Oakland where the governor and other state leaders unveiled that new program. Reporter they had a public unveiling and a News Conference where they talked about the new earthquake Early Warning system via that my shake app. The media still here, about to leave the pier where we are. The app called, my shake, is free to download and was developed by uc berkeleys seismologists and also from around the west coast. University of washington and oregon as well. It will not be able to predict . But the app can alert users to take cover and prepare seconds before shaking, the shaking of a major quake reaches them. The system uses sensors buried in the ground across the state and it detects the start of earthquake, calculates the location and intensity and send a warning to your phone if youre in an area where shaking is likely to happen. It works similar to the amber alert system using the same wireless notification system to send out those warnings. At the unveiling and this News Conference,
This video, this is from safeway and this was in san leandro. You can actually see the effect of that jolt this morning. Those items on the floor right there, shaken off of the shelves. Again, we also checked with three safeways near the epicenter of that earthquake in berkeley and they all say they have no damage to report. Also, we have no reports of injuries or serious damage. We do want to check in with meteorologist kari hall for some perspective on this. We know so many people were talking about this earthquake that folks who tried to get on that usgs website got a 503 error meaning they couldnt log on. Sometimes that does happen but we do have it on the weather map showing where the epicenter occurred, it was at 2 39 this morning just east of berkeley. We also had another one that rumbled some south bay folks at about 3 34 this morning. This one occurring near cupertino. Overall we have had over 9 Million People feeling the effects of these earthquakes this morning around the ba
That. Thats why we have to look at what happened. Reporter oakland hasnt had a fulltime fire marshal in the last five years. We need to examine our system and were rebuilding and now we will continue to do that good work thoughtfully and prioritize the divisions that are necessary to ensure health and safety of the our citizens. Reporter with the atf and local fire officials trying to isolate the cause. We have a team coming in tomorrow that is going to do the very detailed computer sized diagram so well at least be phere for another few days. Reporter in the meantime, we continue to hear from people who lived and worked inside the warehouse. Tonight at 6 00, youll hear from a man who said as recently as last week, a county agency was inside the coast ship and there was a small fire inside that building that he helped put out. In oakland, laura anthony, abc 77 news. Laura, thank you. Last night, some of the survivors had dinner with the artist collective founder, Derick Almena and his
Commissioner avalos the carry of the commission allergy joined by cynthia pollock and to my far rest by commissioner commissioner campos and well be joinld shortly by commissioner mar and our clerk is major madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Very good thank you and wed like also to express my appreciation for sfgovtv staff jesse larson and phil jackson for broadcasting and recordings todays meeting madam clerk to our first item and. Second item. The approval of the minutes of lafco minutes from 2016. Okay colleagues, any comments or changes to our minutes okay we can go to Public Comment, Public Comment is open on the lafco minutes seeing no rush to the podium well close Public Comment and a motion to approval of the minutes a motion if commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner avalos without objection and go on to our next item. Item number 3 the communities choice agg
Permanent site well definitely be able to manage having the right now theyre giving us 3 spaces that includes the aspect position and the mayor has issued his budget direction the city is still projecting status for the next couple of years even in the economic boom because of the pension obligation 0 or so the agency 2k3w59d departments with oewd is a 3 percent general plan decrease a similar instruction that that in the past last year so ive worked with the Financial Advisors to figure out what we need to do to have minimum impact but there will be for at least the next few years no new positions not a hiring freeze but no new positions then ive priority you a list of legislation that has been referred to the Commission Supervisor yee has introduced legislation eliminating some business tax fees so that was introduced last week and we got it on friday so ill be take a look at that. Theres been intern controls introduced around an intern moratorium around greg cannabis in pdr space be