wilma. no, no, no. you come on up. thank you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> president buell, and members of the commission for rec and park and also general ginsburg. dorothy strictland and i i are part of the 800 block club and have been stewards and advocates for the merced heights playground for more than 21 years. we have followed the failing playgrounds task force closely for about eight months. we were impressed by the facilitator, task force members, the recreation and parks staff and the parks alliance and say job well done. also we appreciated the opportunity for active participation of the public throughout the process. we wholeheartedly support the report given by dawn and ask that you adopt the recommendations of the failing playgrounds task force. thank you. >> thank you. >> dorothy did you want to speak? >> good morning everyone and i just want to really express my very, very much appreciation for our task force. the task force was so inclusive of the community at every point of their analysis of e

wilma cans from washington. a fellow at the brookings institute for the middle east policy.uthor of "temptations of power." i am pleased to have each of them here. let me begin with this tweet you say the more that we present opposition to paris attacks and support the right to blaspheme the more likely we are to alienate muslims. >> we have to make it clear distinction here. there is not a cultural divide on the mass slaughter of innocents and we should not even suspect that french muslims would be ok with that. this presumption of collective guilt that we are wondering what the muslims really think, that is different than the larger issue of cultural attitudes towards blasphemy. that is where there is a divide in france and it is possible to condemn the killings but not be ok with the right to blaspheme. i think that is what you would hear most french muslims saying. but if we present it that the only way to be against the attacks is to blaspheme, we are putting french muslins in a difficult position. >> you said the following. “the answer to islamic violence is islamic pe

during a "today" show report on hurricane wilma in 2005, a colleague has to hold him down to keep himom blowing away. >> i can hear you now, matt, just for a brief moment. the winds are -- cornell, pan down. this is how i'm staying out here. mike, our camera guy, is holding on. >> it doesn't work. our truck operator tom bare said, don't you wish you had your weight back. right about now i do. >> are you okay? >> we're okay. we're okay. we're coming inside. >> good idea. one that brian williams should have considered in hurricane isabel. >> we can get 70-mile-per-hour wind effect. >> during a live report in virginia beach, brian discovers what hurricane force really means when he calls over a weather channel colleague to take a wind speed reading. >> allow me to introduce to you mike seidel of the weather channel. what's your reading? >> we're kind of protected here -- >> it's not just hurricanes that have sent mike seidel flying. he's also found snow and ice on the ground can turn a weather report into a major slipup. this is what happens -- ow. geez. oh, gosh. >> and there's another

we saw hurricane wilma, not a catastrophic hurricane, it would across the top of my house and yet we had tens of thousands of people the day not the day, the hour of the storms die down in line for food and water because they hadn't prepared themselves. that cost the federal government millions and millions of dollars to do that. so that only pre-disaster mitigation is the plan the training, it's educating the public of what we expect from them and getting the private sector to protect their businesses also. we lose about 40% of our small businesses and every catastrophic event. they just don't have the wherewithal to come back. that's a huge hit on the economy. we saw in hurricane andrew going to homestead come it took 20 years for that community to recover because the small businesses failed. there were no jobs, and people bailed. so it is a partnership and it is something we have to work together. we've got a great fema administered to recognize that and we just have to give them the resources to make it happen. >> briefly, if any of you, start with mr. mccarthy aware of the examp

we saw hurricane wilma not a catastrophic hurricane. if one across the top of my house but yet we had tens of thousands of people and that hour the storm's died down because they had prepared themselves. that cost the federal government millions of dollars to do that. not only the pre-mitigation disaster but the planning and the training and educating the public and getting the private sector to protect their businesses also. we lose about 40% of our small businesses and every catastrophic event. they don't have the wherewithal to come back. that's a huge hit on the economy. we saw hurricane and are going through homestead it took 20 years for the community to recover because small businesses failed and there were no jobs than people bailed. so it is a partnership and something we have to work together and i think we have got a great fema administrator recognizes that and we have to give them the resources to make it happen. >> witnesses briefly and we will start with mr. mccarthy area where fix the examples were states of these program

we saw hurricane wilma not a catastrophic hurricane. we went across the top of my house. and yes we had tens of thousands of people the day -- not the day, the hour the storm died down standing in line for food because they hadn't prepared themselves. that cost the federal government millions of dollars. it's not just predisaster, it's planning, training educating the public what we expect from them and getting the private sector to protect their businesses also. we lose about 40% of our small businesses in every catastrophic event. they just don't have the wherewithal to come back. that's a huge hit on the economy. we saw in hurricane andrew going through homestead it took 20 years for that community to recover. it's something we have to work together. you know, we've got a great fema administrator that recognizes that. we just have to give them the resource to make it happen. >> if any of you -- we'll start with mr. mccarthy. are you aware of examples where states have used federal programs to invest in a way that has already shown to avoided additional damage and loss?

wilma, mount vernon, new york, a democratic caller. caller: thank you for taking my call.all because i agree with ms. lynch in reference to immigration. i am an immigrant myself. i believe that if people work and pay the taxes and they are good abiding citizens, they should get a chance. the only thing i did not like about ms. lynch is when she said she agreed with the -- oh, man -- the death penalty. i did not like that, but -- because with the racism in america, it is almost only black people getting killed in america with the death penalty, whether they are guilty or not. host: debbie, a republican caller, you are on the air. caller: i watched the confirmation yesterday and all my long because you reran it all night long. host: could not sleep? caller: i thought she talked really well. when the country voted 50 some percent against the president's things he did with immigration that he thought was legal in the country. the republicans are shooting themselves in the foot by nominating her. she should never have had to answer that question. i know she had to, but i just k

host: wilma, democrats line. caller: __ i am very surprised by this man in maryland saying that black people kill cops. it is the white people that kill all the other nationalities, the police. i have a son is in police. i do not know about people killing the police. he hurt my feelings, __ he was from maryland. i would expect someone from the deep south to say that. host: as far as the terrorist attacks, do you have anything to say? caller: i do not believe in terrorist attacks. i had a brother in the military in vietnam for 28 years. i do not believe in terrorist attacks. host: roger, europe next. caller: i think one of the ways we can resolve this problem is make sure our borders are secured. we should monitor some of these radical muslims in the country. these people who come out of jails, and go to the camps. i've heard of the way that they train these people. they come out of jail with no jobs, no future, they become trained activists. they turned to a place like isis, and they commit their acts. basically,