Youre a consummate servant and its a great pleasure working with the great people that manage this city and i thought it would be worth while if i could just take a couple of minutes, and i have the mayors permission to make a couple of remarks and to tell you that i first set foot on this spot the day after the 1989 lo preaida earth yaik. Mayor jordan mayor agnose called me and said i need help. I said i will do whatever i can. He said can you meet with me and i have a laundry list of things and absolutely where do you want to meet . I am at the command center on turk street. I asked what the cross streets are. You know the bridge is down. Can i land my helicopter there . Yeah and lee got the police to clear the park. I came in here. The mayor was waiting for me and he took me down in the basement of the Fire Department Communications Center to what was the Fire Department was the bedroom for the firefighters in the 911 in their 911 in their portion of the 911. I couldnt believe it. T
Good afternoon. This is our Disaster Council meeting of october 26. Thank you all for coming. Welcome to our Emergency Operations center. As you know we generally meet at city hall but today is a very special day that you will learn about as we unfold our agenda and thank you again for coming. Im going to turn the table over to mayor lee who is going to give some opening remarks. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our turk street Emergency Operations center. First of all i want to thank everybody. Anybody wearing orange gets a special treat in my eyes today. Anyway were still celebrating and i never knew that wearing orange and the giants and sports will be so closely connected to what we do in Emergency Management but it is and it is for good reason because our citys success is really dependent upon inviting thousands more people here to enjoy our resources here in the city, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a Great International city. All of you h
But it is and it is for good reason because our citys success is really dependent upon inviting thousands more people here to enjoy our resources here in the city, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a Great International city. All of you have a very distinct role in all of this and its my pleasure to begin telling you how proud i am and the months of september and particularly october have all been full of great events, and numerous events, and sometimes on schedules that while we had mentally took note they would be on the similar weekends, we were of course needing to really communicate with each other, and make sure we did all the things in the background that no one ever sees and talks to each other to make sure things happen smoothly, and i want to give big kudos to ed risin and all the others in transportation and advising people to take Public Transportation and emphasize that in all of our Major International and worldwide and world seize of events that hap
With the local institutions that have started to generate projects that will somehow go in that direction, and also we want to have parties and communication activities to show the people in the street that it is important to have sustainable behaviors and not to leave a Carbon Footprint behind us. [inaudible] yeah, if i understand correctly because you said about the innovation if we . [inaudible] yeah, okay. Well, were going to have in the museum of Computer Science in Mountain View an exhibition show casing what italians have done to create Silicon Valley. I mentioned one person but there are many other examples. Along with that we will have a big conference with italian innovators and venture capitalists and along with large hi Tech Companies of Silicon Valley and come together and focus on specific projects how to Work Together for technological innovation. It will be focused on Silicon Valley but also the Cultural Institute in San Francisco we have surprises for you that were pre
I cannot save them. We save a lot, but we cant save everyone. They have massive chest, abdominal, leg, head wounds that become that are the consequences of these large weapons in froth of you. Front of you. They are the victims, but their families that are also injured when or have problems after the shooting. When a victim dies it leaves a hole in the family. They cant ever forget the devastated mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, that are struggling with loss. The way of a mother is unique sound as she screams, my baby is dead, my baby is dead. Wail it is a terrible sound, i wish i would have to never hear it again. Part of the process of making sure these lethal weapons are off the street. If we save the patient, they have to deal with many operations, icu care, post tau matt he posttraumatic stress. Head injuries, disfiguring operations and longterm care and many, many other serious problems. We cannot forget the physical scars, but theres also emotional scars after they are injur