now we want to introduce you to suzan delbene, a congress woman from washington state and microsoft is a con voter of yours. >> host: how do you explain the significance of microsoft to seattle and the state of washington? >> guest: they came and helped create a new industry and is a large company and employer in the region. it has an incredible impact in the industry overall and inspiring new companies in the region. >> host: what are you doing down here at this event? >> guest: seeing all of the new technology. there is a few companies from my district here but the technology is so important to policy now i think it is great we have members of congress learning about new technology so we can make sure policy supports this community and we understand how technology is empaimpacting the we live. >> host: you come from the other washington to this washington and have been here 2-3 years. what is your opinion of the policy making process on this side? >> guest: compared to a former tech person the process is slow. we are not good stewards of policy and don't keep it up to date. so we hav

. >> host: suzan delbene of washington state, thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you. >> [inaudible] get on an airplane, very important. most of us travel back and forth who have some -- [inaudible] developed primarily by the space exploration. i really would like to hear about it. >> what we do is we love noaa. noaa does a fantastic job, but they can't do everything. >> right. and things change. progress comes. >> and so they did a great job of building -- [inaudible] what we did is we supplement with additional -- [inaudible] it's because we don't have enough atmospheric data in our forecast, so we go out and put sensors on commercial aircraft. when those planes fly, they stream realtime day to to us -- data to us through a satellite network, and we take all the noaa data and all the international and then the special data that we capture and put it all together, and it enables us to make higher resolution weather forecasting. >> [inaudible] directed to airlines, or will you be incorporating it with the satellites that noaa has now? how will all of this -- obviously, we need updat