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Call the airwaves but thank you so much for joining us today and a very special welcome to our guests, assistant secretary and peaceful Deputy Assistant secretary for the Global Public affairs bureau. We are honored to have them here today. Special welcome to our commissioners the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy and vice chairman and commissioner. Today as you know under the auspices of the Advisory Commission we have called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the newly formed gpa and where it sits in state Department Vision for public democracy Going Forward for the 21st century. As the executive director it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the microphone over to my colleagues are opening comments i want to tell you about how things will go today. Mr. Farah will give us brief comments and then turn it over to our passable speakers and they will speak in the tech Team Formation and at the end of their presentation we will be happy to take your questions an
This is secretary mitchell get that for Global Public Affairs Bureau we are very honored to have them here today special welcome to our commissioners Advisory Commission Public Diplomacy, vice chairman bill hill today as we know under the auspices of the Advisory Commission called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa and where it fits in the state department the vision for Public Diplomacy in the 21st century it is my honor to open this event before i turn the mic over to my colleagues for comments i just want to tell you a little bit how things gonna go today were gonna hear some brief comments we have speakers and they will speak at the end of the presentation will be happy to take a questions and comments. Please hold questions or comments until they have been as the presentation. For the moderated to a sergeant will be a microphone please speak into the microphone when you ask you questions because this whole event not only your remarks but also
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Slaughtered. Rallies on different sides for the same call of peace. This morning. Frustration and concern grows in the bay area as the israel and hamas war intensifies. The Israeli Military now preparing for its next stages of war. Good morning. Its sunday, october 15th. Im stephanie sierra and we will get to the latest in the middle east in just a bit. But first, lets check in on that forecast. Good morning, lisa. Hey, stephanie, good morning to you. Waking up to very dense fog out there. Visibility has been reduced to a quarter of a mile or less, starting out with live doppler seven. So you see the cloud cover ahead of us. High pressure is building in and compressing down on the atmosphere. Thats why we have all of that moisture right at the surface. So quarter mile novato half mile in napa, just over two miles in santa rosa, two miles in concord. And you cant see anything at all. Down by Half Moon Bay. So until 10 00, you can see the north bay, the coast around Half Moon Bay, all th