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And where are we going from here. Last august 2014, i traveled from damascus to washington, d. C. , with a fortune of maps and photos. I thought it might be a good idea to share with you ten out of them today. This is the first one. This reflects the situation in syria in summer 2013. We are talking about july august, 2013. The red color refers to the areas controlled by the regime, and his militia supporting him, like hezbollah in syria, and so on and so forth. The green area referred to the ar...

Cyberattacks . The numbers are on the screen. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute about whether or not the u. S. Should engage in a offensive cyberattacks. The five by five writer from rollcall joins us. Tim starks, what do we mean when we say going on the offense when it comes to Cyber Security and cyberattacks . Guest its a very good question. The line between offense and defense insider security is very narrow. Obviously, defe...

Red planet will take time, money and political will. Weve either got to augment the resources to make the goal achievable, or weve got to adjust the goal to be something thats consistent with the available resources, because if we dont, were going to waste a lot of money. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Thanks for my first car. T...

Stairwell, or the down exiting, egress, correct . So, you have to, you might have a different set of rules for the stairwell, requiring outside source or something. Which would then be more important in the higher buildings. You have that issue, so, just i want to bring that up that that might be considered, and then you are talking about the return air, coming in and so you are assuming that a system that just might push in the air and go out from some of the other source within. And so it will...

That . There is not one defined in the Building Code. I understand that, and the reason that i asked if we are allowing the smoke to get into the corridors we are actually changing the peoples perception of what is happening in those corridors, the layman people, may not recognize it, and this is not, this is safe. And there is smoke in here, but this is safe. Right. That is one of my concerns, about allowing the smoke into the corridors and only into the stairwell, and i can tell you from exper...

Here. And commissioner clinch is excused and we have a quorum and the next item is president s announcements. Madam secretary, if it is okay with my fellow commissioners i will take this out of order and go to item 5, supervisor scott weiner is here to give us a discussion on this as he has another appointment, if we could, if there is no objection we will go to item five. Okay. We will be calling agenda item five. Discussion of proposed legislation file no. 140954 ordinance amending the plannin...

Kind of do away, with the egress window that is not true. The article 38, and it may, prohibit the natural ventation through the windows, egress windows and included and but in the event of fire, the egress window the buildings should still be designed by the egress windows and so they are by no means made available. In terms of the dbis position and this issue, it clearly represents a deviation from the current code and we all know that the code is a little lagging behind most in the case behin...

Allowing the smoke into these corridor and stairwells . What is the standard for that . There is not one defined in the Building Code. I understand that, and the reason that i asked if we are allowing the smoke to get into the corridors we are actually changing the peoples perception of what is happening in those corridors, the layman people, may not recognize it, and this is not, this is safe. And there is smoke in here, but this is safe. Right. That is one of my concerns, about allowing the sm...

That he could have also used in some of the killings. The District Attorney going over the really gruesome details of how he killed his six victims, his exwife nicole hill and five of her family members, District Attorney telling us that he shot and slashed his victims, some of them both. The 14yearold niece of stone suffering cutting wounds. The lone survivor a 17yearold nephew is in the hospital tonight fighting for his life, and the District Attorney tells us he apparently tried to fight off ...

Law enforcement. Just for example when i was in phoenix a couple of weeks ago to inspect the security of the super bowl i met with state and local law enforcement. It was pointed out to me that all the communications equipment, all although surveillance equipment there was funded by my department. As long as we are on this er we are unable to do these very important things for Homeland Security. So we need a fully funded department of Homeland Security especially in these challenging times. So t...