row mine: sblull -- romine: absolutely. and eddy, when you look at the aggregate demand in the economy. we're still seeing strength on the corporate side and we're also seeing a lot of money being pulled out of this markets. i'm wondering what's the combination of factors that are going to make everyone more confident in the demand side of the economy? >> that really is the big question. the retail sales number we got earlier this week was quite good, really, questioning why the fed has to move. always the big determine nate is the housing market. we've seen mortgage race -- rates come bay -- way down. i think that's poised for a good back half of the year and into 2020. spick sticking with the thesis that we're having pretty modest slowdown, we'll get our first look at g.d.p. next week and i think this will be a better year or the second half of 2020 and looking ahead -- 2019 and look ahead to 2002. there are a lot of factors -- 2020. there are a lot of factors but the fundamentals of the economy still look pretty decent.

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romine a couple of questions. you're charged with examing the g the gaps and limitations of facial recognition. >> the principal gaps and limitations we see is image quality. it's still true. garbage in, garbage out for image systems. so image quality has a huge impact. i'll have a report on demographics and certain issues associated with demographic effects. that's certainly true when you try to identify someone when you have a reference image that's maybe 10, 20 years earlier than the person you're trying to identify. that can be a very big challenge. similarly if someone has been injured or there's some obscuring of the face for other reasons, that can have a challenge. images that are taken non-cooperatively. and i don't mean uncooperative. i mean where someone is not standing still looking at a camera with the intent of registering an image. if you're taking an image through a windshield for example or if you're taking an image of someone who's walking and not facing a camera, those can have significant impac

romine na puig gag joins us live with the update. >> reporter: police say the two teens who just yesterdayre now considered dangerous suspects. a crazy twist in the investigation of a murdered couple in canada. police now say two teens who were previously believed to be missing are now suspects. connected to the suspicious death of a man whose body was found near their burned vehicle and camper and believed to be involved with the cume's murder 300 miles away. >> now considering cam mcleod and bryan schmegelsky as suspects in the deese lake suspicious death and double homicide of lucas fowler and chynna deese. >> if you have information about kam or brian he's whereabouts, call 911. >> reporter: authorities know they have left british columbia and spotted in northern saskatchewan driving a rav437 the public should not approach them if spotted. >> hadth homicide investigation has advanced extremely quickly. >> reporter: the medical examiner is still trying to identify the mystery victim and the american couple seen in this video gassing up just a day before found murdered. their boys report

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romine, dr. goodwin, or anyone? >> i don't know that answer. >> nor do i. i do also want to put in front of everyone, so we -- the gao does have ongoing work right now looking at the use of frt at cbp and tsa. so we will be following up on the information here. >> okay. and so -- okay. so there isn't -- is there a stabilizing, sort of comparison benchmark as to the accuracy of these programs and how they compare with other programs? >> we are not aware of that as of yet. >> okay. did nist present any red flags to agencies about inaccuracies in any particular system used by government agency that you're aware of? >> nist doesn't interpret the scientific data in terms of red flags. instead, we just ensure that everyone who is using facial recognition technology has access to the scientific data we publish openly about the performance of the algorithms that have been voluntarily submitted to our program. >> okay. all right. i think that's it for me for now. i yield. thank you. >> let me just ask you this, dr. goodwin. you said there's ongoing work. what's happ