Femas readiness. Without objection, the chair authorizes. Good morning. The committee is meeting today to discuss Femas Readiness. We are pleased to be joined by administrator deanne criswell, who was confirmed just two months ago. Administrator criswell brings to the job a wealth of experience from her role as city new York City Emergency Management, leader of one of femas national Incident Management Assistance teams and over two decades of service as a firefighter in the colorado i would also note that she is the first woman to be confirmed by the senate to lead fema and i applaud the Biden Administration for selecting highly qualified individuals who reflect the diversity of our great nation. Administrative criswell steps into the role at a critical juncture as fema contends with ongoing responses to previous disasters, including western wildfires and 2017 hurricanes, while also continuing to manage the covid response, the current Disaster Season and other emergencies. For example,
From suture tower at San Francisco. Didnt show you this he very much yesterday at least not early on because you couldnt see any of it that cloud cover was really blocking it out that is obviously not the case this morning visibility is just fine low clouds all but gone for most areas and thats the way were going to stay now theres some truly fog out towards the Central Valley. If you happen to be heading that way but not something were really looking at much here in the bay area aside from some patches of fog so do watch for those isolated patches closer to the coastline, 30s and 40s for most of our current temperatures oakland you are in the midfifties that much of this time yesterday now were at 46 degrees so noticeable cool down the at 43 while Napa Petaluma nevado same in and santa rosa. All our cities in the 30s this morning you can see how big of a drop in temperatures that is for some of these areas novato down 20 degrees from the same time yesterday thats definitely a differen
Thousands of people are fleeing to europe at this very moment. Can anyone tell me from what countries they are fleeing . Leighton. Ok, syria. Any other countries . Tess . Kosovo. Sarah . Russia. Any other countries . Stephen . Eritrea, thats correct. Patrizio. [inaudible] prof. Garcia thats correct. So they are traveling very long distances to find refuge in europe, and this map gives you an idea of the routes and distances they are traveling in order to reach safety. Some are traveling alone, others are traveling as part of family units. Some are traveling in search of economic opportunity. Others are literally fleeing for their literally fleeing for their lives to escape war, devastation, rape, and forced conscription into armies. The vast majority of the refugees are syrian. Can anyone tell me why the syrians are fleeing . Ok, thank you. Albert. Civil war, absolutely. Would anyone else like to venture talk . Meredith. War is very violent. People are getting killed ritualistically. [
Health. He says while planning early in the pandemic focused on icu capacity thats changed to some degree. Were say a more widespread. Im Community Spread of the virus and thats going to impact a wider number of a wide variety of people so i think that although we are prepared with the icu capacity that we could need. I think were seeing and i think others things well, but there are a lot of that search will not buy this issues as well as were seeing different demographics percent the other thing thats changed is just what kinds of illnesses the hospital will treat. Initially it was shut everything down and so it was clearly on this one back but micah says that single focus on covid19 left a lot of people. With other urgent needs not getting the care they needed he says Going Forward serge are no surge will be focusing on a more balanced approach i think any of us want to get back to the base for people are sitting at home with just paying the freight to leave their houses because they
Checking in at about 80 meanwhile 88 or so well do it by 3 oclock the some areas, a look at some lower 90s today in a little warm up is expected as we head into the weekend. Well have details coming up mark all right dave, thanks a lot well new this morning the Berkeley City Council has approved a plan to end Traffic Enforcement by police and this makes berkeley the first city in the country to make this change kron fours reyna harvey is live in berkeley. She has all the details for us reyna. Yeah well marty this is a historic move by the council here this shes Traffic Enforcement entirely this takes it from an armed Police Officer to an an armed city worker, the main question a lot of people have this morning is how they plan on implementing this if someone is an armed and forcing traffic stops. Well again the Council Cites many Different Reasons why they want to put this change in place theyre citing that theyre trying to stop Racial Disparities also racial profiling when people are