that is how we improve what we do for patients. taking care of patients, offering the best care, they are the northstar. that is how we are able to offer the best treatment. in clinical trials, you can take a therapy like what we heard in the first panel and try to find the best dose and compare these therapies. that's how we move forward with treatments. i think this is all possible because of the national cancer act. >> i think the first session was so fascinating for me. what i see is the theme of bringing everything together. often, nasa tries to justify what it does by saying look at this cool technology that is come out of the space program, which is the coolest thing in the world, but multiply that by 10,000 for the cancer act and i think bringing these folks together, all of this basic science, realizing you need a reverse transcriptase to work with what i do, which is ca r-t, to make it work. repurpose hiv and make the cells do what you want. we heard talk about waking up the cells, and we reprogram t cells to kill tumor c

beginning, and we may squabble and disagree, but this is what we do, we come together and we work to build. thank you so much for building with us. >> i'll take some questions? we'll open it up to questions. just let us know who your question is for. >> reporter: can you tell us about anybody that has been pulled out of the candle factory alive since the first press conference? >> we are still getting information in from the candle factory. the owner has been in contact and believes he has different information and we are trying to verify it. if so -- if so it may be a better situation and the miracle we were hoping for. but since 3:30 yesterday, we have not made another live rescue. >> reporter: governor, can you give us hard numbers, anything, the number of people in the factory that are missing and the number of people rescued? >> the numbers we had we were talking about yesterday are still the numbers that we have. again, the company right now says it has different information, and until we can verify it, we are still where we were yesterday. >> reporter: can you tell us what tha

we are working on that as we speak. of course, we want to see how the virus will be impacted by the current vaccine. we are encouraged by some of the data. we need to gather more to determine exactly what the efficacy profile will look like. but right now, we are already working on a next generation, should that be necessary. david: one of the things i have learned is there's a different profile for the johnson & johnson vaccine, and that is it does not raise the antibodies as much in the early stages, but it may last longer. what do you know about the duration of the johnson & johnson vaccine? alex: from the very beginning, we tried to discover, design, and develop this vaccine to have stronger ability over a long period of time. your body tends to have at least two responses. there's the antibody response, the first line of defense your body musters to take on this kind of a virus, and then you have the t cell and longer-term. that's what really gives your body the memory so it can respond many years later that you se

we will also be transitioning to the new website, sf.org, and we will be reviewing our content as we transition to the new format. this past month, the transportation authority received notice that they had received $18 million through the federal infrastructure funding to help close the gap on the west side bridges project, and they are working to fully fund that project so they can begin construction next year. we also received our standard agreement for a grant awarded last year for the state's in-fill infrastructure grant program. this past month, we fortunately did not have any power outages since our last meeting, and the sfpuc will be here on our regular agenda to provide an update on recently held activities. fourth and n will be impacted next year by geotechnical work in advance of the construction of the permanent pg&e gas regulator station, and tida staff have been working on an alternate location that could be built before the existing field is location. the proposed location is adjacent to the other san francisco little league field, at 8 and m, so it should provide impr

we have to do more. we have to do better and we will. starting this week the federal government will set up emergency testing sites in areas that need additional testing capacity. before christmas the first of these will be up and running in new york city. with many more to come. this free testing is going to help reduce the waiting lines, the time you have to stand there, sometimes it is an hour or more. we will add federal testing sites where needed so that if you want an immediate test, there will be a place you can go get it. we also need to be better with at-home testing. i am announcing today the federal government will purchase half a billion, billion with a b , rapid delivery tests. we will be giving these two americans for free and we will have websites where you can get them delivered to your home. we have arranged for it to be easier for you to find free covid testing sites near you on google. just enter, covid test near me in the google search bar and you will find a number of different locations nearby where you can get test

we do? >> the somewhat sad part about the marshall plan, i wrote that in 2019, and fundamentally we need to invest into things. one thing is we need to invest in the structures that make us healthy. make sure everybody has access to the assets which are the assets the place of work to live, work, play, stable employment and livable housing, affordable housing and removing things like racism and structural inequities. number two we need to invest in the forces that can keep us healthy when bad things hit and that of course are the elements of what we typically called public health infrastructure in which we have underinvested for decades and decades. i can show you many crafts that shape our investment in public health is going down the past ten, 20, 30 years. it requires we shift our mindset and say, the present debate, what we would be saying is residential candidates debating about what kind of housing policy they're going to endorse because which would've it is going to best for the popul

biden: we have to beat it back before we shut it down. we have to shut it down worldwide. in the united states of america, we are doing everything that needs to be done to take care of the american people within our borders. look at what has happened. we are starting to make some real progress and we find out there is another strain. and the idea that you can build a well america -- around america to keep any covid from around the world out is not fair. besides, that is one of the reasons why -- i know we get criticized, i get criticized for not doing more for the world, we have done more for the world in providing vaccines available and held they and any nation, every other nation in the world combined. in addition to that, we have also been working around the clock. remember, i suggested we suspend the patents, let everybody be able to have access to this so they can make the vaccine in their own countries. thirdly, southern africa. for example, south africa has all the vaccines they need. they do not want any more vaccines. one of the things i have considered is, how ca

we are doing the best that we can within the laws that we have. but one very important law that is missing in order to really see and feel the difference has everything to do with force and that means forcing someone into treatment, forcing someone into some cases, you know, a locked or unlocked facility based on what their issues are. and so there's a huge push around we don't want to take away someone's rights and i totally understand it. i'm going to tell you right now. i see elderly people on the streets who have dementia. who have no family members. who have no one making decisions for them and then when we take them into our care and we try to get them help and support and make sure they're not outside doing things that they would not normally do if they didn't have dmen can. as soon as they say, i want to go. i don't want to be here we have to honor that and so the system is broken as a whole and needs to be changed. and so we don't necessarily unfortunately have the local jurisdiction to make those changes. we need a change in state law an

we think about how do we make sure that we have become out of workers we need to keep our economy moving forward. part of that is going to be short-term with investment and job training and working with cities and towns all across america, but in the long run i view it as a potential opportunity. president biden, when he ran for president and got elected president, use the phrase build back better, and the intention behind build back better was creating as to the middle class. -- was creating paths to the middle class. some of the people in that category work in high-paying jobs and they are realizing that they want to change their work life balance. the pandemic game, they went to change. the majority of those workers are working in low income jobs, they are not making a lot of money. there are a lot of people including myself who had a lot of time to have dinner at the kitchen table at 5:00 like i did as a kid. we were not coming up, staying home, protecting ourselves and a lot of people started to evaluate where they were in their life and i think it was an opportunity here. the feder

we need to figure out how we share information and how we illuminate that. if you look on the east and west coast of the african continent, south america, we saw the 350 china flag and/or china characteristic, maybe south american flag, but probably opaque processes. we sent a national security cutter down there in the course of three or four days and identified at least a couple dozen vessels where their automated information system didn't correlate. we see the same challenges off the african continent. what we can do is elevate that. what congress can do is articulate the importance of this. it has been mentioned in the nda before and i think it is about collaborating and i think when i go back to the projected operations and support for the coast guard that allows us to attenuate this on a global scale. this is a big bite we're taking off but i think we're a recognized leader and bring a voice of credibility. what we want to do is take a nation like china and we say responsible flag states don't send their vessels 9,000 miles away and have no coast guard

i think we have to be clear and unambiguous, we say something, we mean it and we have the capabilities to make it happen. >> i support what general jones said there. basically, we need to send a signal to that part of the world particularly the chinese that we honor our commitment to the taiwan. i was in the senate and president jimmy carter to fly to china and with them and we also went to taiwan and meant them. they fought during the war was with us, the taiwan relations act, we should honor our commitment for people to see when we have a treaty or say we are going to defend from north korea if we have to, are we going to help japan which is talking about increasing the budget beyond provisional 1% that we will make good on our commitment in that region taiwan people in that part of the world particularly the chinese understand we mean it when we say it's one of the worries a lot of us have coming out of afghanistan we left the people who supported us behind. general jones and i grew up in the military, you never your men wounded on the battlefield. we need to basically reassure that

we are listening to them. we are working together to make a proposal. we will do it ourselves. self-regulation [indiscernible] we need to make sure the responsibility is on big tech to put a safe product and markets. you cannot be allowed to conceal when products are harm to kids. the first imperative is transparency. we need real transparency into these 800 pound girl is, these -- gorillas, these black box algorithms. we need to update our children's privacy laws. congress should pass the bipartisan children's, teens protection enacted today. i'm proud to work on updating and expanding it. children need more power and tools to protect themselves on the platform. that is why senator blackburn and i are working on remark -- working on framework to enable that production. the united kingdom has imposed it, it is part of a law there. why not here? that is part of the framework we are considering. you make a reference in your testimony, the days of broad, unique immunity for big tech are over. enforcement. several authorities, law-enforcement has been rigorous and strong. i hope th

we want to try to disrupt this activity as much as we can and we know this is not the answer but we do know that a disruption and making people uncomfortable or arresting when we can helps to keep some of these areas free from this activity so it's a very difficult battle in terms of just that type of presence on every block but we do the best we can. >> have you ever seen the tv show the wire? >> i have. >> that scene where they decided to stop enforcing in one neighborhood and all the other neighborhoods were clear but everything went to hack in that spot. it's an interesting theory because it's like you know, as much as i would speak aboutthis . i think we all recognize that it's kind of an intractable problem until we make different solutions but anyways, i'm glad you enjoyed the show. it's a good show and a season. the other question, i asked you to report on the union square service and you are going to present a one-week cross to the city. >> i don't have that and i will havethat . so we are capturing the cost of union square as well as other parts of the city. >> what i had ask

anyone who is still alive, we have to care for them if we can— alive, we have to care for them if we can get— alive, we have to care for them if we can get them to hospitals, and we have to _ we can get them to hospitals, and we have to take — we can get them to hospitals, and we have to take care of all of those families — have to take care of all of those families. look, i know you all, you're — families. look, i know you all, you're all— families. look, i know you all, you're all professionals asking the questions — you're all professionals asking the questions. imagine if your home was on the _ questions. imagine if your home was on the path — questions. imagine if your home was on the path. everything is gone from that from _ on the path. everything is gone from that from that baptismal photograph, to the _ that from that baptismal photograph, to the wedding picture, to the picture — to the wedding picture, to the picture of— to the wedding picture, to the picture of your oldest daughter in the ballet. it is profound. it is 'ust the ballet. it is profound. it i

we couldn't have been -- tried to be as loud as we could about, we got to figure this out and we got to have a solution to the barriers to telemental health, which we all know there are. there with a a -- there was such about the pandemic that was such a positive output was it really placed the emphasis on the importance of access to care virtually and so we're -- everybody from the state and national level beginning to look at how do we continue to grow that network of care and reduce those barriers, whether it's state licensure or whether it's broadband access. i think the emphasis that's being placed on that is really important. and it is doing a lot to address the stigma as well. the secretary brought that point up. everyone needs a little -- a little bit of help every once in a while. sometimes we need a little more in certain periods or certain journeys in our life. it's become a norm, which is critical. and we needed that to happen. so i do say there's so many blessings that we saw in the pandemic. alex: absolutely. and one thing the secretary noted, and with respect to him, h

we will have that to you when we are finished. chair pappas: is it just on hold around the back burner? are you moving forward with it even though all this other information -- the picture is incomplete on it? mr. parrish: we are assessing the future of where we will go with that program. chair pappas: it is up in the air and you are not committed to it? mr. parrish: we are not committed to it because right now the primary effort -- we are reevaluating to make sure it is still valid for us to continue forward. chair pappas: have about -- mr. oakley talked about taking a wider look at other systems that might meet the needs. are you pursuing any other options? any off-the-shelf systems used by the private sector that might be available? mr. parrish: the actual technology solution should be the last decision made. then assess for your requirements are for the future and what you are executing. all the hard work and a new product should be done upfront before you decide on a technological path forward. we are taking actions to get ba

what happens when we know exactly what we are doing? and the example i want to speak of at the conference and we discussed in the book is in the middle east right now, the war of the future is not going to be about oil, it is going to be about water. that is what's going to be driving conflict in the middle east in the future. so who owns the water? who controls the water, and how does that control of water is measured out into other communities that lack power or privilege. basically create power structures that can be misused and abused. >> host: we spoke recently about taking it even further with global warming water has a very destructive power, could you talk about that in relation to your work? >> just this year alone, the western part of the united states is literally on fire. literally burning down because there is not enough water in the atmosphere because it is so dry that half of our country is on fire. while in the eastern side of the country, it has so much water because of hurricanes that people are rounding and the shores

but we know we need to do more. we'll work to use the best science and technical expertise and work collaboratively to help inform our decisions and work with our partners on our collective decision-making in the basin. made support, additional investments and include meant to water infrastructure that include investments in new technology and always emphasizing the need for continued collaboration on how we can best the needs of the community and allow them to utilize the federal resources that we have available. the testimony will here today will highlight the challenges that we face in many of our areas around the colorado river basin. we know to address the challenges will urgently need to fill the tools and to expand upon the work we have done. that work helped us conserve water, protect the environment, preserve our hydropower resources and operate our infrastructure. the progress we have made through the strong partnership we have. with the tribe, with the water eaters and community throughout. thank you all

but as i hope we all know by now, we can't assume that we know how people will behave and we can't assume what works in one culture will easily work in another. to understand human behavior, we need concrete data, not intuitions or assumptions. by actually engaging with the young women at risk of hiv-infections and hearing from them, we actually were able to redesign and rebrand the preventive medication. instead of a pill bottle, it now comes in a container that looks like lip gloss. we are now saving lives, because we listened. this is the core premise of behavioral science: that to make progress, we have to understand human behavior, gathering and applying evidence from the communities we serve. and to deploy this kind of analysis in our program design, as well as to help us integrate insights from randomized control trials and other empirical assessments of potential programs, i intend to establish a new office of behavioral science and experimental economics that will report to a new, elevated and expanded chief economist -- a position your chair here at georgetown, steve radelet, on

we will test it. we will adapt it. we will adjust, but basically, just like i think we talked about, this is like the golden ticket. we clear out our bureaucratic barriers for you to get whatever you need that day. whether it's in the health department, social services, we have the resources to do this and i think that's really important to emphasize. i think as that success builds, then we're able to take that model and sustain it beyond the 90 days, but nothing breeds success like success and i think we've just been so caught up in the calcified city geographies and progresses to have the emergency response the intensity, the focus that covid brought us to and so, we are now -- i mean, covid changed our culture. so i think we need to change -- we have to trump the bureaucracy and face this public health emergency in a way that's never been done before. >> supervisor ronen: i appreciate that. lastly you know, this has been what i've worked on the most the past three years and so this is incredibly important to the wor

we definitely been tracking those -- we track those inquiries and we work to respond to those within 48 hours. my area is public outreach. we field lot of the inquiries where the concerns are. i do know that the team, the construction team have inspectors that go out to make sure that there's 4 feet minimum sidewalk width. there's been problems with some of the materials used, temporary builds on the sidewalk. we've been working with the contractor to address the type of fills they are -- we do work proactively to make sure that the construction zones are accessible. sometimes there's different handling of very similar complaints. i hope that provides a good overview. >> chair melgar: understood. sounds like it's complaint driven. vice chair preston's point, sometimes complaints are usually for folks know the system. we're kind of setting up something. i wonder if we shouldn't proactively put the m.t.a. in some kind of role here in terms improving temporary sidewalks or have you have some signoff on it. >> thank you, chair melgar. i'm so delighted to point out that our colleague, can

what we do mean is that we should recognize that we don't get to live in a six minute segment where we put her argument out there, try our best to defeat our opponent, and everyone walks away. this is a long game. we have to keep showing up in conversation with people who don't agree with us. the more we understand not just about their policy positions what led them to those missions. what influences people. why some people feel strongly about things. it seems bizarre to us, sometimes. we want to encourage everyone to be willing to continue to show up and listen and engage with what is going on with other people instead of just having a say of what they think is the right outcome. host: let's go back to our phone lines. here is john, from beaverton, oregon on the democrat line. good morning. caller: hello. thank you so much for what you are doing. i wanted to key in on what beth was saying. the idea of an arena of combat is, for me, moving towards a community. we are in communities, and we are going to live in communities, long-term and then also, i come from an i.t. background. an adm

overdid it or not, but the reality is, we are where we are, and you know, we think our policy is the right one for the situation that we're in. >> thank you, let's go to brian. >> i wanted to ask you about the bond market. when you see at 10-year at 146 basis points, do you have any sort of concerns about environment by which you might be hiking interest rates into? would you prefer the curve be steeper? what are you gleaning from the actions. >> it's basically very policy sensitive rates at the short end and it makes sense that it's reacting to changes in expectations for policy. i think a lot of things go into, you know, the long rates and the place i would start is just, look at global sovereign yields around the world. look at jgb's and they're so much lower. you can get, you know, a much higher yield on u.s. treasuries by buying ust's rather than-- and you can hedge to the currency risk back into yen, back into euros and still be way ahead. in a way it's not surprising that there's a lot of demand for u.s. sovereigns in a risk-free world where there's so much, they're yielding s

that is the fear we all have. do we have all the data on it? we do not. it emphasizes that being compared for the worst in covid is never been a bad idea. it means if you haven't gotten vaccinated, please get vaccinated. be ready particularly if you were older because covid is very much a disease that kills older people. it's much more so than younger people. younger people, it's the holidays. try not to give grandma covid christmas. do we know that natural immunity for people who have had one of the earlier strains of covid-19 is effective from keeping them from getting the oma variance? guest: we know it is not physically effective. it doesn't help you to stop getting the disease. not necessary getting sick from the disease. we know people who have been exposed to the virus in south ever are getting omicron. what we don't know completely yet but we think is that having had the virus provides you with some protection in terms of t cell immunity, that's the later immunity from, ron just like starting to learn with vaccines. a way to think about natural im

steve: i think we are going to have some growth fears, which we should when we have faced a real threat, which is inflation. but i think it will come down, and if it does, it is likely to help the expansion be sustained. it will be at a slower pace. we will not see a repeat of what we had in the last few years. the covid stock itself was extremely narrative and severe. it was destined to get us. a powerful return in markets. it has been consistent with record high corporate profits for large firms, so therefore share prices did what they did. when we look going forward, it is going to be a different environment. it is going to be an environment where we are trying to restrain all of the stimulus. consequently, i think equity returns will slow as well. the question will be, will elevate of companies be rewarded -- will innovative companies be rewarded? probably most importantly, will we see investors focus in on generating income in portfolios? that means some of the more higher-quality staple companies will not take out the innovation portfolios, but definitely put in a little bit of ca

we can't drop that. we have -ot worries. we can't drop that. we have got to— worries. we can't drop that. we have got to do— worries. we can't drop that. we have got to do that and more now. | got to do that and more now. wanted to got to do that and more now. i wanted to ask you as well, because i know you are not complaining about your work load, know you are not complaining about yourwork load, i know you are not complaining about your work load, i know that you love your work load, i know that you love yourjob your work load, i know that you love your job and your work load, i know that you love yourjob and you love coming on here and talking about what you do and why you do it, and there will be many people working in the nhs would be doing that in the coming weeks, but are you going to have much time off over christmas? have you changed your christmas plans because you are going to have to be working? i am ”lannin going to have to be working? i am planning on _ going to have to be working? i am planning on having _ going to have to be working? i am planning o

we have tried every strategy we can. that resulted for us, about a 50 6% increase in sales over last year. kailey: where have the bottlenecks been most challenging? jason: a lot of components not on our part of the world. silicon, wood, chip shortages impacted us a little bit with motorhomes. with respect to our core components, we have not had the kind of issues that you have seen with some of the other industry peers. kailey: all of the supply-side challenges have been driven by more inflation. how has your pricing had to adapt? jason: the fact that there is maybe 40% new buyers into rv's, not that they don't know what to expect on pricing, a lot of the market is built on that $20,000, $30,000 travel trailer. you are talking about a $350 payment. americans have almost $3 trillion more in their bank accounts this year compared to pre-covid, so that is a lot of extra money on the sidelines. kailey: thank you very much to fiscal stimulus. is it mostly people looking to buy an rv or is this a primary rental market? how has

we were relevant, we were experienced, and we were walking the talk. we definitely look at is it relevant to our business and we have something relevant to say? and then we have to make sure we are committed to take action, not just say somebody else should but at our company. david: traditionally, ceo's were supposed to worry about public companies, shareholders. now you have to worry about employees, your customers, your communities. do you focus on your share price and stockholders only, or do you worry about other constituents when running this company? julie: we look at our stakeholders as being our employees, client, partners, certainly shareholders but also our communities. we have done so for a long time, because we think it is good for business and what creates shareholder value. we think it is important for our shareholders that we actually take that broad view. ♪ david: let's talk about how you rose up to be the ceo. so you grew up where? julie: i grew up in tustin, california, which has a little sign and it says, "work where you must but

we are waiting and watching the information and as we receive it we understand we need to know more. we have seen some encouraging data coming out recently. it is something we will continue to monitor closely in terms of current growth all indications that continues to grow and we certainly expect that to continue in our focus is on how we can maintain the strength of the overall economic recovery to address these price challenges and to make it very clear the risk exists price increases become long-term we are don't see that in the current environment that can drive that robust recovery going forward. >> with the build back better how involved you are with negotiations is before christmas realistic? >> will move forward as quickly as possible while working very close to senator schumer and the entire caucus facilitating that outcome as we have indicated supported with that and belief will move as quickly as possible here. the outstanding issues are getting worked through in the process were making a lot of progress. we want to move as quick as possible and we see any reason we can't

so we get on well personally. we are friends personally, and we disagree on some things. not as many as you think, but some. >> it has not always been the case. there was a supreme court justice who refused to talk to or be in the presence of justice brandeis because he was jewish. so it hasn't always been that friendly. but you are saying since you have been on the court, 28 years, people don't yell and scream at each other. >> they don't insult each other and they are not rude to each other, and it is a professional job. you go in and do your best professionally. and if you want people to listen to you, the best you can do is to think through this problem, listen to her the other person is coming from, and see what you can contribute. >> sometimes, if the dissent is a little up on the person who are the majority opinion, they don't take that personally? >> i get that question a lot. somebody would ask that question and i would try to answer it because i didn't want him to. and i would say, look, i know you're not aiming that question at me. i get it. but what you don't

we will test it. we will adapt it. we will adjust, but basically, just like i think we talked about, this is like the golden ticket. we clear out our bureaucratic barriers for you to get whatever you need that day. whether it's in the health department, social services, we have the resources to do this and i think that's really important to emphasize. i think as that success builds, then we're able to take that model and sustain it beyond the 90 days, but nothing breeds success like success and i think we've just been so caught up in the calcified city geographies and progresses to have the emergency response the intensity, the focus that covid brought us to and so, we are now -- i mean, covid changed our culture. so i think we need to change -- we have to trump the bureaucracy and face this public health emergency in a way that's never been done before. >> supervisor ronen: i appreciate that. lastly you know, this has been what i've worked on the most the past three years and so this is incredibly important to the wor

we never talked. we both had a mask on. and i said, you can't see my smile, but i'm smiling behind this mask. but i just wonder if the same person that went after you publicly -- again, she released the transcript -- used the same words against me. and i had a monogram on my shirt. my initials. you know what they are. i said, they use more than just my initials in going after. i wonder if it's the same person from south carolina. went after you. she started laughing. we had a good conversation. you got to sort of put it in that light. on the seriousness of stuff, i'm really afraid someone will get hurt. we had this terrible school shooting this week in michigan. we have had some shootings in my district. in talking to some of the victims and survivors and my law enforcement folks. i was once on the education committee. i can remember the hearing we had with the columbine survivors. that was the first big school shooting i can remember. i was on the committee. there wasn't a dry eye in the place. and we know that kids, i'm a

we get back to what we look at our new normal. we're asking visitors to stay vigil with masking in the center. we continue to increase program activity within the park. it's great to see there are more visitors at the park. we brought back the recess park. it's filled with books and other and menties for visitors to enjoy. we going to offer holiday activities which includes holiday lighting event. staffing, we've been working to bring staff to the agency as we grow to meet the demands of the transit center. as such, i along with staff have been working to recruit new personnel to join us. happy to report that some of are bitter sweet. john is retiring and it's a loss for us, however, happy to report that we have hired a new facility director who will be coming into to fill john's role. i'm sure she'll do a great job. he retires end of this year, may be early part of january. jim norris will allow for work alongside john and ensure a smooth transition as they have about several weeks to train and transition. jen will come to us fro

we know this, we are tracking, trying to track the money and we are going to every major we have to go after the elites supporting these gains and go after the money of these gangs. >> that raises a question as you pointed out, a lot of the elites are supporting the gangs. is there a coup essentially led by the gangs with the support of the elites? what measures are we taking to try to prevent that? >> i don't know if there is a risk, i should say there are many risks in haiti today after the assassination of the president, certainly anything is possible but we believe if we continue to work with the current government officials, certainly the current new director general, if we can train them and equip them give them the foundation they need to go after these gangs, who will lessen many of the rest. >> appreciate that. secretary nichols, there is an alarming pole in the economist by a reputable organization parts showed a drop in the percentage of latin americans who believe democracy is important to their future, 49%, less than half of the population. you see a number of trends in th

we will hear you, we will work on your policies, and we will improve your quality of life. host: the reaction from washington. that being said it is time for your reaction. if you are recently employed, (202)-748-8000. if you are looking for work, (202)-748-8001. if you stopped looking, (202)-748-8002. all others at (202)-748-8003. ben in west palm beach, florida on the line for others. what is your assessment of the job market? caller: good morning. i think with everything costing almost twice -- not everything -- but gas prices, lumber prices, food prices exponentially increasing i think there should be some natural increases to wages. that being said, i don't know where it stops. i don't know how it can continue increasing like how it has been. jobs that were paying $10 an hour pre-covid are offering $20 an hour -- that's an exaggeration -- but all kinds of sign-on bonuses. i am not saying people who work hard should not be able to live comfortably but i don't see an end to these increases. host: you talked about that natural increase. i was wondering if you thought what

we all hear the echo as long as we are engaged in this. can you tell us about her and how her work is linked to the book? >> it's very kind of you to bring her up, she's someone i think about almost daily. when we started 360.org, it was the first global climate. now happily there's lots of other ones from the sunrise movement, extinction rebelling people following greta and so on and so forth. but when i started, we were just reaching out around the world trying to find people who wanted to take on this site which seemed 50 years ago fairly hopeless. one of the places we immediately started discovering amazing allies, we are in the most vulnerable places on the earth, the small islands especially in the south pacific, it may well disappear before this country is out, marshall islands, places like that. she took it upon herself to be this organizer of so many of those island communities and they call themselves the pacific private warriors and in my head, i have a remarkable picture of her, she organized people on each of the islands to bu

now if we can identify the funds to plant we can confidently plant those trees and because we know we will have funds to maintain them in the long run we strongly support that recommendation to find dedicated funding for growing the urban forest. i would note that the management plan, i'm sorry. the mortality rate that we built into the urban forest master plan was about four percent which is very consistent with kind of national standards. i think the good news is we actually have only been removing about 2 and a half percent annually buspar so we hope that our mortality rate might actually and up being lower and that we with our strong program to care for trees that we can actually reduce the number of trees that have to be removed annually moving forward and if we can keep thatmortality rate low , then as we plant more trees we will be growingurban forest more quickly than we had originally anticipated . i think those were the key points that i wanted to make but i'm of coursehappy to answer any questions . i did also want to address the question of our asset management program bec

we refine our coordinated efforts, we pivot, and we execute. i spoke earlier about our partners with the office of economic and workforce development. those partnerships are critical to support neighborhood activation, which is intended to discourage these types of individual when's it comes to the open air drug market. so that is my brief outline of our strategy, what it is, and what we continue to do. i'm happy to take any questions, commissioners. >> does any commissioners have any questions? >> why don't you take the lead, since this is your baby. >> i would -- i walked -- captain canning graciously came down on a saturday afternoon about a month ago, and i spent 3.5 hours out on the -- out on the beat. i was informed that there were only seven officers on patrol that afternoon, and i was disturbed by those numbers. is there any assurance that there would be more officers out on the beat in the future? >> commissioner, thank you for asking that question. i did address it, and i don't know if deputy chief lozar has anything to add onto it. w

but as i say, we are doing everything we can. _ i say, we are doing everything we can. we _ i say, we are doing everything we can. we are — i say, we are doing everything we can, we are putting on longer trains were _ can, we are putting on longer trains were possible, counselling staff training — were possible, counselling staff training where it is not safety critical — training where it is not safety critical to _ training where it is not safety critical to get our front line staff onto _ critical to get our front line staff onto the — critical to get our front line staff onto the trains. we are doing everything we can to put on as many trains— everything we can to put on as many trains as _ everything we can to put on as many trains as possible, to make as much space _ trains as possible, to make as much space for— trains as possible, to make as much space for people as possible, because _ space for people as possible, because that is important. but my plea for— because that is important. but my plea for people is please do not turn up — plea for people is please d

we did invite you onto talk about the supply chain which we have -- which we have been hearing about. i will ask you both to personally give your assessment on what the current health of the supply chain is, and what do you think of the factors involving that. mr. scott, you go first. guest: i think the kings are being straight now. the biden administration has people in place to try and keep the ports open 24 hours a day, and maximize the flow of trucks and rail trains on the west coast where the problem occurred. i think we have to look at the deeper problem being this massive surge in imports which we have experienced this year and this is a result of a change in the economy during the covid recession. we saw massive growth in firms like amazon and walmart, and target where it can direct market consumers through the mail and in person sales have been decreasing. and, of course, amazon and walmart and the others are importing most of their products direct from china and elsewhere in asia, and that is why imports are piling up. over one third -- the deficit over all is over one third

so we find ourselves at the 11th hour as we did on september 30, although we passed the c.r. a little before september 30, without having funded the government. the gentleman referred to the fact that we control both houses. frankly, nobody controls the united states senate. we are in the majority by one. but unfortunately in the united states senate, you need not a majority, you need a super majority, so that the minority can defeat the majority. the minority can defeat the majority. in the united states senate. that is an appalling place for our democracy to be. i've written an op-ed in "time" magazine on that issue. and it's been distributed to many members. mr. cole made an assessment about why the c.r. is coming to the floor today with just hours to go before. his assessment was not correct. the reason we have not gotten, as the gentlelady has pointed out, even the opportunity to discuss a resolution of the differences between the house and the senate on spending levels and the objects of that spending is because the senate has refused to -- senate republicans, excuse me

now we understand we can do something about it if we choose. there's nothing that can't be done. the sense of helplessness comes from the belief we probably won't do what is required but that we can, we can become a far more equal country that really does live up to the majestic ideas of our founding if we choose it. we are not and a particularly hopeful moment in a country that. >> host: hope and optimism are different things and to think there's not a lot of hope for optimism but hope it something else that can be embedded in the history as it is experienced. but again, there is sort of one of the things that worries me and i know in teaching in university and talking to other audiences is that there has been this sense that there was the experience of enslavement and, of course, then it is followed by this awful experience of repression, of jim crow, of sort of almost unrestrained violence against formerly enslaved people here and so that the line between slavery and everything else evaporates. that's what i mean about martin luther king used to say stephen edwards was the bib

if we get twice as many cases that are half as severe, we are still going to be at the same place we are now. alix: 100% on that front. when we going to know if the narrative that it is less severe is true, and do we know anything yet about the omicron variant and long covid, even in those that are vaccinated and boosted? george: we don't know any thing about long covid in terms of people who are vaccinated and boosted. the prisms in is that it would be less common. so i think that is kind of good news. but i think we also need to keep our eyes peeled about what the clinical course is going to be. right now, the early data from south africa, from the u.s., from denmark, from the u.k. would suggest that hospitalization is not nearly as common as it was before. but if you have 10 times as many cases, it is going to push the hospitalizations. that is what dr. felt he was talking about yesterday. guy: is this something we are going to have to get used to every christmas, mask mandates? maybe it is not a severe, but do you think it is going to become more normal now, particularly in parts

welcome i think, as we knew, which is why we _ that? welcome i think, as we knew, which is why we voted _ that? welcome i think, as we knew, which is why we voted for _ that? welcome i think, as we knew, which is why we voted for measures | which is why we voted for measures last night, that we needed to take measures. 24 hours ago, 100 tory mps couldn't support to mrjohnson in the very basic measures he was proposing. tonight, now we hear more worrying results and images from the scientific advisers. that has applications on how people will be living their lives. aha, applications on how people will be living their lives.— living their lives. a lot of people make decisions _ living their lives. a lot of people make decisions for _ living their lives. a lot of people make decisions for themselves l living their lives. a lot of people l make decisions for themselves for how they behave, but nonetheless, given the scale the increases happening, a roth thumb guide doubling every way as a accrued measure. we can see without setting, becau

we have ample vaccines. we have ample boosters. we have supply of masks. we just ordered a historic-sized set of tests so that people can have those across the country. and even without that, we've sent 50 million tests out to community health centers. we've opened 20,000 testing sites. we've worked with fema. we're opening more testing sites across the country so people will be able to gather with their family members. are we through the pandemic? no, we're not. but we are in a very different place than we were one year ago today. go ahead. >> can i ask -- intel found itself in some hot water overnight over a statement they put out around supply chains in xinjiang. and they're worried -- and then they had to apologize to china and the chinese people. of course, the u.s. views what's happening in xinjiang as a genocide, as you've called it. how concerned are you that more american companies are going to find themselves sort of trapped in this situation, particularly with the signing of the uyghur bill today by the president? sec. psaki: well, i can't speak

we need to be...and we need it to be scaled up. so we need a large amount of money. we have studies thatjust came out that gave us preliminary costs for adaptation for basically ensuring that our islands are safe in the present and those costs are in the several billions, and so the financing that we need is a scale in which we can't meet, you know, and we didn't cause any of it, so we shouldn't have to pay a single cent for it. it's now my pleasure . to introduce tina stege, the climate envoy of the marshall islands _ we would love to hear your thoughts on what you would like to see - from the outcomes of cop26. we have advocated for a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance. our belief is that finance is critical to rights and to success. here in glasgow. we're really on the front of the very front lines with no higher ground to retreat to and so we understand, as do all of our brothers and sisters in the pacific and in islands around the world, the stakes of this fight. so, the uk prepared this session so that the pacific could talk directly with the pre

fund we have. mr. lynch: my time has expired. i welcome the ranking member, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. grothman, for five minutes for questions. mr. grothman: thanks. i'll ask mr. landberg the questions. in february, 2020, the trump administration signed an agreement we the taliban this required the taliban sever all ties with al qaeda before the u.s. withdrew. did the taliban, to the best of your knowledge, meet the requirements of the 2020 agreement before the biden administration withdrew? mr. landberg: thank you, sir. we have been very clear, we're very mission focused right now and we have been clear with the taliban what we expect of them in terms of counterterrorism. they are aware that they need to, if they want to build any legitimacy with the united states and the international community cut ties with al qaeda and ensure afghanistan never again becomes a source of terrorist threat to the united states or any of our allies. they're absolutely focused on degrading isis-k and also the

we vote. we posted a pass to me both to the present i wonder if we can think for a moment about the future that lies ahead of us all. we will keep evolving and her relationships will change. i was in portland just the other day at a memorial to the main battleship and i was thinking about how different my experience of that memorial would be then someone from 1900 it shifts and changes over time. if you think about the future of your memorial, you talk about these buildings and wanted to start new programs. how do you vision a memorial growing in the next couple of years and decades where do you see the growth coming in? >> from a memorial perspective we need to be able to get all all voices and all years whether through social media or education we shouldn't have any heirs of the medication. that should be our high point in her adaptation is shown that when you have people in areas of social media to provide those resources but when you'd do things like our event and memorials how are we able