Hello everybody, this is al jazeera america, live from new york city, im davidcali have nd their homes, with the threat of a number of wildfires. In the bone dry landscape the fires are moving quickly. Just north of san francisco, ines ferre has the latest. Day and night, firefighters are racing across the clock. Dooms dictate is what it looks like. Reporter the flames are fueled by lightning. Those prettiful escalated and took over the whole side of the mountain. Reporter firefighting planes are making the round including dc 10 tankers releasing fire retardant. Evacuation orders have been issued in communities north of san francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an rv with his pet. See when we can get back in and they give us the okay. Crews are mourning the loss of life of one of their own. At least four others have been injured. Ines ferre, al jazeera. Earlier we talk with daniel berlin, the chief are fire protection. The lingering California Drought is helping to fuel the
I couldnt be prouder of you. With that, let me take some questions, all right . Thank you very much. [applause] let me all right. So here i think youve been told how this works but im just going to repeat it. Im just going to call on as many people as possible. When i call on you, introduce yourself, tell me what country youre from, make your question relatively short so that we can get as many questions as possible and im going to go boy , girl, boy, girl to make sure that its fair. Okay, so let me see who i am going to start off with. This is such a goodlooking group. Im going to start with this young lady right here. There you go. With the african earrings. Very appropriate. Im from kenya. And my question is how curious you keep the balance in terms of your background as an African American and the struggles you had to get here and be michelle obama, shes amazing. You seem that dont let that interfere with your work and been effective. How do you keep the balance . First of all, i w
Approach to cyber warfare between the public and the private sector. Can we say all private sector and the Public Sector goes one way and are there any differences in the approach to that . Thank you. You want to take that. And i have a little bit of a different perspective than my panelists so this should be a interesting discussion. 85 of the networks in the United States are private. And contrary to popular belief the National Security agency is not on those networks. Not unless they have a warrant to be there and that is highly unlikely. And so what happens is you have Intelligence Services overseas and trying to bring it back to protect the government and we want to share that information in realtime so the private sector it protect themselves today. That is where we are today. It is not working. Sharing is terrible. No one wants to do it for liability reasons an a whole host of good reasons not to share so we can fix. And here is the problem with the private sector saying heck wi
Prominent determinants of class status. It reinforces the socioeconomic gaps, the disparities i know everyone wishes we could eliminate. Applications are going down. At the very moment when we know the skills of college are more valuable. No matter what you read, we know the lifetime earnings of someone with a College Degree are considerably greater. We know the new knowledge economy, the one bursting and growing, the one the country wants to compete in, is requiring the skills of a college graduate. And its not just their stem skills and their programming. Its their writing skills. Its their critical thinking. Its their problemsolving. Without those, we will not bring the 2. 3 Million High School students every year back to be part of a flourishing national economy. So we know we have to do it. And im going to give you some examples of ways i think its working well at unc. Things i think can be scaled. First of all, you have to build universities that draw in the talent of people from
Sun, that we reset nature reset its clock in 2012, and this effected everything as far as our weather goes and as time goes on, the taps will rebuild themselves and it is natures way of resetting the clock in other words. Does he know anything about that . Thank you. You know, there are a lot of theories and there has been a lot of research and things like the orbital wobble of the earth the wobble on its axis, solar cycles, sun spot activity and so on. And i think clearly there is a huge natural variability in the earths climate and over long periods of time these big things, these big astronomical things and sun spots and earths orbit play a role. I would just say in terms of the data that we have we see natural cycles, over 100year periods and over roughly 1,000year periods and were in between the ice ages and the interglacial periods with 10,000 to 12,000 years an the ice age is 100,000 years an were late into the interglacial cycle and that is allowed human beings to develop and f