Secret service 75 National Security event. This designation is given to insure the full weight leverage talent and resources of the federal government and our state and local partners to this event and other events like this. When an event is designated the u. S. Secret service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for it design and implementation of the Operational Security plan. However, the success of these events cannot be obtained by any one agency alone and i can say it has been a collaborative effort between the u. S. Secret service, the San FranciscoPolice Department, the california Highway Patrol, the federal bureau of investigation, the federal Emergency Management agency, u. S. Coast guard, San FranciscoFire Department and many federal state and local partner tuesday design the security plan. During the last several months and in fact today, this Collaborative Team has conducted numerous training exercises, one of which we finished this morning a table top exercise to prepare for this event cht this insures that each agency is properly prepared for this event of this magnitude. The number one priority for the secret service and everyone standing here today is the safety of the world leaders, the attendees coming to the apec summit, but as well as the general public here in San Francisco while the apec summit is here in San Francisco. Because of the nature of this designation and impact to the normal daily lives of San Francisco residents and visitors is unavoidable. However, the team here has taken extraordinary measures to minimize that impact where possible while maintaining our obligation to the safety of the attendees oof the apec semt as elwith as the general public. The public will experience increased traffic on both roads and walkways in and around the apec venues. Vehicular Public Transportation and pedestrian impacts should be expected in the downtown area around the muconey center. Around the San Francisco waterfront, as well as the nob hill neighborhood. Residents and businesses generally will have access to their normal residents and their normal businesses, however, they may under go a security screening and mild inconvenience to traverse these areas. Specific road closures and pedestrian and vehicle access information have been provided on a map like the one displayed behind me here that can be accessed online. Also made available to Mapping Software people are familiar with here in San Francisco that they have on their personal smart phones and other devices. Secret service establish remote delivery and vehicle screening at pier 27 that allow all delivery vehicles going into their zones to be screened and then they will be given specific instructions once they are screened. Their vehicle will be sealed and can access the perimeter under certain conditions. Deliveries should occur between 10 p. M. 7 a. M. There will be temporary flight restrictions. This will impact commercial and private air traffic as well as drown operators. The federal Aviation Administration this and notice to all airman for all effected air traffic. Again to include drones. There will be restrictions for commercial and private maritime traffic around the waterfront area. Those restrictions will be communicated directly by the u. S. Coastguard and notice to mariners. The summit security plan is part of the secret service zero no fail protective mission and also a part of each and every state federal local agency participated in this security plan. We have absolute confidence in this plan and we have taken extraordinary measures to minimize the impact to the public and to the residents and visitors of San Francisco. We thank the residents and visitors of San Francisco for their patience. We will do our best to collectively keep the public informed of changes or impacts or incident that occur during the apec summit. I like to personally thank chief scott with the San FranciscoPolice Department as well as the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and many other federal state and local partners who mentioned for all the work thus far. It is truly a collaborative effort and i thank you all for your continued partnership. My pleasure to introduce chief bill scott. Thank you special agent brown. First of all, i want to thank our partners and like to start with special agents jeremy brown for leadership and professionalism planning the apec alongside the sfpd. I want to thank and acknowledge the partners at the cal Highway Patrol. We have [indiscernible] here and also thank commissioner [indiscernible] for their assistance and commitment of resources to this event. We cannot do this without their help and this is a unprecedented event for the city of San Francisco. We are very excited to take part in this event and putting the global spotlight on the city and county of San Francisco. We are expecting up to 20 thousand people from across 21 member apec economys, ceos around the world and expecting close to 1 thousand media representatives. Our city is ready to meet this moment. The San FranciscoPolice Department has a full time team working with all Department Bureaus to insure adequate Service Provided to the apec event and to the city as a whole. Our department of Emergency Management headed by director carol and mayor office are working full time to coordinate all city agencies to be prepared for this epic event. The San FranciscoPolice Department is also partnering with federal, state and local agencies to support the u. S. Secret service, their security mission. Sfpd is working to insure First Amendment activity is properly facilitated and remains peaceful and let me be very very clear, any act of violence against any member of the public or Law Enforcement will not be tolerated. This department has a lot of experience in handling large scale security events. Yearly we have the pride event. The 2018 Global Climate action summit superbowl and victory parade for Golden State Warriors and San Francisco giants. We have experience with this but so do all our partners. That experience will make us successful with this years apec event. Ypt to talk about our staffing. The San FranciscoPolice Department is staffed up and prepared to make sure this event is safe for everyone. Work wg our department of Emergency Management and will have a joint Information Center to respond to inquirys and get information out in real time. We do not anticipate apec impact City Services by ems or 911. Emergency responders will be available everywhere in the city. Several hundred sfpd officers are dedicated to normal operations, including calls for service and Emergency Response acrauz the city. And we plan to maintain adequate service for the greater city in our 10 district stations outside of the apec conference boundaries in order to handle our routine normal calls for service and provide the Public Safety needs of this city. All of our sworn members will be working. We are mobilized for that week and we will have hundreds of sfpd officers ambassadors, volunteers dedicated to this apec conference to insure the safety of visitors and dignitaries in both the city limits and at the San Francisco international airport. The california Highway Patrol and over a dozen local agencies are providing personnel to supplement the needs for the uniform Law Enforcement as designated apec venues and events. Our San Mateo County agency is supporting the San Francisco airport so we are well prepared for this events. Here is our call to axz. We are asking the public, stay vigilant. If you see something, say something. We should do that always no matter what you see, we will check it out. Dont be afraid to call. Be patient. As special agent brown mentioned, many areas of the city will be impacted by street closures, detours, buses rerouted, Public Transportation rerouted and dignitaries escorts. It will take all patience to get through this week. We will keep you informed and make sure you know what routes you can take for Public Transportation, what routes are closed so you can plan accordingly. We encourage you to take Public Transportation or walk, but most importantly, please enjoy the city as you would normally. This Police Department and our Public Safety partners will be out 24 7 as always insuring our community is safe. Last, lets please be respectful and tolerant of one another. Many people from many cultures and many Different Countries with many different ways of life will be converging on the city of San Francisco during apec. We are that city. We are a welcoming city that respects every culture, so lets make sure that we model that this week and beyond. Lets show the world that we are truly a world class city. The map has been provided. Working closely with City Partners and agencies to assist with road closures. Working with mta on Public Transportation but Pay Attention to the alerts because that will help us get through this with hopefully minimized disruption to normal routine. With that, i like to close by saying, thank you, thank you again to our partners. This will be a exciting time for the city of San Francisco as we will be on the global stage. We are prepared. We have done this before. We have the experience. We have the collaboration. We have partnership and we are committed to making this a safe event for everyone and with that, i like to introduce special agent in charge from the fbi, bob trip. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you chief scott. My name is bob trip. In november, apec will bring together the leaders of nations that account for 40 percent of the global population and 50 percent of global trade. The fbi is committed insuring these leaders, other visitors and the city and residents of the bay area can enjoy these events in a safe and security environment. We are bringing all fbi resources to bear to fulfill our own mission and to plan for contingencies. Our role will focus on crisis management, investigation, and intelligence support as part of our preventing terrorism mission. We will Work Together with partners to collect Threat Intelligence and mitigate any threats in support of this event. A driving force behind the summit is the power collaboration that same principle is guiding the planning and engagement of the federal state and local partners that you see gathered here today. The fbi is proud to stand among our partners and to provide them all with our full support. Ill turn things back over to secret service for questions. We can take some questions related to the apec event. First up. Hi. There. What measure s might the secret service might conduct sweeps to make sure any unhoused individuals in zone may be removed, is that something the secret service will be working on . First off, thank you for that question. I know there is a lot of concern in San Francisco regarding the homeless population. We have a plan that we work closely with San FranciscoPolice Department on. I will turn it over to chief scott. I think he has more detailed information to answer this specific question. Thank you for that question. First of all, let me say, we are not conducting sweeps. We have a infrastructure in the city to address some of the challenges with our unhoused population and we will plug into that infrastructure to make sure people need help need help. The main thing, the main focus that we are all here for is Public Safety and the safety of this event. There will be places where we wont allow access and we are prepared to deal with that if we have unhoused people that are displaced. They will have opportunities for shelter. They will have opportunities for help, but the main thing is to make sure it is a safe environment, so we will plug into our regular infrastructure. The department of Emergency Management. The Fire Department has a street Crisis Response team. We have shelter beds available. We have the resources to make this work and thats what we intend to do. I want to say this, it isnt a crime to be unhoused. It isnt a crime to be homeless. We are out there to make sure we help people. We are out there to make sure this event is a safe event but we also want to represent our city in the finest light, so all these components and infrastructure pieces we put together over a number of years will come together and help guide us to a successful event. Should people start expecting to see like, [indiscernible] things in the ramp up to this since they are necessary to [indiscernible] heads of state. Thanks for the question. In the days leading up to the period of the nsse, you will see what we would call administrative movement of motorcade vehicles throughout the city to prepare. You will see instillation of various physical barriers to assist with the restrictions displayed on the map here in the days leading up to the 1518 period. It is slow ramp up a few day ahead and culminating the evening of the 14 to Early Morning hours of the 15 of november. On the map, what are all the colors mean . Can someone point out what everything up there means [indiscernible] if i could get a map here i can refer to real quick. I got one with me and will try to talk through it. So, the colors and everything on the map are selfexplanatory. There is a legend at the bottom corner and so im happy to visit privately after this to answer those questions, but for me to explain entirety of the map, there is a lot on the map. There is vehicle restricted zones. There is pedestrian restricted zones. There is closures of Public Transportation routes. There are reroutes available to the public of San Francisco to take in lieu of the closed Public Transportation routes. Those are all displayed on the map. Those are what the Different Things mean, but detailed explanation of the map for the purpose of time here today, not going through from az on that. [indiscernible] for people listening at home. Where can people read and find out the closures that effect them . Excellent question. I know this map is going to be most important to the public so ill differ that question to a San Francisco pd or City Partners. [indiscernible] you are saying there is a [indiscernible] can you elaborate on that . People are wondering [indiscernible] we had the president here. We had a lot of people from out of town. What type of extra security are we expecting, especially 21 leaders . Great question. Again, as i said earlier, this event has warranted full resources of the federal, state and local government, so im not going to speak to specific numbers. What i can tell you is there will be a extraordinary amount of Law Enforcement, military and Public Safety personnel in San Francisco for this event, so well above what anybody has ever seen here before. Can you give us the ideawe have seen the president in San Francisco before. Can you give comparison how much more locked down the city will be . I cant give you a detailed comparison other then to say, it will be much more then a normal president ial visit to San Francisco. We are anticipating not just the president of the united states, also the Vice President , also potentially heads of state from 21 other countries that are coming to this event, so you know, minimum, 21 times what you would normally see might be a good opening ball park, but again, very hard to specifically describe and compare because you are comparing apples to oranges. [indiscernible] thats a great question. So, the major closures around muconey will be from Second Street to 5 ethstreet. Those streets will be open beyond the points the streets will be closed. Then from Market Street to harrison street. Again, both streets being open, but anything beyond that boundary is closed to vehicular traffic. [indiscernible] im going to differ to the city of San Francisco on the Public Transportation questions because they are the experts on that. Good afternoon. I name is Jeffrey Tumlin the executive director of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. We are very grateful how closely the secret serve iss worked with us to minimize negative impact to the Transit System and particularly to center naerbds like chinatown, union square, south of market and the whole Southeast Quadrant of San Francisco. That said, for security reasons, the yurba buena station and 4th and brandon station of the central subway will need to be closed for it duration of the event. We are grateful we are able to reroute trains, so the t3 trains instead of going into the central subway will simply follow the old route to Market Street subway and very importantly will be able to run High Frequency shuttle trains between union square, Market Street station, and chinatown. This is very important for us to make sure we maintain strong conductivity to chinatown. Bart, caltrain will be fully operational uneffected. Sams trans and golden gate experience very miner reroutes so if you are coming to San Francisco that week, please do take Public Transit. Very importantly, we will be publishing very detailed traffic walking biking and especially transit updates under our website later this afternoon and will continue to update that as we get more information. Please go to sfmta. Com apec. Where you can not only find information, but also sign up for regular alerts and updates. What about the cable cars and [indiscernible] yes. The cable cars will be disrupted by the nob hill area zone but grateful to the secret service and our team who found a way to continue operate the hyde street line from the cable car barn at mason street to the hyde street terminal so that will keep running. The rest of the line needs to be replaced by bus connectivity. It sounds like there are three areas. There is muscone, nob hill and waterfront portion. Can you talk about the waterfront portion . I will differ to secret service for the details of the dates and boundaries, but for each of those, they worked very closely with us in order to develop plans to make sure Public Transit can be rerouted around those closures as needed. I wondered about the if i can answer that question first and come to you. So, your questions about the waterfront. [indiscernible] three security [indiscernible] thats correct. So, the question i think is about the waterfront, and that will primarily be on the day of and especially the afternoon and evening of the 15 of november. We expect the embarcadero to be closed that day on the 15 of november from battery to broadway that will be a closure there. You will also see diversion of traffic before you get to battery or before to broadway to prevent congestion. Also on the map you see a area in the water that is maritime restriction zone. That will be in effect the afternoon and evening of 15 of november that include ferrys and such diverted around that zone. We made large enough to account for safety needs and security needs we intend to have for that particular venue, but also allowing as much traffic as possible around that zone to take place. [indiscernible] i wondered about the people in the area they might have to undergo security check. Is that bag check or beyond that . Great question. For people that live around or operate businesses around some of these venues, particularly mos coney if you are trying to access for example the met rion or something of that nature, you will have to go what is effectively a bag check. Any packages or bags you have with you would have to be inspected, but nothing beyond the bag or package check will be the procedure there. How are you planning to respond to protesters and can you confirm if and where there will be zones that protesting cannot take place. Appreciate the question. The question is regarding protest and demonstration. So, ill answer part of it and turn the rest to chief scott. So, from secret service perspective, to answer your second part first, secret service does not designate protest zones, no protest zones. We designate general public areas and areas restricted from the general public. As far as your question regarding any concern over protests, as chief scott stated in his remarks and ill second this, during this planning, we accounted for the fact there will be perhaps many different groups and many different type of people that want to come to San Francisco and exercise their First Amendment rights and we are prepared to see that. We dont want to discourage that, however we want to make sure that if anybody is doing anything in conjunction with those activities that result in violence or criminal activity, that will not be tolerated by the u. S. Secret service or the San FranciscoPolice Department. Ill turn it over to chief scott for any second comments on that question. Thank you special agent brown. I just reiterate what was just said. It is about facilitation of peaceful First Amendment activity and also about the general Public Safety for this event and the public as well. Including the protesters themselves. We will facilitate like we always do First Amendment activity. We do that very well and we will employ similar tactics and strategy we always have and it is about facilitation. If and when protesters show up we will be deployed to handle that. We have extra officers that we will be able to handle that type of event if it occurs. The message is this and want to reiterate, criminal activity will not be tolerated and anybody think they are going to come in name of protest and hurt somebody or do crime or start fires that will not be tolerated so want to reemphasize that. We will do it consitutionally and respect rights and professional in our actions but will not tolerate the nonsense so i want to make that clear. We are all professionals up here. We respect the country consitution and will facilitate that, but we also want to make sure this is a peaceful event. Question for chief scott. Well aware sfpd had under staffing issues working with mutual partners in other counties and cities, is it safe to say during this time that sfpd might be fully staffed . Everybody is working, so we will be fully staffed and we have assistance. I said earlier in my remarks, cant thank the california Highway Patrol enough, the u. S. Secret service, all our partners, we are all in this together but the municipal policing is the San FranciscoPolice Department with help from other local agencies. We have motorcycle officers from other agencies, squads to deal with the security assignments and we have squads to deal with the fixed posts and we are prepared to adequately police the rest of the city during this event, so we are ready, and we are short, but thank goodness we do have the assistance of calling everybody in that make this work. Thank you, great question and fair question. Thank you. Businesses operating in some of the security zones, is there going to be any impact to their hours and also, is there cases where there is inconveniences because of dignitaries . Is there compensation for some of the [indiscernible] so, appreciate the question regarding the impact to businesses. With very few if any very rare exceptions there will be no businesses asked to effectively close. There will be impacts. Already discussed that people that are patrons of the businesses may need to undergo screening if they wish to do business with these places or perhaps the business workers or owners. There will also be impacts during motorcade movement. There is restriction of traffic and restriction of pedestrian traffic during key times so there will be impacts, but we are anticipating any full closures of any private businesses here in San Francisco as a result of this. Because of that, we are not anticipating any need to compensate Business Owners due to these impacts. It is something that as part of this National Special security event and the fact it is here in the city of San Francisco and hosted by the city that is anticipated these types of impacts will occur and ill turn it over to the city for further comment on that, but thats effectively comes with the territory of with these type of events. From a city perspective, our Mayors Office worked very hard to coordinate with Small Businesses, with all businesses. Office of economic development, our office of Small Business development have been working at this for monthss to keep everybody informed as to what the impacts will be. Online there will be a lot of people in the city that attend the conference. We hope it helps our businesses economically, but that only happens if we are well coordinated, people well informed and people understand what the closures are, how to get to and from daily routine of life and we will do that well. The department of Emergency Management does a great job informing the public when we have these types of events and Public Notices particularly if there is a emergency that are tied into this or as a result, or emergencies around the city. We will keep everybody informed and i think that will be the key to making this a smooth as possible, but we definitely arewe understand the businesses will bepeople will be disrupted and why we are here today and continue to message to the public to make sure we minimize the disruption and businesses can go about their routine. Thank you. [indiscernible] hi, friends im pria here with heather knights. Heather, you wanted to bring to the greenwich street steps. Why i just love the San Francisco hills sport hundreds of staircases like these mpts anybody wantish to get exercise in before the conference days can come here or any number of neighborhoods and go up and down a few times and your claws will be burning. It is beautiful here, great views of the skyline, the bay, treasure island, alcatraz and exploy coit tower. At the top of this particular set of stairs is telegraph hill, and there used to be wild parrots thatd flew around and thrfs a film made about them once you were fascinated by those parrots. There is wild parents here, nobody knows where they started. The main idea is maybe they were pets that escaped from a wendo and started mating and have a huge family. In my previous job at the San Francisco chronicle we name the city official animal and the board of supervisors declared the wild parrots. In San Francisco we think of the sea lions at the animal. But i love the wild parrots. When i first moved to San Francisco this is my neighborhood and catch a glimpse of the colored feathers. Tell us now that you are at the New York Times after a long time columnist for the San Francisco chronicle. It is complicated city. A lot of good, and bad. Drug use, homelessness and also a lot of good. Look around, it is stunning place. There is new businesses opening, new restaurants, signs of the start of recovery so lets hope that continues. Come on out and check out one of these many many sets of stairs there are throughout the city when you visit San Francisco next. Thank you, heather. Thank it. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so were will you shop dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in San Francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert im the fifth generation of candy in San Francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals thats why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they cant walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. Beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is i really appreciate they love this art. From the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you dont have to go far. Small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. You dont have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. San francisco has to all hi, friends. Im pria here and in a fabulous restaurant in San Francisco with vicky. Vicky is a long time broadcast journalist in San Francisco working for kron tv. Tell us. Im a veteran in the business but been with cron 4 with 23 years now. A new be. Cron has been around more then 7 years. It is one of the premier broadcast stations thin country, not just San Francisco. Used to be part of the young family, the chronicle, which major. We do news morning noon and night, so we are on air and online and we served the community. We also do international news, national news, whatever is happening, we are on it like a cheap suit. You also love to feature local restaurants so you brought us today. Tell us where we are. Could i resest . There are a myriad of great places to wine and dine. We are at the cross roads of the best rest aurants in the city. China town, north beach, embarcadero, the barbary coach. There might be ships underneath us. Where we are now is a place i call my local cheers bar. It is lot more then that. It is cocary, [indiscernible] it is a greek rest aurant. And you are greek. I love this place because it has the greek term for welcoming of strangers, so it really cuts into what we are talking about. All the International Journalists coming from the far corners of the earth. What better place then to come to some place the ethos is about welcoming. Absolutely. And we welcome all you to come to San Francisco. Check out our many restaurants including this one. Of course, we have to say welcome everyone. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . I am the owner of this restaurant. We have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [ ] [speaking foreign language] [ ] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [ ] [ ] hi, friends. Im pria here at the palace of fine arts in San Francisco. Here with skylar who is the new managing director of the San Francisco examiner. Skylar, would you start by telling us about the examiner . Absolutely. The San Francisco examiner is San Franciscos oldest locally owned newspaper. It is the newspaper of William Randolph hurst and mark twain, so incredible history in San Francisco and we cover all it the evenlts events in San Francisco and particularly focused now on everything happening to bring San Francisco back. Which is a big part of the story right now where San Francisco has been and where it is going. You brought us here to the palace of fine arts because it is one of your favorite places. Why are we here . Tell us why it matters the palace of fine arts was built in 1915. It was part of the exhibition meant to show case San Francisco after recovering from the 1906 earthquake. Since then it has become a symbol of ingenuity and rezil silience. On a personal level i used to come here as a little girl and the exploratorium amazing Scientific Museum was based here and as i have gone through life, i come back here and see there is lots of Community Members out, people like to picnic here and i have a two month old i get to bring him down here and go for walks and a beautiful place to reflect, so really a special part of San Francisco and i wanted to share it. If people come here to check out the palace of fine arts, what else is there to do in the neighborhood . Tell them about this incredible area. There is so much to do. My perfect saturday would be taking a walk to the Golden Gate Bridge and you can touch hoppers hands at the bridge. Come back through here, circle through the palace of fine arts and gaze up and wonder. You can go into the presidio and walk around a Beautiful National park and when you are done, if you are tired or hungry, you can walk to chestnut street. Tons of restaurants and wonderful places to get a famous San Francisco craft cocktail. That sounds perfect. A lot of our videos seem to end on cocktails. [laughter] welcome to San Francisco. Thanks skylar. Shop and dine the 49 challenges residents to do theyre shopping with the 49ers of San Francisco by supporting the Services Within the feigned we help San Francisco remain unique and successful and rib rant where will you shop the shop and dine the 49 im e jonl i provide sweets square feet potpie and peach cobbler and i started my business this is my baby i started out of high home and he would back for friends and coworkers theyll tell you hoa you need to open up a shop at the time he move forward book to the bayview and i thinks the t line was up i need have a shop on third street i live in bayview and i wanted to have my shop here in bayview a quality dessert shot shop in my neighborhood in any business is different everybody is in small banishes there are homemade recess pesz and ingredients from scratch we shop local because we have someone that is here in your city or your neighborhood that is provide you with is service with Quality Ingredients and quality products and need to be know that person the person behind the products it is not like okay. Who my name is bal. Born and raised in San Francisco. Cable car equipment, technically im a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car indiscernible and been here for 22 years now. I grew up around here when i was a little can i. My mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. I ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. [ music ] fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. I started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. Basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. This is your basic Public Transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. I work at the Cable Car Division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. This is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. Joking. This is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is thats downstairs so thats the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. Since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now its electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. Yeah. I am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. And we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and thats causing the little extra noise were hearing now. We have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. Then with have two in storage. Theres four gear boxes. Its gears of the motor. They weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. We did the whole barn that year so its difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brandnew. Engineers room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. That sound you heard there, thats a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. The cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. The cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. Its a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. The cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so its heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. If it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and its a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and theres no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. A lot of maintenance. [ music ] rail was considered to be the old thing. Rubber tires, cars, buses, thats new. There were definitely faster and cheaper, theres no question about that. Here at San Francisco, we went through the same thing. The mayor decided we dont need cable cars indiscernible , blah, blah. We can replace them with buses. They are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. He was right. Back in 1947 when they voted that, im surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. That was the headline. That was the demise of the cable cars. indiscernible came along and said, stop. No. No, no, no. She was the first one to say were going to fight city hall. She got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. Are we going to keep the cable cars or not . Head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. This is just a bunch the city came out and said basically, 31, if im not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. And literately if it wasnt for them, there would be no cable cars. People saw Something Back then that we see today that you cant get rid of a beautiful and it wasnt a Historical Monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of San Francisco. Yeah, we had freight back then. We dont have that anymore. This is the number one tourist attraction in San Francisco. Its historic and the only National Moving monument in the world. The city of San Francisco did keep the cable car so its a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of San Francisco. And obviously, everyone knows San Francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of San Francisco, but thank god it didnt. How soon has the city changed . The diverse of cable cars when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. We have three or four being a grip person. Fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. I want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. We have wonderful women come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what its about. Continuing to empower women. My name is Willa Johnson is and ive been at cable car for 13 years. I came to San Francisco when i was five years old. And that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a Christmas Tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didnt ride again until i worked here. I was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. Some people dont do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. It was a general sign up and thats when you can go to Different Divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. There were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a Different Division and cable car was it. I do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so its exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. I have some people say i wouldnt make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. Its a good division. And i like ripping cable cars. I do. I think she just tapped into the general feeling that San Francisco tend to have of, this is ours, its special, its unique. Economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense . Not really. But from here, if you think from here, no, we dont need this but if you think from here, yeah. And it turns out she was right. So. And im grateful to her. Very grateful. [laughter] three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] did i i did that on purpose so i wouldnt. [ music ] the journey of becoming a firefighter is no easy feat, it requires navigating and overcoming challenges to protect and serve the community. Established in 1866, the San FranciscoFire Department has evolved and grown to represent the community and meet their needs along the way. The division of training is responsible for training all new members entering the deme