ap and naomi watrand naomi reaching new heights in hollywood with a career built on gutsy performances. her latest movie conjures up the epic title waive, but for one family on vacation, the tsunami of 2004 was a test of survival and the fierce determination of a mother's love. abc's bob woodruff talked to naomi watts for tonight's "nightline" interview. >> reporter: it started out as an idyllic vacation for a young family on the west coast of thailand, a mother and father played by naomi watts and ewan mcgregor and their three young sons. but the holiday soon turns to a living held. and an epic fight for survival in the most devastating natural disaster in modern history. it was december 26th, 2004, when a giant tsunami swept across southeast asia, destroying entire villages, killing hundreds of thousands. "the impossible" tells the whole story in excruciating detail of what happened to one family caught up with millions of people in the disaster. >> i will find them, i promise you that. >> it just felt like it was rooted in real truth. like every line of dialogue, every detail, every

the impossiblement we'll talk with naomi watt its, ewan mcgregor and the director, and maria belon. her life is the subject of the film. >> it's an incredible movie. i see it and i can realize, i mean people can feel what was the beginning of being there, just the line that begins, you know, all the horror and the pain. but it's incredible the job that name owe-- naomi did because when you watch it you can feel the experience. you can watch from outside, just feel are you insidement so you get all the, you know, feelings and experience we felt as the people went through. >> rose: les miserable, and the impossible when we continue. funding for carlie rose was provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: les miserables is one of the best loved muse calls of all time, 60 million people have gone to see victor hugo 1862 novel of tragedy, romance and revolution sung into life it is now one of the year's most anticipated movies. here is the trailer for the film. ♪ i dreamed a dream in time gone by

mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork.

please help me welcome naomi kelly. (applause). >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for having me here today. again, i'm naomi kelly, city administrator for the city and county of san francisco and it's an honor to be participating in this important panel discussion on the uss macon island. over the course of the next 50 minutes, we will be going to focus one of our -- we're going to be focused on one of the most important elements of our city and that's the resill yepbs of our life line. i am joined by a prestigious panel of experts who i believe have a keen insight sbat resill yepbs of the capacities we will be relying on heavily in moving forward post a disaster. here with me today is kirk johnson, to my left, vice president of gas transmissions from pacific gas and electric. next to him is don boland, executive director of california utilities emergency association. next to him is david brig, regional and local water system manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and finally but not least, romel an jell lus, manager for san francisco w

mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a timely way, which needs to be within budget. systems like this will really elevate and make it really transparent that we are delivering these programs in a very conscious and deliberate way so we can save the ratepayers' money. with that, i just want to thank you guys for this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> if you are a consultant or you work for a company that does work for the puc, raise your hand. that's about half the room. thank you, harlan kelly. >> it does not matter just where you're going to go. it matters how you're going to get there. our team came together in 2008 and we started looking at pr

next on your agenda we are going to have a brief powerpoint from our city administrator, naomi kelly, who will update us on the life line council. >> good afternoon everyone. i have a hard act to follow, admiral. that was wonderful listen to your stories and dejan and anne and great work and i wanted to update everyone on the life line council and give you a background. in august of 2009 then city administrator edwin lee launched the life line council and recommendation of the 2008 policy paper produced by spur outlining what san francisco had to do to improve the resilience of life line to with stand a earthquake. you can find notes on our website. the life line councilmembers over its three year life the life line council has successfully convened a top level of executives and mutual sharing of plans and projects and priorities much the members are listed here above. as you can see we have many of city and county san francisco agencies from the general agency, real estate, public works, water and power, san francisco public utilities commission, pg&e and comcast and caltrans, bart a

they include naomi kelly, our city administrator, thank you for being here. i haven't seen her yet but i know joe an hayes white, vickky hennesy, our interim sheriff. >> doing a great job, too, vicky >> adrian pawn, monique hawn, our port, i know karen hong is our county clerk, she's joining us as well and the host of women on our commissions and our directors of our various nonprofits, thank you for all joining us and being a part of us as well.that our other elect officials who are here today including our diega skoepb is here as well, other elected officials, i know we have an official from the justice department, thank you for being here and other elected officials join me in acknowledging. i know diego gascon has another reason for being here. brenda yee, chinese hospital, we just broke ground on chinese hospital, thank you for your leadership and all the health field. christine bronstein, band of wives, thank you for your wonderful leadership, wonderful acknowledgement today. delloyd, our corporate partner, a hundred years in san francisco, thank you fo

sure i mentioned that within these last few months through the cooperation of our city administrator naomi kelly we have appointed a manager of the caps program, and of course that is the community action plan for seismic safety. it is a plan we wanted to make sure that was lead by someone who can immediately get on the ground and figure out all of the things that we need to do to make sure the soft story buildings which are the most important focus that we have to have for the next seismic event and starts with that planning with all of us, so i wanted to make sure to introduce and congratulate patrick otiline who has come aboard to take care of this incredible responsibility. patrick, thank you very much for being here today. [applause] i will note that currently the caps program is lodged under city mmptdor's office and a conversation i had when i was city administrator and we wanted to put it at a place, but it is there for now, but with patrick's help we will make sure that program flourishes at the right place and with all the different resources that we have to have along with my co

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the film stars naomi watts, who should be a best actress player, ewan mcgregor.lly terrific, really heart-wrenching film that people should check out when it goes wide, probably in january. [birds tweet [wind blow [wave crashe [scream > > i have friends who have screamed that, and they said it is tough to watch, but it is tremendous. > > it is tough to watch but it is very rewarding. > > good to have you on the show and happy holidays erik. > > thank you. that's a wrap for us. make sure and join us back here every weekday morning. from all of us at first business, thank you for watching and have a wonderful day. [musi . >>> celebrating christmas by giving back, we will tell you about one of the largest benefits in san francisco. >>> more rain approaches the bay area. >>> a church service was hit by gunfire and the usual place it all ended up. it is all ahead on the khou channel 11 news. >>> and a good morning everybody, and of course merry christmas. i

and educating ourselves what we're doing and not doing is a big part of the life line process that naomi is running and it's been very, very helpful. >> thank you. and mr. angelus. >> in terms of standards, similar to pg&e we have established our own internal standards on how resilient our network is. it's two hour quality of service how to design our capacity and also in how we perform, we do these failure tests to make sure the network can withstand the additional traffic being transferred from one portion to another. we have an earthquake strategy binder which is available aupb lane for our employees that can be accessed. it's available in all of our switches. these are step by step directions what happens when this big one occurs. we also practice this on drills, we have very little drills within the company or within the region to make sure everybody is on the same page when this situation does occur. now, as far as our support with other agencies, you know, our first priority of course when this thing happens is to make sure our network is running. but we also have a number of hotl

and the amazing 6-year-old in the southern wild and naomi 9k@wnjn÷ choices the favorite hs to be tom hs bay area represented by madagascar three. pixar part of our disney family. and i'll northbound the audience for the critics choice awards in santa monica january owe 10th. broadcast live on the cw. that show and nominees deserve a full bucket. good koiss we'll see you on the aisle. >> you get the full bucket too, don. >> thank you. >> some salvation army bell ringers stepping up their game in a big way. that is joey osti one of eight people nationwide taking part in the bell ringing contest. this is video. joey has a long haul ahead. last year's winners rang bells 60 hours. the campaign began in san francisco. >> very cool. >> okay. let's update the forecast. rain is on the way. >> it is. you can see from this view this afternoon from our camera, clouds rolling in. clouds with us now. rain with us shortly. you can see it north right now moving now into parts of sonoma county. looks like a path there of heavier rainfall. so state wide tomorrow, we'll take a look at pockets of shower

that is at the premier we talked with naomi watts about playing the heroic mother. >> you put yourselfat position and go what if?lya÷ who will i become? limited release december 21. now, once upon a time actress ginnifer goodwin talking about playing snow white, her all-time favorite princess. here is a look at the fancy new cover hitting news stands today, new emep sodz return to abc this january. for entertainment updates and pictures throughout the day, i'm tony cabrerra in los angeles. city clerk in alameda is in search for one more couple to make 12 for tomorrow's 12, 12, 12, city hall weddings. it will be the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012. if- >>> want to bring you latest on this breaking news. a mall shooting in portland, oregon in the clackamas town center hall. two are dead, four to seven may be wounded, getting reports on number of shots fired between 20 and 60. the gunman we're told wearing a mass skpk perhaps body armor is still at large. we'll keep you posted at 4:00. >> emotions running high today in michigan. late today state governor signed a right to work legislat

best actress, jessica chastain, helen mirren, naomi watts, rachel wise.tor drama -- daniel day lewis for "lincoln." richard gere, john hawks, jauquin phoenix and denzel washington for "flight." so those are the highlights. and for the sake of the commish, do want to point out, for best television drama, "breaking bad" "boardwalk empire" "doubting abby," "homeland" and "the newsroom." just wanted to add that in there. for a show i love that he hates. but we have that ongoing feud. >> i love that clap. how is that jack? >> it's a good show. >> that i hear is great. >> willis and the commish can have a viewing party. >>> great thing happening in new york city last night. they had the sandy benefit. you saw bon jovi, bruce springsteen, everybody collaborating for the victims. but something mick jagger said on stage is a little insensitive. here's what he said. and he's drawing only ire and rage from some people. he said this has to be the largest collection of old english musicians ever assembled in madison square garden. but if it rains in london, you've got

also opening today, impossible, following a family cau'%jéo9 a devastating 2004 tsunami naomi watts says the hardest project she's work nond a long time. >> physically, 100%, and yeah. emotionally, like you said, it was high pitched a lot of the days. >> it is in select cities now, then going nationwide january 4th. a major milestone for si. his video hit one billion views and the second highest search this year on google behind whitney houston. get caught up on entertainment news any timedmh3 on otrc.com. >> stale head on abc 7 news at 4:00 one city economy takes a heat. >> -- hit. >> one community learns it's losing 800) transferred to texas. we'll have the story coming up. >> plus, ups driver steals a new ipad, and gets caught. >> also, four more shopping days left. but christmas deals are still out there. we'll tell you where they are. >> and live doppler 7 hd tracking a storm moving through the bay now. sandhya patel will have your accu-weather forecast a little later. and... take care of them, you know? i feel like we've come full circle. like that! this is how i'll do it. sarah: t