this island, treasure island, is being contaminated as this work is going on. it has a cover-up of radio activity, which none of the supervisors have investigated, frankly. the city is covering it up. the state is covering it up. people have gotten cancer. you have rising sea levels in san francisco. that's not factored in. i mean, how are people going to survive there when the sea rises? and, furthermore, in an earthquake, you would have -- city planners did a study that there would be liquidification. it's a cover-up. thank you. >> i'm paris hayes. i've been on the island for 14 years. many of you have said that you reached out to the residents. i've gone door to door, stood in front of stores passing out fliers, informing them of this toll. and every person i spoke to said they were not aware. not aware. yet you say we're aware. you don't knock on doors. i did. you said you want to implement this in 2021 when the first building is erect. the first one i'm aware of is for the veterans who are in programs right now. they're not going to afford this toll. but y

on the island it's just the opposite.he island sees this is a strictly wind-driven waves can erosion been going on since day one, as long as there's been a tangier. >> but they also see that the island is starting to dissolve beneath them. >> the thing -- not really, no, because, again, they dent have the perspective necessary to see that. just in terms of height. if you point out to islanders that astronomical high tides bring the water percolating into the ground to turn yards into ponds. they'll respond by saying, well, that's not sea level rise, that's flooding. so it's a see man tick battle and -- semantic battle and we're at the wind where it's moot. it doesn't matter at all. what does matter, and i don't anyone hijack your question but you have me on a roll here. what does matter is that tangier is the canary in a coal mine. the fact it the plight is there, and this is a playing that's going to be shared by all of us, no matter where we live, in the not distant future. we're looking at a projected two feet rise in

, that is surrounded water, an island. right? and also is the one heavily impacted by the breach, which is a meltdown. you cannot come here, even with subsidized toll or whatever, you're not going to make it to the island right now, so let's be realistic about that. i think that kind of education, the preamble, that everyone must be in line today, the san francisco "examiner" and the media are taking up the issues here. and they're just reporting what on their standpoint. but we need to pull everybody back so they understand the comprehensive messages here that we are trying to do. that you, san francisco transportation, were the one, the legislature in the city of san francisco has designated. and you've gone beyond the call of duty to make sense of this toll. we're trying to make sense of this. we also need authority that all of us here, have expressed concerns and again we wanted to make sure they are addressing the fact. we understand what the legislature says and we have to comply with those -- the legislature unless

i'm a resident of treasure island, yerba buena island, and treasure island. one of the things we're realizing, is that the hidden costs of living on the island has to be added to the mortgage calculation for people that want to by houses. that's at least about $7,000 to $8,000 of additional costs that's not tax deductible. so that would affect the top of the people that will belying at treasure island in the future. so all the people that could live there are those that can afford to pay the extra expenses. with treasure island, it's designated as an opportunity zone, which is a contradiction in terms because the small businesses can't operate without paying extra for taking advantage of the opportunity of the opportunity. so i hope we can come out with a better solution. [applause] >> i'm a long-time resident of treasure island. i'm here against the toll. the toll will effectively create a gated community. the toll will cause a financial burden. it's generally a bad idea. it's egregious for us who have put our time in, worrying about power outages and learni

the treasure island community developments did a fly over of the treasure islands -- of treasure island on the 2nd of december. we have new aerial views of the active construction activities. can you bring those up? so this is the island, and you can see a large portion of the island has been prepped for construction activities. the two areas -- that are the location of the most work currently are in the centre of the islands on the south side. you can see the excavation area for the new water tanks, and on the north side to, the excavation area for the realigned road. you can also see the detour route that has been opened since last august, bringing the traffic up over the top of the hill and down to hillcrest. this is where the new water tanks will be constructed. you can see in the background background new soil retaining wall that is being constructed as the site is excavated. and then this is on the north side of the island. the realignment, the grading for the realignment of mccullough road. and then down on treasure island , in the aerial here, i want to bring your attention to t

i've got the islands and then my family.so i had to let one go so that i can have the other one >> sreenivasan: u.s. military officials announced saturday that efforts to fight the islamic state in eastern syria are nearing an end. this after u.s. backed syrianre forces capthe town of hajin, which is one of the largest urban enclaves controlled by the islamic state in the region. but as we've reported on this program; despite efforts to quell the growth of isis, are regrouping, and localized groups are emerging, as recruiters exploit the war anpolitical factors. i recently sat down with "new york times" foreignco espondent rukmini callimachi who covers isis. her in-depth podcast "caliphli"" takeeners inside the terror group and their motives through her relationship with self-described former isisfa member abu huz you have a ten part podcast series that looks at so many differt layers of isis, so people might go back and subscribe now but didn't hear it then, what were you trying to accomplish? >> i was trying to accomplish

i'm sherry with one treasure island. just wanted to say that one treasure island, we're committed to being a partner and making this less painful for folks. but one of the things that we've worked on and have discussed with rachel over the last few years is our providing a supplemental van service that could potentially help folks go to grocery stores or appointments in the city and so forth. and we're committed to looking at that. it is a little easier to get funding for a vehicle. it's the ongoing operation funding that is a little harder. we put in, i think two different applications at this point. in the last 2-3 years. but we're committed to it. and i just wanted to put that out there as one other element of this overall effort. so thank you. >> president tsen: thank you. anyone else? okay. commissioners -- director lai? >> director lai: a couple of questions. on your treasure island on-off trip averages slide. i think it's slide 4. is this -- are theprojections bd on the number 1 and two combined incentives? >> you

below us chains of mostly uninhabited islands that together form the nation of the marshall islands. which is not a castle no doubt the british army right. with our bombs picked up by spending christmas carried out stop making history. spread over two million square kilometers of the central pacific the marshall islands is a scattering of more than a thousand islands and eyelets. few people have heard of in a we talk but it's the ground zero of us nuclear testing in the pacific. the welcome sign he said what we've come to see but when you know what it really is a few would want to visit this place. the settle is a roof over the islands so remote that there's no regular transport in or out it'll be a week before our plane returns if we're lucky. it's a stunning place. hides a. secret. i. i. i. i. this is a place whose atomic past is. seed into its present the people of in a way top were forced into exile by the atomic fool and allowed to return after three decades a new generation is learning about the traditions and customs of this place. they have also been told about america's top

>> the first building on the island is 124 units. there are 280 units total on the island. our first project with source to the shares is 105 units. and we expect to break ground on that in 2020. >> what is the number of units that triggers the investment in the ferry terminal? >> the ferry terminal, that project they plan to bid it next spring and start construction this coming summer. we will have to do construction over two construction windows so the project should be -- the ferry terminal should be completed by the fall of 2020. >> when does the ferry service need to begin? >> as. was describing, the current plan is to begin ferry service with the commencement of tolling, and a.c. transit service in 2021. >> regardless of the number of units built? >> it is expected we will have first occupancy at that time. everything is being sinker might just synchronized to first occupancy. >> let's say only 100 units are built by 2021. will be still open the ferry terminal? >> it is so we can still start with the peak hour services. >> regardless of the number of units. >> regardl

island and safety. it is a very flat place. there is no reason that everybody and anybody should be able to get a look around easily and

the circle is a room of the islands so remote that there's no regular transport in or else it'll be a week before our plane returns if we're lucky. it's a stunning place. hides a dark secret. i. m. yes. this is a place whose atomic past is seed into its present the people of in a way talk were forced into exile by the atomic full elf allowed to return after three decades and new generation is learning about the traditions and customs of this place. they have also been told about america's top sick legacy and how it lies under a giant dharm. on em. they are interesting some are they understand that we have a voice in our you know island that is what they called by using. they noted there's a tomb because they have been there so the dawn you call it the term we call it that. we set out the next morning to see for ourselves. of the nearly two hours we approach one of in a way talking assholes for. what we've come to see is hard to spot from the beach only from. the air can you get a true sense of the sky of what the united states military calls. the dollar is actually a dump it contains

we dock on the island of ineko. this is beautiful. wow. david, when you look all the way down that way and all the way down that way, it's just beaches. >> yeah, this used to be all land. and then all the way out it used to be beach. now the beach is expanding. sooner oorr:hi istine, ay one d lost forever. in local lore, the saying is, if you take away their land, their spirits go too. >> the land here is owned by families for hundreds of years. it's a really -- it's a feeling of wealth for most. >> reporter: jack is an american expat who's spend decades advocating for the rights of the marshallese. >> what the u.s. did out here was horrendous. there's no other way to describe it. >> reporter: during the cold war, the united states used the bikini atoll as a strategic military position and a testing ground for nuclear weapons. >> zero seconds and the unbelievable explosion detonated! >> the one weapon that did most of the damage to the northern marshall islands was the bravo shot. that was 1,000 times greater than the weapons that were use

when do residents go on and off the island? windy visitors come come on and off the island? what do our small businesses depend on? i have a lot less concerned about the weekend tolling, for example. i do get we have a lot of athletic teams and a lot of tourists. i have less questions there. i just really want to understand the monday through friday management, and again, what is the expected expense. what are the sources of revenue, where does this tolling program fit into that. is very helpful to hear that munimobile will continue to be subsidized in the same way that we subsidize other neighborhoods , and this is again , as was stated earlier, to help fund a.c. transit ferry and the on island shuttle service that is a helpful distinction, actually. it is true, we do not provide other neighborhoods with that type of service. that gives me a little bit more comfort. i really do want to understand the free meaning for youth and against the discount program for our households where $75 feels like a lot. for example, for folks from paycheck to paycheck and may not be able to a

below us chains of mostly uninhabited islands that together form the nation of the marshall islands. which is part of me yes i don't know about the experience of writing. the way we're going to see much of a part of life because the president carried out such a case of history. spread over two million square kilometers of the central pacific the marshall islands is a scattering of more than a thousand islands and eyelets. few people live in a we talk but it's the ground zero of us nuclear testing in the pacific. the welcome sign he said what we've come to see but when you know what it really is a few would want to visit this place. the circle is a roof. so remote that there's no regular transport in or out it'll be a week before our plane returns if we're lucky. it's a stunning place. hides a dark secret. to be. on. yes. this is a place whose atomic past is seed into its present the people of in a way talk were forced into exile by the atomic full elf allowed to return after three decades and new generation is learning about the traditions and customs of this place. was they have als

is infrastructure like on the island? roads in power? >> roads size of sidewalks. about a mile 1/2 all together. about 275 houses. most of them small. wood frame, two-story. about a century old. it is treeless, 80%, a island 1 mile wide by 3 long, 80% is salt marsh, and it floods. and makes getting around difficult. it has a school, only k-12 school left in virginia, two churches with a very dedicated congregation. one of the most storied methodist in the country. is known through out the midatlantic as a place where particularly scholarly. it is a -- it is a place partly because flat and inches above the water, without any -- interruption to horizon, it a place sky as much as water. that surprised me when i moved there just how much the sky figures into your environment when you walk around. >> here at national press club in washingto washington d.c., m. devotees of blue crab. how does the climate change in rising of sea, how does that affect the crab men or change their how they make a living? >> well right now, it is n

the fighting was still going on at one end of the island.hey set to work clearing the airstrip even while we were fighting for it. the first plane landed just 24 hours after the seabees and started to work. the second one lands one minute later. we welcome the pilots to our new home. it was our first chance to thank those guys for the job they did for us before and during the attack. on d plus 4, our relief came in. maybe you think we were not glad to see them. i guess all of us knew from the first, no matter how tough the going was, we would take the island. just the same, the day the colors were run up on this palm tree and flew for the first time over tarawa we got a lump in our throats. we were mighty proud. these are the marines who took tarawa. >> visit our website. you can view our tv schedule, preview upcoming program, and watch lectures, museums and ore. c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television company. b and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage o

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remoteness made it seem like a good place for the dawn and its contaminated contents but like most of the islands of the marshal's route it is bailey a major above sea level at its highest point. when the storm was built in the light nine hundred seventy s. there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out as it is now ready zero active isotopes from underneath the dime roll out with it that is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change which it will be very devastation even if it really it we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling. that the ocean is rising and it's and it's making this nuclear waste leak out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacies it's link. is a poet in climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ance

some of our islands disappear or fracture. rhode island becomes an archipelago. hope that my colleagues on the other side can appreciate the changes like this to my state are things that i have to respond to. a recent "new york times" article suggested that we may have to retreat from the coasts in order to protect ourselves from rising waters and more powerful storms. why should rhode islanders have to retreat from our coast just to protect polluters? it makes no sense. it is fundamentally unjust. many of us not only live by the sea but work and sail and fish on it. so climate change threatens rhode islanders' lifestyles, our livelihoods and our lives. the union of concerned scientists has estimated for the u.s. that by 2100, nearly 2.5 million residential and commercial properties collectively valued at $1.07 trillion today will be at risk of chronic flooding, and that's just from sea level rise alone. storm surge and rain-driven flooding amplify that risk. drill down to rhode island and diesel low, the rhode island firm, has estimated that over 5,300 homes wor

protected islands such a small way the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together . but in another bitter irony of the sand wars new. construction we're choir's ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand is the have it in history that goes back two thousand. you can't just die. far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china sixty five million flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis thirty percent of t

again for at least twenty four thousand years unrooted island site of the daum soldiers works. goes to one of the most toxic substances known the result of a bomb test gone wrong one of the attempted nuclear weapons explosions didn't work and so the plutonium rather than having a nuclear blast was just broken apart by the conventional explosives leading to a about four hundred little chunks of put tony of that were spread all around the a tall. those four hundred chunks were put in plastic bags and tossed into the crater underneath the dime well they have this round of water on a pick up loose pieces for instance and just gather up whatever could throw it in a pile and i never had any clue that dust could literally get into your lungs. but these girls are dealing with every day all of us were. declassified us government documents reveal that washington knew the troops would be exposed to put ternium on router tile and this secret cable from one thousand nine hundred eighty two talks about the existence of solid plutonium bearing chunks on the island surface it warned that the q

if it were really it we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling. that the ocean is rising and it's and it's is making this nuclear waste leak out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacy is while it's linked. is a poet and climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ancestors they've been here for thousands of years and and there's also just nothing like you and your else and it's a part of why. you have. a rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how. the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands and compass is more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it

island and safety. it is a very flat place. there is no reason that everybody and anybody should be able to get a look around easily and safely. we designed a vast pedestrian network for places where people can walk safely along streets and walk around the entire island uninterrupted from cars, their different ranges for people help -- for how people get around. there are different pedestrian prioritized pathways throughout the island. the bicycle network is also extensive and a wide range of dedicated cycle track facilities to bike lanes on streets, to completely protected bike lanes that leave all the way around the island. and the vehicular network, people will drive on the island. we have thoughtfully been considering how that will happen looking at the intersection design in particular, also the maximum speed limit of the island is 25 miles per hour. keeping low speeds also encourage safety. the transit hub is very important to the project where the ferry comes in. we also have bold bus lines and m