Outlining the missionary work and humanitarian assistance his agency provides. This is about 45 minutes. Good morning. I am thehodes moderator of this mornings press conference. At the istanbul ataturk airport was thomas kemper, the ceo of the United Methodist church, was in a lounge when three men arriving from a taxi began firing guns at the terminal entrance as they made their way inside the airport. The terrorists were quickly shot by security and then blew themselves up. This was another in a series of terror attacks in turkey in the past year. According to the new york times, kurdish and Islamic State militants have staged attacks across turkey killing more than 280 people. Thomas kemper, our speaker today, says the events that he witnessed and survived has become transformative for him personally. His moments with other survivors of the attack, people of many nationalities and cultures, has brought renewed determination to connect with people of all faiths and nationalities and
Issues before the meeting today and we would have gladly pulled this aside. It was not brought to the attention of the chairman. I know you want to Say Something commissioner. Commissioner narasaki i just want to note that the commissioners are all well aware of which state advisory and needs are open recruitment. My staff and i have gone out of our way to help as much as the staff to identify people. I have to say that not every commissioner is doing that, so one of the problems we have, as knows,ioner heriot well we have a large number of stated by three committees who are open and not feel and we need to get them done because as we just heard from the report today, they play a very important role. So staff is doing the best they can to try to get these slates up and running. Awould be happy to entertain waiver of our rules to go back and add some people, if there are some qualified people to some of these slates, but we need to start getting some of these slate done. As the chair ha
You can get the details from the report. It will highlight the key groups, and the top two groups oceans and tropical and subTropical Forests were more than half of the species of concern. If we look at the next ones, coast, arid lands, granted, not a lot of species are on the list, but some are showing some decline. To highlight what we have done in this report is not just where are the problems, but what are some of the Key Solutions we need to work on. Not all of these solutions are easy. If they were easy, we might have done them already. Section one, going on best things that are working that we can continue, and a section that challenges that is ok. For example, seabirds, these are birds that spend much of their life at sea, but nest on the water. Many of the seabirds nest on islands. One of the challenges on islands are invasive species. Somebody has introduced something to an island somewhere and make these seabirds vulnerable. In a number of areas where seabirds are nesting th