but since that we've done research and development and every major city from budapest to stuttgart has had terrible reaction with tunnel boring machines causing tunnel collapse. that's something that we should definitely consider. now, i'd like to mention that last month, ed reiskin made a proposal saying that i'm happy to report that we continue to make progress with the pagoda palace plan. the effort to change the retrieval site has involved a significant amount of work on a very tight timeline. the strong support of supervisor chiu, the mayor's office, we have worked closely with several city agencies including the planning department, the city attorney's office, and the department of building inspection to try to make the pagoda palace option a reality. one thing that was left out by mr. reiskin, all of the employees of the mta, were these citizens of san francisco and the business owners in north beach. if anybody were at the meeting in november, the first time the north beach merchants were really notified by the mta or anybody, there was a huge uproar against this project. it sh

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with and you're not immune to it and crew rest and you're trying to get it places and you're in stuttgart and you have 54 countries and over 12 million square miles to adequately support africom. i will ask you a minute about a question on the resources. in terms of time and distance have you thought how you're going to handle that? you get a crisis in subsahara africa, you will have a hard time getting there. what do you think about that location? >> yes, sir. i think that will require solid coordination between all the inner agency partners so we can best understand indicational warnings prior to those happening so we can best posture ourselves to be able to respond appropriately. as you know because of the time and distance and basing challenges that we have that will continue to be a challenge. so we just, i will, if confirmed, look at that very carefully, put some requirements to the leadership and then insure that everybody understands the risk that's involved in what our americans throughout -- >> that is something you have no control over. that is where it is right now. frankly wh