since the loma prieta earthquake we have made great strides. we rebuilt the city stronger, and great strides in retro fits especially on the bay bridge and new buildings. and the catastrophic plan under nancy's leadership and the partnership with fema, we've enhanced some warnings and made a concerted effort to focus on personal preparedness and get message out residents really need to help take care of themselves and others. so i am pleased to be part of the legacy and want to thank all of you for your hard work, time and effort to help others. so thank you. [applause] >> a little transition work here. jim? >> thank you. thank you mike for joining us today to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. i'd also like to thank our community partners and those supporting our event. kqed served the people of north erin california and offer many different experiences and viewpoints, promote inclusiveness and respect human dignity. we are proud to have them as a partner today and in the preparedness. that the time i'd like to ask

loma prieta means dark mountain. and we would always say during the earthquake we were kind of on the dark side of the mountain. san francisco did an incredible job but to give you a little bit of background to the city. i think this experience also brought me to city government. i had worked in the non-profit field for over 25 years. the city of watsonville was not prepared to communicate with the 60% spanish-speaking community. the city was in a political conflict with its mexican-american leadership ruling by the supreme court to go from citywide elections to city elections that were to occur three weeks after the earthquake with the hope of its electing their first latino councilmember in years. neither the county nor city had a strong relationship with the spanish-community organization and after the hospital and the foundation was damaged, our county health department headquarters was about 14 miles away and we quickly knew that we were on our own. and our clinic staff right after the earthquake continued to pr

as most of you all know, how many of you guys were here during loma prieta? good. so you guys know this was a huge event for this bay area region. it had a huge geographic imprint and affected a whole lot of different types of communities. urban, as you were suburban and rural. for me being a young recovery worker, it was quite amazing how many different kinds of issues about $10 billion and i remember years ago it was six and seven and now we say it was about $10 billion in terms of insured sand underinsured losses. there were major issues specifically for folks who lived in multifamily structures. there were donations from management, government coordination with non-profit organizations and access and functional needs and also the efficiency of government-run systems and programs. i have to say at the state level there was a lot of energy in those days. in order to meet the needs of the communities and survivors, you know, the legislature met and actually passed about 37 bills. isn't that amazing? 37 bills to address loma prieta relief issues. these bills covere

work here in the bay area to address the a lot of deficiencies and issues that became apparent after loma prieta. also i think it's important to acknowledge a lot of our community partners and having worked down here in the bay area for a couple years as part of the bay initiative. we have emily white and greg smith here from red cross who are part of our advisory team. alyssa domo who carries the flag forward being executive director and working with a lot of nonprofits in san francisco and even extending elsewhere now. now a lot of the work that's being done is being done throughout the state. also here hodge who is a huge partner from the faith community here in the bay area representing hunters point bayview area and just did a tremendous job in boosting awareness and preparing that community for a lot of different hazards that could strike them. also yokilly recommendo. another intermediary group that works with nonprofits. once again, the bay area is just an incubator, just so important in terms of this whole concept. i also wanted to mention a lot of the work that's done in the pri

so the earthquake was on tuesday, and it wasn't until friday that the world figured out that loma prieta was not next to san francisco and oakland, that it was down near santa cruz and watsonville and the president of the united states shows up and the first thing that happened is they walk him down the middle of pacific avenue in this area that everybody had been forbidden to go in for the last four days and the business people are kind of going, now, wait a minute. this is the most guarded person in the world and he's going right where you say we can't go. and there are secret service guys up on the roofs of the buildings and all that stuff. so that created a little bit of a problem because, you know, recovery's not singular. recovery is pleural. -- recovery is plural. recovery is thousands of people, individuals, families, groups, organizations, businesses, communities, regions, each organism in its own way having decisions to make and needing to be empowered to make those decisions and to do the things that they need to do to recover. and, you know, as a public agency you can be in t

kevin will look back how the loma prieta earthquake affected the important commercial and residential area around the fisherman wharf's area to form the community benefit district serving the neighborhood to this date. >> good morning. 22 years ago i was working in hayward, california, and i thought i was prepared. when the earthquake hit, growing up in california i learned to dive under my desk, which i did, and walker in the parking lot and didn't know what to do next when people were telling us what happened and we were trying to figure out what to do. i had $1.25 in my pocket and i had about a gallon of gas in my car and i sat for seven hours at the san mateo bridge before i realized it wasn't going to happen and i turned around to find a place to stay that night. i am talking about a business district and the work we do to prepare because so many of us will be at our place of work when disaster strikes. the fisherman wharf's community in 1989, i wasn't working on the wharf but i talked to some of the people that were. again, people ran out in the streets. they didn't necessarily

two decades ago, it was completely rebuilt because of the loma prieçto earthquake.gers are crossed that there will not be any earthshaking today. our deputy administrator will talk about the shape specifically. i wanted to take a moment to thank our host, edwin lee, the mayor of san francisco. he has championed an equal focus on response and recovery. today he is our host in this majestic civil service building, probably the most majestic civil service building in the country. fema can take credit where credit is due. over the last several years we have been expanding especially in catastrophic planning with our partners from the greater bay area in catastrophic earthquake response plans we developed in 2008 and 2009 -- excuseç me, 2010. i wanted to set the stage about what we're here today to keep in the back of our minds. the type of event we're talking about could literally provide çdamages inñr theç scope ofç e kinds of implications. 1000 bridges totally destroyedç networks disrupted or dysfunctional for two yearsç, maritime prison for weeks or months. çth

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prosecutors say james loma pinched pennies on a crucial repair. while he says workers mistakes caused the may 2008 collapse. it happened after another man had a crane collapse, killing seven people. if convicted of manslaughter, loma could face up to 15 years in prison. >>> an iowa mom is charged with getting her 22-month-old child drunk. police say she told doctors the child wouldn't stop crying and couldn't keep a steady balance. doctors found the child was given alcohol and had a blood alcohol level above the state's legal limit. the toddler's mother is now in jail. >>> maryland celebrity chef, brian baltavo is fighting for a cause close to his heart. he spoke in hopes that all students have full stomachs. andrea fujii has the story. >> make a sorbet. >> reporter: frederick native, brian batalvo was on top chef. his passion is now in his hometown restaurants, lunch box and volt. and also making sure children don't go hungry. >> nutrition is the most important thing that has to do with starting a child's day at school. >> reporter: on monday, he

prosecutors say james loma pinched pennies on a crucial repair.hile defense argues that workers' mistakes cause the collapse. it happened two months after another manhattan crane collapse killed seven people. if convicted of manslaughter, loma could face up to 17 years in prison. >>> an iowa mother is charged with getting her 22-month-old child drunk. police say the child would not stop crying and could not keep a steady balance. doctors found the child had been given alcohol and had an alcohol blood level above the state's limit. the toddler's mother is now in jail. >>> scott pelley has a preview of what's coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. >>> the dow crosses 13,000 for the first time in nearly four years. has the economy finally turned the corner? we'll look at the evidence tonight on the cbs evening news. >> thanks, scott. here's a look at tonight's closing numbers from wall street. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is another unseasonably mild february evening. hard to believe the month is coming to an end. and there is no snow

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garcia for 16 years at the health department and heard her very compelling story about the response to loma prieta. so really happy that you were here and each and every one of you were able to provide very unique perspectives that began to give us the whole picture of what a full community response looks like. i'm sure you'll join me in giving a big hand to our panel. [applause] i don't know about you all but i think this was a wonderful opportunity to share ideas this morning, to see old friends, meet new friends and really continue this dialogue which is so important in our recovery. there will be more of this in the future. thank you all for coming and encourage you all to be prepared and to think about our response and our working together. thank you very much. have a great day. [applause] >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not i

the new bridge will open nearly 24 years after part of the eastern span collapsed in the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. a longtime coming. >>> up next, young people at risk, and the oaknd la program that is keeping -- oakland program keeping them off the streets. now a victim of its own success. >> and a mortgage settlement is all a done deal. how it could work. >> and concerns about security on the campaign trail after another bombing. >> that's all coming up and then on "nightline." >> coming up, a six-year-old pageant queen whose mom serves her red bull and mountain dew. doctors say it is dangerous. and the calls to regulate sugar and caffeine heat up. and viola davis over her struggle for taking can you enjoy vegetables with sauce and still reach your weight loss goals? you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green giant frozen vegetables with sauce. consumers prefer wanchai ferry orange chicken... over p.f. chang's home menu orange chicken women men and uh pandas... elb

it was a mission revivial style in morira loma park. we had made it large enough for the family to be on the same for. we got -- bought another house in san francisco which we still live in. aside from that point, my office got notice azide do for any sort of additions that occur in the general vicinity. my dental office is more than a mile away. i spotted about a year ago. i know this the setback was pretty severe. it seemed compared to what i am used to sing. staff had also -- it looked like a box on the top of the house. i call the staff, i forget whether it was mr. cabreras and said, what is going on here? he mentioned there was a historical issue that the addition to the top of the house was not supposed to look like the rest of the house. i said, that does not make any sense to me. the fact the original design apparently had a tile shed roof and where the addition was so it looks like everything else which is mission revival in the neighborhood and to put just a box on the top without the kind of finishing is not right. at the ver

. >> it was badly dai drjed in the loma earthquake. >> it's the old commerce high school and built somewhere else and they pick today up and moved it to this current location. >> gigantic building. basically temporary railroad tracks and rolled it across the plaza. >> and with brick veneer and clay and tile entire walls. >> they say this is the first hindu temple in the united states -- in fact in the whole western world. the first temple for america and originally a two story building and we have a permit from 1,907 to add the third story and the third story turned it into this temple and each of these has deep significance in the hundredue culture and religion. one of the things that is amazing all of the different architectural styles and pieced together and the different things and the queen anne and colonial and all different styles pushed together. this is webster at filbert street in the marina. around san francisco odd buildings abound and this thing is in somebody's backyard and all over we see the incremental development and they have a porch and rail and walls up and here we have

transamerica pyramid, i think it was instrumented and i keep reading that it drifted a foot in the loma prieta earthquake. doesn't seem like much to me. how do these buildings perform in seismic events? >> historically no modern high-rise building has ever collapsed in a major event except for one building in mexico city where it was designed as an office building and the government converted it to a book warehouse. and they filled the floors up this high with paper. which effectivelily mad effectie building three times heavier than it should be. as a class, these buildings are probably some of the best buildings you could be in. >> but there was an interesting anomaly that came up as a result of the northridge earthquake in los angeles in the '90s. that was the welded steel joints which we up to that point thought were absolutely terrific, allowed a lot of movement, turned out to not just fail but to be weaker than we thought, to crack. there was an enormous effort coming forward, to figure out how this happened, how to prevent that in the future. >> part of the problem with those, the

the new bridge will open nearly 24 years after part of the eastern span collapsed in the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. a longtime coming. >>> up next, young people at risk, and the oaknd la program that is keeping -- oakland program keeping them off the streets. now a victim of its own success. >> and a mortgage settlement is all a done deal. how it could work. >> and concerns about security on the campaign trail after another bombing. >> that's all coming up and then on "nightline." >> coming up, a six-year-old pageant queen whose mom serves her red bull and mountain dew. doctors say it is dangerous. and the calls to regulate sugar and caffeine heat up. and viola davis over her struggle for taking her role >>> we have an amazing oakland success story. the after school program is doing so well they have run out of buss to transport the children they serve. this is one of several stories we heard about in the abc7 listens meeting recently. it took place at the oakland development center. it is dedicated to helping kids become aware citizens. ama dates has the story tonight. >> welcome, how

when asked why wouldn't we just go with a commercial carrier and we said, because in big events like loma preetta, 9/11 or n.f.c. championship game, sometimes cell phone service can be unreliable and text messages at time. that does not include radios. we were on top of it the whole game. we had a great plan, as rob said, it went off without a hitch and we appreciate that and apologize for anybody thinking it was otherwise. >> thank you, chief. yes, mr. ginsburg? >> the department of emergency management, not just the n.f.c. championship game or preparations for flooding but we had power issues going back to the monday night game in pittsburgh so there was a ton of interagency coordination with sfpd, fire, d.p.w., rec. and park and d.e.m. often throughout that three or four-week process, served as the quarterback and coordinator facilitating conference calls and making sure we were working as well together as we could so my thanks to all of the other city agencies involved in helping us manage the variety of issues that came up at candlestick, special thanks to d.e.m. sometimes even littl

from now, we'll actually have this bridge go into operation, 24 years after the first earthquake, loma prieta quake, felled part of the bridge and made it a priority to replace it. >> who ever thought it would take so long. 24 years, starting at $1 billion. >> now about $1.6 billion. this is a one-off bridge that had to be built on unique territory, deep into a bay, it had to be done in the right way, it had to be built to a standard which is this. if there's a major earthquake, the largest credible earthquake either on the san andreas or the hayward faults, capable of very large earthquakes, the bridge not only needs to survive that, it needs to be in service immediately thereafter for emergency crews for emergency crews and the public. it is built to the highest standards there can be. however, going through all of that were the politics of it where you had the mayors brown arguing over what should be done, the governor schwarzenegger saying, we just want to do a causeway, ultimately we ended up on this large self-anchored suspension tower that's out there. so it is going to be a mon

periphery but what has happened is because of that there are whether it's the seventh day adventists loma linda or whether it's the catholics or other groups we have religious hospitals that have become part of the religion part of the health care commons and i think frankly the argument the debate i understand agree with the women's issue debate but i think that it really should be if we had a national health care system then and all the religious hospitals were moved out of the periphery so that they could say you know we're only going to serve our own people we're all going to. hire our own people we're only going to be our own people we're here for us and you could have you know one for orthodox jews and you go as many as you want one for catholics and one for fundamentalist christians and one percent of the us and one for you know and whatever it may be then it would be an issue that this should be a national healthcare issue the failure of our health care system. well sure well i think you know if you if we did have national health care i'm going to do you know move them to the for