resilience. we were resilience in 1906 and in 1989 and we will be resilient the next time.love san francisco. we are ready and prepared. each one of you have to be prepared at home and at work. look at how flexible we were. look at what resilience is all about. thanks for coming. >> [ applause ] . >> san francisco is lucky to have two native born san franciscans from our fire department. welcome joanne. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. thank you. thanks for coming out. this is a great crowd as we commemorate and celebrate 107. i'm proud to be serving as your fire chief. we have many here that have shown up from the fire department. on behalf of the fire department we are proud of the city and the city's resilience and today is a perfect opportunity to remind everybody the importance and particularly the mayor who truly gets it, the importance of preparedness and helping each other out and knowing everyone's emergency plan and having plans for your family if you are not together and for your pets and we are also grateful to have three of the members of the board of su

not resilient. well i've been going into the big disaster areas over the last ten years or so and what we see over and over again is that the nature of how the societies are structured and their communities are dependent upon infrastructure that fail under a series of circumstances and in those failures we've begun to build mechanisms for ensuring resilience and sustainability so for example. well we've gone into in the indian ocean basin after the tsunami into indonesia and india and sri lanka and looking at how do we enable communities to gain situational awareness so how do they become aware of the circumstances that they're in what are the mission critical gaps that they face what are the gaps in terms of food energy in some cases like in new york following sandy heat the utility breakdown the communication breakdown how do we reassembled those infrastructures quickly and how do we enable the mass populations within these communities and societies to be able to adapt in an agile fashion so how d

global resilience system michael doll welcome to the program. thanks tom great to be with you thanks for joining us so let's start with you what what sparked your interest in this. well about thirty five years ago we started looking at world models there was a group of eminent scientists and corporate executives. u.n. deputy secretary general and so on looking at what was the world's predicament and where was it going and the concern was that in the twenty thirty to twenty fifty time frame there was the chance of some very serious impacts on populations around the world so i was brought in very early and began to look at how do we build infrastructures that would actually allow us to address and solve some of those problems and so let's let's define terms here what is a resilient community and what is the antithesis of the opposite of a resilient community what we have now that's not risen. well i've been going into the big disaster areas over the last ten years or so and what we see over and over again is that the nature of how the societies ar

hazards resilience community within the next 10 years. i wish to add the support of the american society of civil engineers and the american association for wind engineering and my own support for hr1786. these organizations have been working for the past 10 years since the legislation was first proposed. ofsupport the transfer leadership to the national institute of standards and technology. since the professor first published his skill in 1971 and his report on the walls of tornadoes, our population in 20 of alley has grown 50%. what does that mean -- our population in a tornado alley has grown 15 -- 50%. there are more on ticks in harm's way and there were before. -- there are more objects in harm's way and there were before. the national storm laboratory has invested heavily in whether $167structure, over billion over the last 10 years in better research to predict severe weather, in the equipment for products. the public is aware of this and confident in its use. forecasting information on our smartphones. it is not complicated. long

people are resilient. they come out of the rubble, they are living in tents, they are afraid to go in their houses and it's not getting better. this is december, we're coming on winter. it's getting cold. and it gets really cold there. it's high mountainous region. and we're wondering what are they going to do? we're talking to local government and because of the politics there's a huge disconnect. the central government, the governor, works for the turkish government, obviously it's a turk. the local municipality is elected, he's kurdish. you think we got issues. i'm sorry, this is not republican and democrat politics, this is we don't like you, we're going to put you in jail. by the way, they did that a few months ago. they rounded up a bunch of local mayors and put them in jail. if people went to the local camps they had resources but they were also afraid. true or not, i don't know, i didn't validate the information but there were reports of assaults and abuse by the soldiers in these camps. i don't kn

when we talk about resill yepbs and resiliency for the san francisco public works, the sfpuc not only provides those life lines to san francisco, but we also operate the hetch hetchy regional water system that supplies a great amount of water for a large part of the bay area, 2 1/2 million customers. and for a regional supplier like ourselves when resiliency comes sbat conversation you are talking about earthquakes come up already and terrorism as well and we've done a lot to put our money where our mouth is. we are right in the middle of investing 4 1/2 billion dollars in our water system. most of that is in the regional transition system, but about a billion of that is in san francisco itself and i can tell you that to put your money where your mouth is and really tackle capital investment when you talk about resiliency, it starts and ends there with capital investment. to be able to put your money where your mouth is, you have to convince your rate payer base that they want it and they can afford it and there's a whole exercise there in parallel. the investment is the usual thing.

the recovery of our city depends on san francisco being disaster resilient. we have a well organized and well exercised department of emergency management. that work will be greatly facilitated if we have the physical infrastructure available to support the emergency response. the seismic resilience, san francisco needs this hospital to be fully operational after a major earthquake. as you know, most of our hospitals were built prior to the '80s and most will not be usable. the a major earthquake today will leave san francisco with just a few beds to serve the injured. cpmc replacing hospitals would significantly change that picture. we're still years away from their availability. it takes three to four years to design one of these complex buildings and over 4 to 5 years to build t. if you approve these projects, we'll have these earthquake safe beds in four to five years. if you don't, it could be well over 15 years. i urge you to approve these projects now. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> thank you, chair wiener, president chiu, and supervisor kim

okay, our last question, have you established standards for resilience in cooperation with other lifeline providers and how systems should perform in an earthquake? >> i'll go ahead and talk about pg&e. i would say first off we've designed our own standards for what should happen in an earthquake or any other major emergency. our electric system is designed to worry about trees and wind and rain, which is what we see the most of, and tends to be the most damaging, but we have our own standards and our own expectations in terms of what our system should be able to withstand. add david pointed out, the risk is that an event will occur that is greater than what you have prepared for. that's always a possibility. in terms of working with others i think the important part is to make sure you understand what everyone is relying on you for. so it really comes back it an issue of priorities. what's going to come back first, what's going to come back second. for pg&e we always worry about bringing electrical generation back, those are done in conjunction with our gas and electric together. most of

a ceiling made up particularly resilient glass. a significant minority were not comfortable with the idea. she also had a problem, the man she out did as leader. for years kevin rudd has been planning his revenge, and now it comes to for wishon. with a land lied the feet for her government, there has been defeat of- when light her government -- a landslide defeat of her government. >> it will easy in months after that, and i am proud of that. >> kevin rudd is popular with the people. there has seldom been a come back like this. >> the australian people alike to me to be their her. -- elected me to be their leader. there is a sense of honor and her posts. -- and purpose. >> this is that an ugly phase in politics. she was the subject of crude jokes about her body shape and was asked whether her partner was gay. fa>> can you confirm he is not? fax you and i just talked about that. let me just ring you back to earth. thehe has put gender at center of debate. >> i was offended when the leader of the opposition went out side and stood ne

how do you guys approach your op center in context of resiliency of operations in terms of something like this ?oo ?a would you mind remeeting that one more time. >> you talked a lot about your grid and the resiliency. it's something we look at all the time if the ship sinks, who is the back up guy in charge. how do you guys approach that stuff. >> i'll go ahead and cover at least for pg&e. in terms of our emergency centers and understanding what's happening there, we have our primary emergency center here in san francisco. we have on call personnel for both gas and electric and our generation facilities who have responsibilities upwards of about 80 people each and every day, have to be available, available to come in on any notice. we have back-up facilities that can operate out of walnut creek in many cases, we also have a major back-up facility in san ramon where we can duplicate everything that we have in san francisco. in terms of back-up facilities, in terms of our ability to operate if something goes wrong we can bring up our emergency centers and that's for our corporate emer

. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so t

of challenging those norms but i think it's also important to try and talk about the courage and resilience that people display because those things often go hand in hand and you know if we don't have hope guess what else what else do we have really and not the kind of stop of hope that you often hear about socially in this country well you know one phrase really stuck out to me you said this is the new scripture of our lives spelled skyscraper high in capital letters. i mean that to me to some caps you know this is really the thing that we need to feel if we really want to perceive real tangible change is really believing in ourselves totally and i think that it has to start with the individual and also through grassroots work and that's why. i talk in that poll that i did for ted about hip hop and how it allowed people not just in this country all around the world people like myself who often felt dislocated as

with the city, and to really pitch in to help our hometown, the bay area, become stronger and more resilient. bay share is a collection of companies and stakeholders in the sharing economy who see the value of coming together, to pitch in, to start initiatives, to be a resource, and to collaborate with our city officials and our communities to help build a stronger community. a more connected community is a more resilient community, and communities that are connected are communities that share. and, so, it's a natural partnership and a natural collaboration for us to work with our cities and the bay area to help build a stronger community. we are incredibly excited for our users to engage in department of emergency management initiatives. we are powered by the citizens of the bay area. whether they share cars, the city car share, or get around, share space through liquid space or para soma, or air b & b, or share stuff through yerdal, those are the people that come together and help each other in good times. those are the same people that are going to come together and help each other in dis

to secure resilience, probably an interesting point. >> thank you.i am with the georgia institute australiangy.former department of defense. i was wondering if you think there is any hope for china and the nazis to collaborate on global internet security and what sorts of mechanisms could get that going. >> i will talk with the hope that my colleagues can -- i'll give you a few seconds to think about it. the reason there is hope for collaboration is because we're both countries are at this time, -- because of where both countries are at this time, there should be some constructive dialogue that can be viewed as leaders of the world. it is in their interest to come together. this is something that they can collaborate around. it is a very difficult thing to say you do not want it. they can make progress. as i mentioned earlier, i will give a point, countries have had industrial policies. this is new. industrial policy in the economic sense.-- this is not new. it is industrial policy in the economic sense. if you look at the people that try to steal ib

there's a strong debate and it's a difficult one about using that money to make people more resilient, to make home, cities and states more resilient to the kind of climate threats that we are seeing over the last year. president obama has over seen over 30 disasters that are a billion dollars or more. he is a lot of things but he is also the master of disaster at this stage and we have to re-think how we are expending disaster funds at this stage. >> former assistant secretary with the department of homeland security. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> it's incredible. i am watching him go through what presumably is his property, and he is picking through everything and i am watching him step here, and i hope he doesn't misstep. it's incredible to see this. >> looks like the second floor of his home. looked like a framed picture in his hands. he is going through what it looks like a chest of drawers there. the second floor, the roof, the walls, all gone. and this is st. charles, missouri. courtesy pictures of kmov. this is what we expected to see at first light once the sun comes up

it is safe to say disaster resilience cost money, but it saves in the long run.lin, missouri, which was wiped out by a horrible tornado kill your years ago, they had to rebuild -- two years ago, they had to rebuild their hospital, putting in new windows that cost more, but that will enable the hospital in the future to withstand severe tornadoes. panamaatricia is in city, florida, on our democrat line. seek help during sandy hook when they started -- caller: during sandy hook, when they started arguing about $9 billion -- that was insurance everybody had paid, flood insurance. i thought that was appalling. i have been paying flood insurance for years. host: this was after hurricane sandy? guest: the caller is correct. i do not mean to be partisan, but the vast majority of republicans refused to grant $9 billion to replenish the flood insurance for graham fund -- program fund that had to be spent in the wake of superstorm sandy. eventually that was passed. many more balked at the $50 million invested for relief and recovery. for the first time, some republican sen

they are breaking under ho rendous set of circumstances and yes we can discuss resiliency and all these other things, but we have to have room in the conversation for our very sensitive kids as well. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> all right. one final thought from each of you and we have to wrap it up and i want to talk about your project and with the schools. >> i want us to think about -- as the day we have been challenging ourselves what we can do to make a contribution, one of the things to think about is the way in which i'm trying to address the problem of sensitivity and there are some kids of different thresholds and definitions and everyone has the right to their emotional truth and we need kids to learn more social skills and resiliency and all of these things that i am doing and never would have done it and hit me in the last year or two. i was going to do a chapter -- i am and kids on the spectrum of autism andace perers and targeted or initiated into perpetrating, which i dealt with last week, are perpetrators and aggressors, so i wanted to work on that so i'm working

>> the beauty of mexico, the humanity that the resiliency that they have. something has always drawn the back is the sense of courage with hard-working people and they do not give up. i see that a lot in the people that i interview. people who have low will maybe i'll learn that from my parents but that is how i thought. >> you spend that time to. >> probably very similar. there is a lot of mexico i want people to see just like this date that i could see as i traveled around in my political life. sometimes something as simple as sitting on a park bench. and then this most beautiful in to get out and do would again. but just like there are so many places but i would say with the rhythm of a and the feel of the country it is pretty special. >> levy asked the reverse what about the united states are the point of ignorance? >> and from el paso. but there is so much that we offer of the resilience in the strings and the optimism of the american people. we have a healthy cynicism. that is a nice thing and our cynicism is cynical about government. >> we want a dem

there is studies about talking about resilient or flexibility gene but i believe it.here is a man named george that has done a lot of studies on the ability of being able to develop -- help develop that in people. you've got to listen to the individual differences of the people in front of you and the needs when you work with any sort of trauma. >> i know you've probably been asked this a million times and it's a question that always gets asked and i heard a lot of answers to it and yet, people still don't understand it and understandably so, it's a complicated thing. what makes somebody stay in a situation that maybe they have an opportunity at times to get out of? i mean, what is it? >> that's another -- you're hitting questions true to my heart. the press called stockholm syndrome. there are variables you see across the bored. frankly, there is about four or five that frequently show up. we like to -- and when i see we, those of us who work in the trenches with these guys and like to call it adaptation process. >> adaptation process. >> adaptation process because y

this topic of community resiliency is played out in the highest level of government. certainly when i traveled with craig fugate doing national services, the earthquake last year, they get it during an exercise environment, but how is that going to differ from reality? but it's permeating down to the local level now. and the next challenge is how do we cross that bridge to truly having community resiliency? how do we leverage faith-based and nongovernmental organizations to carry that message for local, state, and federal leaders? so, i think that's the next challenge going forward. but the messages being delivered from the top down, i think the next piece is how do you now move it horizontally across the community level. >> and in closing, i'm going to go down the panel and ask if there's any closing comments or points that you haven't had the opportunity to make. i think, you know, people are anxious to hear your thoughts on this particular program and on this mission because it is going to take all of us if the big one happens. so, if i can start with you, vice adm