. >> chairman: mr. watts. >> good morning chair and board members.i'm grateful to be here this morning because i got to get out of the wind up in my area. so this is a very nice res pit for me respit for mere. me. a week from friday will be the last day to see bill introductions. it has been a slow period for the last several weeks of maybe a dozen or two a day, and i think it will pick up in the next coming weeks. we will most likely have a lot of bills to bring forward to you at the next cycle. on your agenda, on table 1, we have a couple of bills that are poised for action. first is ab1848 by assembly member lac lackey out of southern california. his bill would propose to appropriate as much as $4 billion from the remaining proposition 1a high speed rail bond program specifically to the regional transportation -- regional rail corridor in southern california, operated by metrolink. as a side note, we know that the high-speed rail authority is going to be seeking an appropriation this year to continue the work on the central valley to bay area segm

. >> chairman: mr. watts. >> good morning chair and board members.m grateful to be here this morning because i got to get out of the wind up in my area. so this is a very nice res pit for me respit for mere. me. a week from friday will be the last day to see bill introductions. it has been a slow period for the last several weeks of maybe a dozen or two a day, and i think it will pick up in the next coming weeks. we will most likely have a lot of bills to bring forward to you at the next cycle. on your agenda, on table 1, we have a couple of bills that are poised for action. first is ab1848 by assembly member lac lackey out of southern california. his bill would propose to appropriate as much as $4 billion from the remaining proposition 1a high speed rail bond program specifically to the regional transportation -- regional rail corridor in southern california, operated by metrolink. as a side note, we know that the high-speed rail authority is going to be seeking an appropriation this year to continue the work on the central valley to bay area segmen

. >> chairman: mr. watts. >> good morning chair and board members.i'm grateful to be here this morning because i got to get out of the wind up in my area. so this is a very nice res pit for me respit for mere. me. a week from friday will be the last day to see bill introductions. it has been a slow period for the last several weeks of maybe a dozen or two a day, and i think it will pick up in the next coming weeks. we will most likely have a lot of bills to bring forward to you at the next cycle. on your agenda, on table 1, we have a couple of bills that are poised for action. first is ab1848 by assembly member lac lackey out of southern california. his bill would propose to appropriate as much as $4 billion from the remaining proposition 1a high speed rail bond program specifically to the regional transportation -- regional rail corridor in southern california, operated by metrolink. as a side note, we know that the high-speed rail authority is going to be seeking an appropriation this year to continue the work on the central valley to bay area segm

. >> chairman: mr. watts. >> good morning chair and board members.eful to be here this morning because i got to get out of the wind up in my area. so this is a very nice res pit for me respit for mere. me. a week from friday will be the last day to see bill introductions. it has been a slow period for the last several weeks of maybe a dozen or two a day, and i think it will pick up in the next coming weeks. we will most likely have a lot of bills to bring forward to you at the next cycle. on your agenda, on table 1, we have a couple of bills that are poised for action. first is ab1848 by assembly member lac lackey out of southern california. his bill would propose to appropriate as much as $4 billion from the remaining proposition 1a high speed rail bond program specifically to the regional transportation -- regional rail corridor in southern california, operated by metrolink. as a side note, we know that the high-speed rail authority is going to be seeking an appropriation this year to continue the work on the central valley to bay area segment that

. >> chairman: mr. watts. >> good morning chair and board members.i'm grateful to be here this morning because i got to get out of the wind up in my area. so this is a very nice res pit for me respit for mere. me. a week from friday will be the last day to see bill introductions. it has been a slow period for the last several weeks of maybe a dozen or two a day, and i think it will pick up in the next coming weeks. we will most likely have a lot of bills to bring forward to you at the next cycle. on your agenda, on table 1, we have a couple of bills that are poised for action. first is ab1848 by assembly member lac lackey out of southern california. his bill would propose to appropriate as much as $4 billion from the remaining proposition 1a high speed rail bond program specifically to the regional transportation -- regional rail corridor in southern california, operated by metrolink. as a side note, we know that the high-speed rail authority is going to be seeking an appropriation this year to continue the work on the central valley to bay area segm

mr. clint watts. clint is a senior research fellow at george washington university center for cyber and homeland security. he recently examined the rise of social media influence publishing his first book entitled, messing with the, enemy surviving the social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news. you covered a lot there. his research and writing focuses on terrorism, counter-terrorism, social media influence and russian disinformation. from 2014 to 20, 16 he worked with a team to track and model the rise of russian influence operations via social media leading up to the u.s. presidential election in 2016. this research led clint to testify before four different senate committees in 2017 and 2018 regarding russia's information warfare campaign against the united states on the west. before coming a consultant, clint served as a u.s. army infantry officer and fbi special agent, as the special executive officer of the batting -- as an insult to the fbi's counter-terrorism office and

mr. clint watt. [ applause ] >> thanks to everybody for having me today. it is a pretty remarkable transition from what i talked about 2016, no one was too interested. not sure if you are aware of russia interfered in our elections. we have not talked about it much for the last four years. today i want to talk to you about something other than that. a good way to start it off and think about the dilemma that you all face out there in each of these states which has different interests and financial interests and different population that are looking now at different information sources. i think that's kind of where i would like to start. i was in new orleans earlier this week. so i told the story, july 4th weekend and i convinced audience that i was the stunt double because of the movie. had i done that five years later, somebody looked at the internet and told me it is impossible. we would have select it off. we are talking about 2006, you will have multiple enable information. you would be like this is not true and okay, i will buy the beer. like we just

mr teen beat magazine himself just so has found himself in quite the predicament as indigenous people and environmental activists have blocked rail lines and protests across the country in solidarity with the watts whitten 1st nation hereditary chiefs and land offenders. who are desperately desperately trying to prevent a frack gas pipeline from being built across their unseeded lands in british columbia the new york times reports that quote after a 2 week period that elevated the national political temp temperature disrupted much of the rail service in eastern canada and led to layoffs prime minister justin trudeau called for an end to the blockades in support of the hereditary watched chiefs in british columbia and it's how that is playing out that has added even more fuel to the fires of protest in the solidarity with the tribe monday it was reported that despite a statement declaring that quote there has always been continues to be a willingness from the thai and the naga mohawks to discuss an exit strategy of the c.n. rail line main main line that didn't stop canada's royal mounted police force as you can see from physically removing the 1st nation protesters from their camp a camp that nev

mr. casten: just a couple of kata points i hope all of us can appreciate. the first evidence that homnids made fire is a cave 100 million years old. james watt invenned the steam 144 years ago an ushered in the industrial age. f we went to zero co-2 tomorrow, we're looking at six feet of sea level rise coming. a that level there's estimated about $23 trillion of economic loss to the system, $900 billion of u.s. property at risk before factoring in debt losses and ulling out of insurance. ere's some serious, systemic risks to the economy. when assets exposed to climate change exceed the entire subprime mortgage market, how is the fed talking about climate change as a systemic risk to the economy? mr. powell: climate change a very important issue, one that's the province of elected representatives to set the overall direction of society and how we will respond to climate change and its challenges. we have a job to do, to think about the potential implications for the financial system, for the economy, and i think we're at the very early stables of filling in what exactly that means. in terms of, you know, things like particular assets, these a