and delores barone will talk about the activities that took place in san francisco. thanks. >> thank you. good morning. great to be here. i'm the exercise director for yellow command portion of urban shield program and it is our annual opportunity to sker -- exercise in the bay area region. and so we always take on a catastrophic event for a scenario. 7.9 earthquake this year and we practice coordination across counties, when everybody is impacted by this catastrophic event. so our intent this year, the exercise was on september 6. our intent was to build local government capabilities to provide mass care and shelter services for those 300,000 plus folks throughout the bay area region. and we had -- across the bay area, we had 18 full-scale operation exercises like you are seeing here in san francisco. we had 55 local emergency operation centers and department operation centers activated throughout the 12 counties and close to 3,000 participants across the bay area. we had several state agencies, california department of social services, california public health, par