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[inaudible conversations] ready to go . I want to thank you all for coming today, including our panelists and of course representative schiff and his staff for their help including my friend tim who works for the congressmen on the intel committee. I will be presented and have a lot of time and we have a lot to talk about. It is my honor to introduce representatives at an schiff who represents californias 20 Congressional School districts in los angeles county. Representative schiff among other ...

Am saying. We look at a lot of the supporters to come with us. Maria breaking news out of france. Police nurture life into man who had taken group hostage in a church. One hostage killed at the latest development coming up. In somalia, at least 10 People Killed in a car bomb attack near the airport entrance. The Islamist Group alshabaab has claimed responsibility for that attack. And the u. S. , the wildfire in Southern California growing rapidly. 10,000 homes forced to evacuate. Investors today...

Anna welcome to countdown. It is just now 6 00. , letsgen is a big story think about what is happening in the markets. That hasr index, but been doing since the Federal Reserve met, you can see it bounces up since the post fed fall from the dollar. We see it heading steadily upwards since last week. We have seen a number of hawkish comments coming through from the fmo say. Fmo see. Still on the table at the time when the Federal Reserve could increase Interest Rates . Janet yellen will be speaki...

With the general an think taking place . I know whether its emerge or care, i helped start a Youth Leadership symposium in houston where im from and its still very, very difficult for us to get people engaged to sign up for these programs. So you can talk about putting these programs in the mosque or starting a sunday school class about it or putting ads in your local paper, but theres still a very, very large divide in having people in the Community Involved in this. What are suggestions practi...

Percent of all wild fires in california with 10 acres or less and we do this with an aggressive report of incidents, even with a 911 call of smoepk with land, air and ground attack. Once fires become to a large enough scale we call mue tour aid, california lass a great mue tour aid system. I think its looked at nationally because we have souch excellent cooperation with our cooperating agencies. Once it reaches that point, the team will come in and assist the local jurisdiction to run that incid...

The last ones in and the first ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in contact with cal fire all the time. We have good Situational Awareness whats going on in the state of california. They normally put us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other respons...

Great mue tour aid system. I think its looked at nationally because we have souch excellent cooperation with our cooperating agencies. Once it reaches that point, the team will come in and assist the local jurisdiction to run that incident. When we start having multiple fires in a certain area, then we get into what we call area command. I think that provides the overview. I talked a little bit about mous and relationships with the marines. Maybe we can talk about how is the National Guard and d...

Friends and neighbors. Sustainment is, its important to us and well maintain it especially on the region side. Were able to have these longstanding relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the ongoing efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. Just to follow on that, the Navy Squadrons that provide Fire Fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. One benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in...

Space. Were dropping water and fire retardant instead of bombs and rockets. We work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. We do that with squadron training. We still have khal lefrpg wills, im not going to lie to you. We have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. Cal guard, we purchased the radios for National Guard aircraft and they installed them in their aircraft so we have Robust Communications with california National Guard, with navy and marine corps it...

Governors Blue Panel Commission report looked at also a lot of those kind of things and what i did was just put a picture up there to show you the 2007 wild fires. When we get to these major wild fires, were talking about multiple wild fires and almost what you would call a fire storm. A lot of the Lessons Learned there are in bullets from just 2007. Why this discussion is important and Lessons Learned up there, the 2007 fires burned a little over 500,000 acres, destroyed over 3200 structures an...