City is agreeing to pay out the families of 32 of the victims and one man who survived that fire. 23. 5 million will go specifically to the families of the fire victims who died and 9. 2 Million Dollars for sam maxwell who barely made it out alive, but now has to live with that awful memory and permanent injuries as well as a medical expenses despite the payout oakland city leaders do not agree that the city is liable for the tragic loss that she marry alexander represents the families of some victims and instead said that more could have been done to prevent that deadly fire. Im sorry usually see warm summer months, not the defendant does not liability. But we feel that we proved our case against the city that they knew what they were police know that were in there and saw the People Living there. And one policeman said that when they saw party going on so we dont have a way to put it in one batch. As Police Report nothing was done. The firemen went to a party there. And so the. Turne
Of good afternoon. Good afternoon, i am to theed to welcome you National Security of implications of Climate Change. Were honored for this briefing to happen and this very timely point in time as well as abilities important issues and i want to express my gratitude and enthusiasm for the partnership that we have in terms of bringing you this briefing with the partnership of the Jackson Foundation and i wanted to be sure to mention we are joined by the foundation today including the president on the other board as well as the foundations executive director so oh thank you very much for your support for your long understanding and visionary approach to carry out that legacy for whom the foundation was set up in the areas which he for so long that he was your in the congress or in the senate where he chaired that Energy Committee but took an important leadership role with International Affairs and education environment and Natural Resources and bill whole role of public service. Also thin
Our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. Perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. And i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. But it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. And he then became our secretary of defense. And many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. Hes currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas mille
Aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the First Responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and Charlotte Schultz and mike myers. Id like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. applause and in april of 1996, my last year as secretary of defense, i met one morning intelligence briefing at 7 oclock along with general charlie. The previous day general hughes had briefed us that the Chinese Military were to begin extensive military maneuvers in the ta