great i'm delighted to see the acting director has arrived would you like to join us on stage (laughter) (clapping.) >> great so, now it's my pleasure to introduce california's lieutenant governor newsom he's publicly palatium the disaster preparedness and risk reduction that's a pleasure to have him. >> well, let me extend my prefix to alex pa to do and his did he vocation to this cause i recall a week and a half a go

after the earthquake the first call was from alex pedia we need to fund the early warning system so that's great i extend that appreciation it can't be overdone and express my appreciation to the people in this room the wongs on the underground and the application of this ideal authenticity remark to me with this technology asia old as it is it is rather breathtaking i was taking a minute ago that in the 960s in japan they're high speed rail system had a technology in the 960s, of course, in the last 7 or 8 years japan has released

the technology but so has mexico and china and romania so many countries around the word we in california would be inspired but admits long overdue and past time no more conversation to a political will money is the excuse political will is the needing to be fully brought to life this notion we have to go to the state for a $80 million supplemental is to be reconsidered their extraordinarily organizations but their more than prepared to be supportive financially and otherwise in patching this to make this a reality this year we were successive as a matter

feinstein in getting one million dollars well above the appropriate one million dollars there's proof of support that has materialized in a moment of austerity in washington because of political will the resources i imagine in communities up and down california and the other western states i won't put myself in the place of mayor ed lee but if someone comes to me that he understanding the resiliency generally as my mayor of san francisco must i imagine in the state came to us if we do x we'll go together with federal government to be reimbursed that's a political question. not a financial question.

if we are an airline and we knew what we all know today about this risk and didn't do anything about it we talked about the incidents in the board of directors meetings about the concern of that particular part of the plane because we didn't have the money and a disaster occurred there won't be a human being left not holding them accountable and a this is a who we are we have an economic obligation the return on this investment is inclaubtable i'm eager to see the process i don't believe it's going to be as difficult as some do. i think the evidence is overwhelming and the public

appetite is self-evidently exists i look forward to working with my colleagues in sacramento and washington, d.c. and the private and local government to support the application of this outstanding effort led by alex to bring this home i was there in 1989 in the heart the marina district the devastating earthquake 3 thousand seven hundred people injured and billions of of dollars in damage i woke up and 3 kids hiding under the covers of that same bed and got accident call from my businesses in napa i had 4 hundred employees and 6 businesses showing me the

destation in the hotel the family members that lived there i spent most of the day in napa in a mobile home park understanding what is at stake we're out here promoting a high speed rail system in california and not prompting the application of the funding for early warning system that's beyond me we're finding money for a high speed rail system but not as creative to fund an early warning system it's employed will at the end of the day this is about real people human beings realize this is a fundamental responsibility of government to protect people and technology exist that could do that. i want to thank you for your leadership and look forward to being with you when we announce that we have begun to initiate

the application of this program. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you. the next it is my pleasure to introduce the honorable mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee the city of san francisco partnered in uc berkley when we tested our system it's a great pleasure to have him to talk about that (clapping) >> well, thank you professor allen and again thanks to the lieutenant governor and the snaerts for being here today, we're just coming all together after the south napa earthquake milestone my thoughts of r5i78 with the first responders and the folks in the northern california cities that recorded damages we're supporting them to

recover i'm here today to do what i think lieutenant governors already suggested we do is move ahead on something that's important as this just a week and a half ago or lecture i joined the mayor of napa to tour the downtown napa we're proud of the 71 of napa for coming together to unit in a speed i didn't recovery this early warning system is to the a panacea of everything but we must do other things we taking take this occasion to see what we've been doing in san francisco to us real emergencies look like people come on together we've got to bring for people together on this course of action and this international

conference is needed i've oftentimes said that like engineers i like what they tell me it's little survives we've got to listens closely to and as the lieutenant governor said it's our duty as employed beings to act not just said it's right or wrong with you act. i harden back to then when then mayor newsom sent me to new orleans and to find out what they didn't do then you come back and implement, of course, with his consent (laughter) and we did so time and time again more and more of the things we've learned sometimes those life and death things you simply can't wait for others if

i've learned anything from my procedure i have to act first, because you've safe lives we've done this this with shrank alert we've not waited to hear if we can do it we've got tour city administrator i said go find the funding and private partnerships to make sure all the different interenergy department are on notification basis to expand with the survives of shake alert and eventually have a plan with the help of our resilient chief with our city engineer to suggest that not only did we go to all emergency have meant but

eventually will modify all disaster workers ahead of time with our help and science will become thirty and 60 seconds in the next few years can i imagine what it does to a fire department to immediately open up your doors these so those doors are open can you imagine a doctor with scalpels in their hands ready to operate getting early notice to delay that action because the ground is moving his or her patient can you imagine a room of stunts and bay a third of our sclts students are learning of their responsibilities to examine the vulnerability of their school

sites their understanding the importance we've initiated with the entire school district and with our private school systems. can you imagine building operators having awkward systems to relax to shake alert so elevators can stop at the floor rather than get stuck between floors and having occupant completely surprised and therefrom trapped for hours. those are just a few of the rail life examples of what on letter of the law earth earthquake warning system can do and as survives vuflgz we'll save more lives will and reduce kwaurths are karnlts and for a mayor to be able to say that and give the examples of thing in the past we're lucky to not have to wait

as perhaps mexico or china or japan or turk where i've sent teams of people like i was sent to new orleans study what they did and learn what they didn't do and bring back and evaluate and implement don't wait and implement because those countries as you've studied tens of thousands of lives lost first from they understood their obligation we are lucky to not have to wait fore thousands of lives in the state of california there's examples of why not to wait and it is it a decision that people can make today and should be making today. so even though we've got soft story building covered we've got tour reimbursed buildings and

seismically developing building and school systems no place and we're lucky to have a citizensy in california that helps us passing the seismic bonds to have our facilities safe but invest in our fire departments, water system our firefighting water system or a public building in the mission or a new hospital that is seismically save and a trauma center in the united states this is with the private sector making sure we're ahead of the big one when it hits we know that more and more of the sdiefs thanks to you in the room and i like coming back to my alumni by the way, i can

praise you and working with cal tech sea my family's original city we call it the university of the washington i say we're working together to make cities like san francisco and other i know silicon valley we're going to be a great asset in the big one hits the economy depends on how fast we work we don't want to louses lose our talent of the lives that could be lost. i say that i'm going to join all those distinguished leaders in the state of california not only learn the science we've got to talk it up and push i not leave it up to someone else we're responsible and the suggestion i also used the mayors pulpit to

speak with a national audience i'll make this a topic of the u.s. conference of mayors when all the mayors come from across the country and want to know anthony how to manage disasters we're attempting to manage that event on the on behalf of residents thank you for your science and engineering and the ongoing decision i look forward to the conclusions you have in making sure we do more to save for time for people and lives appreciate it very much (clapping.) great, thank you. so, now it's ply pleasure to introduce marking the director of the california's director of

interservices that's his office that has the responsibility that mandating the legislation introduced last year to develop the plan for california early warning system and he's going to tell us about the process right now (clapping.) thanks richard and great to be with a all today. yeah. you know, i kind of like a thorn amongst roses i think the thing we need to not loss site of in california is that we are doing something about earthquake early warning we're implementing a program. ; isn't that right pa did he see legislation the work of those leaders up on the stage and all of your work based on all of your work we're first and

foremost capability to be able to deliver earthquake alerts to the public at large to businesses, of california that does so much not only to save lives but also to insure we've got resiliency built into our community in essential it's one of the programs we can implement because getting that warning businesses and individuals can do so much to protect their financial interest and protect their lives if you can protect both of those before the earthquake hits it helps to in fact the earthquake and rebound and move forward it's critical. so first of all, all of your work over the last 20 plus years

where this has been talked about a lot we're now bringing that together what i call the last mile of being able to get it implemented. as you can imagine there's a lot of moving parts to doing this. many of the ones you've heard the various speakers talk about this is not from an funding prospective really going to be that hard i don't believe it is. but the way we're approaching it now is really sort of an alternative to the what i call the tried and true government roshlt government funded just go to the government we've seen i've looked this in detail over the last several years in california when i live crossed the country in economic shifts and with the budget to support

those programs not only they state level but the federal level that's the challenge to build a reliable one hundred percent reliable stimuli like earthquake quake early warning and be able to act ton 0 particularly our business community that has automatic shut off have been electricity if it's not accurate and reliable we'll lose our consider ability and businesses loss profit part of the mitigation program the way we approach our efforts is to build community resiliency that means outline aspects public, private,

non-governmental all of those in the community itself have to come together to work with local state and federal government to build a community that with stands and prepare for any kind of disaster early warning is no different, in fact, it's a great opportunity presents a great opportunity to reach out and pull in the elements outside of government that have a stake in the early warning of earthquakes it that's how we're going to build the system since the legislation was signed we've banishment a structure over the last 20 years both here in the united states and it internationally will pulling all that data in to be able to determine the best way for, california california to have a

system that is reliable that covers the state in this saturation levels required so we minimize blind zones and make sure people get a warning in a timely way not only when we implement if but what does it mean to people how we educate them what businesses need to do. authors a series of workshops and initiatives under the government structure in place to look at everything from public education to a model of how the system will be designed to actively rolling it out and working with the private sectors to be able to gave me them not only in the conversation but in the actual development of the

model the actual development. you can imagine you should be able to get earthquake are alerts 0 on our smart phones and you should be able to hear it on the radio, be able to use the technology as we viewing our technology to be able to automatically do certain things in the homes or businesses this tack a lot of coordination and what comes with that is our funding level i've had no shortage sonograph interest from the private sector from the utilizes and the transportation sector wanting to fund early earthquake warning and partners to accomplish that that will happen it is happening as we work on this today and many of you in the audience i feel i'm preaching to the choir but

you've been working with us closely on the project to build a system in california that can be the system for the rest of the country i know there's a lot of initiatives to build it into washington and oregon and other places but from the california perspective if we address the challenges to roll it out it will roll out in the rest of the country much easier so i'm supportive of funding we do have baseline funding at the government level for the integrated network we've put in addition fund to captains enhance that network but quite frankly within the next few months the way the private sector has come around this

topic we're going through have plenty of money to roll the system out. i consul you that to all continue to work dlienl on this and providing us your ideas and input and operator in our public-private initiative that will build the capacity and resiliency in california we really need as we move forward and we're k3w5kd by earthquakes in the future. thank you (clapping) >> thank you. so finally it's a great pleasure to welcome sue set kimble back to peculiar she's the acting director and with the first-degree e fed information

she'll talk about the u.s. g f plan (clapping) >> well, thank you all very much and my apologies for tripping in here dating late one of the my first flight was detailed i wonder is it work out traveling 10 miles for this it's worthy absolutely every minute and this time on the detailed flights this is one of the kind of issues that is so important it demonstrating the value of a well-thought-out saves plan to protect public safety i'm honored to be here and the tafb the earthquake early warning and

has been mentioned is one that has been underway and being investigated for some years but it is time now in terms of implements we really need need to come together as a community and partnership to be able to make that dream a reality. i really want to take a few minutes to describe the early shake warning we're very, very proud of the partnership we've been able to develop and work within here in california and on the west coast in order to move the shakes alert and the earthquake early warning project forward. more many, many years we've partnered with state universities and the private sector so reduce earthquake losses through the development of the advanced national system in california the partners are

cal tech and uc berkley the california governor's office of emergency services and in the patrick northwest washington. together we're monitoring earthquake activity and able to provide critical tools to make our nation less vulnerable for loss of life due to earthquakes. the earthquake early warning system has been one the goals tennis sits inception now after work of investment from the generous foundation the u u u.s. g f with the state partners and individuals from the private sector have been able to develop the earthquake early warning that's been delivering earthquake warnings to test users for 2 and a half years the

first time that's been successful in capturing earthquakes if california including the napa earthquake so we're really pleased that the staivengs is enthusiastically purring this we're pleased that the goals are to provide public alert thank you lieutenant governor newsom and; isn't that right pedia for moving it on and the mayor not only mayor ed lee here 90 in san francisco but mayors over the past years in san francisco that have been partners in the efforts. the efforts many the state of california are untaking are completely lined up with the earthquake early to the western part of the united states your goal is our goal and our plan is our plan it was championed and

signed into law to rep help us provide an comprehensive early warning system that has happened with the partnership over the past years we hope this example will be followed by other states the earthquakes don't respect political boundary and, in fact, one of the most talked about earthquakes on our earthquake pages at usgs what i in california feel like a fairly insignificant a 5.0 earthquake in virginia but people are not used to kwaerthsd the education is important and the importance of those kinds of systems can't be understated