i wanted to thank jack gillis for the opportunity to join me. it has been five decades with cfa helping all of us to create fair products. and this is a vital part of the work. those who know me if i knew there was a power point opportunity i would have gotten my academic slides out and been wondering around. instead, gordon here is our communication guy sitting back there saying stick to the prepared remarks so i will be good. today what i am going to do is review the challenges and the opportunities that are before us in road and highway safety. specifically how we are working to achieve our mission of reducing death and injuries on the roadways and highways. in all of the work i'm going to describe today time is cleary of the essence and that is because my time will expire but 32,000 people lost their lives from car accidents. that is 250 people injured every hour. they were mothers fathers, daughter sons loved ones. and every one of the deaths was preventable. they deserve all of our best to ensure we prevent additional deaths and injuries i

and i wanted to thank jack gillis, he made the invitation and the cfa for the opportunity to join you. it has been five decades for the cfa to create a safer market and this is a vital part of all of that. it is a pleasure to be here. and if i knew there was a powerpoint opportunity i would have gotten out my slides and wandering out. gordon my communications guy is saying stick to the prepared remarks and i'm good. i'm going to review the challenges and before us in the road and highway safety and how nhtsa is working to achieve the mission of reducing deaths and injuries on our roadways and highways. in all of the work i'm going to describe today, time is clearly of the essence. partly because my time in nhtsa will expire along with president obama's tenure in the office but more importantly time is of the essence because 32, 790,000 people lost their deaths and that is more than 3200 people injured every hour. they were mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and coworkers and they deserve all of our best to make sure deaths are prevented in the future. so the next two years i

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my name is jack gillis, director of public affairs for the consumer federation of america. and i'd like to welcome you to today's panel on investigative reporting. for consumer advocates and those working with the media, investigative reporting is one of the most critical components in being an effective advocate. today we're going to talk about something near and dear to the hearts of advocates and that's investigative reporting. the traditional and as a result of the internet, the increasingly difficult business -- and the increasingly difficult business challenges facing news outlets the new types of investigative reporting. we'll look at how all of this impacting a key pillar in consumer advocacy. because the media is so critically important to advocates, there are new questions being raised that will affect the way we are able to change policy. who is emerging as credible news sources on the internet? do the new business model affect editorial content? what is the relevance of print and broadcast outlets to their internet partners? how do news recipients, how do we as