Docs cannot handle passenger ships. They make use untenable. Even after long hearings the pain conservation and Development Commission is unlikely to approve it. Numerous Health Threats such as norovirus is supposed to be considered as well as security for the residence on board. The ship must be permanently hooked up to shore power, and sewage, as well as regular if not daily garbage service. The 2005 after hurricane katrina, they released three carnival crew ships to health 5000 displaced new orleans residents and recovery workers for six months. Taxpayers footed over a quarter billion dollars in costs for the ships, and the food service. It is not an easy problem to deal with. Reporter 70 mega ships capable of handling 30,000 passengers will join the 314 existing ships, that have room for 537 thousand passengers at any one time. All of that is just one sixth of californias overall housing unit shortage. The city of berkeley is taking a step to try to deal with the housing shortage.
Good afternoon and welcome to is newly renovated headquarters. I am the Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. I am pleased to welcome you to todays important and timely commsby examining cent approach to the middle east. We will explore prospects for an effective u. S. Military role in the region, especially given current news from northeast syria. Great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollock, we are also pleased to welcome back senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program after a oneyear fellowship at the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue quarterlyhington entitled broken partnerships can washington get security . Eric schmidtht is a writer for the new york times. Since 2007, he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, Southeast Asia among others. Is a coauthor of counterstrike the untold st
Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
Rosemary joins us now with a look at weather. You were correct. It was hot yesterday. Things were changing. There is a beautiful view as we say good morning. Just a little bit of fog. If you look further out, you could sena low cloud deck moved inside the bay. It is going to continue that low cloud deck move into the bay. It is going to continue to move this direction as we get into the afternoon as the cooldown is on the way for the final day of summer. Temperatures right now a cool 34 degrees. We have 58 in San Francisco. 06 in oakland. San jose at 59. A tad cooler over areas like santa rosa. And a Half Moon Bay up by five degrees or so and it has to do with that cloud cover blanketing the coast. The winds are generally light and you can see very calm at the moment. Here is a look at that cloud cover along the coast. Partly cloudy and mostly clear. Here is a look at the futurekarst. As we wet get into the afternoon. Mid and high level clouds move ago cross the bay area. If you take y
American military history. And today were going to continue our conversation about the second world war. And specifically were going to look at an aspect of the war through the lens of industrial mobilization. Industrial mobilization is often understood as a key to allied victory in this war. It is often said the allies win because they outproduce the axis powers. Im sure many of us heard it, encountered it, youve read it, but one of the problems with that line of reasoning is that if it is simply amount of stuff that produces victory, at the beginning of the war the axis powers possessed more. So the argument about stuff cannot absolutely establish ultimately the trajectory of allied victory because the allies for a long time are deficient in that quantity of stuff. The other aspect of the material argument if you will, that the allies outproduce, thats understated, oversimplified in almost all literature you consider related to the war, we have no clear sense of how the stuff is buil