minnesota senator amy cloeb char will look at this and elaine duch and yahoo! futurist author and we'll hear from the internet caucus and hear from the ceo of an application start-up that rescue workers in texas used to find and save flood victims stranded by hurricane harvey. coming up at 1 p.m. today congressman greg walden and former sec commissioner robert mcdowell. later this afternoon, sec commissioner, and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, we will bring you their comments later on the c-span networks. this should get underway in just a moment, live here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible >> inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> again, we're live this morning for the annual state of the net conference looking at some of the challenges to internet policy in 2018. it should start here in just a moment. while we have a second, we'll tell you about some of the other programming coming up here on the span networks. u.s. senate comes in today at 2:00 eastern. senators expect

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so i'm here to introduce homeland security deputy secretary elaine duch. she was previously acting secretary of homeland security from july to december of last year. she's an accomplished public servant with over three decades and experience, and deputy secretary duch has served as member of homeland security advisory council and strategic advisor to government tech and services coalition. so, please welcome secretary-- sorry, deputy secretary duch. [applaus [applause] >> good morning, everyone. it's really an honor to be here at state of the net. it is though, a little funny for me when i think about being here speaking in front of this group that are here for this state of the net conference. i am a grandmother who likes jane austin novels and just had a twitter account last week. and i'll see where we are with the state of the net and dhs, hopefully useful to those of you in the room today. but this, as everyone points out, everyone is an internet stake holder, even if they don't know it yet. i'm learning it more and more each day and that's what brings