warn it's a timely focus for this meeting. today, our focus is a policy forum we're going to be talking about the public policy aspect of the early warning tomorrow the science of engineering and friday focusing on users and talking about the best practice for implementing earthquake early warning. now i want to move rapidly, of course, but before i do i want to acknowledge the.org committee tom from california tech and john from the university of washington and dogging u doug from the survey and others and jan from uc berkley jan is the one doing the legwork >> just over a woong at 320 at one time morning the magnitude 6 pointed 0 napa earthquake struck

2 hundred injuries and fortunately nobody died and the cost is billion dollars. at the same time an alert was issued across the san francisco bay area here and berkley we had a 5 second warning san francisco 8 seconds the bart received the alert and activated there be awkward train meter there was no trains the trains would have been brought to a stop it sound in the 9-1-1 center and other response and operation centers across the state, however, the public did not get a warning the cost of building the system for the west coast of the united states california washington and oregon a hundred and $20 million for 5 years $80 million for the california piece this investment

is needed to make the system faster and to provide the public education campaign it's key. now the alert last week was not fast enough to provide an alert in napa, however, with the investment we're asking for with the improvements of the infrastructure this funding will pay for the 12078 would have been faster and napa could have received a warning arrest mexico city as what warning system built after 10 thousand people killed and japan after 6 thousand people i died no 1r89 1995 what will it take to build a warning system in the u.s. do we need nor earthquakes or action lives from policymakers or from the public we're going to tackle this head on this

afternoon we have a distinguished group to talk to us and we're going to open with alexander and lieutenant governor newsom and mayor ed lee and mark the director of cal oes and sue even though the ac director the geologic survey she's baltd the hail and will be here. first of all, i'd like to introduce isn't it a fact seminar alex pedia the senator of the valley and he authored senate bill 135 mandating the california will build an earthquake system by 2016. here hesitate

(clapping.) thank you richard reminded me that will speak into the microphone. good afternoon and thank you, thank you, thank you so much for not only our work and xrrns in making the commitment to convene here at uc berkley for this year's gant to help us move the ball forward in california. in parts due to the introduction we're pitting this exhibitions in an concept my directed is from southern california including this community known as northridge we celebrated this year or recognized the 20th anniversary of the northridge earthquake this mayor in the san francisco bay area will age actress the that twooiblth i 25th anniversary of the other

earthquake we're aware of that this is the tenth day anniversary of the napa quart the last reminder of the urgency for which we need to act in california to deploy an earthquake he early warning system to help electrical. that's our bottom line. you know, enclosing gloss to earthquake i applaud the governor for seeking assistance from the federal government on recovery for the impacted community but i'm hoping to pay attention to turnover every rock necessary to get the funding to help build it not only in california early earthquake system but the backbone of western region if not the

national system my roll earned my invitation t is having authored legislation last year i've got to be honest happened to be at cal tech about a year and a half going on an energy briefing popped in to see the folks in the center they briefed me own the integrated seismic network bureau your infarctions formulations with the federal government that was sitting and hadn't said no or yes to bring about a warning system not only research that's important no knowledge not only the early subscribers but an early warning system to benefit the public it

was clear it is that city clerk was to help save lives and mitigate injuries and reduce damage we ought to be compelled to do so one look at the congress today ac on unanimous or even bipartisan basis is far too infrequent and california shouldn't hold it's breath for california to come forward so i introduced the legislation it mandate the build out it later secretary the point person on the design and dloichlt a system going forward and, in fact, in california we did act on a unanimous bipartisan basis to do that to make that a proprietor we had a two year time period

for the plan to be in place and soon to have a system up and running and it's mites e my sincere hope to accomplish this in less than two years and come full cycle is what the napa quake did to remind us of the urgency to act i don't think mother nature is guaranteed to wait two years before the next one i don't know about you but i don't want to wait until the technology an existing whether a high speed rail or the illustrate surcharges or private investment or a piece of the water bond or revisiting the general funds idea there it's a

matter of all sources and funding coming together so the system can be up and running and your collective experience and expertise to the conversation i think p will better electrical i can't understand and thank you in advance thank you very much (clapping) okay. next i would like to introduce the senate seminary the honorable jerry hill that representatives the south bay regional we're thrilled he's taken on or arrested to champion the issue to move earthquake alert forward in california >> richard thank you very much (clapping) it's wonderful to be here and

part of this great conversation and it's an honor to follow snaertd pedia if not for his leadership and wisdom and engineering background it really kind of fostered his goal and districts he's taken the issue of early warren we wouldn't be in the position and it's inspired me that's one of the reasons i want to get involved to make sure we find the funding in the future and thank you richard for the invitation and for me to participate it's great to see our lieutenant governor when you look at the power up here and the ability to get that something done and find the fund and create the relationships it's here this is the way i can see with the secretary his broader it supreme in finding

solutions to those challenges we'll see that supreme laura. >> and the of san francisco i was born on april 18th and many people look at me and think it was 1906 but it wasn't it gave me the significance of that day through my growth and development and being boirnd in san francisco and being there in 1957 with the day earthquake that toppled this elementary school i have a piece of the building that fell off this school when i was 10-year-old and certainly watching a swimming pool the water distanced 7 feet outside the pool incredible power and strength and power as you know

to me i want to get involved this is one of those issues you look at and talk to the public to the common person on the street that sits 33 there look at businesses and government you mention it and the first thing that comes to mind we're not doing it they expect us to find solutions and the funding and that's what the goal is and i know that senator pa did he will move on 0 state level hyperglycemia i'm pleased we need to make it our commitment to work with the secretary and mr. arguing which to find the

relationships whether the leadership in public or private or working with a fee schedule we'll create the county u opportunity his group is looking for that and i'll be there to make sure it's successful one is the fund we need to find those whether it's $80 million or whatever over the next 5 years and then to communicate we need to get the word n that can begin today i'll work with the business community i represent a lot of the valley there's a vested n interest we are very concerned and the resources will be available i'll be working with those industries and businesses to try and get them engaged in a solution that works for all of us when the public comes to you will say at the end

of the day why haven't we done something we have. that's my goal and what i'm working for and to implement to make sure we have the successes thank you and look forward to the rest of the day (clapping) >> great, thank you. 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 students 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