And dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an existing radiation source and use an explosive to spread the existing radiation. It does not create Nuclear Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation material and spreading by means of explosive. Scenario was, intel was developed that woul
Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation material and spreading by means of explosive. Scenario was, intel was developed that would, that Law Enforcement had word that a terrorist organization had stolen radiological material, they practiced methods to intradict that stolen material prior to a dirty bomb going off. So they practiced that throughout the bay area in the days leading up to it. Our portion as the Fire Department is the right of boom, after the explosion has happened. The Fire Services role in that. So we did a scenario over by station 4 where a car bomb, a dirty bomb went off. We responded to it and we practiced doing an m. C. I. , a mass casualty incident, 50 patients, hot zone, detect radiation present, respond to it and rescue the people out, triage them, and transport, the hospitals also did participate in the drill. Their portion was to receive contaminated patients and practice decontamination prior to going to the emergency room. So deal with that, m.
Give each of their 200,000 u. S. Workers 1000 bonus once the bill is signed. Comcast, sister bank corp. , wells fargo, bowling all stepped in to give money back. Lawmakers onto the next hurdle avoiding a Government Shutdown. Looking to push the issue into next year opposing a spending bill to maintain funding through january 19th. Well break down the prospects of a deal ahead. Look at how the markets are reacting. A slight gain on the dow futures. A little bit a pullback yesterday. 28point game developer market gauges really anticipating the tax reform happening on monday with every major market gauges major market gauge hitting alltime highs. All the big ones we follow. Over to europe, next action there. Ftse 100 was. Ftse 100 with a slight game mother quarter 1 . Asia overnight was a similar picture. To mark its upcoming two down with the kospi in south korea almost 2 in the nikkei also lower. You are not crazy. Your iphone might be running slower. The details of apple finally admits
Business news live from singapore. Is the wild ride over or is itjust the beginning . We find out where the Global Markets may end after the volatility of last week. And and enduring sports legacy. We find out about triathlons plans for asia. Its monday, everyone. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Thank you for joining us for this edition of Asia Business report. We begin the programme with the asian markets that are offered from heavy selling last week following volatility on wall street. We had the bench mark indices injapan, hong kong and shanghai falling at least 10 from recent highs. Chinese equities in particular were under pressure, partly due to the weakening of their currency. Should we be bracing ourselves for another wild ride this week . I asked that question earlier. Investors seem to be responding to increased expectation that in flirtation will pick up inflation will pick up. The strength that we are seeing in Global Economy that is driving market and as we may be in the
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