. >> it looks like rtc buses are being brought to move people away from the vegas strip. that's a good sign. it's good to see the beginnings of reunions there. >> we're hearing from our ksnv, our local affiliate. someone talking to them, relieved to be safe and sound after the tragic situation, talking to family. and steve patterson is on the vegas strip. i want to resume our conversation. talking about how authorities are securing the primmer to make sure people aren't walking into this -- the perimeter to make sure people aren't walking into this situation. >> reporter: we have multiple teams on the ground. we have one team that is trying to come to our -- close to our location. they were told by police that's not going to happen. you see police have a large lockdown on a wide swath of the vegas strip. it stems at least from my vantage point from this location. again, we saw teams in place more than an hour ago when it was active, teeming with activity. police were swarming in multiple locations trying to push people out as far back as possible and keep a lock on the sc

. >> looks like rtc buses are being brought in to move people away from the strip. that's a good sign. it's also good to see the beginnings of some reunions there, some people embracing. we also want to let you know that -- >> we're hearing coverage from our local affiliate talking to someone who was obviously attending that concert who was happy to talko and sound after going through such a tragic situation there. i want to go back to steve patterson who is on the strip for us. i want to resume our conversation there and just talking about how authorities there are securing the perimeter to make sure that people sort of aren't walking into the scene as they continue this investigation. >> reporter: just to let you know, we have multiple teams on the ground here. we have one team that is trying to come to our -- close to our location. they were told by police that's not going to happen. so what you see here is kind of what remains in place. police have a large lockdown on a wide swath of the vegas strip and it all stems at least from my vantage point from this locat

[laughter] this dinner, the rtc a dinner, the first was 73 years ago. you ought to hear the stories about that first night. it was incredible. -- senator pelosi goes on about that first night. it was incredible. [laughter] speaker ryan: i shouldn't risk shouldn'triffi like that, they are not here this evening. or at the white house. [laughter] speaker ryan: and blame the guy .- that guys get a big job if those 5-7 minute hits on nbc are going to do themselves? [laughter] z.eaker ryan: i mean, jee is a really well-dressed people. they told me this was black tie, which, without you guys were all about relaxing the dress code. [laughter] speaker ryan: that was something, wasn't it? those in the radio tv gallery? this was different when john boehner left the speakership. when it take a look at this, i think about president trump and how he told us that we were and we still have more progress to make on that front. unless, of course, you are john boehner. [laughter] speaking of getting dressed up, halloween is coming this week. i was going to go with somethi

a, heidio thank the rtc jensen at abc who put together that video. used a lot of pictures i gave her of when i was young. it was very nice. thank you. . want to thank robin she was bureau chief of abc for always encouraged me. i thank you very much, robin, and jonathan greenberger who is allowing me to cover these types of stories. thank you. colleaguesention my at the desk. and perhaps the biggest thanks becauseo to mary gray she is my wife. my other daughter could not be here, but she has always supported me. always. [applause] tom: and, i will stop, thank you, thank you, all of you, very much. thank you. [cheers and applause] bobby: that was a fantastic speech, and, again, it shows how important the jobs are that we do. i think all of us got a little emotional. one more round of applause, because that really was fantastic. [applause] bobby: i think our jobs are very important because it's a public service to others. we're there to inform. we're there to educate. for me, i didn't always have awesome jobs. i did golf course maintenance for a while.

in fact we recently approved kansas loan in our senior loan committee and we have rtc in western kansas doing wonderful things there. it is a big big challenge and it depends on revenue sources that are beyond the control of the service provider and beyond the control of the agency. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. welcome again to all of you. i appreciate your work. welcome back to the committee. it is wonderful to have you back with us. broadly, before getting into specifics, i know you said in your testimony that the u.s.da is only agency in the federal government that has distinct mission of creating jobs in rural areas, basic infrastructure and providing access to high-speed internet. that's why i was very concerned. we looked at the cuts in all of those areas. i wonder if you could speak to in broad measures where you see us going and do you think we need more or less? >> thank you. i'm committed to making effective use of the resource rs congress provides to meet those needs. >> thank you very much. i look forward to working with you on that as well. i would just say things

sama school, sama source, you just talked about opening a new training thing in beirut, you're doing rtcs, you have impact assessment. so you have a budget. how do you finance the operation? and why is it a nonprofit? i mean, you know, you could have made it a b corp., you could have made it a for-profit. you've finish so tell me -- you've, so tell me a little about the financial model. and then related to that, its sustainability. do you think it's on a course, do you worry about the financial model going forward? do you need to tweak it in some way? >> so is i'll start by saying that we have a problem in the u.s. which is i think we're still very uninvolved when it comes to business models. we have, on the one hand, profit-maximizing corporations, and then on the other hand, charities. and what we think about when we think about these two models is, you know, make all the money we can doing whatever we need to do including polluting the stream and employing slaves and literally things that companies, big companies still do. and then maybe we'll donate money at the end of the day over he

is we just embarked on an rtc, and we did our first third-party impact audit which the results were published earlier this year, and we did really well. >> great. that's fantastic. so these randomized -- this is an effort to, basically, really look at effectiveness by -- it takes some time because you're basically comparing your intervention with a non-intervention and trying to see the extent to which it really affects things. >> and they're -- >> go ahead. >> i was going to share a story. >> yes, yes, please. >> i did the political thing, now i -- [laughter] >> well, you were appealing to me, the economist. the macro stuff is great, but the stories. >> trying to be a good student here. [laughter] i share this story a lot because it's just kind of stranger than fiction. i met this young man named ken in nairobi, and it's one of those places that looks like a post-apocalyptic movie setting. how many of you saw the movie everything ly -- elysium? 500 years from now the earth has devolved into a massive slum, and all the rich people have moved to another planet -- it's kind of that way right no