they drilled again. no luck. and again.lure. , and here dismal days and there, a voice would say, we are licked, let's admit it. but there were stubborn men, in the field and in the san francisco office, who did not have enough sense to quit, the kind of senseless men who, alter history, have done such foolhardy things as believing a steam -- believing that steam could run an engine or the crops would grow on the deserts of california, or that a voice could carry over a wire. it was men like these who said, we will drilled deeper. who drilled, failed once more, and saw their careers and reputations burning away beneath the desert sun. and then, it happened. ♪ oil in commercial quantities had been brought in after three long, discouraging years. this is the goal toward which they had striven, this was the victory faith and sweat had bought. a long road has been traveled since those early years. there have been changes and great expansion. the original concession has been an largest and now embraces an area of 440,000 square

it was men like these who said, we'll drill deeper. who drilled and failed once more.nd saw their careers and their reputations burning away beneath the desert sun. nd then, at the moment, it happened. oil in commercial quantities had been brought in after three long discouraging years. this was the goal toward which they had driven, this was the victory that faith and sweat had bought. a long road has been traveled since those early years. there have been changes and great expansions. the original concession has been enlarged and now embraces an area of 440,000 square miles, equal to the states of california and texas combined. since that first paying well established it as a major field and saudi arabia as an oil country, other fields have been discovered, production has risen until, in 1947, it reached close to 19 million barrels from less than 4 million in 1939. in the prolific field, production by the end of 1947 was averaging about 200,000 barrels a day. about sent by pipeline 40 miles away. from there, more than 100,000 barrels daily flow through one of the worl

they don't want you drilling for gas here. but if you are on the board of an international gas company you drill before you want. people see through the nonsense. trish: that word keeps coming up. trish: coming up next.

overall, the drill success. >> i think e biggest piece for me. is aying home and being able to grab everything. not trying to figure it out. when you get that alert. for the next drill will be held in a neighborhood on november 2. >>> were learning more about a man's death near a train track and contra costa county, on thursday morning man's body was found along tracks near our boulevard and giant road. they have since identified him as 40-year-old william cody tate of san pablo. at first deputies say he appeared to have been shot, and have a gunshot wound at all and that his injuries were consistent with being struck by a train. this point it's unclear whether his death was intentional or in fact exponential. remake and hours long police stand off ended, to clear the scene at 8 am. they were looking for an assault the suspect believed to be holed up inside of the apartment building there. authorities believe the man was armed, the status began at 5:30 pm yesterday and ended close to midnight. officers evacuated nearby home and send in a police r

is affected by this drilling and fracking because as of so far roughly 19% drop of drilling in the permian yet production has still held flat a question of as we get better and better at drilling and faster, how much do you to take off the oil rigs for oil production to be affected? atause we're getting so good getting oil out of the ground that we don't need as many rigs as we did back in the 2014 boom time so it's been really challenging to see when you would actually see u.s. oil by thison affected cutting in oil activity in the oil fields. >> right, and you would have companies and even the hospitality and the healthcare industries would be able to forecast this a little bit better, but clearly, it's not an easy thing to forecast, david. seeing a migration from the permian basin yet? we're talking about 55 million here. >> yeah, i don't think we have evidence yet that we're seeing a the permian as far as oil drillers finding a place to go. i think if anything it's just a pulling in the horns a little bit and just saying this is the be. spot we can we spent a lot of money to invest in p

the drill was a success. >> that is the biggest piece for me. staying calm and being able to grab everything. >> the next drill will be november 2. >>> coming up. palm votes to delay brexit. the f.b.i. results of deaths in the dominican republic. ♪ hey. hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. itch turkish troops remain. turkish and kurdish officials are blaming each other for violating the order. a monitoring group said the civilian death toll is 86. >>> british lawmakers voted to with hole their aprofessional of wreck it. the vote is a setback for boris johnson and has to ask for the delay of britain's departure. >> the opportunity for a meaningful vote is being passed up. the meaningful vote has been voided of meaning. i wish the house. dawned or dispar played. government officials hope to get the legislation passed so the uk can leave on time. >>> the state department says there's no evide

earlier this year during an active shooter drill an elementary school in indiana teachers described an exercise in which they were asked by local law enforcement to meall down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning witnesses also told indiana lawmakers that the local sheriffs conducting the drill told them this is what happens when you just cower and do nothing the outrage from parents in the scientific studies tracking the emotional trauma and effectiveness of these drills hasn't stopped them this week in ohio franklin high school in warren county parents and students were told that during a controlled drill students and staff will be practicing barricading in classrooms and evacuating the building in addition officers fired blanks from a shotgun. a rifle in total 2 officers fired 13 rounds each during the course of the drill warren county police lieutenant gary massey said parents were informed of the browns before it took place many feel it only traumatized the children and does nothing to stop a school shooter who is

there was a drill on saturday october 19th. did you want to comment on how well this drill went? >> that's the drill debut that coincides with the earthquakes we had in past history of san francisco. very well attended. lot of volunteers were there. it was very well attended event. we were able to get commitment to do this. they were very pleased to do that. they actually approached us to get the idea of getting that in the school. we'll meet with them in the future and have ideas. having that relationship with s.i. and having that large drills going from house to house instead of doing it live it was a great drill. >> i was pleased to see that. the press was impressed. pretty much a full page and the back side. i wanted to get some feedback on that

and each drilling rig represents make 75 to 100 workers directly and indirectly.f we keep seeing a slowdown in drilling we may see a slowdown on the big daddy of all economic numbers. that is thes monthly jobs repor. st something to tnkbout ndth manufacturing data, oilanuf gas, stocks down, but t t drilling activity a could be twking the national numbers lower as well. for "nightlbusiness report" brian sullivan. >>> meanwhile, the u.s. finds itself inf another tar i tiff. but this one is not with china. late today the u.s. trade representative said it's going to impose tariffs on dollions of ars of imports from the european union. the world trade organization authorized those tar earlier in the day after it ruled that the eu unfairly subsidizes aircraft giant air bus. kayla tausche has details. >> the u.s. wil place new taris on 7.5 billion-dollar in european goods beginning october 18th after winning a long running legal dispute at the world trade organization. aircraft will be charged a n 10% tariff wle agricultural alindustrial tariffs s a 25% tariff including

now fast forward we are having this drill. it is the 11th year of the great shakeout and you were all part of it today where we have many guests. first up, i will introduce dr. vincent matthews, our superintendent for san francisco unified school district school district. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, boys and girls. i just want to tell you how proud i am of you today. you did exactly what you were supposed to do during an earthquake. you dropped, you covered, you made sure your head was covered and then when you heard the all clear sign, you came out here. that is exactly what you are supposed to do. we want to make sure you are safe during an earthquake and one more thing we want you to do is make sure you are telling your parents to be prepared, so make sure they have all the things you need. food batteries flashlights first-aid kit water, you want to have all those things and a plan. make sure you are telling your parents that. i'm very proud of you today. i want you to -- we will do a quick cheer. i will spell go

it's an active shooter drill now.e the days when there was a rumor of a person having a knife on campus at my school. and the principal just stopped everything, brought us all into the auditorium. and had a meeting. who has the knife? now we have assault weapons. on campuses. so we have to deal with the inconceivable. and i have to ask you about something that i regrettably must ask about, but i think we have to prepare. for this unthink able and inconceivable b b event and that would be of course whether or not we're ready to deal with a chemical or biological event. we can't wait. we have to prepare for the unthinkable if we are doigoing deal with the inconceivable. so i ask as gently as i can, are we adequately prepared for an attack of this kind on a school campus where it should never happen? where it would be inconceivable? are we having any drills, any information intelligence accorded our students so that they can deal with these things? do we have proper equipment available or -- where are we? if we're not th

not buy a going concern rather than one you have to drill for?hink the trade is looking right now and saying, okay, we are down, but are we getting toward the $50 range where the market should find some support. >> do you think lower oil prices hurt the u.s. economy more than help them right now? >> i'm sorry i didn't hear that. >> do you think lower oil prices hurt the u.s. economy more than help it right now? >> well, lower oil prices -- let's define lower a year ago we were about $7 lower at the beginning of the year, so we've come back quite a bit in the oilprices so the answer is not -- it doesn't hurt it because it puts money in a consumer's pocket at the end of the day, as much as we're concerned in america about construction, about manufacturing, that's about 10% of the economy what really makes up our economy is the consumer, and if the consumer has more gasoline money left at the end of the day, the theory is they'll spend more so, no, i don't think low gasoline prices are really hurting the economy. >> all right so if we have wti below

there was a drill on saturday october 19th. did you want to comment on how well this drill went?> that's the drill debut that coincides with the earthquakes we had in past history of san francisco. very well attended. lot of volunteers were there. it was very well attended event. we were able to get

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annual shakeout drill i'm going to show you a shake simulator we're going to see all of this falling. we'll show you how need to drop. >>thanks for joining us on this thursday morning. i'm toria false and i'm fletcher always fun on a thursday because you got friday right on her. >>little fried fried as we call that makes >>all right little drizzle this morning to thursday, yeah, little drizzle but it's not going to stick around for long today when we look back at today you're going to remember. >>it actually has a pretty sunny wife because the skies are on already starting to clear it is wet out there right now though so as many of us encountered as you're driving to work to just take it a little bit slower as you're getting off on to the road this morning and then you don't worry about much the rest of your thursday. you can start to see the lights of berkeley down below here from the berkeley hills and as we make our way through the rest of the morning within the next hour really are going to see some rapidly could rapidly clearing skies and for the rest of the day after that point

angola is coastal waters the government has put 10 separate areas out to tender but exploratory drilling is not without financial risk and offshore exploration is declining worldwide the current relatively low oil prices make big multinationals sharry away from the high investments the extent to which angola is suffering from the fall in oil prices is reflected in the country's gross domestic product which has been shrinking for the last 3 years. the international monetary fund is forecasting a slight increase of not point 3 percent for this year. the i.m.f. granted angola a loan of $3000000000.00 last december meant as a bridging measure and its oil industry is expected to be back to profit again by 2021. now for more let's bring in andy executive chairman of the african energy chamber and also the author of several books on the energy industry he joins us now in capetown where the 4th annual africa oil and power conference is coming to a close good to have you with us on the program let me start by picking up on the last sentence in our piece that the oil industry not going to expected

that is the drill as you come to the waterfront. afraid of ships is happening friday the blue angels air show taking place this weekend for saturday and sunday. if you hear them flying around they will be practicing for thursday and friday. katie nielsen, kpix five. >>> it is the two-year anniversary the wine country wildfire. 44 people were in the pocket fire. community members are here to learn about defensible space and evacuation plans. they want to create the first fire counsel.whe fire away from something happeninhere.s very i hope we never have to go through that again. >> they say it's not a matter of if but when another major fire can impact the area. >>> evacuation advisory has now been lifted up to fire crews got the upper hand on a fast- moving fire. the grass fire broke out in the hills west of i-80 and american canyon yesterday afternoon. firefighters worked overnight to make sure that the american fire did not flare up again. so far officials have seen it towards 540 acres. neighbors see the flames jumping towards the

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going to besides what you would see would taxes they are providing incentives to our companies to drill margin our worlds and leave margin now feels you're putting your concessions there and it making it easier to do business so if the if these if these new incentives new policies are put in place and implemented their recent chance indorsed their all and gas investors might find that all angolan love again and go out and vests and put money and drill but it has to be closely monitored we have to quote to push it and drive this and it is industry forward because it has to really benefit people and benefit the economy right and this is also what your latest book billions at play which was released and summer is about it's about focusing on how energy can work better for africans how would that work in the case of a goanna. what how any jew would work better for angolans is going to come of doubts cation you cannot rely only on oil companies paying rents to the government and government using the grain to pay to to pay for everything in the country we have to empower people we have to dri

, drill until we can't drill no more, either by an act of god or because an act of government, and ink thahat's irresponsible. man 1: the quality of life in the united states of america, the state of california, the globe is going to be the marriage and the efficient use of all of our available technologies, but if we learn and we're open with each other as different industries, then we can benefit acrososs the boarar. anand that is how we alall will gegenerations s from now.. i was asked by some civic leadaders if i would c consider surveying the people of the city of taft, because inin governmen, wwe need business sense, and here i i am. i was s elected to office and i've been reelected 3 times. i i do this f for free. i refuse toto take any wages or any bebenefits, but i take a great deal of pride in it and i raised my family in thisis community. y employees live in thiss community. i own a crane and trucking company, and i actually began my oil field career as a roustabout, whicich is a a very beginner in an oil field. bottom of the tototem pole. andi woworked my way up. taft a a

of course that drill would be used in the events of an earthquake. now there are millions of folks across the state that took part in the drill that happened at 10:17 a.m. earlier this morning i got a chance to step into an earthquake simulator over there at civic center plaza in san francisco to practice this drill. the executive director with the department of emergency management in san francisco explained the drill to me while we stood in an earthquake simulator which simulated a 7.0 earthquake. now while some folks may be tempted to run outside when an earthquake hits the director explained that's not a good idea. >> one of the main ways people are going to be injured in an earthquake is not from a building collapsing, but from things falling down and striking a person and so protecting yourself during the shaking is the most important thing. >> valuable advice there, guys. that earthquake early warning system as you mentioned is being rolled out statewide today. now the app won't predict -- predict the earthquake but will provide people with ti

doing this drill and basically clipped practicing out clearing debris. so we have a live interview coming up and 6 30's so join us then and we'll tell you more about that drill something that's really important. not only is fleet week fun, but it's also important for them to get ready and do these types of drills now live in san francisco sarah stinson kron 4 news okay. thank you very much sara for that report looking for this 6.30 a interview and don't forget by the way kron four's your home for all things fleet week. >>especially when it comes to the blue angels air show we have blue angels live that will be our to our special. >>presentation saturday october 12th that's where you can catch. the air show from the comfort of your own living rooms if you can't make it into san francisco. this is the second best thing right best seat in the house fun starts saturday. october 12th, the 02:00pm blue angels live right here on kron 4. >>in the east bay richmond police arrest 3 teenagers in connection to a shooting after a high school football game. the shooti

moraga was the first city to do a drill after the campfire in 2018.elp b tnk this helped peoplenhaveo wake up at 1:00 in the morning and figure out how to get out safely, how to protect their homes. a drill like this extremely helpful in this situation where it's dark. there's no power, and you have to figure out how to get to safety and get your family to safety as soon as possible. this evacuation drill playing a part in helping people in this area as they have to evacuate right now this morning. so we want to give you an update. we spoke with craig who was on the scene there at the fire line. and he's told us he's gotten an update from fire officials there that now 35 to 40 acres are burning here in moraga and it's 20% contained. that's an update from what we had originally learned this morning when it was zero percent contained. we're happy to hear that. he said there are -- it seems like the winds are lower, but in his area, and the concern is that as we go higher the winds might increase, so mike has been tracking that to let us know what impact

the drill took place at 10:17 in remembrance of the day the earthquake happened. the superintendent said the hope is that students take the lessons they learn about earthquake safety home with them and in turn teach their families about disaster preparedness. >> i have three children. their messages spurred me into action. that is what we want for our parents to make sure they are prepared and our students are ambassadors for what you need to do if an earthquake hits. >>> city leaders shared stories with the children of their experiences going through the i- team 1989 loma prieta earthquake to bring home the message of safety. >>> the city of oakland commemorated the anniversary of loma prieta. 42 of the 63 people who were killed lost their lives when the cyprus structure collapsed. pictures of the freeway have become a constant reminder of the earthquake. we will continue our coverage with rob ross who is in oakland on more of the vivid memories of those who were caught in the chaos that day. >>> ron mandela parkway is where the cyprus freeway once stood and were

on the 19th we had the 30-year nert drill anniversary. as we know, nert came out of the loma prieta earthquake. it was founded after that, because they wanted to do something. we had a meeting with the stress unit yesterday. myself and chief velo and our chief of health and safety, chief parks. we met with them. and we were discussing how to streamline communications from within and to us as well as data that we want them to collect in terms of seeing how many people were actually working with and sort of what our resources look like in relation to that. tomorrow is the ann rush foundation burn relay. it will be coming to the division of training at 19th and folsom around 4:45 tomorrow afternoon, you are all invited. the black firefighters association will be cooking dinner for everyone. this is the peninsula relay. so they started down the peninsula. i'm not sure if it was at menlo park but they've gone through there and their last journey is tomorrow up to us. and if you don't know, ann rush was a child who was severely burned in 1970 a

"please don't drill the reef. people responded. they really did.amount of international attention on the issue. and i think they started to realise this really was going to impact australian tourism. having that national legislation passed was really the decisive moment in 1975. the entire barrier reef region was proclaimed a marine park. no oil drilling, no mining, and that was the day we thought, we actually succeeded! how about that? the reef isn't completely safe. particularly, we have to deal with climate change. fortunately, kids from high school, students and even others are getting to make a difference if theyjust keep on. keep it up. that is all we need. don't shut up. keep it up. eddie hegerl continues to campaign to save the barrier reef from climate change. that is all from this special addition of witness history. we will be back next month with more accounts of extraordinary moments in history. but for now, for me and the rest of the witness history team, goodbye. have of the heavy rain in wales and parts of a win will clear as we go

and today during that drill it starts at 1017 here on october 17th. you need to be able to remember that. you are standing on the street. what you're going to do so joining us now is mark. and tell us here at the get. >>with the earthquake country alliance, a statewide organization that helps california's get prepared for earthquakes and this trail is worldwide. you know it started in southern california. at lot of anger and a one-time thing back in 2008 and then people from northern california wanted to join in other states other countries and it really is a way to practice what to do to think about what your plans are and to get better prepared. and here and san francisco such bay area we've dealt with a lot earthquakes including long >>how important is this to do this on the 30th. >>well just think about how many people were alive who are here now or who have moved to the bay area since then and do not and the earthquakes this week we're bigger. for people to practice that to drop cover and hold on. so that things are falling and hitting you and ev

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the drill is trying to reach desposits of natural gas trapped in rock.s fine — but progress has been very slow. today's report says that the government expected 20 fracked wells by mid—2020 butjust three have been drilled so far and there are no more in development. in scotland it is still banned. the cost of those three wells? £32.7 million. it isa it is a lot of money. that includes a big chunk spent on policing costs to secure these sites. they are very controversial and there have been lots of protests about the impact on the environment and public health. in fact, the report says opposition to fracking has gone up from 21% in 2013 to 40% today. the report is pretty damning. it says the government hasn't analysed the costs and benefits, hasn't developed the right technology and hasn't worked out a plan for cleaning up after the fracking. a pretty damning report. that wasn't all. this is the author of the report. the economic benefits of fracking are uncertain. the government does not know how much could be extracted from england. the government belie

drill. happening all all over the world join us for a live interview with red cross. >>thanks for waking up with a song. start to full said i'm james fletcher it is thursday october 17th middle of the month. the weather fall like that i guess that won't last too much longer yeah return summer next week a us, okay. a hot spots before we get a forecast no no hot spots we have some. >>minor trouble spots are all out of the way, but you know those drive times are still on the because the roads are still a little wet. yes still a little wet, although the fall. >>it's clear look at this guy's now it's really bright i say what a quick change for those of you that are just waking up it's very clear but just an hour ago you can see much of this to you as fog was really settled in across the day. that's burning off quick this morning and it's going to continue to do so those areas that are still holding on to fog like a few spots in the east bay, south bay and on the peninsula are going to see it for much longer it's quickly making its way out and the rest of the day ahead of u

of course the us recently announced the largest military drills in europe and that being held right on the border with russia this is something that putin did kind of make light of he said it's something he's not going to be losing sleep over and he also kind of hinted that russia had been a lot more considerate in holding its own drills because they'd been done in the center of the country so i was not to bother anybody else outside of russia some of that typical of president putin humor there so those are some of the highlights from those talks today in the capital of minister. we spoke to political analyst chris bambery who says the current situation in syria poses a wider international threat. the key driving force in that world the kurdish forces they have those prisoners anything which threatens the release of those is a threat as usual did not just a regional variable tension greater threat all worlds once again we're talking about region where the kurdish region which overlaps not just with turkey and syria but with the ran the involvement of other regional powers in that co

person also shared his thoughts on nato drills of course the u.s. recently announced the largest military drills in europe and that being held right on the border with russia this is something that putin did kind of make light of he said. something he's not going to be losing sleep over and he also kind of hinted that russia had been a lot more considerate in holding its own drills because they had been done in the center of the countries there was not to bother anybody else outside of russia some of that typical of president putin humor there so those are some of the highlights from those talks today in the capital of what is to make here and bring us the latest thank you. legendary soviet consul. passed away at the age of 85 in 1965 he conducted the 1st ever space walk marking a major milestone in the history of space exploration of how an illustrious career he commanded the soviet half of the historic apollo mission in 1975 the 1st joint space mission between 2 superpowers as i use capsule docked with the american apollo capsule for 2 days in spa