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As we inch closer to Inauguration Day. Lets begin this hour with natasha chen, she joins us in florida, a state that is seeing again an alarming surge in cases. Good morning, natasha. Reporter good morning, poppy. Florida hit 900,000 cases yesterday, making them the state with the third highest number of coronavirus cases after texas and california. Thats not a record anyone wants to have. You could feel that concern from the people we met who are in their cars trying to get tested right now. Weve met a couple of women who said they clean hospitals for a living, a couple of guys told me they w...

City were required to have a tactical interoperatable communications plan. It describes how you interoperate in an emergency or an event within the city as well as regional partners. We dont have that with military and i think thats one of the biggest take aways, we need to really flesh out a document so we have captured who our contacts are, what technology they are going to bring to the table and start that initial planning from the getgo. We also had some technical challenges with land mobile radio. You know, we have the coverage issues, but we were stationed at the San Francisco Police Dep...

Actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned f...

Going to be one of our critical, critical things we have to do. We have to be able to move material and personnel and one of the ways were going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out...

How would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. It probably wont be the same ones. We are building the institutional relationships ...