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Aware of the risk. We are studying and adapting to these risks to identify, prioritize, and develop Effective Solutions to future vulnerabilities. Thankthank you very much. Thank you, admiral. Members of the committee. Congressman thank you for what you do. Distinguished colleagues on the panel and in the audience thank you. I speak today for the over 200,000 members of the Chesapeake Bay foundation, board, staff. Chesapeake bay is Getting Better but it is still a system dangerously out of balance. I use the word system because science has taught us to realize that the chesapeake is a collecti...

The wake of Tropical Storm isabel. In 2003 isabel caused widespread flooding and equipment damage throughout the yard. The total cost of that for repair was 120 million. Weve taken several measures to ensure a similar event will not have the same detrimental impact. Weve raised the ground floor elevations of new construction. For example, wesley brownfieldhouse was built above the flood level and acts as a flood wall. We reelected the chiller plant and moved the hvac equipment to rooftops where feasible. We have raised electrical outlet on ground floors and installed check valves on ubd ground...

Chesapeake Bay Foundation has Environmental Education centers on smith island and tangier island. Inhabited islands in the mid bay. Residents of smith and tangier are losing their homes. They are losing their island. Day after day, week after week, losing their home. On a property in the chesapeake Bay Foundation, in just the last 25 years we have lost an entire pine forest, several dozen acres, several hundred trees to sea level, bay level rise. Ive submitted my testimony, but let me just summarize briefly. The impacts of Climate Change are multiple, but let me tell you about three for Chesap...

Jessica hello, im jessica gomez, filling in on this weeks matter of fact. Today, a special edition. A look at our nations cities. When it comes to national politics, weve seen the gloves are off. Hillary Clinton Donald trump simply does not have the temperament to be president. Donald trump shes got the temperament of a loser and i have the temperament of a winner, and we have to win again. Jessica but on the local level, it often falls on city leaders to find common ground. We begin with two mayors, jim brainard of carmel, indiana, and Chris Cabaldon of west sacramento, california. Both are w...

Jessica hello, im jessica gomez, filling in on this weeks matter of fact. Today, a special edition. A look at our nations cities. When it comes to national politics, weve seen the gloves are off. Hillary Clinton Donald trump simply does not have the temperament to be president. Donald trump shes got the temperament of a loser and i have the temperament of a winner, and we have to win again. Jessica but on the local level, it often falls on city leaders to find common ground. We begin with two mayors, jim brainard of carmel, indiana, and Chris Cabaldon of west sacramento, california. Both are w...