cities are dealing with disasters. the document before you represent a close collaboration of many agencies to create a framework to facilitate community resilience and to establish policies to guide the city's actions in preparation for, response to, and recovery from a major disaster. this update supports numerous initiatives that are currently under way within the city and adoption and shores of these initiatives are carried out over the long term. having invented element in place in charge the city is well suited to receive funding for mitigation projects and recovery assistance. the 2012 element built on the existing elements. in addition to earthquakes, the elements expand its focus to include new information about additional hazards, including medical emergencies, communication failures, and terrorism. incorporate new information dealing with disaster preparedness. this update expands the focus to better address the city's objectives of mitigation, response, and recovery. mitigation and preparation work -- are incorporated with the existing element, less attention was given to the response and recovery phase of the disaster. these topics a

it's nearly one year to the day when those deadly tornadoes hit that -- what is turning into a resilient city. >> all right. chuck todd, part of our team at the summit in chicago. chuck, thanks. >>> overseas tonight, a horrifying attack today in a place so many of the experts have been saying for so many years represents the next big threat to the united states. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel reports on one of the most violent days in a long time in yemen. [ explosion ] >> reporter: the suicide bomber was disguised as a soldier. he tucked into a crowd at a rehearsal for a military parade in sanaa, detonated a bomb, and killed nearly a hundred people. yemen's defense minister narrowly escaped with his life. officials say it's likely the work of al qaeda in yemen. while the u.s. has decimated al qaeda elsewhere, the militant group has grown in yemen because the country hasn't had an effective government for a year. but the arab spring finally toppled yemen's former president saleh and the new president hadi is trying to re-establish order and crack down on al qaeda. u.s. military

city. the mayor's resilience san francisco initiative is working to establish and implement programs that will assure quick recovery. they involve emergency preparedness and neighborhood based response programs, earthquake safety improvement programs, programs to improve the city-owned building, a lifeline council, and much more. sentences go need to its hospitals to be operational. -- san francisco needed hospitals to be operational. some will collapse and kill their opulence -- occupants. we need to serve the injured. this will change that picture but they must be completed. the time has come to honor that years of work that has brought these projects to an accessible level. rebuilding must start as soon as possible. for the next major earthquake, san franciscans want and deserve to have modern earthquake safe facilities they can turn to for help. i urge you to approve this plan and the benefits it will bring to our city. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you, president fong and commissioners. i am the medical director at northeast medical services and we wholeheartedly support the rebuild

the president praised the city's resilience. >> together you decided this city wasn't about to spend the next year arguing over every detail of the recovery effort. at the very first meeting, first town meeting, every citizen was handed a post-it note and asked to write down their goals and hopes for joplin's future. more than 1,000 notes covered an entire wall and became the blueprint that architects are following to this day. i'm thinking about trying this with congress. >> volunteers from all over the country are headed to joplin to help with continued rebuild efforts. >>> also this morning, in north carolina, jurors begin the third day of deliberations in the trial of john edwards. yesterday the jury asked to review documents on what wealthy donors gave and when. edwards is accused of illegally funneling campaign money to his mistress. he could face 30 years in prison. >>> there is an environmental crisis bearing down on the west coast of north america. the same wall of water that southwest over coastal japan and wiped away entire communities also flushed mountains of debris into

he and his wife worked hard to make the city of berkeley a national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let's welcome mayor bates to the

he and his wife worked hard to make the city of berkeley a national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let's welcome mayor bates to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, paul. thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be at this beautiful building and i was reflecting back and i was at the baseball game 22 years ago. how many of you were at the baseball game? i am the only one. two of us. i was sitting underneath the -- canned really stick park underneath second deck when the earthquake happened. the whole deck was like moving over us. i was thinking, that close from being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportation and a friend of mine had a tv. as you can imagine one of these portable tv's. we realized that it wasn't running and the bridge was down. so it was quite an adventure getting back. what actually happened, i was able to get a bus that was headed d

city. president obama praised them for their resiliency. and he urged the class to give back, like others have given to them. >> there's such a decency. a bigness of spirit in this country of ours. so, class of 2012, you have to remember that. remember what people did here. and like that man who came all the way from japan to joplin, make sure, in your own life, that you pay it forward. >> the twister hit just hours after last year's graduation, killing 161 people, including 2 high school students. >>> we're getting a new look this morning at the sheer force of that tornado. newly released surveillance video, shows the mercy hospital, just as the disaster struck. blowing away chairs and pretty much everything else. >> that building was a total loss. but it's being replaced by a $500 million campus, which is now under construction. >>> and they are totalling up the damages from the deadly earthquake that hit italy's farming region. total agriculture losses have topped $250 million, including damage to some 400,000 wheels of cheese. there's f

. >>> returning neighbors 7 proclamation from the city commending them for their resilience and dedicationple face charges of trespassing unlawful assembly after early morning raid at farm used by uc berkeley for agriculture research in albany. group of people that occupied the gill tract for 3 week in the name of urban agriculture. uc berkeley uses the land for research and says it needed the property cleared by this week. so they moved it. headlines tonight. >> well more tonight on the 2 billion dollar blunder at j p morgan chase. echo of the financial crisis that sent the nation economy into a tail spin. that was an epic miscalculation and what does it mean for your money? david muir is tracking the fall out. >> it was the 2 billion dollar bob bomb shell from j p morgan. money lost in 6 week. one of the complex better that spiraled out of control. and tonight the first face to go. 30 years at j p morgan gochbility made 15 million dollars last year and she oversaw the division that should have stopped the bet from going bad. c cechl ochl kimd tried to reassure investors and every day cus

city this evening. they're being commended for their resilience and dedication. you can imagine the process of rebuilding wasn't easy. there are family that's had to deal with delays. one homeowner is happy to see people moving back into the neighborhood. >> there is a whole landscape in and around our house is gone. so at night, you know it was strange. because it was really windy. there are no trees there to block the wind wex had no neighbors on either side of us, or across the street. so it's just eerie. i'm glad people are -- there is activity and there are people moving back. >> of the 38, 13 have chosen to the to rebuild at this point. it's unclear what plans are. city leaders say that this is important for the city of san bruno. it's why they'll hold these wem come home ceremonies to honor residents one moving back in. >> thank you. >> and as families in san bruno are honored tonight pg&e shareholders meeting took place today. >> protestors armed with petitions opposed to charging customers to opt out of the smart meter program. and there is they came and

city in a neighborhood empowerment network. they are rolling out something called resilient bill. a tabletop exercise that's going to be making its debut both at our workshop as well as in new wellington, new zealand. so we will be celebrating that. following that there's going to be a panel of stakeholders who have had firsthand experience in the december, 2011, western edition fires as well as those who are doing ongoing disaster preparedness up in diamond heights. i'm pleased to tell you that our support -- the funding for this particular program is coming from the california pacific medical center, who we've had a very, very good relationship with regarding disaster preparedness. and i gave all of you copies of the save the date card. if you want to pop your heads in, there's a registration card there. i'm sure that there will be enough food for everyone. >> thank you, michael. we're going to make this a regular feature of disaster council, where we let our community partners share what's going on next -- i guess july is our next council meeting. we're going to ask alessaadamo

we decide it's not go that route we travelled to the most motor city and saw glimmers of hope we found people in detroit that are resilient people that are sick of waiting for the auto industry the police department or the local government to get its act together taking matters into their own hands to make it a better place it's a city often described as post apocalyptic and if you come to detroit it's easy to understand why around just about every corner abandoned homes charred by neglect even downtown skyscrapers stand vacant. it's what's left after an exodus of people out of the motor city the statistics just as grim as some of the landscape sixty seven percent of children here live in poverty and according to the f.b.i. detroit tops the list as one of the most dangerous cities in america when michigan central station opened its doors in the early one nine hundred that was the tallest a rail station in the world and it was hailed for its beautiful architectural design but it shut down in one thousand nine hundred eight and since then the abandoned landmark has come to symbolize the demise of detroit but some detroit re

city hall building. >> the model has been knocked down twice but here she is shining better than ever and that is truly the resiliencef oakland, symbolizing everything that we are. >> in a sense it symbolizes kono. new shops are opening, there are dozens of trees the city just planted. with the changes residents have one birthday wish for a city in its 160th year. >> i'm looking for increased peace next year. >> and a business district says that this resurgence is well underway and a say in the past six months at least one dozen new businesses have opened. >> the oakland police department is using the birthday celebration as a way to do something they have never done. hold an open house. the department is opening its doors to the community at the police administration building on seventh street. people can meet the chief and other officers for an opportunity to understand who they are and what they do. >> well, it is very important, obviously for the police department, to have a relationship with a community that they served. and, the event today which coincides with the 160th birthday of the city of oakland is anoth

resiliency of the future structures and california and throughout the world. >>justine: the earth quake sensors has also been placed at san francisco's city hall into the goldenate bridge. >>justine: the u.s.s iowa has arrived at the port of los angeles. the battleship will be converted into an interactive museum in will open in july. they will have plenty of room for people. the historic ship is 887 ft. long and towers more than 15 stories high. it carried president franklin roosevelt to a world war two summit fell to meet with solid into churchill. it was decommissioned in 1990. we will take another break, kron4 news, much more ahead on this thursday morning. we will be back after this break. thank he did point out that certain components are made in america. bringing more manufacturing jobs the u.s. may not be so easy. critics say the u.s. does not have the infrastructure to make electronics on a massive scale. cook spent a lot of time talking about steve jobs to died in october and how important it is to keep forging ahead. >> at some point late last year, someone should be meet and said it is time to get on. >>justine: this is what is happening among 880

resilient and do not give up. we are doing ok. thank you very much. [applause] >> waking up the city for 22 years and that's why the mayor comes in and today we'll talk about the problem with taxicabs so 9:20. hang on for that, okay? >> book city t.v. and history t.v. explore the heritage of wichita, kansas. >> modern looking people but what it confines is a alphabetical list of the members of senate and the house of representatives done in 1831. i believe this was issued only as it says here for the members immediate use only. not that they had xerox machines but they weren't suppose to loan it out because it tells you where everyone lives so you can button-hole and punch them if you like. >> on june second and third on c-span 2 and 3. now the candidates running in the june fifth wisconsin governor's recall election square off in their first debate. governor scott walker debates democrat candidate tom barret in milwaukee. it's hosted by the broadcasters association foundation. the candidates are questioned by local television anchors and the moderator and ceo john labs. the election

late inning surges, they won two in kansas city this past week where they were down going into the 7th inning and the 9th inning. they have shown they are resilientme back and score runs. >> both of these teams have shown resilience. steve, let me ask you, though, both teams are also dealing with pretty significant injury. >> yeah, you're right about that. you know the orioles are without basically two of their top four outfielders right now. mark reynolds also on the disabled list. so -- and some of their top pitchers expected to have at the beginning of the i can't year like zach britain isn't pitched at all this season. yoshi also has not pitched yet this season. this is a team that stands to possibly maybe even be better than they are right now when they can get some people back. >> would the same be true for the nationals? >> yeah, i think on even a higher level because the key people they are missing are so piece. you know, they've lost a lot of their key players. willis ramas is done for the year. so they are going to be getting morris back soon, they hope, werth in a couple of weeks. if they can continue the pace pa they have set already