Want to say thank you. I support the priorities in the remarks. As you have heard, from the admirals and generals, the need for more timely and accurate intelligence continues to grow. Crises in the middle east and recent developments in crimea, central africa, and asia underscore the drumbeat for officers with special insight and understanding. We have a responsibility to the men and women to make smart decisions in these austere times to take risks. Maintainand those investments that will ensure our security. Changes to manage risk. To make the choices we need to i will highlight for critical 40s in our request. , collection processes and career broadening experiences. How we have received much of our business practices. Intelligence collection operations, ensuring the defense Cleansing Services is a priority for the Defense Department and Intelligence Community as a whole. Your oversight has helped us mature. Measurable progress in support of defense equities. In all measures, trade
Was that . With regard to tsa because of the responsibilities for the screening and Airport Security has a limited separate line budget with regards to providing Technical Assistance on Airport Security no other component to my knowledge has a separate line item that would permit the kind of Capacity Building. Let me quickly pursue this very briefly. You said that despite the fact they work to incorporate recommendations on response times and the Standard Operating Procedure they do not require member countries to implement them. Do you have recommendations on this . As i said in response to the chairs question requiring other countries to screen the database is an issue we need to debate but populating it has a direct and Immediate Impact on our security so if we go down that route and mandates or Capacity Building efforts i would focus on getting data into the database that we could screen. Whether we could cooperate with interpol and other organizations such as the Civil Aviation or
For workers 55 and older . 4. 7 . Did that improved over last year . Yes. Did you know how that was prerecession . No. Abouten now have more 500,000 jobs since the recession began, while men is that right . Yes. They called it the man session . I still think we have an issue, and i touched on this with the longterm unemployed, and issue with some of the wages that people make, even though they have jobs they are not able to support their families. And one of the ways we know works is education. College degrees make a difference. What is the Unemployment Rate for college is now . See. , lets let me see if i got ok. That is ok, you can give it to me later. I used to always ask this every month to find where we were in relation to here we go, Unemployment Rates for college graduates. 3. 7 . Do you know what it is for high school or people who did not complete high school . 7. 5 for High School Graduates with no college, and 11 for those without a high school diploma. Have there been any t
New information now on the Veterans Affairs scandal. An internal audit says 121,000 veterans across the country are experiencing long wait time for va health care. 90 days for their very first appointments. The va says its eliminating its 14 day scheduling goal for appointments april finding it is, quote, not ataxicabbable. Mike viqueria is live in washington for us. Mike, do these not attainable. Do these numbers add a new perspective on just how bad these numbers are . With yet more to come tony this scandal shows no sign of abating. Weve first seen the ig report of about two weeks ago that indicated the phoenix facility where this scandal originated, the wait times incredibly long. The allegations that 40 veterans died while waiting for care. The president saw Eric Shinseki then, more damning evidence. Shinseki offered his resignation, the president accepted it. Bipartisan criticism now. Richard bloome bloom bloomentha. The Inspector General of the va. Tony all you need to know from
Okay Public Comment is closed. Thank you. The have questions local visitors throughout the bay area will stay overnight because of sporting things and i understand their categorized under locals. Yeah, we have a study that shows it we have about 10 percent they typically do that on weekends when theres fairs and festivals and sporting events will attract people. Yeah. I think thats a market we have to try to build as much as we can sometimes when hotels have vacancy theyll be on. Whats your timeframe for the moscone construction construction will start next year from 2017 and 18 to be prelims. Were making sure that the construction wont be ininconvenient people what size of the moscone west in relationship where we move up in the country. Well move up to 16. We account move up more. Yeah. Every time the moscone was updated we were filled. How much hotel rooms dow do we have. About 32 thousand. Are there notable hotel chains that dont have a hotel in San Francisco and people that we wou