winds are driving the flames and hard toward mulholland. the chief declares the condition of major emergency. the master plan of defense against a serious brush fire began support from air tankers is requested. 15 additional engine companies roll up all key personnel are alerted special mountain firefighting equipment is back. deputy and division chiefs move up to take command of field units and radio messages crackle in the fire as all the time it's heading straight down storm engine 31, 45, 46 and 67. move directly into the fire. fire has mulholland at the crest of the santa monica headed toward land. so these men fires are routine, but this one is pushing them higher. the flames take a run along the canyon slopes, heading uphill to the richards richards fireman with high pressure hose streams knocked the fire down as it tries to the jump as a bit of a mobile. but in the canyon between along the wide sweep of fire, traveling unchecked with a wind, there lies the problem problem. rough terrain and keeps fire crews the flames head on. fire

maryland you would think we are well connected that i traveled to pockets of maryland with senator mulhollandin ben karty and we are not as ready as we thought we were. and so a couple of things i would keep in mind is implementation. a couple of us think from the oas perspective and our core pillars are to promote democratic principals and protect human rights in development and security across the region. i also don't see a lot of our linemen at the national level perhaps from those core principals and i think the foundation should be on those core principals and from a national perspective and we talked a little bit about the data and protections, data protection and they all bring their own data and so on. what is the appetite of each nation in terms of the sovereignty entered to national sovereignty in digital and citizen sovereignty but what i mean by that is what is, how much autonomy and control to want to have over the implementing the infrastructure as well as the data. i think those are things that we had to keep in mind as well. >> i wanted to talk to you especially on the point h

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