mr. christiansen. >> hello. christopher christiansen, ibew local 10. i am one of the fisherman's wharf community benefit board of directors. i just want to speak very highly of troy campbell here. he dedicates every ounce of his time to better the fisherman's wharf district for the public safety, environment -- just the all around experience and i want to thank him very much when he brought this retail strategy to our board of directors meeting. it is beyond what we expected from him. and i hope that as you read it, you could understand how we want fisherman's wharf to grow and be part of the port. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? >> i'm kevin carroll. i just want to thank troy and the community benefit district. as he mentioned, we have 3200 hotel rooms and probably 2,000 employees that are just in the hotel industry alone on fisherman's wharf. and looking at it as just a comprehensive and strategic look at how the retail components of that can help everybody, including the city. i just want to thank him for all the work o

mr. secretary, it is so good to be with you today as he make this announcement. you and miss christiansen, who are leading the efforts for the foreign service, we are here today because a few months ago, the u.s. congress gave the second terry of agriculture new tools to fight fires. the advent of that has been they have come up with a new vision on implementing the tools. it cannot come at a more important time. we have lost tens of thousands of homes in the last year. wildfires have killed 43 people. we needed a new tool. we certainly need the new vision . we need further cup -- cooperation by all entities. the challenges we face with changing climate and more dire conditions are allowing for more fires start and more volume in a types of fires that are burning across the west. my colleagues have done a great job communicating to you what it is like in the west now. it has become the new normal. it is small communities trying to fight fires with as many beautiful -- resources as they can. with neighboring communities also fighting fires, sometimes they do not feel like they have adequat

mr. scott christiansen. [applause] 's scott is with the u.s. naval institute and was instrumental in giving us some of the fabulous photos in the book. >> i'd like to start by asking who here's heard about the story of "indianapolis" by watching the 1975 film, jaws? usually that's where most people hear about it. any other places? did you see a comment documentary or hear the news about it? i'm trying to think, where else? in the last dear? who learned about it in the last year? >> it was an article in aarp magazine. >> there was an article in the aarp magazine. a write up in "the new york post" about the finding of the ship? about the book, okay. i had heard about it as a 13-year-old who was that nerdy kid that went to the library. i watched it with my father. he was an immigrant from the former yugoslavia and he learned english by watching documentaries many years earlier. when we watch this it was a line in the documentary. as is the ship that carried a bomb and was sunk at the end of world war ii. there was very little about it. being that

mr. secretary carter it's a good to be with you as you made this announcement and you and ms. christiansen who is leading this effort for the fourth service come so appreciative and our new forest serves the reader today because a few months ago the u.s. congress gave the secretary of agriculture in the forest service new tools to help fight fires. the advent of that has now been that the did come up with a new vision on how they are in for many of those tools. and it couldn't come at a more important time. we've lost tens of thousands of homes in just the last year, and wildfires have killed 43 people. so we needed a new tools and we certainly need the new vision, and we certainly need further cooperation by all entities. why? because of the challenges we face with changing climate and more dire conditions allowing for more fire starts, and more volume in the types of fires that are burning all across the west. my colleagues have already done a great job communicating to you what it's like in the west now. it has become the new normal. the new normal is smoking it is trying to fight fires

brittany christiansen, jessica barnett, who did not vote for president trump and i've more as an independent, and colette forster, who voted for the first time in 2016 because she wanted to see mr who voted for hillary clinton, jamie amo, a lifelong independent who registered as a democrat in 2016 and voted for clinton, and melissa alam, who first supported bernie sanders but voted for hillary clinton in the general election. these women range in age from 26 to 34. they all say they plan to vote in november's midterms. >> do you think millennials are as polarized as the rest of the country? >> yeah, i think we definitely are. i think when i personally find out someone voted for trump, i just change my opinion of them right away. i actually don't have any republican friends that i know of, so. >> there's a lot of people that won't speak up because when they're online or they, you know, post their opinion on social media, they are immediately attacked. they're called a bigot, a racist, a xenophobe, all of those things, and those are the worst things you can be called, especially when you are not one. >> so, for me, i became a republican when i was 12 years old. >> you started ear