[please stand by] we are back in session. This is the budget and appropriations meeting friday, august 14th. Were hearing budgets and well continue with the department of Emergency Management and with us we have the director mary ellen carole. Ms. Carole, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair fewer and thank you spurs. Im happy to be here today. Im director and department of Emergency Management and the mission of our department is to lead the city and planning preparedness, communications, response and recovery for everyday and not so everyday emergencies and large city wide events, major disasters and global pandemic. In addition, 911 houses a 911 and operations and who are the vital link in Emergency Communications between the public and first responders. Since january of this calender year, we have played a key role in the citys response to t coronavirus pandemic and will continue to do so for the remainder of thremainder of the. We have noted the citys Covid Command Center or c3, a
Committee in january of 2019 and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats. Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow. That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea. Raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote, our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the Cyber Capabilities including
Miller center here at the university of virginia, who president says is broad, long term in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words, the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant. So please breeds path oliphant. I applause even more so by the work of them path oliphant, which you see displayed on the screen. The culture he represents is not broad, it had a specific daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week. In the denver post for several years. Washington star for several years. Along the way, pat oliphant became the first 21st cartoonist to be featured in newspapers all across the country, he was indicated in newspapers for the country. Far from being balanced, they were opinionated. That was part of their virtue. Obviously, not so much inwards, though there are words, especially in pictures, and the work of pot o
Appoint their shadow cabinet. I wont be part of that shadow cabinet, you know, ive done my bit. We need to move on, at that stage, with that new leader. Police in new zealand name the first victim of the white island eruption as krystal eve browitt, a 21 year old australian. 15 deaths have been now been confirmed following mondays eruption. Tens of thousands of people have rallied again in rome protesting against italys far right league party. The protesters pack themselves so tightly into squares theyve become known as the sardines. And coming up at 8 30pm, 22 years on, a british driver is trying to break his own world land speed record in bloodhound chasing the land speed record. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister has visited the north east of england to thank voters in traditional labour heartlands for backing his party. Borisjohnson met with supporters in newly conservative sedgefield, tony blairs former constituency. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn is coming
Also working with other members from the city family. Everyone from sfpd have been nice bringing me up to the current level of information they all have. So we have those are discussions that we are having. I can tell you that the Police Department is concerned about everyones safety, regardless of the mode in which they move about the city. Certainly on the sidewalk people i can imagine i wouldnt expect that and i know a lot of people are surprised by that. What we have in that regard is a lot of foot beat officers deployed throughout all of the stations. So thats something that i can imagine or remind or discuss with the captains, who im sure are aware of that as well, about that being something that is addressed. The focus for our officers using police cars and motorcycles, speed is a big issue along with the focus on the five factors. People who are walking and on bicycles, theres a long list of people who are very vulnerable in a collision, more so than vehicles. So a lot of our e