now, in his mind, this is part of his multipronged defensive against the south. so, he's still looking at that as how the war should be won. but as you recall, you have something unexpected here that happens. when mcclellan goes to the peninsula, lincoln relieves him as general in chief. at this point, there's no one driving the train in the union army, there's no one person controlling these prongs. and this is just at the point when the union is really starting to put the pressure on the confederacy. in many respects, the confederacy is starting to fray. now, this is a really bad mistake, arguably, on the part of lincoln. lincoln doesn't mean it to be one, but it ends up being that way. he then puts no one else in the job of general in chief, you know, which makes it even worse. and lincoln, essentially, becomes general in chief at the time. union general phil kearny, who later killed at 2nd manassas, he argued that what should have been done is mcclellan needed to be left as general in chief and someone else needed to be put in charge of the army potomac, beca

the reason for these are multiprong. sometimes there's issues that are arising in neighborhoods where a merchant may say we need some help from the city. in other aspects such as with what francis is doing is with the ada compliance so we're trying to take the same messages and same services we're offering to invest in neighborhoods and roll that out to all commercial districts, but i think we need to work with office of small business and also invest neighborhoods to find a consistent approach. i think the commission has ideas as well on where it would be a good target point moving forward. i think we'd definitely appreciate that. >> commissioner riley. >> yes. hi, welcome and thank you. this questions for francis 'cause i know -- thank you for handling the language barrier in the clement street area. but the language part is pretty complicated in the chinese community because of the different dialects so do you find that challenging and -- >> i think that's my professional background 'cause i have a multidegree in chin

the reason for these are multiprong. sometimes there's issues that are arising in neighborhoods where a merchant may say we need some help from the city. in other aspects such as with what francis is doing is with the ada compliance so we're trying to take the same messages and same services we're offering to invest in neighborhoods and roll that out to all

hearing so much lately about how the military is not going to be auble to do multiship responses and multiprong responses because of the cutback. how much is this costing and is this something that we're not going to be able to do in the future or are we unable to do some response currently to the philippines because of budget limitations? >> first, thank you for your kind words. on the assistance we're able to provide to the philippines and the cost, i don't have a precise estimate. obviously this is a fast-moving train. and our first priority is asifingt the people of the philippines. we'll come to the cost estimates later. it does carry costs by i don't have the figures. we are committed as a department and government to supporting hadr efforts in the asia-pacific region and around the world. in has been a key priority the secretaries' travels to the ambia pacific region and has been a focus elsewhere, up as in south america. this is something we're prioritizing and something we increasing ing of concern. also on this very point, hadr is critical in that we help build partner and ally capaci