This is stock number HA439. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep Wrangler headquarters. Today we are checking out this brand new 2018 Jeep Wrangler Sport. This is the 24s package. Obviously the JL body style and we like to do these videos so that our customers can get a really good idea of what the vehicles look like, what the colors look like, the rims, how they look on the vehicle from an actual video. And we also do it to be a little bit informative on the new JL Wrangler as they are a new model for this year. And then we go a little bit in-depth into this particular Jeep as far as the options and yeah basically the options and what you can expect out of this Jeep if you were to purchase it as it is a vehicle for sale on our lot. The Sport S package obviously this one does not have step bars they don't come with step bars. This one has the 17 inch wheel group so you get the painted and polished aluminum granite wheels to get the little Jeep logo on there. Goodyear Wrangler all-terrain adventure tires these are 245 75 R17 tires and you can see the tread pattern on there. The Sports come with the plastic fenders, the running lights in the fenders new for the JL model. Of course the seven slotted grille kind of has a little bit of an indent on those end slots for the headlights. Factory fog lights you get the tow hooks on this one. Bright white is the color. I also like to point out that we shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device turn them on now because it is like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. This one has the three-piece hard top on it. Had a couple requests to do a video on a two-door so also want to you know help out with that. This one does have the trailer tow group so you get the receiver hitch the four pin and seven pin wiring. This one does have the backup camera they all have backup cameras now standard. Now as always the gripe with Jeep that they didn't have backup cameras or the Wrangler I should say and now they have one of the best backup cameras in the market. Still not a lot of room back here in the two doors this is your carrying case for your hard top pieces. There is storage underneath here there is still spots for your roof and door hinge bolts as well as your windshield bolts which I believe they added this here because it's easier to take that windshield down. These seats do still fold down like so and they also fold up for extra storage so you see I did all that with one hand. You can remove this seat as well by pulling down on this lever and then it comes on out of there. That however does require two hands so that goes up like that. They also have these straps to help you get it in and out. They have a slot for your windshield washer fluid and your electrical that goes to the hard top when you do have the hard top off so there's a place to put those now never used to be before. There's a 12 volt plug-in back here as well. You still have the three bolts on each side to get that hard top off. They paint the roll bars now. Also they put stamping on the back here tells you your water fording and your overall wheel base and overall length on the back of here now. They made these doors lighter so they close a lot easier than the old Wranglers did do. That bright white looks really good on here with the black accents. Good looking color. We have another one of these in stock in black if you prefer black. Has heated mirrors, power mirrors. They put the power mirror switch now on the door. Got your door locks right here. This one does come with auto headlamps. This has the black cloth interior. You can get heated seats in these now with the cloth and in fact this particular one does have the heated seats to get your factory floor mats so you can get to the back seats. You can see how far that those seats do go up to get to the back seats and I believe there's just a little bit more room back here as well for people riding back there. Got the latch child safety system for car seats. Still probably wouldn't want to try to put a car seat back there but I think it'd be a little bit easier than in a JK. This one has the 7-inch TFT display. You have basically you can do your digital speedometer here. You got your compass, your outside temperature display, and your digital speedometer right there. Leather wrap steering wheel in the Sport S package. Cruise controls on that side. Bluetooth audio controls on that and there is the radio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This one has the 7-inch TFT display AM, FM, Sirius XM radio capabilities and you have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities on this radio so you can project your phone navigation system to this radio so that you can have nav without actually having a factory navigation system. You get the gray painted dash that is metal and here's your climate control. You have your heated seats, heated steering wheel so this is a heated steering wheel as well. Dual climate control. You got your power mirrors. Down here are your auxiliary buttons. Those are for the towing that's part of the trailer tow group. You get an Augs USB and a USB C jack. Has the 8-speed automatic transmission. The 4x4 shifter on the floor as always. This particular one, the key fobs now look like this. This one has the push button start. You still get an actual key in there and it does have remote start on there but you can see that it's a pretty heavy-duty key fob now. I tell you the seats are very comfortable. They made kind of an eggshell finish to the hard top pieces. Looks like all the clamps and everything are still the same to get that hard top off so if you are used to a Wrangler it's should be an easy transition to the JL from the JK. But overall really nice redesign and this particular one is really nicely loaded up for being a sport package. And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our 400 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot. Videos of every single used vehicle and select new vehicles all at summitauto.com.  Ask for one of our sales associates to make this Jeep Wrangler yours today. Once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thanks again for checking out the video. If you'd like to check out more videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. 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What I'd like to share with you today as the faith-based liaison with the city. We have this amazing event coming up. It's going to be what? Compassion on a national level. The date and time are there. It's at the end of January. And it's going to be held at the Little Carver. And there's the address. You can contact me there about that information. But Ben O'Dell, who's the faith liaison for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be presenting and facilitating the next Compassion and Action Lab. He's going to be bringing research and models that are working across the country on all the different areas that we are concerned about. It's free and open to the public. I encourage you to bring a team from your congregation. Does that make sense? If you want any of the information there, like this is something I'm interested in, it's there for you to write down and take with you. But then we will also collect these cards. This is the thought at the end. And we have a possible way that that might be filtered out, but that's another full conversation. Am I making this? So the last thing I'm going to say to this, we're going to actually do that in a little bit for 30 minutes. But at the end, when we do our breakouts and networking and things like that, if there are some people who are very... I don't even know if I want to say very much interested in this, but there are people who want to have a conversation about how it went and how we can fine tune that. We'll be meeting over here by the piano. Will that be in front? It'll be at the same time. But we'll just be working out kind of logistical details. How do we think that went? There's another form that we have that we could possibly use. So we're just going to explore that. Okay? Yes, ma'am? I don't know if it's in. So we want to know that. We want to write it down. But if we can't write it down wherever it's in, will it be available to us? We haven't figured that part out yet. But it's now available to you to write down. I have pens. I brought a bag. She's got a great bag. Of pens. Yes. Another question. Maybe you, like our list of applications, can just, you know, put all those in it and then send that out. Again, we're going to have all of these cards. That's a possibility that they will be collected. Is this network organizing? Is this network... That's what it is. Okay. Yes, ma'am? There's a really fast way. Look at that. We're already becoming tech-savvy. Yeah, if you got a phone, take a picture. And then you'll be able to take that back with you real quick. As opposed to what time was that again? Where was that again? I'm lost in the...right? Right. So I'm going to hand this back to Lena to continue with the meeting. I think next we're going to be hearing about the coalition details that are happening. But I have the next cards.  Okay? Okay. All right. Here I'm going to hand this to Lena. Keep your hands up. Yes. And I'm going to take that page. It's the most important thing that you want to share. An event, a thought, one thing. Thank you. This is a good idea. And you're going to be able to take a picture. Okay. So what we're going to do today, in addition to what Ann is working on, normally for those of you who are new and also if you are new... Okay. So if you are new... because it's never like you're in a family or anything. If you're just fine with me. Okay. And I'll talk to you afterwards. So what we're going to do today, though, instead of having a speaker, it's the end of the year. And the end of the long coalition has done a lot of work this year and we've grown a lot. And so I thought it would be good to have some of our leadership just talk about what we've done and what they're responsible for. And Jane, you are first up. Aren't you happy about that, Jane? Jane Freight is the coordinator of the backlight industry.  It's the real... It's actually the first formalized thing, I think the IWCV, I mean, in terms of the thing. We read the bus station, but we weren't organized. The whole thing, this is hard for me. Let me know if you can't hear me. I'll hold it. It's an ice cream cone. Yeah. All right. This year, the important thing with the backpacks is we've grown from making 250 a week to 450 a week. With that, that's because the bus station is very busy and increased. We... With that, the cost or the supplies for backpacks is certainly gone up. Not only because we're buying more supplies, but the cost of some of the things that were in the backpacks is gone up. I do have good news that the World Church Services have given us a huge number of blankets.  And the group from Boston that came this summer are continuing to buy the backpacks. So those are two of our most expensive blankets. The... the number of line tiers continues to grow, which is absolutely wonderful. So much so that there is a plan to reel up an ice cream cone every year and probably start out with two days a week. I want to say thank you, not only to my volunteers, but also to the group that take the backpacks down to Travis Park and to the bus station. They deliver 450 backpacks a week. Usually two and at times three times a week. So, I thank them. Questions? At this point I'm going to say yes, but I've got to see if the number like there were 12 new volunteers on Monday, so it was a zoom. I've got to see how many of those are going to be my, you know, like the ones that are going to... Yeah, because I have a wonderful core. So I'm going to say yes. I'm putting off having them come until we know what's going to go on. Questions? It's a little question, but I don't... Are backpacks going to people using airplanes? Yes. They're not the same things. They essentially... Oh, okay. So how many we can announce for the year then? I'm just going to say the number. Okay, well, but what happens is Kimberly talks about the bus station. And for the numbers I give you are the bus station and the airport. So, Barbara, just this is the number I have, okay? As of November of this year, of 2018, the airport has distributed 7,295. The bus station has distributed 12,263. I don't know. Okay, the bus station 12,263. The airport 7,295 for a total of 19,558. So we are pretty sure that what we've already done, I'm sure, by the end of the year, we only have distributed well over 20,000. Yeah, it's from January to November 30th. So, Barbara, we'll talk about the airport. I have a question about youth volunteers, because I have a high school student, but I've been getting a lot of questions from kids about how they can if they can volunteer. We certainly take youth. If they are under 12, I do want a parent to come with them. Okay. This past fall I've had groups come. So, we had a group from Univision. That was their service day. But every day, Saturday Planned Parenthood is going to be there. That's their second time along with the group of teachers. And we will make that on Saturday morning. I have a youth group from a church coming on Sunday afternoon. So, if I get the volunteers to help me on these extra days, we will be open. Because youth won't need the service hours or things. I've had clubs that have. The other thing I want to say is San Antonio has been very active, but I have gotten donations filled backpatch from across the country. People from California, people from Seattle, New York, Humane, even a little Rhode Island and told himself to a little Rhode Island. Sort of piggybacking on the youth thing. I don't know what your logistics are in terms of where you get the other supplies, but could this be something that schools could do a supply drive? Yes, they do. Because I have someone delivering a hundred backpacks on Monday that fourth graders at a particular school did for their Christmas process. A year or two ago we were getting weekly lists from the backpack ministry because the lists were changing quite rapidly. I don't know if today we're in the same place, but if we are how would folks who want to donate find out what the list is this week? I have the list that we put in the backpacks a whole bunch of them and I can put them on the table. They're on the website too, but if you want to carry something I'll put them out on the table. It is consistent. Well, that's the issue. That was in like 2015, early 16. Is there any issue with the old website versus the new website? I think not people have had it but it's now. I am going to say we do pack the backpacks at El Divino, Salvador Methodist Church from the corner of Sao San Mora and Miss Woodlawn. They have been absolutely wonderful as far as giving us space and we can expand in our space. Since the beginning. I actually started in the Casita but I remember being out in the hallway with several Methodists and they said let's see if we can. El Divino was wonderful. So a couple of things I just want to clarify. Jane does several things. Someone asked about collecting items. You can do that and just deliver the items to El Divino or to D.C. wherever. You can do pack packs to a group like she was just talking about and those kids will collect items and then make the backpacks. So she has several ways that people can help. The other thing I want you to hear is Jane is Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. I mean it has become a seven day a week job and that is too much. So we're hoping I keep encouraging her to find and take some of these things. Okay, so the next person will be a sister of Denise LaRocque and that is a good question. We've been busy. It's the first thing. Just in November, in November we served 1,595 families. So multiply that by 1,5. So it's a lot. Already the 721 for December. So a lot of families. We've also gotten a lot of volunteers in the last couple months. We have a very strong poor every week. Same time, same day and I think that's what really keeps us going. We're working on trying to get some of these other volunteers more integrated and be more consistent. Like this morning there are two people at the bus station despite all the new volunteers. So we have an appointment this afternoon. So we're working on getting that integrated. I don't know how many of you know her. She's taken the overall volunteer piece which has been amazing. So all those initial contacts through our email and stuff like that. All the paperwork. She's the one processing that and working in a stage and doing background checks. And then she contacts myself or you Barbara? Is that what she's contacting now? Welcome. And then we do the orientation and get them going and so on. So she's been fantastic. She's in Mexico for what she's still doing. I'm still getting messages like so-and-so must have been an orientation commitment. So she's just been incredible. So thank you for very much. One of the big things we've been working on is the network, the Greyhound network. There are, as you know, groups in McAllen and other places who are helping at the bus station is awesome. The Greynees Respond have a number of locations mostly on the east coast like three cities in Tennessee, Atlanta. They're trying to get set up in Houston and Dallas. Some of these people have been kicked out by Greyhound simply because they're like, who are you? Why are you here? We don't know what you're up to. And so Jan and I have been in contact with them. We met with some of the people from Texas this past Saturday to see how we can, you know, set up some best practices and all those things and procedures and policies that have worked so well for us that they can take on also. We have a very good relationship with Greyhound where in San Antonio. And Robert Crentana who's the manager there is just amazing.  So we've been with the road pilot project. But very effective because now I had a conference call with Robert and one of the VPs two weeks ago and they were saying could I be seen take over the coordination of all the bus stations? That's what I said. That's exactly what I said. They were like, kind of red trots. And I said, no. I said we're all volunteers. We have no paid staff. We can do what we can to help. Jan and I worked for the last two weeks to really try and put all our stuff in writing. How to work with Greyhound how to act like their friends and respect them like they would with the families. But sometimes we get that advocacy fire and we just like fight, fight, fight. And it doesn't work when you're trying to collaborate. So the VIP asked us to work on that. We met with some of the people from Texas. We're sending back our paperwork with our revisions to the VP for Greyhound to see what we can do. There you are. Tino came for a little while to help us at the meeting also. And what he's helping us with is we're really trying to come up with a template for an agreement for each of these places. And we don't want to be like one connected, one organization network because if someone messes up in Knoxville, we don't want to get kicked out too. And I made that very clear to the VP also. Connected us with some more to these little background work with us to see what kind of agreement we can come up with that we can use to make our thing official. But it's really more so for these other places to get them started and get the permission to be in there. And Greyhound had a great concern. They had a situation in California where a group came in and they were helping, they were taking information from the families and then referring them to their own legal places and charging the families. So we were like oh gosh, aren't we naive? We've never done this to us that people are trying to break them off by or would think that because everyone does. So some protections for the families and all that. So that's what we've been working on. We're working on a medical project too. Jenny will talk to me about that. Any questions for me before I hand over the mic? Yes. What's your sense of how many points of connection throughout this network? At the moment? At the moment let's see Dallas, Houston Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville they said they have someone in Richmond we've got in contact on someone in Sacramento we know El Paso has people but they're still a little overwhelmed with their own people. Those are the main places but I just got we got an email from people in Charlotte, North Carolina actually I'm going to talk to her today who's also interested. So the I don't know, you heard they did the caravan down to the board and all that. Well they've been trying to organize and this is one thing they're working on. Their coordinator is actually in New York. Once we have this template and these guidelines things that can be handed to people and say here's your infrastructure and then because each bus station is different I think it's Memphis that focuses food and coats and stuff so that takes the heat off of us to provide those things because in our bus station you know you say do you need a hat? Everybody needs a hat. Do you need a coat? They're going to Miami so they don't get those different states. So that'll kind of take that off as far as some of the those colder weather needs being back for the more. Also in Dallas they have a huge problem with major bus delays buses being delayed and then people being there more than 12 hours. And so those delays and then the other thing they said was shoes that people are coming without shoes like everybody comes to our place has shoes we know we get the details so we're figuring it's people coming from the more western areas that have those so it'll be kind of unique what are the needs in different places. Any other questions? Okay briefly I think as most of you know we hand out basic medicines at the bus station everybody has an upper respiratory infection all the volunteers have an upper respiratory infection and so what we provide are simple over-the-counter medicines for symptom relief I mean our guidelines are do no harm, provide comfort and ease suffering and 99 and 90 percent of the time that's all that's required I would say in the last couple years the number of adults and children who have actually required medical care I mean we can count on one hand but we don't have anything formal in place I mean sister JT has been wonderful trying to facilitate that but you know we decided that it's time for us to actually have a protocol so if you're encountering someone at the bus station or the airport who needs medical care you don't want to have to scramble at that point so with sister JT's guidance and assistance we've been reaching out to the health science center they have the Robert B. Green campus downtown which is very proximal to the bus station sister JT has a contact and sister Sharon and I reached out to Dr. Andrew Muck who we encountered at Tino's immigration and healthcare seminar he just happens to be the head of refugee healthcare and the and the head of emergency medicine so Sharon and I were on him like a dirty shirt after the seminar was over and he's just a lovely man and he said that he would do everything to help us so I followed up with an email to him I heard back from him and he said I'm connecting with people and I'm very very interested in making this happen for you so the Brady Green campus has both pediatric and adult urgent care services so that if we have a formalized agreement with them to provide services to our families that would be great so that is a work in progress and I'm very optimistic that between sister JT's contacts and Dr. Muck that we'll be able to make that happen oh yes sister of course downtown Christa Santa Rosa Children's Hospital and again with sister JT's contact with with sister Michelle they have had an understanding that with IWC that when we have sick children that's the agreement that we've had in place so far so thank you for pointing that out to me we're very grateful to them for that anything else sister? someone who really likes organization and spent most of my career it just makes me so excited that this is the work that's being done I mean it's like individual it's just stepping I'm talking about all of you stepping up and making things better okay so the next ministry is the airport ministry we've got the backpacks, the bus station airport so oh this is Barbara Eden Eden sorry this is your first time? not here but but anyway Barbara has taken is helping us at least for the moment in terms of the airport ministry because our coordinator and we're trying to work that out so Barbara can you I'm the team leader for Tuesday this morning at the airport and Paula Henderson talk to the mic hi Paula Henderson really got this airport ministry going I guess over a year ago but she's kind of tired out doing so many things so she's stepped back on her activities but so right now we're kind of reorganizing the leadership and so I was asked to present this to you today I've been there about a year at the airport and I love it because I'm only 10 minutes away I lived there and I was a retired Spanish teacher and it's just like hey Barbara you better get over there for a minute and my husband drops me off and picks me up so it's a nice situation but just the past month just from December 1st until the 11th we had 379 families coming through the airport now we had in the past I think late October Carn City was not sending for a while of the men and that was right after those family separations but now Carn City is stepping back up and they usually come in the afternoons and I know just this Tuesday there was 19 families from Carn City but that is included in my total number now our number of volunteers are growing but it's kind of like the backpack they'll kind of come and we let them shadow to see what it's like because there's a lot of steps at the airport they arrive, we greet them we are always very nice to the trail boss and bus drivers I think they're guards or security guards they've got all the stuff and we're real nice to them and they really are not supposed to leave until they know everyone has a plane ticket because there's been mixups where they go okay here they are, bye and then they get back to Dilly and we have to call and say there's someone here that doesn't even have a ticket to Antonio and you need to come back and get them so it goes up and down with that but just basically there are a lot of steps because we have to we give them their backpacks we greet them and tell them who we are and why we're there and so that they can relax we have nothing to do with the government and so they're very happy when we say they're a religious group and then we have to look at their itineraries and we give them a backpack now in the backpack we have a levy and we've been going through all sorts of toys over the years of dolls for the girls teddy bears for the boys and then sometimes we couldn't get the dolls and then so now we're all teddy bears because they're you know gender neutral so they all get teddy bears and the snack inside the backpacks are important for them they come with all of their belongings and these kind of bags all different colors and number one they have no place to secure their valuables there's no purse they don't have purses they often don't have wallets and so we like it's good that they can take when we give them their tickets they have a zipper in the pouch and so that they don't lose them also they can we tell them when we explain security what they can and cannot take then they have time to move some of the things from the back to a backpack that they can wear on their shoulders and even if they've got two bags sometimes they have three they've at least got an extra hand to hold their little one's hand and take care of the kid because they've got the backpack on their back and we tell the kids I usually wait until we get to the gate I tell them you're going to learn English, you're going to get to go to school and you're going to take this backpack to school and so we finally figured out we have to be careful to have boy colors and girl color backpacks boys do not want pink no way now the girls will take any color not the boys also they look like other passengers they have backpacks they already kind of stand out looking at them so it makes them feel hey look I'm like others now as far as province TSA staff has been very helpful we're always very nice to the TSA very nice and to the ticket agents and a lot of them speak Spanish but we have had some problems with the mother's last name on their ideas not necessarily like the child's and so they're going who, how much, who is this and whose name is this and then the tickets they run out of room to write all the last, the two last names so then it cuts off and they go well how do I know so anyway we've had some things like that happen but overall they're very helpful especially with the moms that are wearing ankle monitors so we do ask them ahead of time are you wearing a monitor so that when we line up for security we tell them ahead of time you cannot, your child cannot go through the X-ray machine with you they're going to go through a machine right next to you you will see them, they're not far away they're right there so prepare them, explain to them that this is what's going to happen and so the security will let me or someone go through with them with the child well like Tuesday we had like nine children and as they came through they let me the TSA let me stay on the other side and so I would just go come to me come to me we're going to watch for mommy and so they could see mommy through the glass but we've had some babies before they were very upset they don't understand now the only other thing is problems that come up or we've had several gotten better, we've had families show up dropped off that are leaving out of Houston for New York or something and so they're not from San Antonio so there are two anonymous ticket agents have saved their of my life because I said well what are we going to do and they fixed it magically and they are to remain anonymous but one of my co-workers found wasn't as lucky and they were going to charge $700 for a mom and her son to change the flight from San Antonio to their destination from then Houston that member of my team drove them to Houston he drove them to Houston and took them to the airport and on the way they were very they looked stressed, the Spanish look very stressed and we didn't know why they weren't smiling because I said he's going to explain Spanish and he's going to take you all to the airport it's a miracle and they're just like you know well on the way they talked with them and they had just been reunited and so they were just shell shocked so we have to be very aware of that and read the body language and of course we've had the bad weather delays and things like that lately with bad weather and but we have CASA now can take some of that and we have we have people to call all the team leaders know what to do if someone this is their flight it's very comforting to know we have a hierarchy of numbers to call and that we can reassure them the other problem is well we have they get up at four in the morning at Dilly to come to our airport and they get there about 10.30 before until 11 because they stop at the bus station sometimes and so some of them don't have a flight until 6 o'clock or 6 o'clock they have no money so that's hard because sometimes I'll try to buy them food but it's very expensive in the airport it's a rip off now we do have an anonymous little food store there if the right employees are there they'll give us free food that's only in terminal A but anyway so I just and the six children doesn't seem to be as bad lately would you say Jo? oh okay I haven't seen chicken pox yet but we love getting them we have a little medicine bag that was supplied to us by through UPC or I'm sure from y'all and it's really nice to have a little baby's aspirin liquid aspirin to give them a lot of go through and then it was just kind of funny because I bought this little children's cough medicine and it's really dark honey a little packed up little honeybee on it and so I'll hear them coughing but the first time I did that I asked a little boy do you have a cough? yeah and so then I got it out and then all the other little children were like okay so now I waited until we get to the gate one on one and I'll give them now lots of people have been helping I'm telling us thank you and like last week the fathers from corn city oh and by the way the kids are a lot better behaved with the fathers I'm almost done I'm sorry I'm saying too much but anyway he was getting ready to leave and he organized all these extra bags and folded them for him he cleaned up all the litter around there and did all that because he wants to help and you know it's just so rewarding okay thank you sorry if you could help me with the tickets that would be a big help to give out the backpack yeah yes ma'am okay the next part of our thing is our overnight stays and Joe can make us kind of breathe in the water kind of running out of time here yeah I couldn't do this without without Jeffrey, St. Jeffrey here so let me introduce him first Jeffrey is the Catholic Charities person who drives the van and he has become our most important, most frequent transporter of families to and from the bus station to and from the the airport and so he'll tell you about Casanacho, the Catholic Charities place for overnight but first let me mention let me just tell you what we're doing with overnight because this is new well new since late last spring I think we when a family at the airport is stranded overnight or over two nights or so we want to find them shelter we don't want them to have to spend the night in the bus station or the airport and so we began we began looking for host families which was marginally successful at this point we have a list of about 30 it is successful we have a list of about 30 families who have said that they would be willing to shelter a family overnight if they're stranded and their shelter involves also going to pick them up at the bus station or the airport and then returning them to the bus station or the airport at the time of their departure but in the meantime late in the summer early in September the La Casa de Maria Imarita formerly known as Casa Raíces reopened totally different basis it's just four bedrooms downstairs and the focus is not just on shelter but it's on trauma informed healing and so that's the first the first place for shelter would be La Casa if the family is a father and child then we are now trying to send them to Casa Nacho which Jeffrey will tell you about and just have mother families at La Casa and once both of these houses are full then we call families to shelter so I'm going to have Jeffrey tell you about his and his numbers good morning one of the things that kind of the gap that was seen was the transportation and so since we have our nice after school vans and buses and stuff like that we started being able to use those especially when there's a larger number of people stranded at the bus or the airport they can fit in Joe's car and so in November we provide about 54 rides either to Casa Nacho Casa Madi hotels or other families and we transport about 50 families and 117 individuals but like she said we also have Casa Nacho where we provide overnight stay to men Casa Nacho is not named after the chips and cheese and the place where they are is run by Jesuits and the founder of the judges was Sonny Nassili Loyola and Nacho short for Nassio so in case you're wondering why it's called Casa Nacho we have 41 individuals stay there in November and also in November we have the charities if there's more overflow we help provide paper Casa Nacho we provide almost the same amount of stays to families in November as we did October but hotels was a lot less and I think in October there's a lot more concentrated number of nights and families needed shelter and so whereas in November it was more spread out and so we didn't need to use hotels as much as we did in October and I think we didn't have any of those families or people staying in Airbnb I think there is a few families that have offered use of Airbnb that they have when they're not using them for customers but we didn't need to use any of those in November and I'm curious where the families that we have are from the majority then we're from Honduras Guatemala and then we have one family from Angola both Casa Marimata and Casa Nacho have had Congolese families as well and then the top states that families are going to from Casa Nacho it's Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina and Texas just in case you're curious again with this stuff there's no very little planning you can do so some of those numbers are just out of curiosity rather than being helpful to prepare your planning but like you said it is interesting information to know and most of the families that stay Casa Nacho are single parent with one child with Casa Nacho we have three places we can hold two bedrooms living room we did have two families that were made of three people some of those a husband and wife with a child but most of them are usually one married with two kids also to let you know I will be leaving at the end of the month and I saw families that that I have to work that will require me to not be working at the charities full time still be involved as much as I can but I will be leaving in a few weeks and so if you know anyone any volunteers especially that are involved in this and they want a job they can visit the Catholic Charities website and apply there it's helpful if you don't have a life to apply obviously as we all know this is very rewarding work and this is very important work we need to be welcoming these people we need to be providing them this hope and so it is definitely a great place to work at the Catholic Charities and the short time that I've been here I have definitely worked a lot and it's been an amazing experience I love all of you even if I don't know you Catholic Charities website we should have the job posting soon thank you I want to just mention that over night but we have been blessed with a mother from the Congo from Angola who gave birth shortly after she was supposed to be boarding the bus at the Great House Station and so she and her newborn baby were with us for several weeks until the baby was able to travel and we're getting ready to have another baby any day now at La Casa which is real but I want to mention Shelley and Peggy I don't want to be mentioned but they sheltered for how long? three weeks? a long time more than overnight a little boy who was from who had heart surgery here in San Antonio so he was fully recovered and able to travel they needed a place to stay and so they just had a delightful time with Shelley and Peggy and it was mutual and there is still time so all of you are volunteering which makes this thing overnight we're going to try at the Times 11 of Moon Moon Outland is our sanctuary network it's just quickly for those of you that are newbies we organize volunteers to accompany the rents to your report angle check monitoring and ice check and so something new that we've just started is also helping parents with dental care and in fact I just found out from Tino that what we just did was like the test run but no Vicado Salinas clinic off of General McMellan they were very wonderful and like oh the boy has pain bring him in they took him that day took care of that initial pain pro bono and then now we're in the process of doing the paperwork with more medical care this is just for the children we're still working on figuring out the adult dental care for people here in San Antonio we are also expanding our reach we are very much connected to the people in Austin and so now we are working on people in the brothels and Seguin and if any of you want to be part of this company because we have immigrants all around Texas that need our support and love we have to come here to San Antonio for their appointments and so it's best that we have and show the community that is behind them so talk to me I've got contact cards even if you have individuals here in San Antonio that are meeting support we are here for them we have meetings that have come forth we had a meeting on November 13th that just bulked us up a little bit more and a lot of people were interested in what was going on with IWC and I hope that both the IWC too and also contacts for just resources that's what this is all about this connecting this word of mouth passing out these cards my card some woman from other states have called me for information just because someone took a picture of it and sent it out so feel free to do that too Covenant Baptist Church the church that we've been having just that temporary long stay Reverend Adderley has taken a position in Massachusetts so she was our contact person but I have made wonderful connection with their elders we've met we've gone through the procedure we were possibly going to have someone house there so we've already had our drive run we're like ready to go if they're needed so that's still an option for us oh yes and we're also something new there's always there's always a more going on here there's always a need to grow whatever needs a rise one of the mothers I found out that she's been trying to get her son registered for school since August November he still wasn't registered it was just one thing after another and so after one of her I said let's just go let's just go to the school and sadly it wasn't until I got there and they're also giving me a hard time and I had to say well I guess I have to call them all deaf and how do you know how do you know you know they're like oh no man oh no let's get the cash though like yes please do but it was sad that I had to take it to that point because here's this mother from Honduras went through this is a horrific experience had to do this heavy traveling and she was doing everything right got all the paperwork and everything and then it was until the gringa had to go in there you know and be there to make it happen and the child could start to the next day that's ridiculous that shouldn't be happening and we need to let our districts know no sir and this and this wasn't a his I was shocked and yes that's why I was like no man I need to talk something out and then you know I did that crazy main drawing but it worked and then after that days later I thought oh my spirit oh could you could we talk what could happen I just let out the help this shouldn't be happening and so hopefully that won't happen again and there's some districts that are wonderful and she is wonderful you know of course you ought to stand and tell your ISD South Santa's ISD is wonderful more at least we're working with them but something that I'm working on is connecting to the teachers associations in those areas to develop a relationship to make it easier so that mothers you just go fill out the paperwork and there you go that's it so that we don't have to step in they need to have that empowerment questions? no? thank you he took these photos of his own part of the satellite but it's like everybody is developing their own thing can you talk back to the operation? very briefly you can see the the deed for the liberation and at the same time for being very brief in our our announcements I kept what I was going to say I'm not going to say it what we would like to shoot for is reports just like we're asking from the the partners that we can put online so that important things can be posted later on so we know the dates we're looking forward to hearing from our partners and our normal speakers that we have it's very important but I sure appreciate collaboration that is going on and advocacy is that yes right history history don't mention that don't mention that that's on collaboration but thanks to your model it's going to put me under pressure I was looking at this Jen and I thought to myself collaboration advocacy actually go together because of the work of our collaborators we have come in even greater contact with people that have the same heart and the same passion with regard to others and sisters I was just telling somebody I was coming home from some place and there was a sign that said I have to put this this way they have to put this this way and I said that doesn't work anymore I'm right expressed differently in some ways but not really when it comes to the part of the work so I'm ever so grateful that we did this we ought to modify that sign do you know what I get away with there what we're doing today we're meeting at 11.30 we're meeting in the center of the room so we don't take positions if you believe that I can tell you something else and then on the table over there I put again a long information sheet that we got from the work in her group and also this is much better than what JT does she has these wonderful old cards but I'm asking you if you can today or send us in later looking at your at the Capitol Texas website to put down the information about which district you're in who your newest rep is et cetera the information you need to make out and as you know the Texas legislature starts in January and we're already getting information we collaborate with the legislation that they're looking at and so we're making them more and more available to you who we have had the re-agreed we talked about the trust the senior triple P each one brings perspectives and different relationships to what we do now I know Denise we like each other because advocacy, fire, fight, fight well we do but it's more about relationships one of the best answers we've had for our community says she's like me she doesn't play but she would say be curious rather than furious then you get the conversation going God knows and we know our country needed it and how to have this conversation bus equal to in Austin, here in Austin to model, to live what we say not that Jesus had any easy but that Jesus had no real purpose and easy life doing that but if you could fill this out with help enormously and then we would be putting information out of our site in different places available to all of us so when there are meetings coming up many of these groups organize an action in Austin and we'll publish as we know what's coming up and what they're talking about and what the process is and going to Austin is quite an experience in many ways so we will do that and be very curious you can be furious inside and we'll take our crypto-visual afterwards but we'll say it's way hard and our faith will assist you and those of you that are in a meeting this week. Thank you. This is Samantha who has for years provided us with a lot of information every month. I hope everyone got the two handouts that we had on the site table there, if not please take them we just keep expanding them just because there's so much news all the time and immediately they're out of date so we have the immigration immigrant family detention update and we participate in the twice a month on the second and the fourth Tuesdays in those calls to try to get the numbers so you see in here we say as of December the 10th 486 individuals in Carnes and then estimated 1,900 individuals in Dilley so that's where we get that information from that call there's people on that call from really all over including other states and other other than just us here in Texas but this focuses on those too and then we just keep expanding remember we had the font so small you could hardly read it but now we have like two pages of the court filings where we try to just keep documenting what's going on there and then the other two pages of that particular handout are some of the things where you can take action or volunteer or some of the things that are coming up and so we use the cities update as well as any of the things that we get from on that particular call that I'm talking about are others that send us information so if you don't see something on there you could talk to me afterwards and we'll get it on there usually like next week then we finalize these put them in a PDF and then send them to Sister Denise and many others that post them and the second handout is just articles we started doing this because there's just so much in the news to try to keep track of and it's one way I think to constantly document what is happening you see in there just a number of articles on about the public charge proposal there was one that this one was very good so we my helper Reuben who's not here with me today, his dad is in the hospital so we hold him up in prayer but also just many of the other asylum claims, asylum denials the whole thing on the federal appeals court and there's one article on page three here he built an empire with detained migrant children as the bricks and that's on that southwest key that we've heard so much about so again just trying to document some of the things there his salary and what all the different grants that he's taking to make that possible and then Texas suing us here in San Antonio over the sanctuary city violation and we'll add in here there wasn't a long what do you call it on the editorial page supporting our city over this lawsuit that the state is filing against us and then just other things here and at the bottom of that page Texas ruling may allow sentencing of migrant family detention a number of you in the room Austin whenever that was in 2015 at the end in December right around this time when we all testified and so again we'll have to be you know keeping on top of that and seeing you know if they're going to try to license cars and dilly so you know we just constantly and then this the whole thing of just trying to keep track of the detention centers you know the migrant kids in Torneo and what was a temporary shelter and is now more permanent and then the very last thing that we have on here for today is the record 14,000 unaccompanied immigrant children in US custody as confirmed by Health and Human Services you know we were saying all summer why are they just talking about the unaccompanied minors when we knew they had 11,000 in custody over the summer so now finally some of those figures are being consolidated and coming out and on that first page here too we try to look at the budget our US budget and document what's being paid out and so we only have the things here for 2017 and then 2018 we were looking into this current budget which is being whatever you want to say you know debated and bandied around and it's you know the budget is over I don't know it's over a thousand pages we try to download it we have to be specific almost because it like crashes our computer so anyway so we're still working on that piece of it to get it more updated but you can see that it's a process and you know they have in the in the budget the actual figures of what they want to pay out like in the ones that we had here they actually had the ones for the different detention centers now there's so many and these other you know like Torneo and some of this other we will try to see like are they actually putting those in the budget too or exactly how that's going to work so stay tuned but anyway so next week we'll put these into PDFs and then make them available but in the meantime please take the you know the handouts and use them with your committees and you know in any way that you can and we feel like this is our part you know the Benedictine sisters for those that are new in our monasteries in Burney and this is our piece of the interfaith welcome coalition works this is for those of you who are new this is an unusual thing in that we had everybody give their reports and that's not something I'll have every night and you know do your best so we now have 19 minutes for this portion of it always a good thing in terms of meetings to use the golden rule recognizing that we want to respect others the way we wish to be respected ourselves respect time most valuable assets we want our time respected as well to ask of others that which we're willing to ask of ourselves that's what we're trying to do so bill has taken them in and we've had some that have already been announced I've moved this over so you have full access to the screen in case you want to take a photograph I've also set a timer on my phone for 90 seconds bill let's see show us the first one you've got and we're going to review a couple really quick so this one I already did as the example we're not going to linger here because you already had it next bill and those who are a part of the lineup you need to be lining up so Tino etc etc but we're going to take them in the order that they're on the screen well give it a little time we can turn down some lights if that will help there's no reason to build this he's trying that's exactly what he's trying to do are you embarrassed Bill I feel for you I'm offering a little empathy and compassion that was said but compassion okay still believe here we go so this was done earlier the new town foundation I'm not familiar with but the national vigils and events do end up in violence there's an event tonight at 7 p.m. the chapel in the part of word there's a contact location during one of hundreds of vigils and events nationwide the 6th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting touch date to help slash if you want to take a picture now's the time to take it so Tino you're up first comment the deadline for the comments on this regulation were up last Monday we spoke about it at the convening two Mondays ago on the 3rd we had a presentation about it on the center of public policy priorities we had some Q&A with some attorneys the really one I wanted to just to let you know number one the city did submit a comment I helped prepare it 31 pages long I had a way to share that with you so we're going to run it through the appropriate channels and see how we can do that the second part of this that I wanted to share with you just personally 210,000 comments were received on the regulations many many people had something to say most of them were very critical of the proposal and so at this point the governments in the regulation process they have to consider those comments and then you know address them and alter what they're doing and the regulation I'm proposing change it or justify why they're still going to do what they're going to do so that's now also the Homeland Securities Court with their regulations so what I wanted to talk to you about a little bit was an active item we have for this which is that we are looking to kind of get the word out there it's hard to use a lot of confusion about what this rule said, what it didn't say what it affected, what it didn't affect I wanted to bring lawyers into the convening on December 3 was just to come up with a strategy for how to talk to the community about it so we are really working on that and trying to find a message that is appropriate to just address everyone's here next slide I've heard this before Seattle Peace Chorus they need housing for singers they're here January 3 through the 26 where would that be at your house if you have room at the end you contact Mary Grace if you're not taking a photo now you should be can you house a singer or two we're good, we're good, next slide still the Seattle Peace Chorus but these are performances there's the one on January 24th there's some other stuff coming up Mary Grace would know that information as well take your photo now so next time when IWC comes they need to fill out these cards as well with announcements F-Y-I ready? they're still there it's not happening because they're still taking pictures you should be taking your pictures earlier not at the end of the announcement next slide Domesticus onides my topic is suggesting our mindset first of all we cannot cover all bases I don't want everybody to be tired out you don't have to do it all you can hire a domestic worker and pay her a decent wage that's another adjustment on our mindset some people hire somebody and then they get back to me and say I've never paid so much until I'm because you're paying poverty wages locally so change the mindset we went to the World Social Forum on Migration in Mexico City and we took a message about how immigrant women and children are being separated from their families and also I took this report thank you it was very useful letting them know what the community is doing about it so the world knows what is happening here and also what our community is doing about it and I was so proud to be able to take that report we were interviewed by Italian press people from France, Germany because this was a world social forum and it was amazing yes we talked about the wretched situation for our immigrant community and since we are domestic asunidas our women are those women that are here not only traveling through but actually live here I need to support their families and I appreciate very much what the community is doing by the way the timer is set for 90 seconds everybody is giving 60 seconds and a little compassion there ok next slide, Raiises thank you my name is mate roeder I'm with Raiises we're not going to take 90 seconds we just have one thing I want to spend some time just doubling that message that if you're wondering why you're paying so much it's because fair wages come at a price and immigrant rights are workers rights they are one and the same but thank you domestic asunidas for putting that forth so the big thing we've got coming up toy and book drive details forthcoming you can keep checking our website for that but this is part of our effort to kind of engage young people in San Antonio this comes from the idea of one of our volunteers at the bus station who wants to have a toy and book drive in their high school so this is coming up we don't have that set yet so check our website next slide metro health had to leave and it really is in partnership with what Tino talked about but some are rather getting some messaging out the action portion of this meeting if you have not been before comes pretty much during this and right after a real networking time so if you're somebody who's interested in messaging them around the public charge there's Houdit's contact information and you can also talk to Tino who's still with us alright next slide oh I forget to ask for more cards are we good? alright we'll get to it we'll put the cards in after we'll get better my name is Rebekah Houdis and I'm with a point of good publishing I'm not gonna go to the gym San Antonio stands as a collaborative they're also the interfaith local coalition also with sister Sharon and other Terry we are now lobbying the city council to vote for an ordinance rather than only a regulation to change the rules on citation and release these are to provide to people who have minor crimes and those are driving without a valid license less than four ounces of marijuana theft of services less than $750 or theft of property less than $750 graffiti I think is up in the air still and criminal trespass mischief less than $750 in damage and so we initially wanted a raid but now because of this issue with the chief McManus we wanted an ordinance because an ordinance will be there after if anybody, if they try to oust McManus from my position he's been supportive but you know how things work in the city so anyway we're going to ask you maybe through the internet here to contact your city council members to push for a vote on the ordinance for citation and release thank you by the way Rebecca is going to be one of our San Antonio piece lorries next year so and sister Denise you know I'm the migrant center for human rights it's like a quarter inch thick I don't think it's too long so they're intern King Light left early anyway so the migrant center for human rights they're looking for cash Christmas gifts to provide pro bono care but the announcement is they're creating a volunteer position for human rights learning project they're going to be doing workshops in the high schools so they're looking for volunteer teachers he's so fast but anyway I have sheets with more information if you want more information just see me and I'll give to you so look at that right so we had 19 minutes and we did that and 12 do you have another card for it 90 seconds come on up I'd like to ask regarding work issues you think that slavery was totally out of the question here in San Antonio I would like to ask Gloria please stand up Gloria for the vote they're going to be she is a human trafficking rescue in the north side town and a data community so just to let you know we all need to step it up thank you so much I'm being nervous Gloria so I'm going to hand this back to Lena I think this is when we are able to do networking you've seen people's faces anyone is interested in this kind of part of it but the action team or the faith based initiative we're meeting by the piano I just wanted to thank Ann Helge and her office the faith based initiative because they have made IWC the recipient of their donation drive for December and we are going to have from what I understand from Patrick thank you the donation of multiple donations of diapers and medicines we increased our store by about 100% so thank you I realized we have one minute and I had two more things Mary Grace left me a list a whole list of all I'm supposed to do while she's gone and one thing was to tell you to consider housing one of these Peace Corps Forest thing think about that and let you know is that we are looking for a space that is close to the airport where we can store our backpack supplies so it will be more convenient for our volunteers so if you have a church or some space that you think would be great let me know because we are looking for that space thank you and thank you all for being here I'm so proud of our leadership team and all the work they're doing and I think you probably are too after hearing them thank you for being here see you in January and God's blessings to all of you thank you


I'm so pleased to be here at a School of Glamorgan in Splott in Cardiff. Meeting Mr Thomas and his staff and his amazing pupils, and it's wonderful to see how happy the children and the teachers are to be back at school. It's been really good to hear from the children about how glad they are to be back. They've really missed their friends, they've missed their teachers, and they're delighted to be back in school playing and learning with each other once again. And it's wonderful to hear from Mr Thomas and his staff about how they've been keeping learning going during the lockdown, and now the plans that they've got to ensure that the interruption to learning doesn't affect the long-term chances of these children. Well, thanks to the hard work and the sacrifices of the Welsh people, we've created the headroom that have allowed these youngest children to come back to school. And if our public health situation continues to improve in the way that it has been, then I hope that we can have all of our primary school pupils back on the 15th of March and begin to see the return of some of our older pupils in secondary schools. We're following the scientific advice, we're bringing children back in a cautious way, monitoring the impact that that has on the pandemic, and then moving forward to bring more children back to face-to-face learning. I think it's really important to remember, although we're all really pleased to have our children back that doesn't mean that coronavirus has gone away, and my appeal to parents is to please continue to do all of the things that you've been doing. And unfortunately at this time, even though children are back in school, it's not time to restart birthday parties, sleepovers or play dates. We really need you to carry on following the rules and the guidance, because if you do that, we can get even more of our children back into school. While our People Development Access grant, we are now able to invest £10 million this year, which means that there will be additional families that will be able to draw on this support, to be able to purchase items to support their child's education, whether that be uniform, other kit or equipment or even IT devices. And I'm delighted that we'll be able to extend that help to other families. If you think that you may be eligible, please go to the Welsh Government website and check out the eligibility criteria, because there could be help for you and your children to be able to be back into school with all the things that they need to make that a success.


Welcome to another episode of Likeable Science here on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Ethan Allen, and joining me today in the Think Tech studio is another Think Tech show host, Stan Osterman. Stan the energy man. Welcome, Stan. Nice to see you. Good to be here. Good to have you here. As you might guess, we're going to be talking about energy today because that's a likeable topic relevant to everyone's lives. It's going to be making a tremendous difference in our lives as time goes on here. And Stan heads up the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies, so I've got that right. Perfect. Yeah. And so in particular today, we're going to focus on one sort of one of their aspects, which is hydrogen, right? My favorite. Yes, indeed. Yeah. It's probably big on hydrogen. And so why don't you tell us sort of people don't understand, right? Hydrogen, they think of it as something you blow up a dirigible with or blow up a bomb with. In fact, I have a really funny story. We were, Rachel James and I from our office were helping Blue Planet with a function with a bunch of seniors, high school students a couple of weekends ago. And the first question I asked all the students was, when you hear the word hydrogen, how many of you know what the Hindenburg is? And I only saw like four, an average of four hands per group. And I went, wow, we've made progress. Now Hindenburg isn't the first thing everybody thinks about when you say hydrogen. But hydrogen has actually been around and in use for many, many things for well over 100 years. In fact, the word hydrogen is actually Greek for the water maker is what it really means. And hydrogen was used back in the Civil War to inflate observation balloons. And the reason they liked it was because you could make hydrogen, if you dig acids and metals and put them together, you get hydrogen. You take water and split it with an electrolysis, you can make hydrogen. You take methane and reform it, you can make hydrogen. So back in Civil War days, they could instead of hauling or trying to haul canisters of gas with them, compressed gas, they would just take acids and metals and let them combine and make hydrogen and blow their balloons up that way. But hydrogen is, even the current use of hydrogen in fuel cells is not new technology. It's been around almost 100 years. And some of the technology that we use to make oxygen like nuclear submarines is the same technology we use to make hydrogen for the industrial market, which is electrolysis. And if the Navy is going to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in a submarine, it's got to be safe enough to use in the public sector. And of course, all of our spaceships that we send into space use liquid hydrogen for fuel and also use electrolyzers to make oxygen for spacecraft and power their spacecraft with fuel cells, because it's a really safe, stable fuel. People are scared because they see images like the Hindenburg. What they're actually seeing is hydrogen mixing with oxygen, which is really flammable. But when we make our hydrogen, we keep it really pure and use it in fuel cells. And it's a much more stable fuel. Excellent, excellent. That's important to know is everyone wants our technologies to be relatively foolproof. Safety's big. Right. It's not everything, but it's pretty important. Right.  Right. But I suspect a lot of people don't really understand how sort of how hydrogen works as a fuel and how a fuel cell works. I think you said you have a video? Yeah. Got a really good video. So why don't we roll out a video now and show everybody how hydrogen works. And it's a good video that we put together with a local company here, and they did an excellent job. In fact, for this video, they won a local advertising award. Excellent, excellent. The simplest element and also the most abundant. Hydrogen makes up roughly 75% of all mass in the universe. Hydrogen also powers most of the stars in our universe. So it's only fitting that it has come to be recognized as a viable alternative energy source. And we need alternatives because fossil fuels are problematic. They're messy, dirty, expensive to obtain and not secure, and they're limited. Hydrogen, on the other hand, is everywhere. Hydrogen can be produced from a wide variety of sources, including water itself, using other renewable energies. That means it's clean, really clean. As a zero emission fuel source, the only byproducts are water, heat and electricity. Easily transported, hydrogen can be stored and distributed on a large scale as either gas or liquid. As a fuel, hydrogen itself is very light. In fact, hydrogen is 472 times more efficient by weight than lead acid batteries. And it isn't just for transportation. Hydrogen can also effectively produce and store energy for power grids. Hydrogen gas is transformed into energy within a fuel cell. As hydrogen passes through a fuel cell, electrons are released and an electrical current is produced and captured for use. Electric vehicle motors powered by hydrogen fuel cells are twice as efficient as gas or diesel engines. They can travel farther distances than lithium batteries, especially in heavy vehicles and can last for decades. Hydrogen powered fuel cells are scalable to buses and commercial fleets such as trucks, trains, ships and aircraft. Fuel cells allow for fast, easy refueling. And hydrogen can be easily adapted to current refueling stations, making it a convenient fuel source for everyone. What is a proven, safe, clean and efficient energy source currently in use worldwide? Hydrogen is everywhere, including our clean energy future. Well, excellent. That's very informative and well done. I can see what they won an award for it. Yeah, it's a great video. Yeah, but it's nice. It really explains the broad usefulness of hydrogen and a lot of its advantages. And particularly in this day and age when we are very concerned about our carbon footprints, it seems like there's a really, that's a real good solution to some of the problems, at least. Well, and really it highlighted two important things that are kind of, nowadays we think of a separate, but in the future are going to become one, and that is transportation and grid electricity. Because the transportation sector is starting to move towards electric drive. All your hybrid vehicles are electric vehicles that are either plug-in or they have a small gasoline or diesel generator that gives them electricity to an electric drive system. So hydrogen fuel cells do the same thing. They're hybrid vehicles. They use, instead of an electric generator generating electricity by gasoline or diesel spinning generators, they generate electricity to that fuel cell and give you a current to run those same motors and charge your batteries. So there's a symbiotic relationship between making hydrogen off of electrolysis using that water splitting technology. What we have with our grid is a problem with too much solar in the middle of the day when you don't need all the solar. And then at night when you have no sun out and you need energy, you don't have enough solar panels to put the energy in like at dinnertime when everybody goes home and starts cooking and watching TV and doing their homework and running their computers and doing the internet stuff. So what you can do with hydrogen is connect it to a system of solar panels and when there's too much electricity, the electricity that normally Hawaiian Electric would throw away would call it curtailed power. It would throw it away and just make hydrogen. And then at night when you need electricity, you take that hydrogen and turn it back into electricity. So not only are you making hydrogen that helps the grid use the energy from the sun more efficiently, but it also gives you energy for your vehicles as we start to transition into electric vehicles. Excellent. It sounds like it's well set to synergize nicely with an existing and emerging technologies. Exactly. Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful. So what is HCAP doing really to sort of move this whole process ahead then? Well, HCAP is a state program that's under business economic development tourism and then we get all of our funding from the Air Force, from the Air Force Power Technology Office and the Air Force Research Lab specifically. And so we focus on making vehicles for the Air Force using hydrogen technology and also making a microgrid for the Air Force that includes hydrogen technology to basically demonstrate what I just explained to you about how the symbiotic relationship between hydrogen is good for the grid and the transportation. So I have some pictures if you want to show some of the vehicles that we made that are kind of unique. The first one is called the MJ1E Jammer. We call it a jammer for short, but it's basically a weapons loader for fighter aircraft. So this vehicle was especially made. It's the only one like it on the planet. There's only 12 electric jammers in the entire military system right now, but these are used across the country, across the world for loading ordnance on Navy and Air Force aircraft. Most of them are. Virtually all of them are diesel and they're noisy and they're dirty. But the 12 that are electric are really quiet.  And then this is the only fuel cell operated one. So it's a little bit longer than the other electric ones. But it's made just to load ordnance on fighter. So it's a very specific purpose built vehicle that we built just for the Air Force. And the next one we have is, this is called the U30 Tug and it's really heavy, empty.  And the reason it has to be heavy is because it's pulling 747 C-17 size airplanes and they have to keep enough traction on all those big wheels and tires to be able to pull the airplane without just spinning the tires on the tow vehicle. So the vehicle itself is extremely heavy and we looked at this as kind of like the extreme demonstration of the technology. So this vehicle has a hydrogen fuel cell inside and 10 kilograms of hydrogen storage and it really doesn't go very far. I think if we had it all full of fuel and running around it could probably go maybe five or six miles. That's it. But it's geared and it's set up just to move airplanes around a ramp so they only probably go a quarter mile or a half mile at a time. And we did this basically to demonstrate that you could take the technology and incorporate the hydrogen hybrid technology into it and it would do the work and it does. Excellent, excellent. Our next vehicle is actually our most popular one. This is our 25 passenger, the Air Force calls it a Surrey. We call it a crew bus or a passenger bus. It's 25 passengers and there's some room in the back for suitcases and things like that. You see these a lot used by handy vans or by tour bus companies to shuttle tourists around. And the amazing thing about this thing is you can put full load of passengers in there and then accelerate on a freeway on a really short ramp freeway and get it up to speed fully loaded and it won't hesitate at all. There's plenty of torque, plenty of horsepower. And I use this vehicle a lot to make correlations about energy overall. So for example, this vehicle has two batteries inside that are 14 kilowatt hour batteries. So the 28 kilowatt hours worth of power that this vehicle has is just about the same as what it takes to run my house. I use about 21 to 22 kilowatt hours per day in my house and this vehicle does 28 kilowatt hours. If you took all the stored energy from just the batteries in this vehicle, you could run my house for a day. That same stored energy will take this bus about 30 miles. So if all we had was the batteries on this bus, it could go 30 miles. When you add the hydrogen, 10 kilograms of hydrogen to the bus, we can go 130 miles. So we add 100 miles to the range on this bus with just 10 kilograms, which is 25 pounds or so of hydrogen. So when you think about the weight of the batteries versus the weight of the stored hydrogen, you begin to appreciate how in transportation, where in most transportation modes, weight is important. Right. Whether you're talking cars or whether you're talking boats or whether you're talking airplanes in particular or spaceships, weight is everything, especially in aviation. Right. Batteries are heavy. They're very heavy. So when you start looking at like even Ford, when they came up with their new pickup truck, they made the body out of aluminum because they're trying to take weight off the vehicle. Whenever you design an airplane, if you add any weight to it, you have to change the wings, you have to change the power plant to compensate for every pound that you put on the airplane. So weight's important. Right. So the next image that we have, this is our newest one, although it looks kind of clunky. Right. We call it the Spod. It doesn't have any fancy graphics on it, but it's actually one of the most remarkable vehicles that we have. It's a rolling generator. You can take this vehicle and just with the energy that it has stored on board for driving itself around, you can run a small command post for a full day. So you can literally run an important military building for a whole day just off of this power. Not only that, but you can configure the power any way you want. You can configure it with 110 volt typical household current or 220 volt typical household current, single phase, three phase. You can charge other cars, other vehicles, batteries from this thing. You can export DC power. You can import DC power or you can import AC power and charge the batteries on the vehicle. So you can literally go up to 440 volts, AC or DC, and you can make it however you want. So it's probably got at least 40 or 50 different configurations for input and output to demonstrate for the Air Force. Now, I wouldn't call it a complaint, but the only concern that the Air Force had was, this is too much for an individual to have to learn to how to program to get the right power. So our next step with that vehicle is to actually make it where we pre-configure it for certain uses that are common to either working on the flight line or working with civil engineers and will make it so they can just go on the computer and go, I need 240 volt AC, three phase, boom, make it happen, and the computer takes care of it for them. Excellent. We'll have to take a quick break at this point, but we'll be right back. I'm Ethan Allen, your host on likable science here. Stay on the energy man here is with me, and we're talking hydrogen and Hawaii's hydrogen. We'll be back in one minute. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on Think Tech Hawaii every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join me where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaii Anna all across the sea from Hawaii and back again. Aloha. Aloha. My name is Amy Ortega Anderson inviting you to join us every Tuesday here on Pinoy Power Hawaii with Think Tech Hawaii. We come to your home at 12 noon every Tuesday. We invite you to listen, watch for our mission of empowerment. We aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower. Again, maraming, salamat po, mabuhai, and aloha.  Down with Stan Osterman, another Think Tech host, and we're talking about Stan's other hat, though, that he wears as the Hawaii... Center for that. Center for Transparency Technology, HKAP. Got it right the first time. Yeah, you did. I was impressed. And we were going over some of the amazing vehicles, the sort of prototype vehicles that you've been putting together to... And I hadn't realized that HKAP has done all this for the Air Force. Right. And you demonstrate in the Air Force how useful hydrogen technology can be both in vehicles, but also you're saying for microgrids, right? Right. And what's really neat is that the Air Force is paying for all this. We're doing the work in Hawaii. We're using some local-based contractors and some mainland-based contractors that have permanently assigned people here to do the work. And everything we learn, whether it's microgrid or vehicles, we turn around and share it with Hawaiian Electric. We turn around and share it with the State Energy Office, local auto dealers' association. We try and encourage the use of hydrogen in our local infrastructure as well. Great. So as an example, the pictures that we had coming up are some of the things that we've taken out in the community that you can actually buy commercially. You can go out to some of these companies and buy this equipment. So right there, the guy on the left is sitting down on his sound equipment for an event that was held at McKinley High School. And that white box behind him that's on the trailer is actually a 5 kilowatt generator, a 5,000 watt generator that makes all of its electricity off of hydrogen. So it's absolutely silent. So you have that generator right behind the sound machine, the sound-making stuff. And the event tent is just to the right of the screen. So literally the generator is within 30 feet of the event. And it makes no noise, so you don't hear anything from that generator. It's not emitting fumes or anything. Right. No fumes. No sound. Not even much heat. Excellent. And we did that on purpose with this group. We provided the power for their sound equipment and a bunch of the lighting there on purpose to show how clean the power is, clean in terms of signal, because you don't have spinning generators generating the power. It's all being generated off of the fuel cell and just pure electric current. So very clean signal on the power for the sound guys. The next slide shows another piece of equipment. We like a lot. This is a light cart that you see around construction sites a lot of times. And this is the same event at McKinley where they said, you know, we don't have enough light over by the building where the bathrooms are. So can you light up that area so people don't trip over the tree roots and the sidewalk edges and things like that? So this is one light cart. This one light cart can actually light up almost half a football field. And it's, again, dead silent, and there's hardly any noise at all. You can sit right next to it, and all you hear is a little bit of humming and some a little bit of pumps going on for cooling once in a while. And that's it. But it generates quite a bit of light, and it can operate for literally two or three days straight with onboard hydrogen that it has. It's really, really great. So these are commercial pieces of equipment that we asked the Air Force to buy so we could demonstrate it to other military organizations and the local community here. Wonderful. And the next image that we have coming up is what I think kind of fun. Two weeks ago, Toyota announced that they were going to make the Tundra pickup truck with a hydrogen fuel cell. And this is amazing because we've been bugging all of the automobile manufacturers to somebody make a dog-on pickup truck with a fuel cell in it. Because if you don't know the statistic, most of the vehicles sold in the state of Hawaii, the most common vehicle sold is a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Really? It is sold more than all the other individual cars by any manufacturer or anybody else.  And to have Toyota come out with a bigger truck, the Tundra, and have a fuel cell in it was a real landmark. And GM has done the same thing with their Colorado and their Silverado. They just announced this past week their Silverado pickup truck is going to come with a fuel cell, too. Excellent. So they're starting to go into... So this is Roy Starr's demonstration of that. Yeah. And in the back of that Toyota was also their pizza, automated pizza machine. So our friend Dave Raul used to say, Americans only know two things, automobiles and pizzas. So I say, well, now they have to know pickup trucks and pizzas, too. There we go. But we at least have the pizza as a common denominator. All right. That's excellent. That's excellent. But yeah, the play that we get to, the bounce we get from doing all the work for the Air Force and being able to bring it all into Hawaii to help make our economy cleaner and better, our climate and our economy cleaner and better. You know, a lot of people underestimate the impact to our economy of importing fossil fuels. Oh, that's terrible. And we already have the Clean Energy Initiative on our grid to be 100% renewable by 2045. But most of our fossil fuel is used in the transportation sector. Right. And we're trying to make people understand not only is hydrogen good in the transportation sector, but it has a role to play in the grid as well. And so there's some other things that we can do. But what about people are going to say, where do you get hydrogen? Where do you get the fuel for it? I mean, there aren't hydrogen stations all along our roads here, right? Not yet. They're getting there. Actually, Toyota, Serpico, Hawaii and Toyota have the first commercially available station out in Mapunapuna, right by the airport, not far from the airport. And it's commercially available. And Serpico just started leasing the commercially production Toyota Marai just this past month. So you're going to start seeing the Toyota Marais on the road in the next month or so. And they have a station. They're servicing all their own vehicles and providing the hydrogen. And one of the things that I'm trying to do in my spare time is get the state legislature to help us stand up some more stations around the state, working with private companies to help build some more stations around the state so that we can bring more and more hydrogen fuel cell vehicles into complement the plug-in electrics and the other hybrid vehicles. And I think you said there are still some other commercial products, right, that are coming out now. Yeah, well, one of the cool things about hydrogen is not only is it great in fuel cells or in balloons, but you can actually cook with it just like gas. So Hawaii gas is actually stepping up. And this is one of two grills that we have that we actually take out from time to time. And we have a little propane tank with hydrogen in it instead of propane. And we'll actually cook with the hydrogen. It's not exactly like a propane grill. You have to change the orifices and the setup a little bit. There's a different flashback protector in it. But this image and the next image, this is actually, that one is a commercial off the shelf. You can go buy it. But this one was custom made by Paul Ponteo from Blue Planet for us. He made it for us to demonstrate over here. And it literally takes hydrogen. And you can cook steaks. You can cook food. And what's neat about hydrogen is because it has no carbon in it. It doesn't degrade the equipment as fast. And the heat is very controllable. And it goes straight up. And it's moist. It's actually, like I said, hydrogen is Greek for water maker. So if you burn hydrogen in a flame and you put your hand above it, you can actually feel the moisture in the flame. You don't want to have it down low where you get burned. But if you put your hand about two or three feet above the flame, you'll actually feel the moisture. And so when it comes to cooking, a lot of the professional chefs are starting to use hydrogen for cooking because it actually keeps a lot more moisture in the food and doesn't dry it out. Wonderful. And so some of the culinary schools are actually focusing on hydrogen for their cooking fuel. And we've talked before about Polynesian islands or island nations that they need to do water desalination and the different technologies that are coming out with distilling water. Well, if you use electrolysis to make your hydrogen, which is like solar electricity, DC electricity and water to make your hydrogen, you're making the hydrogen you can also use for cooking. You're making oxygen you can use for your medical facilities. And again, it's part of that whole sustainable ecosystem you're trying to do. And speaking of sustainability, you have a very interesting graph there at the very end here, right? Yeah, this is something that actually a fairly new piece of data that we got from University of Hawaii. They attended a conference two weeks ago. And it was talking about battery versus hydrogen in buses because we're noticing a trend even here in Honolulu where everybody's real comfortable with batteries and battery technology. So they kind of latch on to batteries because on the front end, if you only have one or two buses, the infrastructure is pretty reasonable. It's pretty inexpensive. But what people don't realize is when you start to get into fleet size buses, that the cost for your infrastructure starts to rapidly rise to very high levels. I asked a gentleman on my show who makes electric trucks and hydrogen trucks why he focuses on hydrogen trucks. And he says, because electric trucks, when you go to the class eight size trucks like buses and big 18-wheelers, the cost for electric infrastructure gets to be more expensive than the vehicle. So you're paying half a million dollars for a vehicle and half a million dollars per vehicle for the infrastructure. A graph shows that hydrogen is the opposite. And hydrogen is the exact opposite. The problem we're having with hydrogen is to get one vehicle on the road, you have to have a full station bill. So you may have to put a $5 million station up for one vehicle. But then it's going to service the next 20 vehicles. And then the more vehicles you get, you can scale that same station bigger and bigger or make a couple more stations. And the cost of the infrastructure drops, tapers off, and becomes very affordable. So that graph is kind of just to get people's attention that you shouldn't just think of batteries as energy and energy out there more efficient and stop there. You have to think about the safety aspect. You have to think about the end of life. You have to think about repurchasing new batteries when your batteries were out, where hydrogen tanks just don't wear out. They last forever. Wonderful. Well, this has been an education for me as any of my talk with you it is. So I feel like I've learned a lot. I know you've helped our viewers understand this hydrogen economy better here. And I want to thank you so much. It's been a real pleasure here. Thanks, Dan. Thanks for making science likable. There we go. I hope you'll come back and join us on likable science next week.