[applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction, about to all the people at cnas.e cnas them is will be a unique one and it's great to be back here this morning to be part of this conference. this reminds me of a store that is told of a traveling preacher who wanders around in the pacific northwest and through idaho and montana visiting different towns and giving sermons. he walked into one small town in montana, and he found itself on the pulpit and it was just one person bear in the church. -- one person bear in the church. he said, my son, i am here and i'm prepared to give a full sermon and to attend your spiritual needs, but you are only one person and so what would you like me to do? he goes, well, patrick, i'm a cattle farmer and if i went up on the

some kids are going to take these skills and go into that you know, the nursing, the cna and careers into the nursrsg fast, they may -- path, they may use and become a doctor, but pay their way through college doing those other positions first. so the's a lot of great experiences and things that we're going to see out there that we aren't able to have in our current location. and bring all the kids from all the buildings, that will be beneficial for everyone because then we're not having for double program throughout the district or t triple program with our three high schools. >> ron: so from the technical aspect, what do you see as the big advantage of having the separate stand-alone building awhy from the two existinghigh schools? >> one of the biggest things as a district is we know we want to offer equal programming for all of our students, equal access, and so in our research with our committee, when we did our work, we realized that students are very interested in current technical education, but traveling to the opposite high school was not something students were willing to d

my name is sean brimley, i'm the executive vice president here at cnas. t year we were honored to arrange a private screening for a compelling documentary on the war in afghanistan called the hornet's nest. the movie followed a father/son documentary team as they embedded in a front line u.s. army unit and encountered some of the fiercest fighting of the war. the film won critical acclaim around the country and helped draw attention back to the wars in afghanistan and iraq which are still, unfortunately, with us today. on a recent trip to los angeles, michelle michele flournoy and i were grateful to be exposed to some of the projects that theç production team at strong eagle media -- the team that put together the hornet's nest -- is putting together. one of which they've agreed to share some advance footage with us today. so so without further ado, let me introduce the clip and describe some of their projects, join me in welcoming david salzburg from strong eagle media. david. [applause] >> it's an honor to be here, and i want to thank michele and sean a

stephanie:: the national conversation has also turned to how you cna protect yourself in a shooting. governor terry branstad weighed in on that today-- saying specifically he wouldn't support arming iowa teachers with guns to protect schools. "i'm satisfied with the laws we have in iowa. i'm not advocating any changes and i don't want to divide people on a partisan basis on an issue that people have real strong convictions on." stephanie:: iowa schools are currently gun- free zones, by state law. branstad told us today he thinks the policy should stay in place. jack: donald trump's reaction to the terror attack is controversial. he's calling for a shutdown of all muslims entering the united states. trump is also campaign saying that "without looking at the various polling data, it's obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension." several presidential candidates, both democratic and republican, have criticized his comments for going too far. trump will be back to campaign in iowa on friday at the state fair grounds. jack: speaking of donald trump...there's a new monmouth univer

one of the things we have been focused on at cnas, michelle loren and i have spent a fire amount of time in silicon valley over the past couple of years. loren and i convened a working group throughout a couple months ago, our friend will goodman who's in the audience helped set that up. there are a number of key things that came out of that conversation. one of the things we asked the participants who were all entrepreneurs in silicon valley, many with d.o.d. or national security backgrounds, we asked them to do a predictive exercise, where did they think this kind of collaboration might go? the first thing that came out of this was sort of the pros and cons of high-level support for innovation and collaboration with silicon valley. that's very good from the perspective of lending legitimacy to an organization like the diux or allowing mid-level people in the organization to know it's okay to work with silicon valley. the down side could be in generating that momentum we create unrealistic expectations that we just can't meet. the diux and silicon valley writ large can't help to answer

nonprofit space and so folks like the institute for vets and military families and the henry jackson foundation and cnasut then critically was to have our government partners here who have been leading the effort from joining forces to dod to the services to labor and va. and so we brought that collective brain trust and expertise and leadership to the bush institute to focus on these three core questions. >> and i think, you know, we learned very quickly, who are they? and, again, there's no one size fits all to this and there's various segments but what we did see as a clear pattern is that we saw young enlisted service members under the age of 35, most of them had some post secondary education but they didn't have a post secondary degree or certification, but those were the ones that are really facing high employment. greater than 11%. so, that was our target population, and one of the first things we learned as a group and the second question -- >> right. what are some of the major challenges that the they face. we heard it starting from the president and dakota. one is a communication and culture g