that the time i'd like to ask donald jauron, executive vice president to spruce our speaker for the day. in 2006 was the recipient for the award for excellence in professional the development please welcome to the podium, don dernum. >> thank you. thank you for that. 22 years ago today i was in northern india, and days after this i followed the newspaper headlines following -- describing the earthquake in san francisco and it took several days before the scale and magnitude of that earthquake came to bear resemblens to what we know as the truth. i'm proud represent kqed. it's our obligation to be on the air with both television and radio if disaster should strike. 1989 we sent engineers to the tower where through creative and imaginative circuitry and satellite and cell phone sources we broadcasted needed information throughout san francisco and the bay. for the future, we are building an emergency operation center at our radio transmission site where we'll create a live studio coordinated with others to share resources and space as needed. it has equipment to transmit from our sister s