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"content": "\u003cp>After Thursday’s blaring tsunami alert sent out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">a wave of confusion across Northern California\u003c/a>, authorities are using it as a lesson in preparing for future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one expert in Humboldt said the day reveals just how much the country has to learn about forecasting tsunamis, calling it “deja vu all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lori Dengler, an emeritus professor of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt, not much has changed about the U.S.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\">tsunami warning system\u003c/a> since a similar near-coast earthquake hit in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire West Coast from San Diego up to the Canadian border was put into a tsunami warning and a tsunami did not materialize,” she said. “[The U.S.] is still in the relative infancy or maybe toddlerhood of the tsunami warning world in terms of having the kinds of instrumentation offshore, having the kinds of models to forecast [their] impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the 1990s that many people realized that tsunamis don’t only come to the West Coast from far away, she said. They can actually originate as close as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that spans a long stretch about 100 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFFD arrives on the scene to evacuate people for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. officially began tsunami forecasting in 1949 and has opened two Tsunami Warning Centers in Alaska and Hawaii since. 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We just have ‘warning.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earthquake that meets a prespecified set of standards based on magnitude, location and depth triggers a warning, no matter how close, or far, from the cut-off it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map of at-risk zones and guidance for a local response, when there’s a warning issued, is based on a model researchers designed for a worst-case earthquake event on that underwater Cascadia fault — “the big one” — Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=3e222feda41b4d1097acecb377cb1b5a\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The tsunami hazard area (shaded orange) represents the “maximum considered tsunami runup from several extreme, infrequent, and realistic tsunami sources,” according to the California Department of Conservation, which provided the geographic data for this map.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a ‘little’ tsunami evacuation zone,” Dengler said. “We can’t tell people, ‘This is only a tsunami ‘C,’ not a tsunami ‘B’ or ‘A,’ and so these are the only areas that are at risk because we don’t have the basic science or the instrumentation to be able to do that level of detail yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Thursday’s tsunami warning — which many people have been tempted to deem an overreaction — was so far-reaching, and confusing for even city governments trying to decide how to keep their populations safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley probably took the warning most seriously, implementing an evacuation order for West Berkeley’s evacuation zone within about a half hour. Fourth Street businesses closed\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Interstate 80’s onramp at University Avenue shut down and at least one \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley\">day care asked parents to pick up their kids\u003c/a> before the warning was called off less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials there say the decision was based on state guidance after the city received the blanket “warning” Dengler referenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message indicated that a ‘Warning-level’ tsunami of at least 3 feet would hit the shores of San Francisco by 12:10pm, implying that Berkeley would likely be hit shortly thereafter,” spokesperson Matthai Chakko wrote via email. “Pre-existing state guidance indicated that such a tsunami could reach as far east as portions of 7th Street” and “prompted the City to issue an evacuation order for the affected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for a tsunami at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other disruptions rippled throughout the bay: BART temporarily shut down service in its Transbay Tube, Salesforce Tower began an evacuation, and San Francisco warned coastal residents to move at least a block inland and avoid evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the immediate threat had passed, San Francisco fire rescue captain Justin Schorr warned residents not to write off the day as a false alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how prepared is the Bay Area, and wider West Coast?[aside postID=news_12016934 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg']Delger said that refining the national Tsunami Warning System would require investment in offshore instruments and more personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way right now to pull the San Francisco Bay’s communities — Alameda, the Marin County part that’s on the bay — there’s no way to pull those communities out of the warning,” she told KQED. “The system is not set up now to do localized threats within Puget Sound, within San Francisco Bay, or really parsing the details of any of the coasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local cities also have kinks to work out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after its evacuation was called off, Berkeley sent out a survey requesting feedback about how it handled the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Alameda, resident David Howard said he didn’t receive any of the city’s text messages until after the warning had passed, though it says it sent out multiple through its alert system. Traffic was also backed up at Posey Tube, the westernmost exit off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of a tsunami that does materialize, Howard worries the city isn’t prepared to safely evacuate everyone who could be in a risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s about how do we evacuate people off the island? I don’t have faith in my government that we have a good plan,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment from the city of Alameda was not available by the time this story was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there was a noticeable lack of blaring emergency sirens, which residents got used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696153/7-things-to-know-about-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren\">hearing at lunchtime on Tuesdays\u003c/a> before they were taken out of commission in 2019 for repairs. The system was expected to return to service after two years, but it remains offline.[aside postID=news_12017000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/EarthquakeSukeyLewis-1020x765.jpg']Mary Ellen Carroll, the executive director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, said that after initial assessments, the total cost to refurbish the system ballooned from about $2 million to over $20 million, and currently, the city has no money budgeted for these repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said that the most effective channels of communication have evolved since the system was built in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Wireless Emergency Alert [WEA] yesterday is the way that we do alerting in this country for major events,” she told KQED. “The main thing is that it gave you information, whereas a siren does not. A siren just goes off, and then you have to figure out why is the siren going off. A WEA, a text alert, a phone call — those are ways that are much more effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler warned, though, that in the event of a really “big one,” these methods of communication might not be ironclad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have a magnitude 9 earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, people aren’t going to get an alert because our infrastructure is likely to be damaged,” she said. “They have to know on their own what to do and where to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Carroll said repairing the existing Outdoor Public Warning System isn’t a top priority. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire West Coast from San Diego up to the Canadian border was put into a tsunami warning and a tsunami did not materialize,” she said. “[The U.S.] is still in the relative infancy or maybe toddlerhood of the tsunami warning world in terms of having the kinds of instrumentation offshore, having the kinds of models to forecast [their] impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the 1990s that many people realized that tsunamis don’t only come to the West Coast from far away, she said. They can actually originate as close as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that spans a long stretch about 100 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFFD arrives on the scene to evacuate people for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. officially began tsunami forecasting in 1949 and has opened two Tsunami Warning Centers in Alaska and Hawaii since. The centers’ notifications have three levels of ascending seriousness: watch, advisory, and what was issued Thursday: warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler said there are a lot of shades of grey under that “warning” umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Japan, they have three levels of tsunami warnings,” she told KQED. “They have a small tsunami, a medium tsunami and a big tsunami. In the U.S., we just have one level. We just have ‘warning.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earthquake that meets a prespecified set of standards based on magnitude, location and depth triggers a warning, no matter how close, or far, from the cut-off it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map of at-risk zones and guidance for a local response, when there’s a warning issued, is based on a model researchers designed for a worst-case earthquake event on that underwater Cascadia fault — “the big one” — Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=3e222feda41b4d1097acecb377cb1b5a\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The tsunami hazard area (shaded orange) represents the “maximum considered tsunami runup from several extreme, infrequent, and realistic tsunami sources,” according to the California Department of Conservation, which provided the geographic data for this map.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a ‘little’ tsunami evacuation zone,” Dengler said. “We can’t tell people, ‘This is only a tsunami ‘C,’ not a tsunami ‘B’ or ‘A,’ and so these are the only areas that are at risk because we don’t have the basic science or the instrumentation to be able to do that level of detail yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Thursday’s tsunami warning — which many people have been tempted to deem an overreaction — was so far-reaching, and confusing for even city governments trying to decide how to keep their populations safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley probably took the warning most seriously, implementing an evacuation order for West Berkeley’s evacuation zone within about a half hour. Fourth Street businesses closed\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Interstate 80’s onramp at University Avenue shut down and at least one \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley\">day care asked parents to pick up their kids\u003c/a> before the warning was called off less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials there say the decision was based on state guidance after the city received the blanket “warning” Dengler referenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message indicated that a ‘Warning-level’ tsunami of at least 3 feet would hit the shores of San Francisco by 12:10pm, implying that Berkeley would likely be hit shortly thereafter,” spokesperson Matthai Chakko wrote via email. “Pre-existing state guidance indicated that such a tsunami could reach as far east as portions of 7th Street” and “prompted the City to issue an evacuation order for the affected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for a tsunami at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other disruptions rippled throughout the bay: BART temporarily shut down service in its Transbay Tube, Salesforce Tower began an evacuation, and San Francisco warned coastal residents to move at least a block inland and avoid evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the immediate threat had passed, San Francisco fire rescue captain Justin Schorr warned residents not to write off the day as a false alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how prepared is the Bay Area, and wider West Coast?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Delger said that refining the national Tsunami Warning System would require investment in offshore instruments and more personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way right now to pull the San Francisco Bay’s communities — Alameda, the Marin County part that’s on the bay — there’s no way to pull those communities out of the warning,” she told KQED. “The system is not set up now to do localized threats within Puget Sound, within San Francisco Bay, or really parsing the details of any of the coasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local cities also have kinks to work out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after its evacuation was called off, Berkeley sent out a survey requesting feedback about how it handled the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Alameda, resident David Howard said he didn’t receive any of the city’s text messages until after the warning had passed, though it says it sent out multiple through its alert system. Traffic was also backed up at Posey Tube, the westernmost exit off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of a tsunami that does materialize, Howard worries the city isn’t prepared to safely evacuate everyone who could be in a risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s about how do we evacuate people off the island? I don’t have faith in my government that we have a good plan,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment from the city of Alameda was not available by the time this story was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there was a noticeable lack of blaring emergency sirens, which residents got used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696153/7-things-to-know-about-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren\">hearing at lunchtime on Tuesdays\u003c/a> before they were taken out of commission in 2019 for repairs. The system was expected to return to service after two years, but it remains offline.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mary Ellen Carroll, the executive director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, said that after initial assessments, the total cost to refurbish the system ballooned from about $2 million to over $20 million, and currently, the city has no money budgeted for these repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said that the most effective channels of communication have evolved since the system was built in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Wireless Emergency Alert [WEA] yesterday is the way that we do alerting in this country for major events,” she told KQED. “The main thing is that it gave you information, whereas a siren does not. A siren just goes off, and then you have to figure out why is the siren going off. A WEA, a text alert, a phone call — those are ways that are much more effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler warned, though, that in the event of a really “big one,” these methods of communication might not be ironclad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have a magnitude 9 earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, people aren’t going to get an alert because our infrastructure is likely to be damaged,” she said. “They have to know on their own what to do and where to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Carroll said repairing the existing Outdoor Public Warning System isn’t a top priority. The DEM has been looking into other ways to provide the same value — reaching people without phones when cell service or power is out — with newer technology that sends more targeted messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This upgrade, and many others being discussed to prepare the Bay Area for “the big one” will require more investment than seems to be coming from the local or federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want a better tsunami warning system, we have to put resources into allowing our warning system to give us more quality, localized information,” Dengler said. “If we had done that, we probably would have seen a very different story in terms of the tsunami warning area for this particular event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Brian Garcia, a warning coordination meteorologist for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-weather-service\">National Weather Service\u003c/a> based in Monterey, was in the East Bay on Thursday morning when an earthquake alert, then a tsunami alert, hit his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rushed to San Francisco’s Office of Emergency Services to confer with officials as they assessed the local threat from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">a 7.0-magnitude quake\u003c/a> off the coast of Humboldt County. About an hour after the tsunami warning went out, it was canceled — but not before many coastal communities had already started evacuating people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia talked to KQED’s Dan Brekke about the reasons for the dire-sounding advisories issued by the National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska and what officials hope to learn from the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>So let me ask you about the warning. The warning that went out from NWS Bay Area seemed to use very general but also very alarming language about the potential threat to life and property. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And I wonder if — given the reaction in the city of Berkeley for instance, where the warning prompted mandatory evacuations — was that an appropriate warning to put out there given the history of tsunamis in this part of the coast?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Garcia\u003c/strong>: So the language that’s used in the Wireless Emergency Alert is a prescriptive language that goes out with all the warnings. And when we’re talking [about] \u003ca href=\"https://tsunami.gov/?page=message_definitions\">a warning-level tsunami\u003c/a>, we’re talking 3-plus feet of tsunami amplitude coming in, and in this scenario here, we were looking at an upcoming [high] tide as well — so that had been on top of the already increasing tide. So this definitely could have had some pretty significant consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime we’re talking about a warning, we’re talking a threat to life. Whenever we’re telling people to get out of harm’s way, that it’s a threat, immediate threat to their life, we’re not kidding. We don’t want to mince words in these situations. We want to make sure that people have the requisite information to get out of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SFFD firefighter warns surfers in the water to evacuate for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>To what extent are you dependent on information from the National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska? \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>That’s one place I went to myself just to see if they had forecast any particular wave heights, and I never saw that they did.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016827 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/EarthquakeSukeyLewis-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Tsunami Warning Center is one of our centers under the National Weather Service umbrella, and we are wholly and completely dependent on them. They are the experts when it comes to tsunamis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are the ones actually, when they issue a tsunami warning, it triggers the Wireless Emergency Alert that hits your phones immediately from their office. So it doesn’t even come to our local office before it hits the Wireless Emergency Alerts across phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There was some estimate or projection out there that this event off the coast of Humboldt County could have created a wave height difference that would have been 3 feet above normal. Is that right? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime we have a warning-level event, that means that the tsunami amplitude is expected to be 3 feet or above. So today, for example, we were going to have a 5-foot high tide. That would have been our highest tide, but another 3 feet on top of that. So now we have an 8-foot water level compared to that normal mean low or low water datum that’s used for the tides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’ve been here since the mid-1970s, and of course, with large earthquakes around the Pacific Basin, tsunami warnings happen — they’re not unheard of. I have to say, in all that time, the one time that a perceptible tsunami actually showed up here in the Bay Area was, of course, in March 2011 after the earthquake off northeastern Japan. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I guess why I’m mentioning this is that when I heard the warnings and saw what the reaction was — the evacuation orders in Berkeley, for instance — I thought they were ridiculous. Am I wrong that the warning was overblown and really not consistent with our actual tsunami history, which includes lots of big earthquakes off of Humboldt County, by the way?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really an imperfect science in this type of scenario and trying to nail down exactly where it occurred, whether it was on\u003ca href=\"https://www.earthscope-program-2003-2018.org/research/synthesis_workshops/mtjo.html\"> the Gorda Plate or the Cascadia subduction zone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this event in particular, the earthquake location was close enough to the subduction zone that it created a risk, and we just weren’t willing to take that risk from the Weather Service side to say, “You know what, we’re going to wait and see a little bit more data,” because from that location, the travel time is in tsunami terms negligible to get potentially tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people out of harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017096\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12017096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4-800x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4-800x767.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4-1020x978.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4-1536x1473.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4-1920x1841.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Daily_Independent_Journal_1964_03_30_Page_4.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin County’s Daily Independent Journal reported extensive damage to dock facilities and boats in Sausalito and San Rafael after a tsunami generated by the 1964 Alaska earthquake swept into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Daily Independent Journal/Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so we want to make sure that our emergency management partners across the area can work with our local law enforcement to enact evacuations out of areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know you’re kind of a buff of the history of tsunamis here, and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/alaska-science-center/science/1964-great-alaska-earthquake-and-tsunami\">1964 with the Alaska earthquake and tsunami\u003c/a> we had impacts in bayside Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So whenever we think of potential impacts for our friends and family and our residents around the Bay Area, we want to make sure that the information is clear … that they have something that they can say, “OK, there’s a tsunami warning, I’m going to get to high ground,” and they know that it’s only going to be a matter of a couple of hours because of the distance that the tsunami would have to travel in this scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, for instance, what ultimately happened was as more data came in, it showed that [the earthquake epicenter] was actually on a strike-slip fault and we became more comfortable with saying that the odds of generating an appreciable tsunami are becoming less and less plausible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:20 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>California legislators and staff were allowed to return to the state Capitol on Friday several hours after an emailed threat prompted them to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement completed their sweep of the Capitol and surrounding buildings around 12:30 p.m. and determined the area was safe to return to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff may continue to work remotely for the rest of the day, and return to the office on Monday. Staff who need to report back to work in person today are clear to do so,” a memo from the Assembly Committee on Rules reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same memo urged staff members to “be patient during the screening process” when they returned, and to report all suspicious activity to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 12:19 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>The California State Capitol was evacuated Friday morning after receiving an emailed threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the Secretary of the Senate says law enforcement is working to determine the threat’s credibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and staffers have been directed to leave as a precaution and work remotely until the threat is resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Highway Patrol officers were still on scene searching for threats around 11 a.m., according to CapRadio reporters at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the only Alameda police officer still facing charges in the 2021 death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> argued in an explosive motion this week that a forensic pathologist who is central to the case recently met with the district attorney’s office and made statements critical of the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Friday, Officer Eric McKinley’s defense lawyers argued a motion that accuses the Alameda County district attorney’s office of withholding information that could exonerate their client. Among that information is a meeting the district attorney’s office had with independent pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu — who conducted an autopsy on Gonzalez — in which he said he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25448162-241204-def-reply-in-further-support-of-motion-to-compel-final/\">defense motion\u003c/a>. Omalu also said the officers did not commit criminal misconduct and should not be prosecuted, the motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge took arguments under submission, indicating he would rule later on whether the prosecution needs to provide McKinley’s defense attorneys with copies of Omalu’s statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, felt at a loss after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can I say? I believe in God, and I’m still hoping they check the second autopsy, they find out a lot of stuff completely different from what they say, so it is what it is,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Omalu said he “wishes to have no involvement in this matter.” Omalu also issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25448254-omalu-press-release/\">written statement\u003c/a> explaining that he did not expect his findings to be used in a criminal prosecution and that he does not wish to testify in the case because the criminal prosecution “goes against his core personal and religious beliefs and values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley is arguing that the prosecution has unnecessarily stalled discovery in the case in other ways as well, indefinitely delaying an important preliminary hearing that had been set for earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office declined to comment on the defense allegations. Arguing in court Friday, an Alameda County prosecutor said Omalu “has feelings about the case but he stands by his report.” The prosecution also argued that Omalu never contradicted his findings on the cause of Gonzalez’s death, which he determined was asphyxiation from being physically restrained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Superior Court House on March 2, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McKinley was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter by District Attorney Pamela Price in April, reversing her predecessor Nancy O’Malley’s findings of no criminal wrongdoing by officers. The same charges were also brought against two other officers involved in Gonzalez’s death, but they were dismissed in October after filing errors by the district attorney’s office allowed the statute of limitations to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will happen to the case now that Price has been recalled from office is unknown. Whoever is selected as the new district attorney by the Board of Supervisors will have the power to drop the case if they see fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is so sad for me to hear that it can be or cannot, but that is why we are here, not only me, but the family of Steven Taylor, another victim of police brutality,” Arenales said. “I’m scared for real though when I hear that they can drop the case because they’re not supposed to have to drop it because they have good evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when McKinley along with officers James Fisher and Cameron Leahy approached him in an Alameda park on April 19, 2021, responding to 911 calls about a man behaving erratically. Body camera footage shows the officers attempting to detain Gonzalez, eventually taking him to the ground and pinning him down on his stomach.[aside postID=news_12011106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg']Gonzalez is shown murmuring to himself as the officers hold him down. At least one officer was shown pressing an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gonzalez became unresponsive after being held down for several minutes, the officers rolled him onto his side. He had stopped breathing, and the officers administered CPR in addition to two doses of Narcan. Gonzalez was eventually taken to the hospital and declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial autopsy report released by the Alameda County coroner declared Gonzalez’s death a homicide but cited methamphetamine toxicity, obesity, alcoholism and stress as the primary causes behind his cardiac arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second autopsy, which was conducted independently by Omalu at the request of Gonzalez’s family, showed differently, however. According to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21748401-mario-gonzalez-second-autopsy-report011522/\">autopsy report\u003c/a>, Gonzalez’s death was caused by “restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If not for his asphyxial brain injury, Mr. Gonzalez-Arenales, more likely than not, would not have died and was not expected to die on April 19, 2021,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley’s defense argues those findings by Omalu led to an official determination that officers used unreasonable or excessive force when they pinned Gonzalez to the ground. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a first for the Bay Area, the region has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994406/landmark-bay-area-regional-plan-to-combat-sea-level-rise-unveiled\">a finalized plan to protect the more than 400 miles of bayshore\u003c/a> from the chaos that sea level rise could unleash — waterlogged freeways, submerged neighborhoods, inundated airports and sunken train lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for the effort to succeed, more than 50 cities and counties that ring the San Francisco Bay need to get on board and follow the guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plan will require more effort from the localities because more effort is required if we’re going to survive this and avoid major damage,” said Zachary Wasserman, chair of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “We’re all going to have to make efforts to address this very real threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”[aside postID=news_12009607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240214-CoastalCommission-50-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Up until the vote, regulators tweaked amendments on how cities could comply with the guidelines and not negatively impact the environment. BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. He said advocates need to bring concerns to their elected officials if they want strong enforcement or mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wetlands of Area 4 in Newark, Alameda County, on Aug. 13, 2021. The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. Solutions could include human-made or natural barriers to keep water out and relocating built infrastructure away from the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency split the new plan into eight topic areas, including ecosystem health and transit to development.[aside postID=science_1994596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/10/20241002_PajaroLeveeGroundbreak_GC-32-1020x680.jpg']When cities or counties submit developmental plans, BCDC asks for vulnerability assessments for four different sea level rise scenarios ranging from just under a foot up to 6.6 feet. Each assessment should address coastal flood hazards, including tidal inundation and storm surge from a 100-year storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time BCDC is requesting all local plans to consider how sea level rise will push up groundwater into communities while also examining how flooding could inundate contaminated sites. The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Up until the vote, regulators tweaked amendments on how cities could comply with the guidelines and not negatively impact the environment. BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. He said advocates need to bring concerns to their elected officials if they want strong enforcement or mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wetlands of Area 4 in Newark, Alameda County, on Aug. 13, 2021. The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. Solutions could include human-made or natural barriers to keep water out and relocating built infrastructure away from the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency split the new plan into eight topic areas, including ecosystem health and transit to development.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When cities or counties submit developmental plans, BCDC asks for vulnerability assessments for four different sea level rise scenarios ranging from just under a foot up to 6.6 feet. Each assessment should address coastal flood hazards, including tidal inundation and storm surge from a 100-year storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time BCDC is requesting all local plans to consider how sea level rise will push up groundwater into communities while also examining how flooding could inundate contaminated sites. The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">one of the most influential advocacy groups in Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, with a self-declared mission to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this election season, AIPAC — a group whose focus in previous years was primarily lobbying members of Congress — has drawn national scrutiny for the large sums of money it has spent through its super political action committee (PAC), the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uniteddemocracyproject.org/\">United Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary, the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">almost $10 million\u003c/a> supporting the opponent of New York’s Jamaal Bowman, a progressive incumbent critical of Israel who then lost his congressional seat. In August, another pro-Palestinian progressive, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, was ousted from her seat after the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">over $5 million\u003c/a> campaigning against her reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC and United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://cnsmaryland.org/2024/02/27/top-pro-israel-group-boosted-political-spending-after-oct-7-hamas-attacks/\">ramped up spending\u003c/a> after Oct. 7, when Hamas-led militants launched a cross-border attack into Southern Israel — killing more than 1,200 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/\">nonpartisan political finance tracker Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project increased its spending this election cycle by over $11 million, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">a total of $37 million\u003c/a> to target candidates in the 2024 election compared to the $26 million spent in \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2022?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this financial tracking also shows that AIPAC’s money has been flowing in California too — worrying pro-Palestinian advocates in the state who’ve spent over a year protesting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a> that has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-mourns-children-killed-israeli-strike-death-toll-rises-2024-11-09/\">tens of thousands of Palestinians\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza\">displaced almost the entire population\u003c/a> — actions that a United Nations report says are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">consistent with genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where was AIPAC money spent in California this election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AIPAC, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/edge-of-the-abyss-the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-19491954/E1690BDB5CA87C66B2B65D12CA1D716A\">first founded as a lobby group in the 1950s\u003c/a>, has only begun to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/pro-israel-groups-gaza-us-elections\">actively participate in congressional campaigns\u003c/a> relatively recently with \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">AIPAC’s PAC and the United Democracy Project super PAC\u003c/a> in 2021. In an interview with the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/trailer-your-hour-by-hour-guide-what-watch-four-states-tonight/\">AIPAC’s Chief Executive Howard Kohr\u003c/a> said that the super PAC would counter “the rise of a very vocal minority on the far left of the Democratic Party that is anti-Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, an AIPAC spokesperson said the results of the 2024 election “reflect America’s pro-Israel sentiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 5 million grassroots members have been deeply engaged in the democratic process to support Democratic and Republican candidates who stand with Israel, as it battles aggression from Iran and its terrorist proxies,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Democracy Project is one of the highest-spending super PACs in the U.S. — the biggest being Make America Great Again Inc., which spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail?cmte=C00825851&cycle=2024\">$376 million\u003c/a> during the 2024 election. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">controversial \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em> ruling\u003c/a> in 2010, super PACS have no limit on how much money they can spend to influence elections through \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-understand-political-contributions-campaign-finance\">independently produced advertisements, messaging and events\u003c/a>. (Super PACs cannot, however, make \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">donations directly\u003c/a> to candidates like PACs can.) For example, the United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00832691&tab=donors\">contributed $5 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.standingstrongpac.com/\">Standing Strong\u003c/a>, a super PAC supporting Adam Schiff’s run for California senator. This support \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-arrested-at-adam-schiffs-burbank-office/\">sparked criticism\u003c/a> from pro-Palestinian activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Candidates do not control spending from outside organizations, and Senator-elect Schiff is one of the staunchest supporters of overturning \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em>, authoring the principle constitutional amendment to do so,” a Schiff campaign spokesperson said to KQED in an email. “Adam is grateful for the outpouring of grassroots support he received throughout his campaign and looks forward to representing all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Open Secrets, AIPAC and its affiliated PACs contributed over $200,000 to California congressional candidates in the 2024 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Open Secrets tracks individuals associated with AIPAC — including employees, members, and their immediate family — and how they donated. These donations totaled over $2.7 million in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the full amount of money given to California’s congressional candidates in the table below, with highlighting showing candidates from the nine Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-XAwsS\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XAwsS/10/\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s recipients, incumbent Rep. Jimmy Panetta of the 19th District — which includes most of Santa Cruz county — received the most money from both AIPAC’s affiliate organizations and individuals associated with AIPAC. Panetta's constituents in Santa Cruz protested his ties to the pro-Israel lobby with \u003ca href=\"https://lookout.co/jimmy-panetta-israel-hamas-war-weeklong-sit-in-outside-congressional-office-marks-latest-pressure-on-panettas-israel-position/\">an August sit-in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area recipients of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipacpac.org/winning-candidates-2024\">AIPAC PAC money\u003c/a> include Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Josh Harder, who also won their elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In SoCal, two key races see AIPAC spending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, the United Democracy Project focused its largest spending on two congressional races. In Los Angeles County's 34th District, the super PAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">spent over $1.7 million supporting incumbent Jimmy Gomez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">$576,454 against\u003c/a> progressive challenger David Kim, who had called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim gained \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/california-us-house-district-34-results\">44% of the vote\u003c/a> — a decrease from 47% in 2020 and 49% in 2022. In an email to KQED, Kim said “outside AIPAC money contributed to” this loss, noting “the sheer amount of mailers and ads we saw flooding our mailboxes, computer screens and TV screens with AIPAC-UDP-paid ads boosting the incumbent, and attacking me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the United Democracy Project did not respond to KQED's repeated requests for comment for this story. When Gomez won the race, AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854528674810204195\">congratulated him on social media\u003c/a>, saying that they’d “proudly helped pro-Israel progressive leader Jimmy Gomez defeat a challenger who ran on an overtly anti-Israel platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-sT06p\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC super PAC spending on California 2024 congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sT06p/7/\" height=\"331\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quite a different dynamic played out in the Southern California city of Irvine’s open-seat race for the 47th Congressional District, where Democrat Dave Min faced Republican Scott Baugh. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project spent over $4 million against Min, funding multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552\">television spots and mailers\u003c/a> attacking him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these ads did not touch on Israel or Palestinians at all, instead focusing on Min’s past drunk driving arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">surprised political analysts and pro-Palestinian activists\u003c/a>, since Min rarely commented on the siege of Gaza and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DemMaj4Israel/photos/dmfi-pac-is-thrilled-to-endorse-dave-min-as-he-seeks-to-represent-ca47-he-is-a-d/822853166667720/\">endorsed\u003c/a> by another pro-Israel advocacy group, Democratic Majority for Israel. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/pro-israel-super-pac-california-house-election-00139786\">Min’s campaign claimed\u003c/a> that the opposition was driven by his private conversations with AIPAC members in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for security failures on Oct. 7 and said he opposed the annexation of the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the considerable spending against him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/democrat-dave-min-defeats-scott-baugh-critical-california-house-race-rcna176912\">Min still won\u003c/a> the Orange County seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Good policy and good politics!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day after Election Day, AIPAC celebrated that most candidates they'd endorsed won their races, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854901705361834451\">declaring on X\u003c/a> that “Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">political analysts\u003c/a> note many candidates AIPAC has supported are \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">incumbents\u003c/a>, who historically are \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">more likely to win reelection\u003c/a>. And advertisements funded by AIPAC and its affiliates “actually don't really talk about the war in Gaza or U.S.-Israel relations,” according to \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reporter Joan Greve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='aipac' label='Political Breakdown']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “they choose to focus on other aspects” of a candidate they may be targeting — “particularly progressive candidates who they deem insufficiently supportive of Israel,” Greve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of AIPAC's financial influence has raised concerns for candidates critical of Israel’s government who fear being targeted by well-funded attack campaigns — with resources that pro-Palestinian advocacy groups don't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the \u003ca href=\"https://jstreet.org/\">more liberal pro-Israel organization JStreet\u003c/a> whose PAC and affiliates also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/j-street/recipients?id=D000052457&t2-search=D-CA\">give significant amounts of money\u003c/a> targeting candidates throughout the country, AIPAC has shown \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Asp9f\">more support\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-netanyahu-11-2024-intl/index.html\">Netanyahu’s government and military\u003c/a>. The group has also leaned \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">much more right politically\u003c/a>, such as backing Republicans who attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">block President Joe Biden’s victory\u003c/a> on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stating that there is “no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, however, a spokesperson for AIPAC emphasized its support for members of groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/aipac-cbc-progressive-black-democrats/\">Congressional Black Caucus\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AIPAC/photos/aipac-proudly-supported-362-pro-israel-members-of-congress-and-candidates-this-e/1029499432541197/?_rdr\">Hispanic Caucus and the Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>, saying “it is entirely consistent with progressive values to stand with the Jewish state — the region’s only genuine democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to super PACs like the United Democracy Project, “we now have a much more deregulated campaign finance system than we had before,” said Richard Hasen, professor of political science at UCLA and the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/safeguarding-democracy-project\">Safeguarding Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Super PACs allow the wealthy to have “undue influence” on campaigns of “people who are supposed to represent all of us,” said Los Angeles activist Estee Chandler of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, a group of Jewish activists that organizes for Palestinian human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the very, very problematic way that our election campaign financing has been set up,” she said. “We're something that resembles an oligarchy much more than an actual democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open Secrets also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=donors_all\">tracks\u003c/a> who is donating to the United Democracy Project, and — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/\">the FEC\u003c/a> — has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup\">search tool to look up donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest donation to the super PAC came from WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, who is based in San Mateo County. Koum donated $4 million in Sept. 2023 and then $1 million in Oct. 2023, after the Oct. 7 attacks. Koum also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-mayor-donors-19394260.php\">contributed $251,000\u003c/a> to Daniel Lurie, who went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013741/daniel-lurie-is-sfs-next-mayor\">win the San Francisco mayor’s race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the top ten highest donors to AIPAC’s super PAC below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-epmyV\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"10 largest Bay Area contributors to AIPAC's super PAC\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/epmyV/3/\" height=\"545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are pro-Palestinian activists trying to do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As many Americans — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-americans-stand-out-in-their-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/\">especially younger ones\u003c/a> — show more sympathy for Palestinians, and Democrats become more willing to express \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/half-house-senate-democrats-boycott-netanyahu\">more criticism of Netanyahu’s government\u003c/a> than ever before, advocates are forming their own coalitions and \u003ca href=\"https://ajpaction.org/\">lobby groups\u003c/a> in an attempt to contend with AIPAC’s influence, even if they can't compete with their financial power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent among these groups is \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/\">Reject AIPAC\u003c/a>, which has support from progressive PACs like \u003ca href=\"https://justicedemocrats.com/\">Justice Democrats\u003c/a>, minor political parties like the \u003ca href=\"https://workingfamilies.org/\">Working Families Party\u003c/a>, and activist groups like Jewish Voice for Peace. Reject AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/rejecters\">publicly lists\u003c/a> members of Congress who vow to turn down AIPAC donations — although none are from California. In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/pledge\">pledge\u003c/a>, the group says that “Domestically, AIPAC supports and amplifies far-right politicians and candidates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">including insurrectionists\u003c/a>, putting our very democracy at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also recently called out AIPAC’s donations, calling it a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AOC/status/1858275868336152645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1858275868336152645%7Ctwgr%5E9cc6b5e241e830c30456b50ce40ad1b305758e0e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Famerican-politics%2Farticle-829741\">special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda\u003c/a>,” in response to criticism of the Democrats’ 2024 political strategy.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside tag='2024-election' label='More Election News']\u003c/span>Pro-Palestinian activism is “at a resource disadvantage against pro-militarism candidates,” said Samer Araabi, a member of San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/mission/\">pro-Palestinian advocacy group\u003c/a> Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) Action. But “what we have on our side is broad popular support,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/646955/disapproval-israeli-action-gaza-eases-slightly.aspx\">Seventy-seven percent of Democrat voters\u003c/a> disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza, according to a Gallup poll this summer, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011429/these-gen-z-voters-are-choosing-kamala-harris-but-gaza-is-still-a-sticking-point\">some young voters\u003c/a> have cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014032/dispirited-and-humbled-the-conspicuous-absence-of-bay-area-protests-after-trumps-win\">U.S. support of Israel’s military\u003c/a> to explain their \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/\">lack of enthusiasm\u003c/a> about this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of AIPAC-level funding, AROC Action’s focus is on effecting change at the local level, said Araabi. The group endorsed \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/endorsements/\">Lateefah Simon\u003c/a>, who has made several public statements on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-12th-district\">decreasing a global military budget\u003c/a> and went on to win a congressional seat in District 12, which includes Oakland. According to Open Secrets, the United Democracy Project super PAC did not spend money against Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very clear that when I go into the halls of Congress, that we keep the value of peace central,” Simon told her supporters in her election night victory speech. “That we will never, ever support endless wars that kill children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressives like Simon will be serving under a second Trump administration — which may crack down \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/\">on the pro-Palestinian movement\u003c/a> in the United States given \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5050867/the-political-implications-of-netanyahus-meeting-with-trump\">Trump’s own connections with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. Many advocates are especially concerned about \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/\">bills like HR 9495\u003c/a>, which would allow the federal government to designate \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2022-National-Terrorist-Financing-Risk-Assessment.pdf\">some nonprofit organizations\u003c/a> as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495\">terrorist supporting organizations\u003c/a>” and strip them of their tax-exempt status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, which would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-11/understanding-joint-resolutions-disapproval-arms-sales-israel\">blocked the sales of weapons\u003c/a> to the Israeli military, failed to pass. AIPAC had also \u003ca href=\"https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/aipac-ad-sanders-block-israel-arms/\">worked to denounce that bid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi calls the post-election landscape “a dark moment” for activists like him, and sees the financial might of AIPAC as “a smaller part of a larger phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anti-cease-fire or pro-militarism candidates have access to a lot of money and resources because they have the backing of powerful corporate interests and things that benefit from the ongoing wars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Araabi, the question now is how pro-Palestinian advocates can mobilize that “broad popular support” that’s shown among many voters — and “inform the citizenry of what's going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they know, I feel like they vote accordingly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">one of the most influential advocacy groups in Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, with a self-declared mission to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this election season, AIPAC — a group whose focus in previous years was primarily lobbying members of Congress — has drawn national scrutiny for the large sums of money it has spent through its super political action committee (PAC), the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uniteddemocracyproject.org/\">United Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary, the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">almost $10 million\u003c/a> supporting the opponent of New York’s Jamaal Bowman, a progressive incumbent critical of Israel who then lost his congressional seat. In August, another pro-Palestinian progressive, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, was ousted from her seat after the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">over $5 million\u003c/a> campaigning against her reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC and United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://cnsmaryland.org/2024/02/27/top-pro-israel-group-boosted-political-spending-after-oct-7-hamas-attacks/\">ramped up spending\u003c/a> after Oct. 7, when Hamas-led militants launched a cross-border attack into Southern Israel — killing more than 1,200 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/\">nonpartisan political finance tracker Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project increased its spending this election cycle by over $11 million, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">a total of $37 million\u003c/a> to target candidates in the 2024 election compared to the $26 million spent in \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2022?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this financial tracking also shows that AIPAC’s money has been flowing in California too — worrying pro-Palestinian advocates in the state who’ve spent over a year protesting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a> that has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-mourns-children-killed-israeli-strike-death-toll-rises-2024-11-09/\">tens of thousands of Palestinians\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza\">displaced almost the entire population\u003c/a> — actions that a United Nations report says are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">consistent with genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where was AIPAC money spent in California this election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AIPAC, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/edge-of-the-abyss-the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-19491954/E1690BDB5CA87C66B2B65D12CA1D716A\">first founded as a lobby group in the 1950s\u003c/a>, has only begun to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/pro-israel-groups-gaza-us-elections\">actively participate in congressional campaigns\u003c/a> relatively recently with \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">AIPAC’s PAC and the United Democracy Project super PAC\u003c/a> in 2021. In an interview with the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/trailer-your-hour-by-hour-guide-what-watch-four-states-tonight/\">AIPAC’s Chief Executive Howard Kohr\u003c/a> said that the super PAC would counter “the rise of a very vocal minority on the far left of the Democratic Party that is anti-Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, an AIPAC spokesperson said the results of the 2024 election “reflect America’s pro-Israel sentiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 5 million grassroots members have been deeply engaged in the democratic process to support Democratic and Republican candidates who stand with Israel, as it battles aggression from Iran and its terrorist proxies,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Democracy Project is one of the highest-spending super PACs in the U.S. — the biggest being Make America Great Again Inc., which spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail?cmte=C00825851&cycle=2024\">$376 million\u003c/a> during the 2024 election. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">controversial \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em> ruling\u003c/a> in 2010, super PACS have no limit on how much money they can spend to influence elections through \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-understand-political-contributions-campaign-finance\">independently produced advertisements, messaging and events\u003c/a>. (Super PACs cannot, however, make \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">donations directly\u003c/a> to candidates like PACs can.) For example, the United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00832691&tab=donors\">contributed $5 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.standingstrongpac.com/\">Standing Strong\u003c/a>, a super PAC supporting Adam Schiff’s run for California senator. This support \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-arrested-at-adam-schiffs-burbank-office/\">sparked criticism\u003c/a> from pro-Palestinian activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Candidates do not control spending from outside organizations, and Senator-elect Schiff is one of the staunchest supporters of overturning \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em>, authoring the principle constitutional amendment to do so,” a Schiff campaign spokesperson said to KQED in an email. “Adam is grateful for the outpouring of grassroots support he received throughout his campaign and looks forward to representing all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Open Secrets, AIPAC and its affiliated PACs contributed over $200,000 to California congressional candidates in the 2024 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Open Secrets tracks individuals associated with AIPAC — including employees, members, and their immediate family — and how they donated. These donations totaled over $2.7 million in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the full amount of money given to California’s congressional candidates in the table below, with highlighting showing candidates from the nine Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-XAwsS\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XAwsS/10/\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s recipients, incumbent Rep. Jimmy Panetta of the 19th District — which includes most of Santa Cruz county — received the most money from both AIPAC’s affiliate organizations and individuals associated with AIPAC. Panetta's constituents in Santa Cruz protested his ties to the pro-Israel lobby with \u003ca href=\"https://lookout.co/jimmy-panetta-israel-hamas-war-weeklong-sit-in-outside-congressional-office-marks-latest-pressure-on-panettas-israel-position/\">an August sit-in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area recipients of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipacpac.org/winning-candidates-2024\">AIPAC PAC money\u003c/a> include Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Josh Harder, who also won their elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In SoCal, two key races see AIPAC spending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, the United Democracy Project focused its largest spending on two congressional races. In Los Angeles County's 34th District, the super PAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">spent over $1.7 million supporting incumbent Jimmy Gomez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">$576,454 against\u003c/a> progressive challenger David Kim, who had called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim gained \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/california-us-house-district-34-results\">44% of the vote\u003c/a> — a decrease from 47% in 2020 and 49% in 2022. In an email to KQED, Kim said “outside AIPAC money contributed to” this loss, noting “the sheer amount of mailers and ads we saw flooding our mailboxes, computer screens and TV screens with AIPAC-UDP-paid ads boosting the incumbent, and attacking me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the United Democracy Project did not respond to KQED's repeated requests for comment for this story. When Gomez won the race, AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854528674810204195\">congratulated him on social media\u003c/a>, saying that they’d “proudly helped pro-Israel progressive leader Jimmy Gomez defeat a challenger who ran on an overtly anti-Israel platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-sT06p\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC super PAC spending on California 2024 congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sT06p/7/\" height=\"331\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quite a different dynamic played out in the Southern California city of Irvine’s open-seat race for the 47th Congressional District, where Democrat Dave Min faced Republican Scott Baugh. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project spent over $4 million against Min, funding multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552\">television spots and mailers\u003c/a> attacking him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these ads did not touch on Israel or Palestinians at all, instead focusing on Min’s past drunk driving arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">surprised political analysts and pro-Palestinian activists\u003c/a>, since Min rarely commented on the siege of Gaza and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DemMaj4Israel/photos/dmfi-pac-is-thrilled-to-endorse-dave-min-as-he-seeks-to-represent-ca47-he-is-a-d/822853166667720/\">endorsed\u003c/a> by another pro-Israel advocacy group, Democratic Majority for Israel. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/pro-israel-super-pac-california-house-election-00139786\">Min’s campaign claimed\u003c/a> that the opposition was driven by his private conversations with AIPAC members in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for security failures on Oct. 7 and said he opposed the annexation of the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the considerable spending against him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/democrat-dave-min-defeats-scott-baugh-critical-california-house-race-rcna176912\">Min still won\u003c/a> the Orange County seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Good policy and good politics!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day after Election Day, AIPAC celebrated that most candidates they'd endorsed won their races, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854901705361834451\">declaring on X\u003c/a> that “Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">political analysts\u003c/a> note many candidates AIPAC has supported are \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">incumbents\u003c/a>, who historically are \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">more likely to win reelection\u003c/a>. And advertisements funded by AIPAC and its affiliates “actually don't really talk about the war in Gaza or U.S.-Israel relations,” according to \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reporter Joan Greve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “they choose to focus on other aspects” of a candidate they may be targeting — “particularly progressive candidates who they deem insufficiently supportive of Israel,” Greve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of AIPAC's financial influence has raised concerns for candidates critical of Israel’s government who fear being targeted by well-funded attack campaigns — with resources that pro-Palestinian advocacy groups don't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the \u003ca href=\"https://jstreet.org/\">more liberal pro-Israel organization JStreet\u003c/a> whose PAC and affiliates also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/j-street/recipients?id=D000052457&t2-search=D-CA\">give significant amounts of money\u003c/a> targeting candidates throughout the country, AIPAC has shown \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Asp9f\">more support\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-netanyahu-11-2024-intl/index.html\">Netanyahu’s government and military\u003c/a>. The group has also leaned \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">much more right politically\u003c/a>, such as backing Republicans who attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">block President Joe Biden’s victory\u003c/a> on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stating that there is “no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, however, a spokesperson for AIPAC emphasized its support for members of groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/aipac-cbc-progressive-black-democrats/\">Congressional Black Caucus\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AIPAC/photos/aipac-proudly-supported-362-pro-israel-members-of-congress-and-candidates-this-e/1029499432541197/?_rdr\">Hispanic Caucus and the Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>, saying “it is entirely consistent with progressive values to stand with the Jewish state — the region’s only genuine democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to super PACs like the United Democracy Project, “we now have a much more deregulated campaign finance system than we had before,” said Richard Hasen, professor of political science at UCLA and the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/safeguarding-democracy-project\">Safeguarding Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Super PACs allow the wealthy to have “undue influence” on campaigns of “people who are supposed to represent all of us,” said Los Angeles activist Estee Chandler of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, a group of Jewish activists that organizes for Palestinian human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the very, very problematic way that our election campaign financing has been set up,” she said. “We're something that resembles an oligarchy much more than an actual democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open Secrets also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=donors_all\">tracks\u003c/a> who is donating to the United Democracy Project, and — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/\">the FEC\u003c/a> — has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup\">search tool to look up donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest donation to the super PAC came from WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, who is based in San Mateo County. Koum donated $4 million in Sept. 2023 and then $1 million in Oct. 2023, after the Oct. 7 attacks. Koum also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-mayor-donors-19394260.php\">contributed $251,000\u003c/a> to Daniel Lurie, who went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013741/daniel-lurie-is-sfs-next-mayor\">win the San Francisco mayor’s race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the top ten highest donors to AIPAC’s super PAC below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-epmyV\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"10 largest Bay Area contributors to AIPAC's super PAC\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/epmyV/3/\" height=\"545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are pro-Palestinian activists trying to do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As many Americans — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-americans-stand-out-in-their-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/\">especially younger ones\u003c/a> — show more sympathy for Palestinians, and Democrats become more willing to express \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/half-house-senate-democrats-boycott-netanyahu\">more criticism of Netanyahu’s government\u003c/a> than ever before, advocates are forming their own coalitions and \u003ca href=\"https://ajpaction.org/\">lobby groups\u003c/a> in an attempt to contend with AIPAC’s influence, even if they can't compete with their financial power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent among these groups is \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/\">Reject AIPAC\u003c/a>, which has support from progressive PACs like \u003ca href=\"https://justicedemocrats.com/\">Justice Democrats\u003c/a>, minor political parties like the \u003ca href=\"https://workingfamilies.org/\">Working Families Party\u003c/a>, and activist groups like Jewish Voice for Peace. Reject AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/rejecters\">publicly lists\u003c/a> members of Congress who vow to turn down AIPAC donations — although none are from California. In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/pledge\">pledge\u003c/a>, the group says that “Domestically, AIPAC supports and amplifies far-right politicians and candidates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">including insurrectionists\u003c/a>, putting our very democracy at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also recently called out AIPAC’s donations, calling it a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AOC/status/1858275868336152645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1858275868336152645%7Ctwgr%5E9cc6b5e241e830c30456b50ce40ad1b305758e0e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Famerican-politics%2Farticle-829741\">special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda\u003c/a>,” in response to criticism of the Democrats’ 2024 political strategy.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>Pro-Palestinian activism is “at a resource disadvantage against pro-militarism candidates,” said Samer Araabi, a member of San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/mission/\">pro-Palestinian advocacy group\u003c/a> Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) Action. But “what we have on our side is broad popular support,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/646955/disapproval-israeli-action-gaza-eases-slightly.aspx\">Seventy-seven percent of Democrat voters\u003c/a> disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza, according to a Gallup poll this summer, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011429/these-gen-z-voters-are-choosing-kamala-harris-but-gaza-is-still-a-sticking-point\">some young voters\u003c/a> have cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014032/dispirited-and-humbled-the-conspicuous-absence-of-bay-area-protests-after-trumps-win\">U.S. support of Israel’s military\u003c/a> to explain their \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/\">lack of enthusiasm\u003c/a> about this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of AIPAC-level funding, AROC Action’s focus is on effecting change at the local level, said Araabi. The group endorsed \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/endorsements/\">Lateefah Simon\u003c/a>, who has made several public statements on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-12th-district\">decreasing a global military budget\u003c/a> and went on to win a congressional seat in District 12, which includes Oakland. According to Open Secrets, the United Democracy Project super PAC did not spend money against Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very clear that when I go into the halls of Congress, that we keep the value of peace central,” Simon told her supporters in her election night victory speech. “That we will never, ever support endless wars that kill children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressives like Simon will be serving under a second Trump administration — which may crack down \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/\">on the pro-Palestinian movement\u003c/a> in the United States given \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5050867/the-political-implications-of-netanyahus-meeting-with-trump\">Trump’s own connections with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. Many advocates are especially concerned about \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/\">bills like HR 9495\u003c/a>, which would allow the federal government to designate \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2022-National-Terrorist-Financing-Risk-Assessment.pdf\">some nonprofit organizations\u003c/a> as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495\">terrorist supporting organizations\u003c/a>” and strip them of their tax-exempt status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, which would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-11/understanding-joint-resolutions-disapproval-arms-sales-israel\">blocked the sales of weapons\u003c/a> to the Israeli military, failed to pass. AIPAC had also \u003ca href=\"https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/aipac-ad-sanders-block-israel-arms/\">worked to denounce that bid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi calls the post-election landscape “a dark moment” for activists like him, and sees the financial might of AIPAC as “a smaller part of a larger phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anti-cease-fire or pro-militarism candidates have access to a lot of money and resources because they have the backing of powerful corporate interests and things that benefit from the ongoing wars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Araabi, the question now is how pro-Palestinian advocates can mobilize that “broad popular support” that’s shown among many voters — and “inform the citizenry of what's going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they know, I feel like they vote accordingly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m., Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A widespread tsunami warning that was triggered by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake Thursday morning set off an hour of scrambled evacuation efforts across coastal Northern California before it was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaking from the large quake, which struck at 10:44 a.m. off the coast of Humboldt County, was felt across Northern California and the Bay Area, and it prompted early warning alerts on cellphones. It was followed by at least two dozen smaller aftershocks in the area, \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=nc75095671&extent=35.78217,-127.19971&extent=42.87596,-110.70923\">according to the U.S. Geological Survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 11:55 a.m., the National Tsunami Warning Center called off the warning, which had covered the Bay Area and other coastal areas stretching from Santa Cruz County to Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that hour, though, the seemingly dire messages led to a mix of confusion and indifference throughout the Bay Area as people, and their local leaders, tried to figure out what to make of a widespread tsunami warning. Emergency alerts blared on cellphones across Northern California, and officials rushed to order evacuations for coastal areas in the tsunami risk zone, including \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/11314267/?sub_id=0\">West Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ilike_mike/status/1864749582057640250\">parts of Del Norte County\u003c/a>. Schools in Oakland were sheltering in place, and one campus in West Oakland was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART halted service in the Transbay Tube for about 45 minutes, and even Salesforce Tower and other downtown San Francisco buildings were in the process of being cleared out, a representative for Pier 39 said before the tsunami warning was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SFFD firefighter warns surfers in the water to evacuate for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the initial shock — and tsunami warning — had passed, San Francisco officials urged residents to use the morning’s events as an opportunity to prepare for aftershocks and future earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks don’t clarify today as a false alarm,” said Justin Schorr, a rescue captain with the San Francisco Fire Department. “The alert issued today was the highest level of tsunami warning that we have. If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the warning, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LondonBreed/status/1864758048012554283\">urged residents\u003c/a> to move at least a block inland off the coast, and the San Francisco Zoo evacuated its guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, dozens of people \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dannydiekroeger/status/1864751979819602406\">gathered at Fort Mason\u003c/a> to get an up-close look at the anticipated waves from 50 feet above sea level. None came, but Schorr said that doesn’t mean the city is totally in the clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12017008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--800x614.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1536x1178.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>“Our biggest concern right now is aftershocks, and there could be a significant aftershock that triggers another tsunami warning,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s tsunami evacuation zones are mapped out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis\">sf72.org\u003c/a>, Schorr noted, adding that people should make a plan for where they’ll go if they find themselves within one in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest areas where evacuations are necessary during tsunami warnings are along Ocean Beach in the Sunset, throughout the Marina as far in as Chestnut Street in some places, and portions of North Beach and the Financial District. But in general, the city — and much of the Bay Area at large — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">isn’t at a huge risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along Fourth Street in Berkeley, an outdoor shopping strip not far from the San Francisco Bay, stores closed temporarily, but business was mostly back to normal shortly after city officials lifted the evacuation order. Several shoppers were unconcerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo resident Edna Garcia was shopping in REI when she was told she needed to leave. “It was kind of — not scary, but unusual, right?” she said. “I’m one of those people who are just, ‘Don’t freak out.’ If it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.”[aside postID=news_10628782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sanandreasmovie.jpg']Richmond resident Lee Glickstein was waiting at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store when the evacuation order came. He left the store, but remained in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had to wait around,” he said. “No big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake’s epicenter was about 40 miles from the community of Petrolia, at a depth of 0.37 miles. It occurred where three tectonic plates meet — the Pacific, North American and Juan de Fuca plates. That’s “historically the most seismically active part of California,” seismologist Lucy Jones said in a \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/drlucyjones.bsky.social/post/3lclgtdia222w\">social media post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, another significant earthquake — initially reported as a magnitude 5.8 but later revised down to 4.1 — was reported at 10:47 a.m., centered near the border of Sonoma and Lake counties. It struck several miles off the San Andreas Fault, where the Pacific and North American plates converge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the tsunami warning fizzled out without any significant surge in the Bay Area, residents and businesses on the North Coast reported some minor damage from the 7.0 earthquake. Authorities in Humboldt County did not immediately have information on damage to structures or roads, but Caroline Titus, who lives in the small city of Ferndale, said she almost immediately recognized the quake as a big one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ran outside, saw my little Honda Fit jumping up and down in the driveway, and then my instincts kicked in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/caroline95536/status/1864749359742804200\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titus lives just off of Ferndale’s commercial district and walked through many of its stores shortly after the quake hit. There didn’t appear to be any buildings with window or structure damage, she said, but cans were rolling on the floor of the Main Street grocery store, and glasses had shattered behind the bar at a local pub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street at the local cemetery, some headstones had been knocked out of place or repositioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just stuff off shelves, in our house it’s just a mess, lots of glass broken,” Titus said. “We’re pretty good about making sure that we don’t have heavy stuff up high, but it still all comes down and cupboards open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fortuna, about 50 miles from the epicenter of the quake, Ray’s Food Place had minimal damage that shut down the grocery store for a few hours. Manager Brandon Giordano estimated that about $30,000 worth of merchandise was being swept up by other shop employees, including shattered bottles of salad dressing, cans of tomato sauce and jars of pickles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11935962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/AP22354568302608-e1671554137455.jpg\" alt=\"Buckled road after an earthquake\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1,320-foot-long concrete arch bridge that spans the Eel River near Fortuna in Humboldt County was damaged and closed on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, following an early morning 6.4 magnitude earthquake that rattled the region. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Caltrans District 1)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the impact wasn’t nearly as bad as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935961/magnitude-6-4-earthquake-shakes-humboldt-county-many-without-power\">magnitude 6.4 earthquake\u003c/a> that rocked the town in December 2022 and its aftershock on New Year’s Day in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to have to shut down other than temporarily to clean up some mess,” he told KQED. “We’re hoping to be open for the public in about half an hour. Overall, not nearly as bad, but definitely a scare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Goade, a city building official doing inspections in Fortuna after the shaking subsided, said most buildings he had been to seemed to sustain less damage than in recent quakes. There was some damage to personal items and sheetrock, but he hadn’t seen anything dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got real lucky,” he said. “It really moved around here, but most everything where we normally see damage happening to here didn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 miles south in Rio Dell, City Manager Kyle Knopp said there was similarly little damage, though one middle school campus had a gas leak that sent students home. The leak at Monument Middle School is now closed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power also went out throughout much of the town, and a large crack broke down the road that connects Rio Dell to Fortuna and Ferndale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working on that, but the road is still passable at this time and there’s no rain in the forecast,” Knopp told KQED. If rain does get into the crack, it could cause further problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reiterated Goade’s thankfulness that the damage seemed minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“December is becoming earthquake season here, unfortunately,” Knopp said. “Hopefully with the mathematical odds of that, it’ll give December a break for the next three or four decades, but we’ll find out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kevinstark\">Kevin Stark\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">Erin Baldassari\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">Dan Brekke\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">Gilare Zada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that hour, though, the seemingly dire messages led to a mix of confusion and indifference throughout the Bay Area as people, and their local leaders, tried to figure out what to make of a widespread tsunami warning. Emergency alerts blared on cellphones across Northern California, and officials rushed to order evacuations for coastal areas in the tsunami risk zone, including \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/11314267/?sub_id=0\">West Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ilike_mike/status/1864749582057640250\">parts of Del Norte County\u003c/a>. Schools in Oakland were sheltering in place, and one campus in West Oakland was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART halted service in the Transbay Tube for about 45 minutes, and even Salesforce Tower and other downtown San Francisco buildings were in the process of being cleared out, a representative for Pier 39 said before the tsunami warning was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SFFD firefighter warns surfers in the water to evacuate for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the initial shock — and tsunami warning — had passed, San Francisco officials urged residents to use the morning’s events as an opportunity to prepare for aftershocks and future earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks don’t clarify today as a false alarm,” said Justin Schorr, a rescue captain with the San Francisco Fire Department. “The alert issued today was the highest level of tsunami warning that we have. If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the warning, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LondonBreed/status/1864758048012554283\">urged residents\u003c/a> to move at least a block inland off the coast, and the San Francisco Zoo evacuated its guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, dozens of people \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dannydiekroeger/status/1864751979819602406\">gathered at Fort Mason\u003c/a> to get an up-close look at the anticipated waves from 50 feet above sea level. None came, but Schorr said that doesn’t mean the city is totally in the clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12017008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--800x614.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1536x1178.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>“Our biggest concern right now is aftershocks, and there could be a significant aftershock that triggers another tsunami warning,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s tsunami evacuation zones are mapped out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis\">sf72.org\u003c/a>, Schorr noted, adding that people should make a plan for where they’ll go if they find themselves within one in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest areas where evacuations are necessary during tsunami warnings are along Ocean Beach in the Sunset, throughout the Marina as far in as Chestnut Street in some places, and portions of North Beach and the Financial District. But in general, the city — and much of the Bay Area at large — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">isn’t at a huge risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along Fourth Street in Berkeley, an outdoor shopping strip not far from the San Francisco Bay, stores closed temporarily, but business was mostly back to normal shortly after city officials lifted the evacuation order. Several shoppers were unconcerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo resident Edna Garcia was shopping in REI when she was told she needed to leave. “It was kind of — not scary, but unusual, right?” she said. “I’m one of those people who are just, ‘Don’t freak out.’ If it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Federal immigration authorities are looking for a potential new detention center in Northern California, an effort that alarms advocates and some Democratic state lawmakers as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to unleash his mass deportation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a request for information to identify additional detention bed space in the state as other federal agencies intensified border enforcement. The effort began in the wake of the Biden administration’s sweeping asylum ban, implemented in June, for migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside designated entry points. Under the ban, border agents can deport such migrants within hours or days without considering their asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say an expansion of detention space would give Trump a runway to carry out more mass deportations in California. Immigrants in counties with more detention space are more likely to be arrested and detained, according to research by advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in Texas, where state officials are offering up land to the Trump administration to facilitate mass deportations, California tried to ban new federal immigrant detention centers from opening during the first Trump administration. The court blocked that, ruling that the state was unconstitutionally overstepping on federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta told CalMatters that the state may be powerless to stop the possibility of a new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE’s expansion plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal documents show ICE issued the request for information on Aug. 14. Such requests can pave the way for federal contracts, in this case to obtain “available detention facilities for single adult populations (male and female)” in Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, and California. Its request says the facilities should each have from 850 to 950 detention beds and “may be publicly or privately owned and publicly or privately operated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the facilities should be within a two-hour drive of the San Francisco field office, the documents state. The request also seeks facilities near field offices in Phoenix, El Paso, and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE has identified a need for immigration detention services within the Western U.S. area of responsibility,” ICE spokesman Richard Beam wrote in an email to CalMatters. “The proposed services are part of ICE’s effort to continually review its detention requirements and explore options that will afford ICE the operational flexibility needed to house the full range of detainees in the agency’s custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, ICE detains roughly 38,000 people every day in about 120 immigration jails across the country. In California, that number is just under 3,000 detainees each day, held in six facilities, according to the most recently available immigration data maintained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the third-largest population of detained immigrants in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE, the federal agency responsible for immigration enforcement, owns and operates a very small number of facilities nationwide, it mostly contracts with private prison operators such as CoreCivic, GEO Group, and Management and Training Corp. Their detention facilities house 80% of ICE’s detainees. Stock for CoreCivic and GEO Group soared upon Trump’s win last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, private, for-profit prison companies run all six ICE detention facilities – the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde detention facilities in Kern County; the Adelanto Detention Facility and Desert View Annex, both in San Bernardino County; the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County; and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Imperial County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across all six, the federal government has the capacity to detain up to 7,188 people statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015881\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015881 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-2048x1357.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. María Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said she was concerned about the potential economic impacts of ICE having an increased capacity for detention and, therefore, deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The expansion of detention in California concerns everyone in our state. Expanding detention correlates with increased ICE raids and family separation, all of which has devastating social and economic impacts for California,” she said. “In addition, these facilities are run by private for-profit companies that consistently place their bottom-line profit above the health and safety of those who work in or are detained in these facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argue that detention expansions lead to human rights abuses and undermine community safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An expansion of ICE detention operations within the Bay Area and Northern California is going to be part of a reign of terror on our communities the Trump administration is threatening,” said Bree Bernwanger, a senior staff attorney on the Immigrants’ Rights team at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. “We already know from existing facilities within California that ICE does not and cannot maintain safe and or healthy standards of confinement for people inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU is suing to learn more about the federal agency’s expanded detention plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernwanger was referring to issues like complaints of sexually abusive pat downs. Also, in 2023, ICE allegedly retaliated against hunger strikers by storming into their cells, violently dragging them, threatening them with forced feedings, and then providing food that was not appropriate for breaking a 21-day fast, prompting a medical condition in at least one inmate, according to a claim filed by the inmate, who was represented by two advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the civil liberties organization released a 34-page report detailing 485 grievances filed by detainees across six immigration detention facilities in California between 2023 and June 2024. Those grievances included allegations of hazardous facilities, inhumane treatment, medical neglect, and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE declined to comment on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California failed to ban for-profit federal detention centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In December 2019, California passed a law that would have banned private immigration detention centers. It was part of a wave of resistance by California Democrats to the first Trump administration. It also prohibited the state from using for-profit prisons for any inmates starting in 2028. The for-profit facilities “contribute to over-incarceration” and “do not reflect our values,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement when signing the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days before the law was set to go into effect, ICE signed new contracts for its facilities in California. The federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals later overturned the state’s ban on private prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12013478 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks with KQED politics reporters Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for Political Breakdown at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who wrote the unsuccessful ban as an Oakland Assembly member, told CalMatters in November that the state might not be able to stop ICE from opening another detention facility outside of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of federal jurisdiction,” Bonta said. “It’s federal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, ICE detains roughly 38,000 people every day in about 120 immigration jails across the country. In California, that number is just under 3,000 detainees each day, held in six facilities, according to the most recently available immigration data maintained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the third-largest population of detained immigrants in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE, the federal agency responsible for immigration enforcement, owns and operates a very small number of facilities nationwide, it mostly contracts with private prison operators such as CoreCivic, GEO Group, and Management and Training Corp. Their detention facilities house 80% of ICE’s detainees. Stock for CoreCivic and GEO Group soared upon Trump’s win last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, private, for-profit prison companies run all six ICE detention facilities – the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde detention facilities in Kern County; the Adelanto Detention Facility and Desert View Annex, both in San Bernardino County; the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County; and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Imperial County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across all six, the federal government has the capacity to detain up to 7,188 people statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015881\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015881 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-2048x1357.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. María Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said she was concerned about the potential economic impacts of ICE having an increased capacity for detention and, therefore, deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The expansion of detention in California concerns everyone in our state. Expanding detention correlates with increased ICE raids and family separation, all of which has devastating social and economic impacts for California,” she said. “In addition, these facilities are run by private for-profit companies that consistently place their bottom-line profit above the health and safety of those who work in or are detained in these facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argue that detention expansions lead to human rights abuses and undermine community safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An expansion of ICE detention operations within the Bay Area and Northern California is going to be part of a reign of terror on our communities the Trump administration is threatening,” said Bree Bernwanger, a senior staff attorney on the Immigrants’ Rights team at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. “We already know from existing facilities within California that ICE does not and cannot maintain safe and or healthy standards of confinement for people inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU is suing to learn more about the federal agency’s expanded detention plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernwanger was referring to issues like complaints of sexually abusive pat downs. 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