the universal service fund is a function that is still in place. is it necessary today? >> guest: we think is necessary. the good news is that of homes not served by brad beyond a shrinking yearly. the point now when you overlay the wireless at work, we talk about to the 5 million homes that are not yet served by broadband. it's not to say there's not a problem anymore. i don't mean to diminish it, but the market has done an impressive job providing ubiquitous coverage. bob and i suggested tweaks to the program. we suggest that reverse options are used rather than writing a check to conduct an option including wireless and satellite today for the opportunity to serve as few remaining homes not yet served. normally when you bid you want to pay the highest price. the reverse auction in which the bidders would say, give us the least amount of subsidy and whoever asks for the least amount case of subsidy. the market determined that handing out money and say you would give us a thousand dollars a line. >> when you meet the broadband progress report, you can tell they are sing

areas that are difficult to serve make it easy for new entrants to get some of the existing universal service fund that we're already paying for right now it's going right into the pockets of the incumbents and not delivering us the kind of world class service we need so lots of ways to improve the flows of capital here and help the country as a whole remarkable susan crawford. extraordinary conversation extraordinary book thank you so much for being with us tonight oh it's been a great pleasure thank you so much thank you. to watch this conversation again as well as any of our other conversations in the great minds go to our website conversations with great minds doug. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more patrie down to the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight the flu. season it is goin

areas that are difficult to serve make it easy for new entrants to get some of the existing universal service fund that we're already paying for right now it's going right into the pockets of the incumbents and not delivering us the kind of world class service we need so lots of ways to improve the flows of capital here and help the country as a whole remarkable susan crawford. extraordinary conversation. thank you so much for being with us tonight oh it's been a great pleasure thank you so much thank you. to watch this conversation again as well as any of our other conversations with great minds go to our website conversations with great minds dot com. does is trash to get rid of. but it's also a treasure. that's worth fighting for. and a trap was no way out. let me let me i want to know what all let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having a debate we have our knives out. the truth is this really what it's about staying there to get here in a situation where be united way to talk about surveillance we. will. science technology innovation all the list of melamine stuf

hal singer, the universal service fund is a function that is still in place. is it necessary today? >> guest: um, we think it's necessary. the good news is that the set of homes that are not served at least by broadband is shrinking yearly to the point now where it's when you overlay the wireless network on top of the wire line network, we're talking about 2-5 million homes that are not yet served by broadband. so it's not to say that there's not a problem anymore. i don't mean to diminish it. but the market has done an impressive job at providing ubiquitous coverage. bob and i suggest some tweaks to the program. we suggest, for example, that reverse auctions are used rather than just writing a check to actually conduct an auction and have different suppliers of all technologies including wireless and satellite to bid for the opportunity to serve those few remaining home that are not yet served. >> guest: but bid in a reverse way. normally you want to pay the highest price. this this would be a reverse in which the bidders would say give us the least amount of subsidy, and whoever a

talking about just the internet itself, and this also does not have any negative impact on the universal service fund, 911, e-911 and other fees like that. those are separate. we have crafted this very, very carefully to do just a straight and clean ten-year extension. now, we understand there will be an objection to this. before we hear that a objection, i'd like to yield the floor to my colleague from missouri because i know he has another engagement he needs to get to. the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. blunt: i thank you. let me quickly yield to my friend from oklahoma for a u.c. request. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of the remarks of the senators from arkansas and missouri, that i be recognized as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from missouri. mr. blunt: madam president, as my good friend from arkansas said and for the benefit of the senator from oregon, we haven't made a request yet for this amendment to be moved to the front of the line to be debated,

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university tonight for a memorial service for another victim. 23-year-old lingzi lu. she was a graduate student from china, studying statistics. the university has created a scholarship fundn her memory. and the bay area boy injured in the bombing has very special visitors today at boston's children's hospital. a's players redick, moss, and batting coach, ty waller visited him in his hospital room. he suffer add serious leg injury when he was hit by shrapnel. his family remains with him in boston, but they hope to return home at the end of the month. >>> surveillance video provided the crucial clues needed to track down the boston suspects. now san francisco's police chief wants to put more cameras on city streets here, and more eyes on public events. one city official is pushing back. >> reporter: an estimated 1 million people came to the san francisco giants victory parade. greg suhr said he would like to see more cameras on market. >> when we invite, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people to fill up our streets, it wouldn't be a bad idea. >> reporter: the city already has dozenses of surveillance cameras, particularly in high crime neighborhoods, but police don't

terms of goals for p, the public education fund, universal preschool, professional development for staff, improvements in school climate and access to school services such as health services and school engagement. next is a similar slide and it's for children for the children's services which is in our department. you can almost see that the pie, the circle, are very similar in terms of service areas. so there's lots of overlap between the two funds in terms of funding the different service areas and we have very similar goals in terms of student readiness for learning and readiness for school. so i'm going it hand the next part of my presentation over to the chief of staff laura moran >> good evening, supervisors and commissioners. just following along these are some framing principles created to guide our work for the renewal. i'm going to talk a little bit in particular for the first one which is create a vision for youth outcome which is our next slide. so if you look at both the children's fund and p, they are very outcome driven and the evaluation for both of these funds has strengthened over time. what we're really looking at is, is there a

university tonight for a memorial service for another victim. 23-year-old lingzi lu. she was a graduate student from china, studying statistics. the university has created a scholarship fundr memory. and the bay area boy injured in the bombing has very special visitors today at boston's children's hospital. a's players redick, moss, and batting coach, ty waller visited him in his hospital room. he suffer add serious leg injury when he was hit by shrapnel. his family remains with him in boston, but they hope to return home at the end of the month. >>> surveillance video provided the crucial clues needed to track down the boston suspects. now san francisco's police chief wants to put more cameras on city streets here, and more eyes on public events. one city official is pushing back. >> reporter: an estimated 1 million people came to the san francisco giants victory parade. greg suhr said he would like to see more cameras on market. >> when we invite, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people to fill up our streets, it wouldn't be a bad idea. >> reporter: the city already has dozenses of surveillance cameras, particularly in high crime neighborhoods, but police don't act

michelle obama will attend a memorial service for the victims of the explosion on thursday at baylor university. the president will be in texas for a democratic fund-raiser and a dedication ceremony for former president george w. bush. the small town of west took a step forward toward getting back to normal today. for the first time since the blast, students returned to class in the town's elementary school and high school. teachers and administrators were on hand to greet students. some parents took the day off to walk or drive their kids to school. >>> san jose police are investigating the death of a man found stabbed this afternoon. paramedics responded to a medical call on truckee lane at about 12:40 this afternoon. there they found the man's body and called police. homicide investigators were called to the scene but say they don't know yet if the man was a victim of foul play or if he committed suicide. >>> in the wake of a shooting, we took crime concerns to the city councilman and learned he was the victim of an armed robbery himself. jay hernandez is life now in oakland with the three things there in the works that could make a difference

services before anybody else. and because of that incredible dine mism we don't just attract he best scientists or the best entrepreneurs we support labs an universities to help them learn and explore and we fund grants to help them turn a dream into a reality. and we have a patent system to protect ours inventions. and we offer loans to help turn those inventions into successful business. and those investments don't always pay off but when they do, they change our lives in ways we could never have imaged. commuter chips, g.p.s. technology, the internet. all these things grew out of government investment and basic research and sometimes, in fact, some of the best products and services spin off completely from unintended research that nobody expected o have certain applications. businesses then use that technology to create countless new jobs. the founders of google got their early support from the national science foundation. the apollo project that put a man on the moon also gave us eventually cat scans and every dollar weapon spend to map the human genome has returned $140 to our economy. $1 in investment, $140 in return. so dr. collins helped lead that genome effort and that's why we though

transformation of put $5 billion year universal service that had been a telephone focus fund we have updated to broadband fund so that was not going to happen in washington. certainly not on a bipartisan basis until we got that done, taken steps to promote competition in the mobile space and smart steps to preserve internet freedom and innovation on the platform. i am pretty happy with what we have been able to get done. big challenges ahead of the u.s. to a strong country. >> let's talk about individual items. i heard you talk about the spectrum. shortage confronting the country? advancements made in things like 4 g in the united states. to what extent is the spectrum shortage, the options still brewing right now for a lift off if you will, what happens if it doesn't happen? what happens to broadcasters who voluntarily agreed to give up the spectrum? what is the risk to the u.s. economy and this incredible technological explosion? >> why do we need the spectrum so much? we care about infrastructure and we should, we understand that in order for us to be globally competitive we have

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transformation of a $5 billion per year universal service loan, which had been in a telephone nd, has been updated to arod funds. certainly not on a bipartisan basis. we have taken bold steps to promote competition in the mobile space and taken broad steps to preserve freedom on the platform. i am pretty happy with what we have been able to get de. re.the u.s. is in a strong position. >> those individual items, i have heard you talk about the spectrum shortage and advancements made on things like 4g in the united states. to what extent does this spectrum shortage -- and i know that it is still brewing right now -- what happens if it does not happen? voluntarily agreeing to give up this spectrum, what is the risk to the u.s. economy and this incredible technological explosion? >> we care about infrastructure in this country, and we should. we understand that for us to be globally competi, we he to take care of our infrastructure. we have to take care of our communication technology infrastructure. sometimes mobile infrastructure is the hardest place to talk about because it is invisible. the airwaves, you cannot

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