Sense, its also true that lawyers for the agencies that those responders work for also play a very, very Important Role. And were privileged today to have an outstanding panel of lawyers from various agencies at the federal and local level, some now in private practice, who have served in those Important Roles or do so today. And to give us some insights about the role of a lawyer in Emergency Preparedness and response. And with that id like to introduce the panel by having them introduce themselves to you and then well get right into it. Good afternoon, im adrian sevier. Im the chief county of the Emergency Management agency. Ive been with fema for 15 years. Ive had a variety of positions at the agency starting what we called then a field attorney. So i deployed to the joint field offices that fema sets up when the president declares a major disaster or emergency. Ive held a variety of positions at fema. And again ive been the chief council since for about a year now. Im dan connelly,
Stole more than 30i phones which totaled more than 24,000. He then stash them in a suitcase which he decided to pay for. Its quite creative. Its something we havent seen in awhile. Reporter investigators say no alarms went off. In fact, they tell us it took two hours for the store on south black horse pike to report the crime to police. Officers immediately reached out to Service Providers in plaque listed the stolen devices. Meaning they wont work. One person found out the hard way police say he purchased one of the blackmarket phones in bala cynwyd area. Gps signal tipped police off. Random guy on the street selling phones. Reporter police are hoping you can help them track this thief down before he tries to strike again. Someone has to recognize him, and due to the amount that was stolen, its obviously a very large crime, and good chance that this is probably not going to be the only time he does th this. Reporter so if you do recognize him, call the Monroe Township police departmen
The causes of ocean, this causes ocean waters to expand and in addition, mountain glaciers are rapidly retreating which adds water to the oceans. The Sleeping Giant however in the Sea Level Rise occasion has been ice in the main major ice sheets of greenland and ant antarctica. Both ice she is are losing mass. How quickly they melt over the coming decades will determine whether we have an additional one foot of Sea Level Rise or up to four feet and perhaps even more. Another major change in our climate brought by about humaninduced warm something the increase in heavy downpours. This is clearly an area in which recent observations have been born out, have borne out our previous projections. A warm atmosphere would hold more moisture. We measured that and indeed it is happening. We predicted increased in atmosphere of water vapor and more rain comes down in heavy events and now weve seen that happen. Some regions like the northeast and midwest have seen very large increases in the rainf
Signaling the need for urgent action so that we can combat the s we face inrisk this country. President obama has long recognized the urgency of this challenge. , in a speech at Georgetown University on a sweltering hot day, the president launched his Climate Action land. Cutting Carbon Pollution in, preparing our communities for changes in climate that are already ongoing and leading International Efforts to address the challenge. One year later, a lot has happened in executing on the commitments made in the Climate Action plan. The president has directed the Environmental Protection agency and the department of transportation to develop fuel economy standards for heavyduty vehicles. The department of interior has announced its permitting of the 50th Renewable Energy project on federal lands during this administration, and the department of energy has issued multiple, new Energy Efficiency standards. The department of agriculture has announced seven new hubs to adapt operations to a c
And his new book the naked future what happens in a world that anticipates your every move mr. Tuckers the communicacommunica tions director for the world future society. He argues that the greater availability of data has created smarter prediction models of individual behavior. He discusses the implications of such accurate models with surprising conclusions. This program is about an hour. Host patrick your book has been given worldwide attention to the use of surveillance, data how government and corporations are really keeping track of a lot of what we do. I think your book as an important dimension to the discussion that many civil libertarians are having about how this impacts our privacy. I wanted to mention something you wrote early on in the book, that we instinctively trust local government as the provider of information during an emergency even when its an emergency that we are directly involved in. Call 911 and ask for services ,com,com ma wait for someone to come to where