Accidental hazard material and chemical terrorist attack is the necessity of working with federal, state and local Law Enforcement agencies to preserve evidence and maintain seen security for the criminal investigation. A little bit more complex situation might involve an Infectious Disease such as smallpox and in that event, the Public Health community would play a larger role in working with us to manage that incident. It would be important to track down who was exposed to the disease and who came in contact with these patients in this type of event this is where you see symptoms they not be present or may not arise immediately, but in the doing days. Although each of these agents are chemical involved, might have their own intricacies. There are some commonalities within response to a chemical or biological attack. Firstly Accurate Information is one of the most aspect of that. One of the goals of a terrorist attack is to cause public panic. It is important Accurate Information abou
This i wont do it here. Normally, i would ask you to raise your hands. Do feel that with respect to yourself, your family, your pets, your community . How many of you raise your hand how many of you feel prepared for a major disaster in your community . How many . Ive spoken to all kinds of audiences you if i get more than two or three hands i test them. Who is taking care of your mom in the nursing home . What are you doing with important papers . What is happening . Yes, you could follow the guidelines with food and water. Nice job. [laughter] if you cannot define it, how can you fund it . Lets put that aside. Lets say it is lingering out there. The first is, the federal system we live under. In many ways that serves our country and our people very well. The point is that decision is decentralized. By design, the government decision is made by levels of government as close as possible to the people being served. It is a fundamental tenet of our society. The problem is it doesnt work
Assistant to the secretary of state for Iranian Affairs during an earlier effort during the beginning of the Obama Administration to get this nuclear deal. Before joining the foreign service, he taught in iran as a peace corps volunteer. For 444 days from 1979 to 1981 he was a guest of the previous ayatollah in tehran when he was held hostage. John will have a lot to say on what this means for u. S. Iran relations. Without further ado, we will start. Cliff, i will start with you. I want to get your general impressions of what has been announced and the likely obstacles that might be on the horizon. Mr. Kupchan so far so good. Any deal will be an ugly deal. It is not a pretty deal. There are some technical problems with it, theres a lot we dont know, but it meets the basic structure of a deal that curbs irans access to Nuclear Weapons and provides state sanctions relief. Obstacles . There are a lot of obstacles to the deal. The first, to me, is there are a lot of substantive gaps betwee
Fmr. Sen. Davis thank you. Thank you all. Thank you to ethan and camille for putting this together today and all of the work particularly that camille undertook to make sure that we were able to do this and thank you for being here and giving me the opportunity to speak with you. I was delighted to land in sunny california after being in a really cold winter in texas. I am here today to address gender, specifically why gender equality is losing ground, and how we can work to reverse that. I am going to ask you to challenge conventional thinking and how we define and talk about gender inequality, and i will hopefully help you understand the lens through which i view gender. More and more, i am coming to understand and appreciate how each of our individual filters formed through formed through our life filters define a political framework, and i would like to invite us to consider each others personal perspectives, each others lenses as we strive to move womens political equality to move
Highest level of certainty with people of our state believe Government Action has intruded upon their religious liberty. Right here. She is right here. [indiscernible] governor pence why is it contained . [inaudible] governor pence you would have to talk to the indiana General Assembly. I am pleased to answer the legislative history question. I believe it would be good to make it clear that businesses do not have the right to deny services to anyone. How about you . Go ahead. Should it be legal in indiana to discriminate against gays . Governor pence i dont believe or support in discrimination against gays or lesbians or anyone else. I abhor discrimination. I want to say this no one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love or what they believe. I believe it with all my heart. This issue of discrimination has been an anthem throughout my life. I started out in politics as a democrat in high school. I was the Youth Democratic Party coordinator in my hometow