 Okay thank you. At first I'd like to thank all of the cooperating agencies. This has been a big event with a lot of people involved, a lot of mutual aid within the state of California. First the city of Ridgecrest was a lead on this incident. We were in unified command with Kern County Fire. OES director Gillarducci, Cal Fire director Tom Porter, Major General David Baldwin with the California National Guard. CHP Deputy Commissioner Scott Sillsby, U.S. Congressman Kevin McCarthy's office, Shannon Grove's office, Mick Gleason's office, Public Health, Environmental Works, Human Services, and Southern California Edison Red Cross. And so as you can see there's a lot of people involved with this. At 10 30 this morning we had an earthquake in Ridgecrest and with that we started a large number of resources and it was for not only the earthquake but we were assured that there would be aftershocks and we've had over a hundred aftershocks after the main earthquake and we have resources from all over the state of California. We have resources from Rialto, Chino Valley, San Manuel, Redlands, Colton, all formed through the Office of Emergency Services with a strike team leader. You saw our equipment from Los Angeles County and we appreciate our partners and it's important to recognize them. We've had minor to moderate injuries in Ridgecrest a few but with the magnitude we were very grateful that there was such a limited amount of injuries and damage. There's minor and moderate damages to various structures out in Ridgecrest. We have two facilities open. One is at the Fairgrounds and Kern McGee Center for cooling centers. We know with the power being out that is an important component that we need to look at and it's important for the community to know that you're safe. We have a lot of resources as you can see behind me. The magnitude of people that would be involved in an incident like this or bigger that we're prepared to act. Let's see our radio communications is open 9-1-1 system. We had over 163 calls out in the Ridgecrest area emergencies. That's a large number and so there was a extreme backlog but we were able to catch up to that because of master mutual aid. One structure fire. The airport wasn't affected and also the Army Corps has inspected the dam and the dam is secure. LaLake Isabella Dam and we feel comfortable with that situation. With that I'll hand it over to Director Gilarducci with OES and then I'll follow up with questions after this. Good afternoon. Thanks Chief Witt and Mark Gilarducci, Director of Governor Newsom's Office of Emergency Services. First of all let me just convey our thoughts and concerns to all those who've been packed by today's earthquake. You know certainly not a small earthquake and you know there was enough damage and people you know on a day where we were together with our families celebrating the nation's holiday having to deal with this earthquake. We are of course as the Chief mentioned happy to see that the number of injuries was relatively minimal and really no report of fatalities. Definitely want to highlight the exceptional response by both the City of Ridgecrest and Ridgecrest and Kern County fire and sheriff and all the other emergency services rapidly responding to the event and obviously the Chief mentioned but the state agencies are standing behind me the leaders of those organizations immediately engaged with the county shortly after the quake occurred providing assets from all of the various agencies that are represented here the Cal Guard, the CHP, Cal Fire and then of course through OES a mutual aid from a number of Southern California departments including urban search and rescue resources and fire strike teams. Also shortly within hours really of the earthquake Governor Newsom did proclaim a state of emergency that was very important because it ensured that all resources that could be made available were being made available and all state agencies were focused on supporting the county in the city. It also opened up key programs that will be necessary for recovery over the long term. Clearly this was a very large quake in its size and could have been much more injuries and damage but we do feel lucky and now we're going to focus on completing the damage assessment working with both the city and the county on really refining both damage assessment to critical infrastructure as well as working to support the county as they work with the community members doing an assessment and it's important to do a good assessment after earthquake. Sometimes earthquake damage is hidden and it takes a little bit to make sure that we're determining the quantity and the magnitude of the damage. Keep in mind it's important that people understand that there are going to be aftershocks in fact there have been a number of them but there could be aftershocks and there could be even a quake as large as the initial quake in the next 24 hours so it's important that people secure any non-structural items in their home that could fall over that haven't fall over in the initial quake. Be safe have a family plan and make sure that you're you're thinking through that and I know that they're working hard to reestablish the power in the area and in cases where there are any other lifelines that are necessary working through that. We're also making sure that you know as individuals to listen to local authorities in the event that they issue any a new or additional alert and warnings throughout the night and into tomorrow so that you are as informed and empowered to respond accordingly. We'll continue to stay very much engaged through my office the Office of Emergency Services. Governor Newsom has been briefed each each hour we've been making sure that he is up to speed in fact we just got off a phone briefing his office and throughout the remainder of this particular incident we'll be working closely with the local authorities to make sure that all the resources are met and so with that I'll be turned it back over to Chief Witt and we're happy to answer any questions. Okay I'll open it up for questions at this time from anybody for myself or anybody behind me? So in terms of the source of where it took place or USGS going to be out there they concern that any surrounding areas where there may be other faults like San Andreas fault may be a concern for the community? Well as Director Gillarducci stated we're concerned about aftershocks because we know that in the next 24 hours there could be more and they are monitoring the situation currently the others? In terms of the app with I heard that there was also an issue with the app the shake alert app and so if ready current did set out alert today who would have got it and didn't go there? Brandon you want to talk about that? Yeah so we did not put out a ready current on this this was the city of Ridgecrest and they were handling this scenario so at that point it was just a notification door-to-door as they were going and assessing. So if you were to send out a ready current it be everyone here? Everybody who is signed up within the area that's affected that's where ready current will reach out to you. So absolutely we we've actually been on conference calls with with the USGS and the seismic with the state and that's exactly part of the warnings I mean it's an earthquake it's unpredictable and we do expect to have more aftershocks and yes that could happen. Northridge is a good example three years later they did have another major earthquake and so it's definitely something that's a concern. So I've been out to Ridgecrest probably several other report reporters have as well given the fact that Kern County has a lot more structures a lot more of a bigger sized community if we were to experience that type of magnitude here what would the devastation look like would it be as light? I wouldn't even want to take a guess at that but I think the most important part is that people are prepared as as the director had said we people need to be prepared expect to have no power for 72 hours and have a plan in place and that's the best way to mitigate it we'll get out notifications that we can but as you see just this earthquake took place in Ridgecrest and it's it's extremely draining to get a lot of resources there quickly to assess it and get action taken place and so that's where we're bringing in more to be able to handle that but it does take some time. So tomorrow are you guys going to be out there as USGS who is going to be out there tomorrow? We'll be continuing to monitor the situation I'll let Chief Whit answer that. Tomorrow we're going to have the same number of resources out tomorrow you know during this next 24 hours OES will let us use the OES equipment throughout the day on the incident and throughout the night and so we're going to have the same number of people ready and prepared to protect not only Ridgecrest but the County of Kern. Any other questions? Power you mentioned a little bit about the issue of power so. Power should be on tomorrow by tomorrow we should have most of the power on I have to defer to Southern California Edison but from what I'm told from a person that I talked to with Southern California Edison that we should have a lot of the power on by tomorrow. In the latest sorry the yeah so Southern California Edison was estimated around 7,000 and that was earlier at the impact and now we're down to roughly around 1300 without power. Gas issues. There are some gas issues but they're being addressed. There's nothing significant right now being reported. How many total structure fires can you touch on that one more time? So we want we had one active structure fire but numerous calls for structures and those could be from gas leaks and multiple other things but the only one active structure fire. Any other questions? Okay, thank you very much and we will be sitting out more information as it comes in and if you have any questions contact our local PAO. Displaced. Is there anyone displaced? I know that we just talked about injuries but people who are displaced. So we have no reports of any major displacement of residents and we do have Red Cross who will be supporting that and establishing different centers as needed. Are there gonna be extra patrols besides just you guys like anyone else that's gonna be coming that you guys haven't I know pretty much everybody's within that mutual aid system coming in have most most have actually made it here and we're just gonna continue working on the scenario that we have ahead of us. Two cooling centers as I mentioned.