 Just before dawn, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Southern California area into utter chaos. It's the job of these emergency managers here at the State Operations Center and those throughout the state to collaborate on a common effort to help those within the impacted area and educate those outside the danger zone on how they can help most. What we're doing today is we're actually exercising a simulated earthquake in Southern California, in the southern basin. We've already mobilized 11 of the regional task forces. What you see in the State Operations Center today is the activation of the Operations Center, the various state agencies that would come together to help coordinate all of the state's response in support of the local governments and support of the citizens and being able to mitigate the situation. Disaster response recovery is not the sole responsibly of one level of government or even government as a whole. It really is what I call a public-private set of responsibilities. You know, we lean on the private sector businesses, corporations and non-governmental organizations to help us respond to disasters and recover from disasters. And likewise, we coordinate and work very closely with our federal government partners and all of the federal agencies that have a role to support what we're doing at the state. California National Guard has about one quarter of its people are full-time and on any given day, chances are we're responding to an emergency. The bulk of our capabilities are focused on providing transportation, logistics support, communication support. The things that the first responders and law enforcement don't have, we have in the military and we make that available to the people of California. We certainly don't have a crystal ball. We do hear that a large-scale earthquake 7.08.0 is predicted to come in our lifetime the next 30 years. But anytime we can prepare, anytime we can exercise, the general public should feel comforted that we are trying to do whatever we can to prepare ourselves for that next event.