dialogue with the planning department as well as working with the source of plowshares and catholicties projects on financing plans. as part of that we are in conversations with the project sponsors and mohcd, about the number of inclusionary units or over income units for households to be included with each household. and the original plan had been to have 10% of each unit, and are we're evaluating whether to -- whether to eliminate it from the plowshares building and increase the number of units in the catholic charities unit but we'll provide a more detailed update at a future board meeting on that with the board members. also ticd is working on their vertal plans for the island and had a conference with the planning department and to make a formal application next week. the arts master plan will be providing an update on this at the i.t.c. next week but proposals from the artists are slated to come in on the 27th of this month. we are continuing to work on the final map for treasure island and with the department of works, the public works, public utilities commission, and the c

the activists said they were following the prophet isaiah's command to beat swords into plowshares. they hung banners inside the based reading "nuclear weapons: illegal - immoral." they were also carrying a statement that quoted dr. martin luther king describing the united states as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. among those arrested were the catholic priest steve kelly, martha hennessy, the granddaughter of dorothy day, and elizabeth mcalister who co-founded jonah house in baltimore with her late husband phil berrigan. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen:n: and i'm nermeen shai. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the trump administration has announced plans to deploy national guard troops along the u.s.-mexico border. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen described the plan to reporters at the white house on wednesday. >> security which is national security. it is not a partisan issue. it is not something we can

industries and we have a vulnerable drones and drones from iran was appointed to align our ships and plowshares following drones of our nuclear facility and in the not-too-distant future you can envision forming drones as being a threat is there anything in our any in your priorities that would address that somewhat immediate threat? >> well. yes although nothing as rapidly as we would like so those forming drones problem is something that we absolutely see and recognize and are very concerned about. there are two issues there and one is you have to have just plain enough shooters to take out the number of drones that you have and as we look toward the future frankly i think our d capabilities today are directed energy capabilities are close to the point where they are an effective countermeasure against forming drones. the other meaning we don't necessarily have to shoot bullets to get them and i don't object to that but the other part of the issue and really felt part of the issue is the acquisition targeting control and that is where frankly i'm looking to advance in ai for artificial intell