Ways to improve cyberSecurity Issues for the Energy Sector. Witnesses stressed the importance of protecting the Us Energy Grid and what the government can do now to help prepare for potential attacks, held by the Senate Energy committee, this is almost two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. We are here this morning to examine federal and industry efforts to improve the cybersecurity of the Energy Sector including efforts to improve collaboration on Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure protection initiatives. It has been more than a year since we last held a hearing on cybersecurity for the Energy Sector but it is fair to say this is always a timely topic. A critical priority we cant lose sight of even as we grapple with covid19, which becomes the source of our next national crisis. There have been a few noteworthy developments since our last year. Earlier this year the president issued an executive order focused on securing our system from the cyber and physic
All right, guys. Tike to talk about weather and then we can get back to the fun and news of the day. 16mileperhour wind at fairfield. Not a bad onshore breeze, but not enough to keep us out of above average temperatures this afternoon. You can see some clouds hanging along the coast and a little bit of haze in the bay, but not a spare the air day. Temperatures are in the mid50s again this morning. Temperatures in the 60s at the coast while the rest of us hit 73 to 83. Those are already average temperatures at noon. And we still have several hours of warming. That is why well be above average. 82 to 94 at 4 00. And still 75 to 84 at 7 00 inland. Hotter this weekend. And the spread of covid19 infections shows no sign of slowing down. A record 60,000 new cases have been reported in just the last 24 hours. The sun belt from california to florida is now the global hot spot. Dr. Birx is bleeding fpleading to push back on reopening. Really asking those in those states to not only use the face
Quarantined, those that require additional medical attention will receive it. Reporter passengers aboard the grand princess today were getting cabin fever after 24 hours confined to their rooms, and feeling anxious about their health. I would like to test everybody, and test me to make sure, i dont want to take anything home to my family, you know, to be on the safe side. Reporter as we just learned, all of those passengers and crew members aboard the grand princess will be tested for covid 19. It is unknown exactly how long it will take for all of those test results to come back, we are talking about at least a few thousand test the need to be processed at this point, and as for where the grand princess will go, theres only so many deepwater ports, in the bay area, some of those are commercial, some of those are not, the question is where exactly does the ship and up. Allen . To just everybody will take a while, they want to another helicopter drop, but, once they do that, its going t
San francisco. I just wanted to say thank you and to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management, the p. U. C. , public works, m. T. A. , fire and rec park. We met yesterday to review the citys response to the december 7th storm and recent flooding. As folks are probably aware, we had an out of nowhere, almost tornado, technically a micro burst, but it dumped a whole lot of water on the city in a short period of time on a saturday afternoon. So, due to that, we have been working on adjusting our plans to be more ready to respond in a no notice storm event, which is fairly unusual. However, due to the variability in weather and Climate Change and changes on the planet, we have to be ready for the unexpected. So, we are working on improving our situational awareness, operational response, and our public messaging regarding the storms when they do happen. Secondly, were going to move into the recent activities also this week. We had a Safety Assessment program, proof of concept. It
You have questions, if youre presenting, please use the microphone as we are filming this and we want to make sure we capture everyone. So, we are going to start with our first item with a report around preparedness. Before i start that, i just wanted to say that since the last meeting, we have gone from summer to winter and from fires to floods, as is how it goes in San Francisco. I just wanted to say thank you and to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management, the p. U. C. , public works, m. T. A. , fire and rec park. We met yesterday to review the citys response to the december 7th storm and recent flooding. As folks are probably aware, we had an out of nowhere, almost tornado, technically a micro burst, but it dumped a whole lot of water on the city in a short period of time on a saturday afternoon. So, due to that, we have been working on adjusting our plans to be more ready to respond in a no notice storm event, which is fairly unusual. However, due to the variability in