Other lifeline providers and how systems should perform in an earthquake . Ill go ahead and talk about pg e. I would say first off weve 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. Thats 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. Whats going to come back first, whats 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.
Immediate nature, but i think not so much in terms of mobilization and deploying inside our country. So, this is an area where opportunities like San Francisco fleet week will allow us for, and i believe at some point really incorporate this in some internal doctrine that will benefit us in the event that this is a requirement inside the u. S. Thank you. This morning secretary schultz asked one of the panels that was involved in communications and command and control about in this age of information, realtime information, how youre hit with a sea of information and how do you deal with that. Something as Senior Leaders all of you have dealt with. And i believe admiral zukunft used the term dealing with reality tv. So, until you get that unity of effort and get into an up tempo, how do you as a Senior Leader deal with that sea of information coming at you thats all over cnn and the cable as you look at deploying your forces . Ill take that one again. And ill go back to my experience dur
Have an event that takes our services out or is greater than what were actually expecting and thats the challenge for all of us, all the service providers, is working together to figure out how to make that happen. Mr. Boland. This is where we fit into that link. We represent the utilities that protect and build the resill yepbs into the infrastructure. We fill a gap in attitude which is the relationships, distant and local relationships, cross boundaries between the multi disciplines in the utilities. We are able to cross those lines in the counties and step up to state operations so everybody is operating in a Common Operating Picture so everybody understands whats available not only in their jurisdiction, but what kind of resources we can bring to bear, short and longterm, how distant those are, what the qualifications are. We have master resource catalogs designed just like fire scope and cal fire in which we have built strike teams from our utilities, strike teams from water compa
They say yes, chris, we know him. He talked to the people. He meet with the people. He knows their suffering. The main thing, that he trusts them and when they rised against gadhafi, he supported them. Chris, it is a great loss for libya. We lost him as a friend and man that understands the history of the people of libya before and after. Chris, he built the bridge between libya and the United States. A bridge of love, of hope. We never believed one day we would be able to raise against this dictatorship. I knew chris after he came back. I knew chris more. He would come to the house and we play tennis. After the tennis we come back home and have libyan breakfast. He is a man of principles and he is serious. I agree he never speaks about himself, what achievement he made. He is a guy when you look for him again. This is kind of different element but one time he told me story when he was serving in tripoli and then in benghazi. He walked on the street of benghazi and looked over his back
Members of Christopher Stevens family, ladies and gentlemen, let me first thank Chris Stevens brothers and sisters for their warm and delightful insights into what he was really like. Thank you so much. That was fantastic what you did for us. Christopher stevens was obviously an extraordinary human being and contributor. Every year at stanford we have a group of what we Call National security fellows come. They were roughly army, navy, air force, state department. A couple weeks ago we had a meeting and the first person i called on was an army colonel. I said where were you last . He said in libya. I said did you know Christopher Stevens . He said everybody knew Christopher Stevens. He was our leader, fluent in arabic, constructive, positive, doing something, he was our leader. This spontaneous practically eruption from him. He was a Foreign Service officer. Anybody who has served with a Foreign Service as i did as the secretary of state knows, what a very special group of people this