it is a challenge for us. we don't want just to plant trees. we want them in black people's front yards. i don't want to talk more with communities about bouncing back when we have not had conversations about bringing the we need you to have food in your refrigerator now. our ability to say we don't have the right tools to engage in these organizations. it behooves us to have this conversation but with the activists who are in there. eventually they become support levels. i don't think that's an either/or. is at theimate change root of the problem.

hopefully, have black lives matter folks, to you and talk to you? got -- most groups get an e-mail from me. climate change is another way that we can talk about this. what are we really getting at so i haven't seen anything specifically about that being a challenge. i wanted to open up the can -- conversation. add with some ofto the work we have done at the there has been

some things that are going into the national to this asked her community here in my hometown of howorleans and looking at we can hire local people. many are african american men, who are underemployed or unemployed. we can match them with skills that can go on to the private sector. the latest statistics show employs mores people than coal mining right now. it's a huge job creator. the question for the whole panel.

any of you actively involved in or aware of a longer ranging -- four young coupling for wet , some custom programs based on your industry? i don't know why we continue to drive when pretty much everything we need in our house -- morein the future longer ranging plans? we have been having further conversations about stewardship. need for people to have some flexibility.

i think that is a trend that we will see more of. we won't negotiate more of that. i don't know what that means in terms of do working together when we do come together. government will give us a more comprehensive way. did director, was talking about how much confidence or is in that. just maintaining where we are right now. 1100 people a month are going into the district. how do we project and have enough buildings and jobs for all of these people.

said 76 percent of our mission are coming from our building. about beste to think use for travel, transportation and all these things. think we have a lot of great ideas. we have the expertise, and the capacity. but we are not looking at who we will affect. make theseow can we decisions that will impact people who are most at risk. doing it right is the challenge. we have to have a conversation about what that means. cities will determine the quality of life for most people.

a lot of projects we do, we are always trying to create more accessible in line with the cause. we are accessing your cafe, your workplace, your home should be a bike ride or a jog away. the data is a challenge. how do you make people give up the ideas of commuting unnecessarily. much healthier way of life. i know the battery costs are

coming down for electric vehicles. transportation emissions are higher than energy emissions. if those battery costs come down and they become incumbent for a lot of drivers, that can be a game changer. a lot of folks are excited about that. >> good afternoon. thank you for putting this on. until we have more events like this and we can get more sophisticated about the science and what we can do we will not get rings done. let's go to the issue of adaptation. think someone mentioned that the temperature range by 2080 will be romantically higher. degreelooking for a two celsius limitation. way itso far along the

will be almost impossible to have dramatic technology changes to get there. with that assumption, can we talk a little bit about the adaptation resilience issue that the landscape architecture should -- architecture should deal with. the discussion about federal funding. every dollar spent for resilience compared two dollars makes it rebuilding very compelling for the federal government, for the state and local government to spend the fory and set the standards buildings and communities to be resilient. black, white, it doesn't matter who's living there. but it makes sense to have the dollars being spent. do we have an analysis for dollars spent building? heard that you can get a

four to one return. agencies are trying to figure out how to do that differently. how do you know that what we are doing will work. time, there over are uncertainties. not out like a katrina which caused my own family to lose homes. they cite coming. there are changes that we don't exactly know and people cannot start taking action to plan differently. to invest in things like trees and things like that. that makes sense. it is hard to really compare dollars two dollars, which a lot of these things will get you

compare to this infrastructure in the past. we are working with that now. this program is trying to accumulate some of the evidence to show that the green and the structure cannot be cost than putting in infrastructures. to attachso hard value to the social activity. you would rather do anything you best practiceof than half --rather like you are seeing in new orleans, when sandy happened in new york. the amount of time it gives the

committees to recover. for the cost of rebuilding, it takes a lot of time and activity and it and some being more problematic than the economic value sometimes. >> i think we have started the conversation. even more site-specific events. one of those things that a risk assessment was look at comparative risks. stakeholder task force. -- about think to economic loss, impact on the management of the building and operations. we have started to look at some of those they community infrastructures. do we use that in a different way?

of people have started to have that conversation. it is hard to look at something quantitative. we can start to draw those numbers but for me what i think needs to happen is that it's not just about thinking about how wait.en but you have to i don't necessarily think we will see a citywide

this will eventually become a thing of the past. a bit ofbeen positivity in the last few years. the volatility of the markets that are happening all over the world. do you think that the markets is itincrease or , not aent subsidies risky proposition to invest in. i don't knowy

about reducing this but i think and i think the prices will be with us for some time migrating to some of the more efficient vehicles. on the other hand i think people know that prices will stay there forever. this is the key to the argument that many of us have made for years that having some kind of price whether it be the gasoline , or natural gas or coal or urban power, that helps to produce that incentive.

, it would not have made sense to have some kind of price war. but to invest in things like biofuels, we have seen some different alternative fuel strategies when it hasn't paid off yet. to be competitive with low gasoline prices. policy plays a role because you cannot rely on the fact that people realize that over time that gas prices might be up again. let's keep the questions coming. how are we doing on time. >> were doing pretty well. well.are doing pretty this question is for alexis and vicki. i am curious about your take on

national disaster relief competitions that relate designers that are collaborating across many stakeholders and if these are successful in your eyes? >> sure. nationally it is important. i want to shift the conversation to local. i think we have the talent nationally, but because of the geographic, client and policy challenges that are very related to the places we are talking about, i see that as a model for the private sector is what we need to be doing. i find you don't have that capacity to go out and have the ability to take the risk. we do have the opportunity ,ecently to attend a reception

,nd architect collaborative this is exactly the type of conversation we needed to have. where i think on the worker level we need to have local capacity so the money from an economic point is something that can grow with us. people who are invested in the -- weity, and not just have so many college and tons of partnerships. it's important that becomes a model. i think we have seen that. there is a discussion about that being a model going forward. it has been very effective. .e don't have the financing

then it is like i think for us a definite appetite. they want to get in the game, but it behooves us to say here are the funding opportunities. that will take a lot of the leadership from the top down to say yes we are ready to move forward. we saw with the rockefeller thatation partnership is gotid unleash some -- people to think more creatively, where the usual federal rules did not allow you to invest differently. it started to be able to stretch the boundaries.

what i will say is there are winners and losers. tois a tremendous effort compete, whether or not they get it. if you don't get it you have now a concept that may be you can find private sector partners is, on the other hand, this is a have a list to be part of this. people have to figure out whether or not they are willing to take the risk. things inere are good our city. is anderstanding is this

large segment of the city that we are looking at. there was saying earlier are fairly finite boundaries. they come up with some kind of standards. you need to meet certain limitations, build seawalls in certain areas. there is certain green technology. strategies that the competition will build. that is good. it says if you're going to parse you have someone else, some kind of standard to build on. locals, they come in and do something. helps.ign >> more questions?

here we go. >> we haven't touched on agriculture. be or remainould separate from the cities or become integrated into cities. like, lesswe have than a mile -- square-mile of cultivated, mostly small parcels. once we knowing -- know what is happening ecologically and what that looks like, but thinking if we caning and proceeded transportation of goods. i think the biggest issue for us --l be increasing our local

, impact onen be on prices. who can'tpeople necessarily afford that. there is a transportation issue. i think that we have to revisit the original conversation about climate change and think about echo systems. our extremes are heating up very fast. that puts pressure across the board. we may not see that so much in but we will have to think strategically about it. but looking at the providers functions and more large-scale production -- large-scale

production. we talk so much about adaptation at the city level, cities have a lot of money and resources. what does that adaptation look ?ike for world communities >> it's tough. after tropical storm irene hit, we help them. it was miles and miles of roads and hundreds of bridges. this is an example of when they try to rebuild differently, they are denied the reimbursement from fema. they don't want them to build at the news desk to the new standard. we know that the climate is changing. it is time we revisited that. of the it was an example

zonespoor, often in flood that were affected by the devastation. as far as the townspeople and theyeimbursed, don't have a huge population. if you're making an investment there and you are left holding , itbag and not reimbursed really is a fiscal issue. talk toit really does the need of revisiting things and these staffing averages it tends to look at disasters in the old way. we dealt with this in new orleans after the trina. -- katrina. we knew some of the neighborhoods and schools would come back that nobody was sure. i think we are seeing people

spending money more flexible but you do have to have the money to spend. important because people have to be able to talk about climate change if you're going to spend the money differently. do you have a question? ok. think of this like a lightning round. let's go down the line. -- what dor biggest people not get about your work that annoys you that you wish would -- people would get. let it out. >> that's a tough one. i'm a landscape architect. ishink we do a lot of what seen as as green infrastructure is considered to be soft and

essentially something that comes with a --. there is a tremendous amount of engineering that goes underneath that. ofre is a tremendous amount what is soft is not actually soft. i think that's a perception that i would love to change. i don't expect people to know because ifnderneath you have done a good job it was just -- it would just look beautiful. but i think that's something that people need to know that it is not an expendable amenity. it is an important job that is engineered, it's not just for to make it beautiful.

frustrated, it's always the same thing. it takes so much time for us to cut through red tape. and i thinke-mails about the small amount of attention we put on the small things, and afraid to take risks. we take risks with all these policies and approvals. we know what the impacts are and and prior reports -- prior present. just go out there and do something impactful and stop talking about it. traditional --he we have a lot of programs that

we have done. it's very challenging because i have to go to the community meetings they yes we have been doing this process for three years. yes we will be in it for another couple of years and we need funding. it can get lost in the structure that we have of being a state and a city all at once. toi think mine is more meant between the magnitude of the problem and the rate of change that we are seeing. you are working is getting that because of the obstacles that you find, whether it is political, just that people haven't wrapped their heads around what is coming at us. what is shocking to me how we

managed to have more of a national conversation about the crisis that is before us and how are we going to prepare and plan for it. in terms of the opportunity to have a different future, i just wish there was more in our everyday discourse. >> one more lightning round. we will be around at the reception if you have any more questions. order this reverse time. what's the best and most happy had ine that you have your work in the past couple of years, something you didn't expect that made you feel good about our ability to tackle these problems. i have been to some of the u.s.s -- people from the were together not just like

-- we have come a long way in acknowledging the problem. with the momentum that ussee it's not enough to get further. the lesson we have seen working with states and cities, people can do it affordably. that gives me hope. >> the international climate is a weird stressful bubble. i went to one that did not go well. at the end of it watching these people just cry from the release of the stress at the end of it

area there's a guy you probably , almost everyone of these meeting since the 1990's. after the paris accord there was who said het a man knew that the meeting was going to end successfully because alden could not suppress his smile. -- people who worked on that, it's a weird thing. i think everyone is happy that there is a deal. at the same time saying we have to do even more. , them excited about things justice was social realized in the 1960's and 1970's. science data and successfully we can share.

the private sector is ready to have these conversations. people are starting to come up and pull up their own seats to the table, and i love that. it is such a good time. there's a neat little intersection that is complicated. because it is elevated to a national conversation i feel like we can finally have those conversations. there is an incredible amount of stuff we have to do. the the tablee at and we are talking about policy and political stuff. that is great for me because we don't have to do it alone anymore. policy, branches

and divisions in government. i think that is great. me, when people are in design school all the projects seem so hard. architecture what i found was people really want public spaces, want their communities to have the framework. they really like what you are doing. that was a watershed moment. it is worth it. miami,a project in people will not give

our -- of their cars there. in our last few meetings we had a few angry people who said why are you spending all this money? by the time we showed what was said i think this will be really good. but they will never stop driving. to say thank you to the audience for coming out. i appreciated the questions and the dialogue. please give a hand to our panelists. thank you very much. [applause] if you folks could join us in the ease court, we'll have drinks and snacks and the conversation continues.

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c-span's washington journal live beginning at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. in tallahassee, florida, tim kaine talk to small business incubator to talk about federal assistance to entrepreneurs. floridan the campus of university. this is 20 minutes. thank you. good morning. or good afternoon, now. --ann, my wife andan and tim kaine and hillary clinton's running mate. this is the third time i have been to florida since i have been added to the ticket. two weeks ago was the secretary of education in virginia. she stepped down so she could come on the campaign trail also.

we are doing events in tallahassee today, a voter registration rally with students . we wanted to come by and see you. both of us have had experience working in these incubators in small business. her capacity of secretary of education, she worked on one as well. out ay clinton rolled small business plan that had a couple of key components. hillary clinton, you might have heard her talk about this at the convention. she grew up and house were her dad ran a small fabric printing business. businessbers the small thing,'s kids pitching in, she and her brothers to do some of the printing. i grew up in a small business house in kansas city. that hadwelding shop

12 employees in a good year and five employees in a tough fear, plus my mother and brothers. what we know is since world war ii the growth and jobs in this country has been and small businesses. you can measure the health of an by the climate to start up a business. we have had a good time this morning visiting with your mayor . congressman graham is right here. we have been talking about -- this is a talent-rich community. collegesme here to the . mayoran we do, i was the of the state capital. what can we do to keep talent here and then broaden of the

economy so that the government will be a poll -- pillar. we want a creative, innovative technology culture. the great thing is you have all the mind power here among students. so if you can convince him to stay that's all it's about. just a couple of key pieces. we want to make it easier to start businesses. so just the act of starting a business and be complicated. if you -- when i was governor if you wanted to start a business, you need a tax id number, get a professional license depending on what business you are in. , we tried to do a one stop shop where you could get your state and local registration and applications easier. easier to start up a business is. with cities and

states and counties so that they can streamline as well and we can make it easier to begin. is it is hardre to get financing, especially if you are new. if you are new and try to start up it is tough. we have some new technologies like crowdfunding and other things have been created. there are other things we can do sure that weaking have the right sets of rules about credit unions and community banks. they tend to be the lending institutions of choice up to small and startup businesses with their access to capital. the third thing and this is a cool idea that hillary and her team came up with. know how an individual tax return you can file standard or you can do the deductions? itemized deductions?

if you want to keep all your records you can do the itemized deductions. the clinton plan includes why don't we do that for corporal taxes -- corporate taxes. give businesses a choice. if they want more of the standard form it makes it simpler. every business especially startups can get the accountants and lawyers to put it all together. the last thing i will say is that the q2 businesses is you have the talent. of a strongs part economy, building an economy that works for everybody that , exposen through pre--k

kids more at an earlier age to different career path so they can make wiser choices. we have to develop a talent pool. debt freeto making it for college and even tuition free for americans who don't have the means to be able to pay tuition. this is something we are focused on. needless to say, and i am just looking around the room. you will be more successful if you are letting all the talent come to the table. you have to build a community of respect -- disrespect. -- of respect. if you start dividing people up against one another, all of a sudden you find you cannot solve their problems because you are not letting the talent pool be all it can be. hillary clinton gave a speech in reno talking about some of the rhetoric on the campaign, that it would be ok for the nominee of a major party to talk about

somebody with a disability, or to suggest that people who are from religious states should be treated as second-class. this is a very fundamental issue. today is women's equality day. when -- since the early 1970's, it has been designated women's equality. the 19th amendment was ratified and women have the right to vote. equality is the goal. talent is the most precious resource in the world right now. and water.il talent is the condition that leads to economic success. this is a great collection of individual talent.

be can be more than you can with talent. what works in the business world is also what works to make a better society. we are happy to come and have a chance just to talk specifically for businesses. hadk you to the folks who the idea to do this and to the businesses that have grown up here. it's good to have a chance to come to be with you. mr. mayor, you have a lot to be proud of. it is very good to be here and be able to talk about something so important. dr. mangum, i would like to thank cam. give him a big round of -- applause. i want to say a word of thanks about my wife, we are here on a university campus. just set down as secretary of education in virginia after working her entire career to help young

people. why did she step down? she wanted to go full-time between nine and november 8 and make sure we do all we can to elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. i learned an interesting bit of 26 is women's equality day. give it up to women's equality. 26 1920, the federal government certified that another state's had ratified the 19th amendment to the constitution, giving women the right to vote. years later we are about to make the first woman president of the united states. that's what is so very exciting for me to be able to be on the ticket. when hillary asked me a month ago i was so proud to work with

president obama said this about her at the convention, that she would be the most qualified individual to and i nominee in history am proud to be a part of that with hillary clinton. there are a lot of strongmen in this country, my political career has been dealt on the foundation of the support of strong women like my wife, campaign secretaries, voters, donors, volunteers. now i am a strong men ready to play that supportive role to make sure hillary clinton is our next president. we all feel the same way. there is a lot of steak admission diversity. i think you understand -- there is a lot of steak in this universe. virginia union is two miles from our house. , hamptontate

university in virginia. we are all in the family. we are all in the family. they have a role that is important today and tomorrow as it was when universities were founded. give it up for the universities. hillary clinton and i understand the importance. we want to grow jobs in the 21st century, $25 billion in university so we can keep training the talent pool. that's together with other veterans pre-k education, career

and technical education, debt-free college for americans. that is something we can do. these are the issues that are at stake in the selection. if i can just say there are issues that are at stake but since i started off and talk about women's equality day let's just take equality. let's just take the principle that we stated in 1776 would be the north-south foundation -- north star foundation. they had a wisdom. to tell them to put that down as a north star that would measure our progress as a people. we have been knocking down one barrier after the next trying to live more like we said we would live in

1776. that's something to think about on women's equality day as we approach this election. i think you know hillary clinton's history. she was a law student at yet who could have done anything. instead she said she wanted to work for the children's defense fund. she went to alabama to investigate disparity in the school system. workedung lawyer she with legal aid in virginia and i was a civil rights lawyer battling against housing discrimination. at the time we were doing these things donald trump started out through. his firm was getting sued for racial discrimination. this is a fundamental difference and fundamental to the values we hold as a nation. hillary also seen clinton the first lady of arkansas built up maternal and

child health. low income8 million kids could have health insurance. fighting for military families, fighting for first responders health. and as secretary of state, making sure that women and children have the attention of the u.s. government. hillary clinton has had a career and track record of success and support for equality and the causes that we hold dear. honest,rump, let me be he has a different point of view. ,ou heard during the campaign he has ridiculed people with disabilities. he ridiculed people if they were mexican-american origin. he has said that anybody should be treated as second class religiously. that's not the way we do things in this country. it's not the way we do things. main guyump was a behind the scurrilous and

bigoted notion that president obama wasn't even born in this country. donald trump has continued to push the irresponsible falsehood from all the way up to now. that's the difference in this election. yesterday, hillary clinton gave a speech in reno, calling out donald trump on a lot of things on his equality idea. calling him out on the fact that he has supporters like david duke, connected with the who clucks clan -- ku klux klan. donald trump is pushing their values. david duke values, donald trump values are not american values. we have to do all we can to ,ight the push back and win we're talking about heading to the north star. it gets down to the reason for the rally. the reason we are here is you have a superb reputation of any

university of student activism. getting people to understand the critical importance of voting. we are starting a national with you and other universities as colleges are coming back into session to talk to students about registering and voting. we want you to lead the way. are you ready to do that? it is a very important thing. we have seen in states all over significant efforts by governors and legislatures to narrow down the right to vote, to narrow down early voting, to increase id requirements, to basically make it tougher for people to vote. you might have seen a few weeks ago that it was a court decision about the state of north carolina, where a federal court found that as a matter of fact that the highest officials in the state enacted with surgical

precision to make it more difficult for african-americans to vote. for anybody who cares about small democracy the efforts of state officials to put burdens , reducedy participation and do it in a i have totory way, call us the righteous organizations so we can sell those tactics will not succeed. it in florida, we can do it in virginia at all over the country. here is one thing i ask you to do. if you are talking to friends and family and trying to persuade people about the virtues of the clinton came doing that is important. folks don't really pay attention but they ads anymore, still believe a person to person, talking to a friend, somebody going to church with,

family member. even calling as a volunteer and talking to someone you don't know. think, well,hey they didn't have to do this. they are a volunteer but they are taking the time. maybe it ought to be important to me. when you are doing that to encourage people to vote if you have somebody say to you, i don't think my vote matters, then i want to tell you what you say to them. you should say, well the other side sure thinks it matters. and also a lot of people are doing work to put restrictions to read -- to reduce foes of african america, and young voters. i hope your vote -- i hope you conclude that your vote is important. that's what we need to do. we have to have strong support of young voters and voters of ages. you are in a unique position to

do this. state the rules are different. many of you are from florida originals -- originally appeared here are the rules for the last day to register to vote in florida is october 11. that is the last day. between now and october 11 register. i can tell you this, florida will be one of the closest, possibly the closest battleground state this election and your vote will matter. 11ond, register by october and early voting in florida, urban person starts on saturday october 29 and he goes all the way to the following saturday, november 5. -- is veryg is curly important. those are the two dates to remember. register by october 11, be there

for early voting october 29 through saturday, november 5. let me ask one more thing. is there anybody who might be willing to volunteer to win this race? give us a shout out. probably --of you if you have not yet volunteered and you want to all you have to to 47246. together if you do that you will be swept up into the campaign. we will sweep you up in the campaign and we will put you to work. we will show that florida is hanging tough with hillary clinton. this election in a complicated season and a season of surprises to we know how to do tough work. florida has shout and 2008 in

2012 with historic support for president obama that you can deliver the goods, save the day and bring victory home. we are asking for that again in 2016. let's make history on november 8 with hillary clinton. history everye day as we move this nation forward. thank you so much. it's great to be with you. [applause] ♪\ >> washington journal's next live with your phone calls. then a discussion about presenting gun violence -- preventing gun violence. then later, coverage of mike pence as he campaigns in virginia. o'hanlonutes, michael

of brookings institute on turkey's role in fighting isis. miami herald reporter carol rosenberg on the future of guantanamo bay detainees. ♪ host: good morning. 27,s saturday come august 2016. interest rates are likely to rise according to the federal reserve chairwoman, janet yellen. job growth. the battle against the zika virus now involves blood banks as the fda calls for screenings of blood donations to keep the virus from circulating beyond south florida. commando from a texas second-grade teacher announcing she will not formally assigned