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my name is ann aherne, i am secretary of the building inspection commission. i will call on the commissioners. [roll call] >> for your information, commissioners, lee and mar will be sharing a microphone. we have a quorum and the secretary to the small business commission will now take roll call for the s.b.c. [roll call] >> we have a quorum. >> we have a quorum on both sides. the next item on the agenda is item number two. welcome and opening remarks from each commission president. building inspection commission president mel murphy will speak first followed by the small business commission president, luke o'brien. president murphy: good evening, fellow commissioners. thank you for being here for this joint meeting of the b.i.c. and the small business commission. i want to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here. the objective of this hearing today, commissioners, is to understand and become educated on how the process works in various city agencies that can we, the b.i.c. and s.b.c. do to make life easier for everyone. it is hard to t

at the question for commissioner ahern.can you talk about how the nature of the threat has changed over the years? >> that is a great question. when you take a look at the 30 years -- over the 30 years i've watched this, clearly you see is admiral allen talks about some of a low flying aircraft and the mothership solis on the late 70s and early '80s in south florida to shifting into the world's commercial containers. a lot of initiatives ration of their now you see the drug trafficking move over to mexico into the whole central american chain. still issues and some of the other ports and opportunities of entry that i think the game-changer was when you saw the events of 9/11 that showed as far as the attack on the united states the deliberate attack to introduce that people to create significant harm here. and the country was accepting of a certain amount of illegal aliens coming across the border that zero tolerance came crashing down on all of us when we have the events of 9/11. that was the game-changer many take a look

. >> i have a question for commissioner ahern. can you talk about how the nature of the threats have changed over the years? >> that's a great question. when you look over the 30 years -- >> oh, there you go. >> over the 30 years you clearly saw the drug trafficking threat, you know, changing as admiral allen talked about with the low flying aircraft, the boats to then shifting into the maritime commercial world, a lot of different initiatives down there, and now you see the drug trafficking move over to mexico and through the central american chain, still issues in some of the other ports opportunities of entry, but the game changer was when you saw the events of 9/11 and they tried to create significant harm here. while the country was acceptive of a certain amount of illegal drugs or people over the border, but zero tolerance came crashing down on all of us with 9/11. if you look at the mission of the department of homeland security or any agencies with a responsibility of protecting the border or national security efforts, the

back in the -- several memos have surfaced by howard denton, a legend in the nuclear field, and john ahern, former nrc commissioner, that they both warned that this design in a catastrophe could create big problems. >> and what about location, charlie? you know, this is located right on the coast. we've -- >> well, you know -- >> we've got a few nuclear reactors right on the coast. >> in japan, i mean, the problem is there's not a lot of spare land. but we try to put reactors on the coast because particularly if you're shipping components for their construction, it's easy to land on the coast, and, you know, you're talking about big vessels and tubes, and you put them on the back of a flatbed truck, you know, you disrupt entire community bees even if you can get them through. so this is why we tend to build reactors predominantly near the coast. likewise, it's easier to ship out if we go to long-term nuclear waste storage in a geological repository somewhere, you can ship it out without having to transit the dangerous fuel through populated communities. so this is why we do it, but, obviou