and intelligent man, with a wealth of experience says yes. collins remembers the rest of the conference. he said general greene was credited that replying saving life was of far more consequence than there was any theory of breast. so, far his men were concerned, his brigade, they would have those breast works if they had the time to build them. colonel lewis of the 102nd new york were called the moments after this conference broke up, green begins to issue the orders for these five new york regiments to construct these earthworks. statements said, immediately upon our arrival, general greene personally super intended to work. the men commenced to construct earthworks. the works are finished by noon. many a man who sits before me today, grumbled that morning. throughout the afternoon, at the persistent sea of old top greene, their term of endearment. and they profit size that they would have their laborers for their pains. before many hours, they

maybe someone knows an architect or a civil engineer, the more we have donated to us, the less money. >> that could mean up to $5 million and the years of rebuilding. police are still investigating the case. >> oakland police are asking for your help of an armed home invasion robbery was caught on camera. the video shows two suspects approaching a man the afternoon after january 29th. the presidents holding semiautomatic handguns and forced the man in a home. no injuries were reported. >>> tonight, family and friends are mourning the death of a private investigator in san francisco. he was attacked outside of his home in haight ashbur >> they are rering jack paladino. he was attacked outside of his home last week. >> what a way to end a brilliant career. he really was a legend. >> reporter: his client list was a long one. bill clinton brought him back in 1 1992. he was active in a michael jackson case, and celebrities and some of the biggest cases in california. family and friends are in shock. >> just -- that moment when i got the phone call that my dear friend of decades had been k

civil engineer. is supervising the project on behalf of the municipality. in the district of khatami the tracks emerge above ground and cross the bridge it is supposed to be safe for an earthquake up to a magnitude of $7.00 but the soil poses a risk. we have to cover a long distance here but the ground is very muddy and unstable. this is dangerous during quakes. that's why we dug very deep into the earth to connect the bridges pillars with stable ground. and. a 70 meter long steel structure will anchor the bridge to firm a ground. invasion of the subway control center this is where emergency plans should take effect in the event of a quake stop elevates his switch escalators to move up only slow down and evacuate trains. legal. and then while we're filming this happens. i was. a moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hits the city. it's the 2nd quake within a matter of days there hasn't been a situation like this for many years should maybe i was a 1st i thought something struck my chair and started shaking we were evacuated immediately now on the edge

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the american society of civil engineers david a failing d- grade, our grid.g that is going to take time. in the meantime, what do we need to do? we need to make sure that critical infrastructure such as hospitals, nursing homes, water treatment facilities, water pumping facilities, essential services are all protected better than the average should be, because they are essential to everyday life and safety. we can do that with new technologies. thank god we have those new technologies today that are not only proven and capable of building grid ands offering resiliency for the critical infrastructure, that they are economically viable. the problem is there is not a construct in the marketplace and there is not regulation that allows this to happen. romaine: this is not something you can really do without regulation or the involvement of government. i mean come the idea of any changes or massive changes to the grid, it will be a government, or to some degree, a societal project. do you think you will have the buy-in from policymakers? kr: i think we will. here

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but the chamber of civil engineers is skeptical of the construction industry its chairman jamaal good to stress is that just because a building is new doesn't mean it's safe from earthquakes. it's a major point. then study the title to brew a lot until very recently inspectors were chosen and paid by the builders themselves. how independently can you inspect the person who's paying you. at least since the 1st of january 29th teen inspectors in el selected through an electronic system where yet but even that does not suffice. because they're often not trained well enough they don't have special certificates so a simple diploma is enough to get the job we have a serious problem with construction supervision in this country yet they did the city is growing rapidly as a result it is becoming more and more crowded and the risks of severe consequences from an earthquake are increasing. that's the situation we're in right now it's a crime isn't it can one really live in a city like this one not of the government these open spaces already they sure to be construction here it can't go on like

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next to him is rear admiral david boone who is a retired navy civil engineer, of course next to general shinseki is me. i'm a captain on navy medical corps officer and in the middle is our jag corps officer from hilo the same town that i'm from. and from hilo hawaii. she's now a commander in the navy reserve job corps, and she is also a state department a united states state department official. so on the far right is the highest ranking japanese. working today general paul nakasone, who is the head of the us cyber command and the national security agency in fort meade. so i think we've come pretty far from the time when we were considered to be as as even as as us citizens, but because of our ancestry we're considered unfit to serve. we've come a long ways and there's still a ways to go. i reflect now on the these great opportunities that i had to serve this country, but i can't help to remember and it really hit me hit home to me. i'm in the last few years of of service as we were promoting and and becoming more open about the the way that diversity enhances our mission. and i had no

michelle hummel, now a civil engineering professor at the university of texas at arlington, was the lea eveom is not flooding, you could lose access to wastewater services. so there's a lot of potential impact we will see as an entire region. >> reporter: do we all need to collectively under what a serious threat this is? >> yes, the goal of the study was to highlight the magnitude of this potential threat. >> reporter: we discovered of the 30 plants at risk from rising seas, 15 of them serving 1.7 million people, are vulnerable to 40-inches of water rise or less. nine of those plants could be flooded with less than 30-inches sea level rise. most concerning of all of the experts, four of those plants serving 391,000 people, could be under water with less than 10 inches of sea level rise, something that state prediction models say could happen within ten years. >> while we don't have to panic, we have to start working. >> reporter: san francisco regional bay water chair jim mcgraph says officials started planning for the problem about six years ago, but he says the solutions can be chall

piece of fiction you have the civil engineers who believe that we can be happy in union and make it into a single county eventually but it doesn't seem to work that we did in the media achieve unity in the sense that the different people in europe are still as different as they used to be the germans and the french and the french and the. and then they should go into these areas of the people to control their country their police and so on all this and this meat to build a european union that's really d.n.a. that's when you know mother they want. you know. that the basic thing is that we are different people and we have not changed. danger you need to if you want to go. ok so this story has got a lot of people talking today to black lives moderate activists have reportedly been charged with harassment an attempted assault stems from footage which appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering a rally. i didn't badly there was such that she had another piece of the rug you could write her drug in our food courtesy the clerk was your brother your very truly she's

piece of fiction you have the civil engineers to believe that we can be happy and union and make it into a single county eventually but it doesn't seem to work that way devon he achieved unity in the sense that the different people in europe are still as different as they used to be the germans and the fans of the french and of the italians it's a time and then they said country between the these areas of the people to control their country their police and so on if only they're all this and this meat that we're going to build a european union that's really d.n.a. to see that's when you know mother they want. it will be known that there won't be . that the basic thing is that we are different people and we have not changed to was gay just you need to if you want to go in late at. like a moving the program or know 2 black lawyers moderate activists have reportedly been charged with harassment an attempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering the rally. i'm getting better there is something going on that these people the rug your brother

construction work for the services was done by civilian contractors under the guidance of the civil engineer corps, and that's an important point because after world war i, the nations got together in what they call the geneva convention, and they agreed -- including japan -- agreed to anybody that was in uniform and captured would be treated fairly civilly as a prisoner of war. but anybody who was captured in a battle kind of a situation could be executed on the spot. so admiral morell realizing this deciding that we needed to have uniformed constructions. by spring of 1942, he had gotten permission to set up what is called the naval construction battalions. now, of course the people can't let this -- wise guys can't let it go. somebody noticed that it was actually the c and the b could be looked at as seabee, and so the seabees of the navy were born, and that was my hat with the seabees on it. so we would -- and my background at that point was that i had gone to a high school that was pretty much oriented to people not going to college, although turn eligible by the time you got out of the

construction work for the services was done by civilian contractors onto the guidance of the civil engineer corps. and that's an important point because after world war i, the nations got together in what they called geneva convention. and they agreed, including japan, agreed to anybody who was in uniform and captured would be treated fairly civilly as a prisoner of. war anybody who was captured, in about the situation, but could be executed on the spot. so, admiral moral realizing this decided that we need to have uniform construction and buy string of 1942 by spring of 1942, we had set up the naval construction battalions now of course, people cannot let you know the wise guys can't let it go. and somebody noticed that, it was actually a c and b, could be looked at like seabee so the seabee of the navy was born. and that was my hat with the seabees seabees on it. and i've gone to a high school, that was premature oriented people not going to college. not you are eligible by the time you got out of their, but one of the courses that i took was surveying and the day after i got out of high

was done by civilian contractors under the guidance of the civil engineer corps and that's an important point because at world war i nations got together and what they call geneva convention and they agreed including japan agreed to anybody that was in uniform and captured would be treated. fairly severely as a of prisoner of war but anybody was captured in a battle kind of a situation. are could executed on a spot. so admiral morel? realizing this decided that we needed to have uniform constructions by spring of 1942 he had gotten permission to set up what is called the navy naval construction battalions now of course they people can't let this wise guys can't let it go and somebody noticed that it was actually let's see and a b. would be looked at as c and so the cvs. of the navy were born. and that was my hat with the cb on it oh so we would and my background at that point was that i had gone to a high school that was pretty much oriented to people not going to college all the they you were eligible by the time you got out of there one of the courses that i took that was surveying an

kids that go to college need to know, what's the expected starting salary for a civil engineer versusart history major? just to give them some idea what they're getting for their money. connell: right. >> i like the ideas that would make the university, if i default on a loan, that would make the university partly responsible for it. they would have some skin in the game. i mean the university just gets money f i go to school and take out 50,000. i spend it at the university, i fail out, the school has gotten the money, i'm the one stuck along with today, if you see taxpayers. i think we have to give the universities some skin in the game because they have no incentive not to encourage people to take out as much debt as they need to pay the bill. connell: right. this does speak to that issue, even if loans are forgiven, they're not, they're still getting paid by someone else. the debt gets transferred to your point to the tax payer in general. >> right. connell: another story i want to get a quick take on you as well, that speaks to economic incentives. this concept during the pandemi

i remember years ago my father who was a civil engineer working for a big construction company, engineeringfirm, in the bay area and rose to be vice president of hydroelectric products and they came to pass that one day a good friend of his, a collie, was named president and i was a teenager at the time and i remember being very impressed that this guy had become president and president sounded like a big deal. more money, more prestige and i remember criminal from school and asking my father how come this guy got the job and you didn't. don't you want to be president? you are a vice president so vice president want to be presidents? 's answer was very instructive and i never forgot it but he said no, i don't want that job. and i said why not but he said you couldn't pay me all the money in the world to have the job and i said why not? he said because i see what happens in those guys. those guys die of strokes and their marriages break up and they are completely driven and have no other life other than their hostage to the company. and i enjoy the work that i do but i whole life is not syno

postal service as a civil engineer and letter carrier. in 2019 he was trangically killed while protecting a mother in a domestic dispute. he intervened to try to peacefully end the fight but was shot by the woman's son. his hometown mourns his tragic loss. and i urge my colleagues today to support this legislation honoring a true american hero. madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from maryland is now recognized. mr. mfume: madam speaker, thank you. i would yield at this time to the distinguished gentlewoman from new mexico for as much time as she may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new mexico is now recognized. >> madam speaker, thank you. and i thank the gentleman from maryland for yielding. madam speaker, i rise today to honor jose hernandez, a beloved letter carrier and local hero who was killed on the job in 2019. ms. haaland: while trying to resolve an argument along his route. residents who live along hi

make the engines on these planes and is the engines that have been fighting they are made by this company pratt and whitney which is one of the 3 big makers of civil aviation engines and it's that they'll be asking the big questions because these engines are clearly failing ahead of time there have been 3 incidents involving the engines on triple 7 in just a few years so it's is with fred and whitney where really the questions will be being asked so. how big is the problem is this going to be for allan's who run these models well i don't wish to use words thankfully but because of the corona virus pandemic there are much fear of these in the air than you might even might expect as a global fleet of about a 130 planes and 69 of them are currently in the air the rest of them are out of view so that's one reason why it will have a small impact there are only 6 airlines that are using this plane with this specific engine as well just that united airlines in the united states and then there's 2 airlines in japan and 3 in south korea so that shows you again that it's not a particularly widely used craft and also these are old planes i mean the plane tho

later, american society of civil engineers director tom smith looks at the

we are also told that civil servants and engineers have been taking part.a group of lawyers protesting. many are calling f a nationwide strike until power is handed back to the civilian government and aung san suu kyi. well, the military has taken control of state media as you would expect after a coup. >> these days, people are disturbing, threatening, and even threatening others by breaking laws while claiming it is democracy. if we do not follow the rules and regulations, our democracy can get damaged. legal action should be taken against tho who commit acts that harm the states stability, public safety, and the rule of law. >> so far there have not been reports of violence on either side but the fear of a military crackdown is there. this is a doctor who joined the civil disobedience movement. we have not named her for security reasons. >> there are some videos or photo showing us people -- with violence. it is not us. we are protesting peacefully. we want our elected government back. that is why we are processing. we -- we are protesting. we reject mil

projects, the people working on those projects doing the exact same work as the dpw engineer or puc civil engineer are people who work for acom and parsons and mr. ataliya, as construction managers, etc. they sign something that says yeah, i know all these rules, but they are not in the same category of having to certify that they read the good government code or what have you. anyway, just a thought. if we don't reach out to either the permit expediters, the lobbyists, private sector to get funding or the capital funds which are completely different source, not different in the sense it's all coming out of the people of the city and county of san francisco, ultimately, then i don't have high hopes for getting these additional funds that we need to do the work that we are required to do at best, i think we'll be fortunate if we can stop the blood-letting that is evident from the $734,000 required proposed budget. so anyway, those are my thoughts for the moment and i'm going to turn to any other commissioners who want to comment. i think i see commissioner lee looking for her hand. is that true? ca

it is named after a civil engineer, visionary and stewart who was hired to lay out the design for golden gate park. he, not the more famous john mclaren, was the first superintendent in 1871. it is fitting this was named after william hammond hall over 12 years ago. each year recipients are nominated by therapies who share mr. -- by the peers. cast with transforming the sandy windswept dunes of the space we call the ought tore lands to a living landscape he constructed a destination of warmth, repose and enlivenment over 150 years ago. i think most of you know we have a historian in residents, christopher pollock who has written books about golden gate park and recently published a book. he is the unsung leader or father of golden gate park. he quotes hall on the vision of parks generally. quote, primarily they are intended to provide the best practicable means for healthy recreation and influence they exert upon society can scarcely be over estimated. our staff carries on this legacy with the vision. in many ways the challenges and powerful influences remain the same, expanding the acti

an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering from rice university. good to have you with us. >> good to be here. thank you. >>> you've had to deal with this personally, of course. and as millions froze due to power outages, then a lack of clean water, but from a professional perspective, why did energy systems fail texans? who's to blame for this vulnerability? >> right. this was really a failure of our energy systems, not just our electric system. we saw how vulnerable our gas systems and power systems are together. if one goes down, another can go down with it. >> governor abbott blames energy company ercot but does he hold some of the responsibility? who should pay these power bills? some as high as $17,000. >> a lot of this comes down to state leadership, the governor, public electricity system. ercot manages the grid. it doesn't have authority to enforce some aspects and it doesn't have any control over the gas system. what we saw this time was a breakdown of the gas supply system. no matter how well operating the power plants were, if they didn

we're told civil servants and engineers have also taken part.tionwide strike, until power is handed back to the civilian government and aung san suu kyi. the military has taken control of state media, and had this warning earlier. translation: these days, people are disturbin: , translation: these days, people are disturbing, threatening _ translation: these days, people are disturbing, threatening and _ translation: these days, people are disturbing, threatening and even - disturbing, threatening and even threatening others by breaking laws while claiming it as democracy. if we don't follow the rules and regulations, our democracy can get damaged. legalaction regulations, our democracy can get damaged. legal action should be taken against those who commit acts that harm the state's stability, public safety and the rule of law. so far, there haven't been reports of violence from either side, but the fear of a military crackdown is there. this is a a doctor, who'sjoined the civil disobedience movement. we haven't named her, for security reasons.

rolls royce is considering a plan to close its jet engine plants for civil aircraft for two weeks in ant has suffered a drop in sales with fewerjets in the air requiring servicing. the plan will not affect its defence or energy divisions. tesco has called for a 1% sales tax to be imposed on online competitors like amazon in the uk. boss ken murphy has also joined bosses at morrisons, asda and waterstones to ask chancellor rishi sunak for a "level playing field" when it comes to tax. they say the current system puts retailers with large estates at a disadvantage to online firms. cuba has announced it will allow private businesses to operate in most sectors, in what is a major reform to its state—controlled economy. the communist country's economy has been hit hard by the pandemic and us sanctions introduced by the trump administration. last year its economy shrank by 11% — its worst decline in almost three decades. the world trade organization looks set to approve nigeria's ex—finance minister — ngozi okonjo—iweala — as its next head, after her nomination was given the thumbs—up by the

thin american society of civil engineers executive director tom pitt discusses power grid strain andre policy. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at seven eastern saturday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> this is a c-span podcast weekly grid this week doctor michael an expert on infectious diseases and one of america's leading epidemiologists, talks about the road ahead and dealing with the coronavirus. >> we have a very long road ahead. i can say that without any doubt at this point, expect more curveballs to be thrown at us. if we had this interview ten weeks ago, we would not have been talk about variance in the way that we are now. and yet look for we are at today talk about the severe challenges they present. so you know, i would expect the unexpected. it is still out there. there is much we can do. at this point this is not going to be over with anytime soon. >> find c-span the weekly were you get your podcast. >> the white house, covid-19 response team give an update on vaccine research and dis

i'm joined now from houston by daniel cohen who is associate professor of civil and environmental engineering university. danielle, thank you so much. i think the rest of the country is watching what is going on in texas right now with incredible interest. what is the situation like in houston right now? >> thank you. yeah, i wish it was better circumstances to be with you. it's really a dire situation here. we are one of the fortunate homes that has power and heat at the moment, although we never know when a rolling blackout might come. the water pressure is extremely low. we just got the boil water alert from the city. this is colder weather than people are used to. the homes aren't as well insulated to be prepared for that. and it hasn't just been rolling blackouts but a lot of people who have been out of power for many hours or days. >> the pictures we're seeing are incredible. water that is frozen coming through ceiling fans in the ceiling. and just to the north of texas as i'm sure you're tracking, oklahoma is also being hard hit by the weather. but they're not seeing the same impact wh

happened and how to prevent it we're joined now by dan cohen, associate professor of civil and environmental engineeringand energy grid expert professor cohen, daniel, thank you for coming on. i'm headed to houston tomorrow to do on the ground reporting but from your perch and what i've seen in red, it looks like it was not only just a perfect storm but a colossal breakdown on almost every single level at the same time. >> it was. it was a colossal breakdown. it was failures in ways that we can't have our systems fail and it was a perfect storm it was about strong as storms we get every 20 or 30 years on average. it was a very strong storm but not unprecedented and not anything beyond the storms we should be preparing for in the future >> it happened in 2011 people screamed, we need change. it happened in 1989 people screamed we need change strongly worded letters i'm sure were issued. nothing got done it's a deregulated love it they love it and every ten years, they hate it. what's the solution? better regulate this market? >> there is no one solution. i mean, it was a catastrophic failure on so many l

. >>> this is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the university of southern california. he joins me now. it's such an important issue. there seem to be among many in power in texas a sense of, wow, this was unexpected, didn't see this coming. but the fact is experts like yourself argue it was entirely predictable. it's just the reality wasn't accepted and precautions weren't taken, correct? >> absolutely. there was another similar situation in 2011. two major reports came out about that, one, the utilities for the weatherization of their system, the report came by federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, also there is a little bit known agency called nerc, north american reliability corporation. i think they set it and made many recommendation, but unfortunately the recommendation s were not heated. >> the focus has rightly been on impacts in texas because that's where the main effect was. but there were blackouts in oklahoma and mississippi, several other states. incredibly, a third of the country's oil production stopped drinking water systems in more than one stat

civil disobedience movement which they've been promoting is starting to have quite a severe impact i was just speaking to somebody in yangon who said that the railways now closed because the engineers have joined the civil disobedience movement we understand that a lot of domestic flights around myanmar have stopped because pilots have been joining the banking system is crawling the pace with many banks only opening one day. we know while all of these things will affect the civilian population they are also going to the military and at the moment there appears to be fairly universal support for the protests and people joining in these movements not attending work though some cases even hospitals are being affected with doctors refusing to work and the military is increasingly going to feel the pressure building up as normal live grinds to a hold and that is going to put a huge amount of pressure on them to do something about it what they do at this stage we really don't know and i think the concern for many people is they could start to crack down hard but at this stage they seem to be standing back was speaking to one of the protesters in yangon who said he didn't feel a huge amou

we're told civil servants and engineers have also taken and here's a group of lawyers protesting in mandalayer is handed back to the civilian government and aung san suu kyi. the military has taken control of state media and had this warning earlier. translation: these days, people are disturbin: , translation: these days, people are disturbing, threatening _ translation: these days, people are disturbing, threatening and _ translation: these days, people are disturbing, threatening and even - disturbing, threatening and even threatening others by breaking laws while claiming it is democracy. but if we don't follow the rules and regulations, our democracy can get damage. legalaction regulations, our democracy can get damage. legal action should be taken against those who commit acts that harm the estate's ability, —— stability, public safety and the rule of law. so far there haven't been reports of violence from either side — but the fear of a military crackdown is there. this is a a doctor who'sjoined the civil disobedience movement. we haven't named her for security reasons. there are vide

new starts, in terms of improvements, over the last few years we have seen the army corps of engineers civilrogram which has been extraordinarily bipartisan, the projects come forward, get evaluated, and then on the basis of points usually get added into that precious category. unfortunately, over the last couple of years we have seen that process politicized. we have seen a project for example in my state, harbor, which has -- over the last two, years particularly last year, clearly been qualified as the top project. to get funded under any kind of objective analysis whether be 11 or half hour. that objective analysis was thrown out of the door by the previous administration's omb, and a political process took over. so i hope that you will be willing to conduct full review of the army corps work plans, to make sure that we can get back to fear a valuation. we sometimes know that the army corps of engineers operates on its own. it's not a branch of government, but in this case the review process has been vetted, both parties agree with that and we should have at the 11th hour projects that s

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to have more of an impact is the civil disobedience movement that we're seeing across the country of them and we're seeing doctors walking or going on strike engineers the impact that is having to do is that many trains in yang gone being canceled the banking system is being crippled many bankers walking out and basically civil structure of civil society is being is being brought to a standstill because so many people are walking out in support of these protests now that will have a huge impact on civil society but at the moment the momentum seems to be very much with the protesters and if they do succeed in bringing me i'm are effectively to are to hold that it's going to put a lot of pressure on the military to do something about this they have promised that life will resume very quickly they've said that the elections will take place within the year and i think you people across the country see this coup bring everything to a grinding hold it's going to bring in the awful lot of pressure on the generals to do something about it quickly ok thank you for that update there tony chang across developments from bangkok. and neighboring thailand prime m