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
Yesterday. Even though the temperatures are about the same. Clouds, and overnight. Coming in overnight. Then i saw wind moving cars. There are a few cars out there. But a problem of note in annapolis, u. S. 50 near jennifer road. A and elsewhere, pretty good. 55 miles an hour on the north side. Everything looks good as well on the west side toward 70. So far, so good, on the jfx. Out of the owings mills area and here is 50 at ritchie highway. Flashing lights. We are waiting to hear what direction the accident is. Southbound 95 toward the 895 split guest overall moving well on most of the major roadways. We will let you know if any problems come in. Tram are big story is the fingerpointing continues on capitol hill this morning. New hope for a deal to avoid going off the fiscal cliff. If president obama will meet with congressional leaders later today. Danielle leigh is in washington with more on the rush for a deal. President obama and congressional leaders need to make progress, and t
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