responding to crises. exactly. and in what capacity does a third party assist law enforcement, emergency preparedness, like you are offering? what we do is we go into organizations much the same way that law enforcement and emergency management structures operate, which is we develop emergency response plans. and then we train on those emergency response plans. again, in all three, organizations are well prepared, both financially, reputationally, the communication, internal/external communication to their employees is done. in response how do they build resiliency a a crisis situation has hit, how do they mean tan the couldn t fewity of pragss befo before. jonathan wackrow, thank you so much.
dealing with this. is this something that residents in your city were prepared for? you said that this is earthquake country. but were you ready for something like this? had buildings been prepared? is there emergency response plans you re all just following in anticipation of such a day? it s not just the emergency response plans that we ve deployed. it s the fact that we have building codes and building professionals here that know how to build for these kinds of conditions. i would like to emphasize, too, we re somewhat fortunate that it occurred when the weather was somewhat benign. it s in the high 20s, low 30s right now. and it occurred during the daylight, which the farther north you go, it s dark for large portions of the day. so we have better ability to assess what s going on and to allow people to make it around safely. so my understanding is that there are thousands of people who have lost power. some might be in their cars right now listening to satellite radio or mi
north carolina, south carolina, georgia, maryland, and virginia. you are looking at live images out of north carolina right now we re more than 60 of the state, 100 counties, have declared a state of emergency. duke energy, the major power supplied are for north and south carolina, the estimate up to 3 million customers could lose power. power companies have activated the emergency response plans, sending out equipment, resources, and crews strategically placed for power outages. it is all hands on deck with more than 40,000 workers from 17 states standing by. officials have been warning of the possibility for extended power outages, stressing that most power equipment, including bucket trucks, can t be used in high winds. the heavy flooding will delay response time. listen. any time the trees get that kind of wind, 100 miles per hour, trees are going to come
scramble moment to determine whether i was actually seeing what i was seeing. right. because we know the rhetoric between the united states and north korea, the missile test, the stepping up of its nuclear program. is this anything that hawaii has addressed or discussed or talked about prior to this false alarm? well, you know, it is funny. i think people responded the way they did because it was only two or three months ago where the state of hawaii did begin publicizing its efforts to come up with emergency response plans to a ballistic missile threat and putting out information about that and doing press conferences and even at that time, people were kind of laughing about it or thinking it was a little ridiculous. but i ll tell you, when that shows up on your phone, you take it very seriously. you said you just turned white. what did you do next? i let my wife know, she
because we know the rhetoric between the united states and north korea, the missile test, the stepping up of its nuclear program. is this anything that hawaii has addressed or discussed or talked about prior to this false alarm? well, you know, it is funny. i think people responded the way they did because it was only two or three months ago where the state of hawaii did begin publicizing its efforts to come up with emergency response plans to a ballistic missile threat and putting out information about that and doing press conferences and even at that time, people were kind of laughing about it or thinking it was a little ridiculous. but i ll tell you, when that shows up on your phone, you take it very seriously. you said you just turned white. what did you do next? i let my wife know, she panicked, we went downstairs where we figured we would be