from what i've seen them in a very resilient but i know that sustaining resilience over a long period of time especially when one hundred percent of your people are affected is very difficult have you given any thought on a personal level what kind of leadership there they would be expecting from you well you know right in shelter or for citizens and sure enough the most vulnerable are provided with adequate me to change and we'll start with to start somewhere and i think i think it is not only for us as leaders going to pars and a legal sit in agreement signing off a post into your cells into the world that we have reached an agreement in paris but we can see the operationalization. disagreement on what you see into the international community us what other developments did the time we don't know is not at all what i mean the entire care bill could have been wiped away by these two category five hurricanes and it is unprecedented in the history so i believe that if there is a serious commitment to the science behind climate change which the majority of the leaders except with the uni

from what i've seen them in a concern they're resilient but i know that sustaining resilience over a long period of time especially when one hundred percent of your people are affected is very difficult have you given any thought on a personal level what kind of leadership there they would be expecting from you well little time as a lot as a country as a citizenry so we have to work very quickly in a number of areas and provide shelter for for citizens and sure enough the most vulnerable are provided with adequate means of food and then all of basic supplies . can tickle the family so what is it going to do. is to ensure people's lives get back to normal as quickly as possible but those who also be hampered by access to resources the country hasn't been any significant revenue says the hurricane but all costs of responding to the relief and recovery is great every single day it's important to you and i think that's the advice many psychologists would care for in the situation of trauma you just have to keep busy and then you know attending to your daily life and daily activities brea

efforts and identify ways to improve grid resiliency? >> yes. >> i wish we had a time for emp discussion with all of you but perhaps another day. seems like our time is taken up to them talk about the astros. i yield back. >> i look forward to future conversations. >> is a conversation and problem, my friend, about the astros? is that a big problem? the chair calls upon the judgment from new york 20, mr. tonko for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman while we hereby restoration working along in some of our states, many of our fellow americans in puerto rico and the virgin islands remain in the middle of the most serious lack out in united states history get restoring services is critical but we also need to acknowledge the risks of thisor happening again and the need to support the development of a more resilient grid moving forward. over the last decade extreme weather and fire events have cost the federal government well over 300 $50 billion. according to the office of management and budget budget. a gao report estimated these cost

how can smarter modernize grid be more resilient? >> a smarter grid allows for rerouting power so let's first talk situational awareness. the ability to have smart meters and to have visibility into your system and to isolate damage and reroute power. having that ability allows you to have very effective restoration process, well-planned and distributed with respect to priorities and how it can be done. with respect to rerouting power you can look at isolating customers that you can restore the most of the large number of customers quickly and additional customers unnecessarily. >> and can you explain how in texas, advance and others aided in a more rapid recovery? >> the advanced meter systems we have through most of the region were very helpful, and notifies the customer and the utilities of weather out so they know where they're located. it also helps in rerouting and knowing where they need to send their crews and be able to reroute electricity to serve people in a more timely fashion. we found it was timely to have the advanced

virgin islanders are resilient but we must do more to make our islands resilient. unless you want to see me come back here after the next major hurricane devastation of america america's paradise, we must build it back stronger and more sustainable than before. we must build it back stronger and more resilient to protect our citizens and the investment and consider our power distribution network. while we are optimistic that will be nearly fully restored by christmas but this. is the fifth time that the u.s. paying to rebuild this power distribution system in the virgin islands. we've already taken basic steps to improve the resiliency of the grid and to build it back using with your help, we plan to bury power lines on the primary and secondary road systems throughout the territory. and invest in a microgrid system that will add renewable generation capacity like solar and wind energy. it's not just power lines we need to approach maria completely devastated our our two main hospitals and affiliated health care facilities. today critical care is unavailable in the

how can we increase the resilience and levy systems. and you know support mitigate flooding in low lying areas. floodplains and things of that nature. >> i'd appreciate if it were possible to go back to the core and maybe after the analysis following this hurricane season, has been completed. to see if you could give us some information about trends over the last few years. in terms of the number of projects that fall in to that kind of a basket. and as i said whether the core is putting that analysis and thinking into a strategic plan for the core going forward. that may lead to creating different sets of priorities for projects based on some of these issues. if that's something certainly getting that analysis, i assume we can get some report on the analysis that's done on an annual basis that would be helpful. any additional perspective you can bring on those kinds of trends would be helpful. >> yes, sir, we will. >> i yield back. >> chair calls upon the gentleman from missouri. mr. long for five minutes. welcome back, billy. >> thank

so we really have to build a stronger and more resilient grid. so i want to talk about that a little bit. we have been talking about a vision of this, how it does -- how we do that. one of the things i want to ask about is the stafford act. because the if we're rebuilding this under the stafford act, i was wondering -- and anybody's thoughts on this -- about the changes in the stafford act that are necessary to build back a better, and is the administration aware of that? mr. walker? and what -- any thoughts on that? >> i can comment a little bit on that as well. i think there's two critical components. number one, you need to be flexible, right? if you have a state that has a modern system already and it comes down, then the stafford act makes sense because you just put something back up that was already modern. but if you are investing a lot of money in something that's going to come down again, it's just not the best use for that money. and i would also add the component of -- [inaudible] there is this element of trying to evaluate how much da

how can a smarter modernized grid be more resilient? >> so thank you, congressman, for the question. a smarter grid allows for advanced communications and controls, allows for rerouting of power, it allows for an accelerated situational awareness, so let's first talk situational awareness. ability to have smart meters and you're able to have better advisability into your system, be able to isolate damage, reroute power and so having that ability allows you to be forward leaning son placement of resources, to have a very effective restoration process, well-planned, well distributed for with respect to priorities and how a restoration process can be done. with respect to being able to reroute power, you can really look at isolating customers and being able to make sure that you can restore the most -- the large number of customers quickly as well as prevent damage to additional customers unnecessarily. >> thank you. and ms. walker, can you explain how grid modernization efforts in texas advanced meters in others aided in a more rapid reco

what a harden our system and make it more resilient. like to thank you for the opportunity to appear and i'd be happy to answer any question you would have on this matter. >> i heard what irma did not destroy irma did. >> we call upon chet thompson. mr. thompson, you have five minutes. >> thank you for having me here today. when president and ceo of american fuel manufacturers. we represent the refining industries. we represent 120 refineries that's 98% of u.s. capacity. more than half is located along the gulf coast. hurricane harvey impacted us very hard. hurricane irma impacted largely in florida more importantly, combinations of hurricanes harvey, and maria were devastating to the gulf coast. many impacted are part of our extended oil and gas families. our hearts and prayers go out to those and we stand by it will help any way we can. as a result, the subject of today's hearing is important. i wanna limit my time to three key points. first, the u.s. refining industry, we weather the storm well and prove to be resilient. this did not

we have to work and build a new mindset we talk about this idea of resilience that resilience is not just about building hot infrastructure and building protective walls but it's about changing the mindset of citizens changing the way governments and people who manage cities think about the future you have to basically be ready to accept the unpredictable accept and embrace uncertainty it's no longer a world in which you can predict and plan and you will know exactly what the outcome is going to be five foot ten years down the road. we're not going to ultimately stop the risk of flooding but it's also about how do we manage that both before during and after some people say that. yes. the same storm strike exactly the same place but there will be other to testify because of where new york city is it's in the path of horror that we have every year the next storm will be different but it could be just as devastating. a future that it's actually. increasing risk if we look at the facts in all the reports the burden is upon us to deal with those uncertain so if we want that future for our

the resiliency. we invest it months in collaborating with hundreds of organizations thousands of people selecting ten interdisciplinary world talented teams that worked in the region to only do research to captured or reagents vulnerabilities and interdependencies also captured their stories the experiences of all the people that were hit hard by sandy and out of that research a real regional understanding emerge. this process has led to the creation of several open air laboratories intended to invent global solutions for new york their objective rethink urban planning to ensure better protection for the city while reconciling it with floodwater. focusing on manhattan project intitled the view or dry line embodies this new approach. though in a way the the big u. is inspired by the high line the high line is this elevated park here on the west side of manhattan that has been. placed on top of a decommissioned rail yard. this former elevated railway track in the heart of manhattan has been converted i

resiliency defined. after a decade, now we're in the late 1990s, we got bigger and bigger and bigger and more powerful and smart investors started like pouring money into us. but they were so smart they realized these freddie and fannie people, they still have asked, federal national mortgage -- f. federal federal that her. if they too big i bet the government would come to the rescue. i can make a living more money on them investing in them than on a treasury bond by that you there just as safe. and even the companies are like no, no, no we have our own capital base, forget the government stuff, that was the perception. and in and really arcane turn the idea was like we were implicitly guaranteed by the government, even though every perspective on every security that was issued said no, no, no. that's not true. it really wasn't true but in 2008 it became true. because of something called too big to fail. too big, the government has no choice but to hold its nose and support those entities. i've done a r

we talked about the injuries and resilient resilient and the next man up. have that confident mind set on game day that they're not going to be denied and that's something this group has. >> whether you look back, when you see carson make a play, i mean he was done and sacked. all of a sudden he breaks away and makes -- but he does a lot of those. do you ever say wow and say, i can't believe he made that play? >> you do. you catch yourself and go, man, this kid. but then i got to regroup and refocus and get the next play ready to go. he's definitely a highlight reel and a great competitor of this team. today guys want to play for players like that and play for carson wentz it's a good thing to see. [ inaudible question ] >> darvy was involved with the two picks. he played well. first game back and i welcomed him back during pregame and he did a nice job. >> watched you coach not too long ago, what are your fondest memories of that considering where you're at now? >> i look back and think about those days and some of the teams and success we had. it's fun wh

time has passed away passed by in respect to two period it was those lower ourselves to be more resilient to put in mitigation systems in place so what you're saying with a life and property is that the international community supports here in principle in of words in assurances but not exactly in the not material not terms not to the extent this is empathy the sympathy this concern this is a reality that we face in. but we would like to see a greater efforts under park. the international community especially those of us who are as follows or support for climate change and for the effects of climate change and for the need for us to take action as global leaders to protect islands ago as we have lowered the road to all of the bigger countries we've many states and many provinces. and the extent of the of the economies now domenica has had some experience in diversifying our reinventing its economy and an ex-president you diversified into turns but both of these in content orating industries are highly weather and climate sensitive other any sectors that would allow you to develop your eco

basically we need to have that building be resilient. >> thank you. new york state and the utilities there benefitted greatly from mutual assistance from the aftermath of super storm sandy. now it is our turn to be called upon -- it's your turn to be called upon in making things better. mr. fanning, do you believe the utility's industry mutual assistance efforts work well. >> they're outstanding. >> i know islands present unique challenging to mobilizing workers and equipment. can you think of specific reasons why mutual assistance would be resisted? >> no. >> mr. nieves, you testified that puerto rico's grid had limitations, certainly in the amount of renewable resources that could be integrated into its energy mix. what were the reasons for that? >> yes. according to 2014 report that prepa received, the grid as it stood before maria will only integrate up to 580 megawatts of renewable power. renewable power has certain technical issues that the grid that we had could not really tolerate without jeopardizing the system. so -- >> is it a matter of bet

be strong, be proud, be resilient. show the whole world right now that we will not be moved by terror. again, you see everyone here united in common cause. this is part of what makes us strong. for that i want to welcome governor cuomo. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. let me begin by asking us all to remember the eight lives that were lost tragically. that is damage that can never be undone and there are families today feeling pain that is unimaginable. mayor i was on the scene yesterday. the performance was with phenomenal and the coordination and the effort was top shelf. it gives one reassurance to know that there is this level prof fegsallism and expertise protecting the people of this city and this state. it is also important to remember that while the leadership of the police department is top shelf officer nash, five years on the job, 28 years old, he was a hero. and the nypd is not just the leadership, it's the men and women who were out there every day who were on the first line and i think

resiliency defined. after a decade, now in the late 1990s, we got bigger and bigger and bigger and more powerful and smart investors started pouring money into ice. they were so smart. they realized they still have federal national mortgage, federal, federal, federal. if they got too big, the government would come to their rescue. i can make a little bit more money, but i bet they are just about as safe. even though they're publicly traded, have their capital base, that was the perception. in a really arcane term, the idea we were implicitly guaranteed by the government and even though every said no, no, no. that is not true. he really wasn't true, but in 2008 it became true because of something called too big to fail. it has really no choice but to hold its nose and support those entities. a woman very upset by jimmy put it on main street in the question everyone has asked. but it's about to fall on the grid to save the grid announced the financial system and has gotten so, so good. it was so amazing. n

the reliability and resiliency of the energy grid are of paramount importance. our customers expect the lights to go on when they flip a switch. when the power goes out, our customers expect it will be on soon. the electric power sector will continue to strive to meet those expectations through a multi-layered strategy to invest in smart energy infrastructure, continuous enhancement of our industry government partnership and the grit of the amazing men and women who make the energy grid workday in and day out. the subcommittee is showing great leadership with focus on preparedness and we look forward to working with you on this critical topic. thank you again for the opportunity to testify on behalf of the fc krchc and i lo forward to your questions. >> thank you, mr. fanning. and we call on the executive director of the virgin islands water power authority suffering devastation from two hurricane hurricanes. >> good day, mr. chairman. and other honorable members of the committee. i'm at the virgin islands water and power authority. on behalf of the governor of

we have floied that in terms of resiliency of america. wls the cyberprotection but also natural disasters. >> i yield back, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman yeel yields back we call to tn man who made sure the texans signed justin verlander. >> i wish i could. thank you, mr. chairman. can you talk about how quickly refined production was back online after hurricane harvey? i sat down and met with line dell refinery and also shell, and a lot of folks don't understand you can't just turn switches off and on and get them back up. now the price of oil is going down buzz b.a. does refineries are going back up, i know in our area. i know a lot of my constituents worked around the dlok get that back up. one of concerns i had was the issue with the tanks. in east harris county, we have the tanks that are -- we keep building them because it's either holding crude oil or product or whatever. the ennearigineering of them noa floating roof. because of the amount of water that hit that top, it turned the wat top over. water went into that. emissions fro

resiliency defined. after a decade now or in the late 1990s we got bigger and bigger and bigger and more powerful and smart investors they started pouring money into us. but they were so smart. they realized these people still have the federal national mortgage. if they got too big i bet the government would come to the rescue. i can make a little bit more money on them than on a treasury bond but i bet they are just about a safe. and even though the companies were like no we are publicly traded we have our own capital base. that was a perception. and in the turn. we were guaranteed by the government even though every perspective on every security that was issued said no no no. that's not true. i really wasn't true but in 2008 it became true. because of something called too big to fail. the government has no choice but to hold its noise --dash make no sense and support those entities. i was on a radio call a couple months ago and a woman very upset how did they do that. why did they say those things. tha

i rise in support of the resilient forest act of 2017. the national forest system is governed by the principle of multiple use, conferring maximum sustainable benefits in the form of habitat, recreation, clean air and water and timber harvests. sadly government red tape and the constant threat of litigation has caused paralysis by analysis. at the forester is vess. leading to a decrease in public recreation opportunities and reduction in timber output. in the area surrounding the forest in florida's second district, the lack of timber management not only means fewer job but it creates a smaller tax base which means fewer resources to provide basic services like law enforcement and good schools. under the resilient federal forest act of 2017, forest management will be driven by forest health and not by fear of litigation. this improves the stewardship and strengthens communities. i encourage all of my colleagues to support this important legislation and i yield back to mr. thompson. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from penns

. >> plus, resilience. two months after the hurricane, struggling families. >> she asks me every day, when are we going home? >> we're on the ground from houston to puerto rico to the devastated virgin island. >> the storm's rather behind, the struggles ahead and the resilience. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight we take to you a florida community in fearful several schools have been locking their doors in some tampa neighborhoods today after the fourth seemingly random murder in what authorities believe could be a random killing spree. now new clues could help track down the elusive suspect. >> reporter: it was the news tampa residents had been fearing for weeks. police here speculating that a possible serial killer may have struck again. >> the fourth family in mourning over a senseless and random killing. >> reporter: shortly before 5:00 a.m. when police receive a call of shots fired in the seminole heights neighborhood. the officers arrive in seconds and find body of 60-year-old ronald

he used those very words, resilient. this is a city that is resilient , and we will see tonight in terms of how much people go ahead with their celebrations undeterred. one of the other things worth pointing out is that the police took pains to say that one of the officers near the incident acted very quickly to prevent this carnage from being any worse than it was. laura: michelle fleury on the scene there, thank you. earlier i spoke to a former new york police commissioner about the attack, and started by asking for his initial reaction. >> unfortunately, it is the new normal. as we make strides against isis and terrorism overseas, a lot of self radicalized people think they are helping the cause, and i believe this is probably an individual -- i don't think it is a cell. unfortunately, in a large city, as you know in london and we have just experienced here, you cannot put protection on every single street or every single building. this is obviously an individual who decided he was going to go and hurt as many people

in addition, we must rebuild with resiliency. by building an infrastructure that's going to withstand future hurricanes, that's putting power lines underground where appropriate and in other places using cement poles rather than frail wooden ones and lastly, we need to enact reform. i encourage them to work to break up the failing monopoly. florida has investor run utilities and cooperatives and we have municipal energy on associations that work together to create our system in florida and this is common throughout the united states and i encourage you all to set up regions to be bid out. and allow utilities, both our cities, rural cooperatives and investor owned utilities to be able to bid and if they bid, they have to pay for the rebuild. or at least part of it and they should be meeting these renewable standards and the recently created public service commission should be overseeing rates because i worry that the federal government, along with the puerto rico commonwealth government is not going to be able to pay for this on i

for more than two decades pnl supported resilience for utilities across the nation. i also chair the laboratory consortium, a team of four national laboratories including oakridge that supports the initiative along with 100 partners from academia and industry. i would like to offer two points for the cyber resilience of the nation's cyber system. point one, sharing with doe has significantly improved our national grid cyber readiness. we must continue to advance in scope, speed, industry inclusion for full situational awareness of operational control systems as well as utility enterprise networks. two, it offers important opportunities for defensive tools for the challenges and grid edge as well as core grid operations and in this area i'll offer three examples. looking first at improving grid cyber situational awareness, doe developed and deployed, first for doe assets across the u.s. in early 2000s, it was successfully tested and transitioned over the past three years. with industry investing in infrastructure and doe funding the evaluation this program gets cyber

it's not fema's responsibility to create resiliency. i ultimately believe resiliency lies in the hands of local elected officials through building codes and proper land use planning. fema's assistance just supplements this capability. but if we move the 404 money to the front end, it does a couple thing, it reduces the complexity of recovery and the problems in increasing how long recovery takes but it allows communities to properly plan and execute their mitigation plans up front before disasters strike. >> well, i would ask you to continue working with our governor's office on this issue because i think my two other colleagues here from texas, we've been having different discussions as you know, there's a little difference of opinion from the state of texas and up here which is basically, you know, i guess the last question tied in i think you answered already, is the disaster relief designed or intended to support long term recovery to make communities whole, which is -- you just -- can you fix that issue or use those resources for p

what have you done to harden the grid to allow for more resilience? >> we have been able to tap into funds. we have systems that generate power to 75% to 80% of businesses in commercial districts on st. thomas and think roy. that is what we have been doing since each storm. -- and st. croix. that is what we are doing in terms of micro-grids. we are making sure that the next storm there is less damage and not as much, or little to no damage, such as, we have enclosed our substations in concrete buildings. it so there was no damage. in the past, we would have damage on the substations and now we have 0% damage on those. with each successive storm we learn and we get more resilient. >> i am told that senator leahy is on his way back, so i will ask another question until -- senator lee is on his way back, so i ask another question until he gets back. we saw a picture of some of the transmission lines that were loaded with almost a jungle of fiber optics. he and i had an opportunity for conversation as we were coming back from our visit to both puerto rico

we are going to talk today about strategies for flood resilience. last time we presented our capital projects and we mentioned that we were going to be investigating some non-capital options for residences and businesses. so, we went to the drawing board with many city departments and we are presenting to you today the findings. so, if i could have the slides please. perfect. so, this first slide shows three design storms simplified so you can see how flooding grows in larger storms. especially key areas. these are core flood risk maps and they are preliminary right now. but we have defined core flood risk as deep and contiguous flooding. that means that -- >> public: it is not flooding. you guys have not the sewers for 60 years. and i'm sick of it. we are sick of it. >> supervisor ronen: excuse me. >> public: sorry. >> supervisor ronen: please continue. thank you. >> so, puc has defined core flood risk and deep and contiguous flooding. that means the puddles that show up on is this map are at least -- up on this map are at least six inches deep and

over the longer-term, the resilience of u.k.anks could be tested by gradual but significant changes to business fundamentals. for the first time, the fpc and have examined the strategic responses of major u.k. banks to an extent this extended low growth and low interest environment combined with pressures from increased use of financial technologies. send tech is creating opportunities for businesses and consumers and it has the potential to increase resilience and competitiveness of the u.k. financial system as a whole. in the process, it could have profound consequences for the business models of incumbent banks. exploratory exercises designed to encourage banks to consider such strategic challenges and it will influence future work i banks and regulators about longer-term issues rather than informing the fpc and the prc about the justiate capital accuracy adequacy of participants. in the test major you paid -- u.k. banks believe they could adapt to such an environment without major changes to strategy or by taking on more ris

. >> plus, resilience. and strength. two months after unrelenting hurricanes, we're visiting families struggling to move on. >> she asks me every day, when are we going home? >> we're on the ground from houston to puerto rico to the devastated u.s. virgin islands. >> you rode out the storm? >> yes, we rode out the storm. >> the storm's wrath behind them. the struggles ahead and the resilience strikeout. but first the "nightline 5." >> when you say you 90 a heart transplant, that's a whole different ball game. i was in shock. >> i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. >> i never felt i was going to die. >> we know so much about transplantation. >> and we're living longer. >> you cannot help but be inspired by the opportunities that a transplant would offer. >> my donor's mom says, you were meant to carry hi how's it going down there? that's good. lica misses you. i'm over it though. (laughter) that's fine. i miss her more than you anywa

we want to be more resilient, more hardened and do it by micro grid, under grounding and composite poles senator, i'm available to answer any questions and i thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you. >> mr. morales. >> chair member, ranking member and members of the committee, i am the acting chairman of the puerto rico energy commission. thank you for an inviting me to be here. my testimony makes four points. the commonwealth expert on the electric industry performance, the commission establishes performance standards and pressures while in storing investor confidence. the current emphasis is to restore and transform the industry collectively. for 70 years they operated an integrated or regulated monopoly. the legislature.. [inaudible] it's created and empowered to use pressures to transform puerto rico's selected industry. the duties are illustrated by the opening provisions of the act. the commission shall be able to guarantee the orderly development of our electrical system and the provision of electric power services at reasonable prices. when establishing standards, the goal is

land use, waterfront, and resiliency, and i must say the land use had the greatest dialogue, and we came back together as a working group not long ago, a month or two ago, and it appeared that, from my perspective that the -- we needed to elevate the conversation across the three sub committees and try to bring it out of the silo and try to integrate all of the work that we've been doing, and so we've been very vocal as tryit tryin continue that conversation. we're in phase two or part two or whatever -- part two, and it's going to go into part three which is a long public outreach and engagement process that will then evolve into what the document will ultimately get published as. not only does it need to be aspirationial, but it needs to be holistic, and that's what we've been trying to interject into this whole process, and the waterfront and the port is a whole cultural legacy of our city, and the individual pieces of it that are identified as historic elements are just a piece, just smaller elements of that, and we've been trying to broaden the conversation out of those specific ele