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After all, those who die of an overdose at work represent a small share of thousands of Californians who overdose each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, business owners and union officials alike are increasingly having to grapple with one of the nation’s most prominent public health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When fentanyl came around, we started having a huge uptick in overdoses and deaths — even suicides,” said Paul Moreno, president of Ironworkers Local 433 in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, his local began holding recovery meetings for members that now draw as many as a dozen attendees a month. Moreno, who said he’s been sober 19 years, visits worksites and the union hall, passing around the 988 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/09/988-911-funding-crisis-hotline-suicide-california/\">mental health crisis hotline number\u003c/a>, giving out his own personal phone number and distributing doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone (commonly sold as Narcan).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took Narcan classes. I passed out Narcan on the job sites. I never thought I’d be doing that,” he said. “The phone calls from the members, sometimes I don’t know what to say besides listen. We still need more training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new California law directs the state’s workplace safety agencies to require worksites to stock Narcan in their first aid kits, but the regulations haven’t been issued yet. A spokesperson said Cal/OSHA is “in the early stages of rulemaking,” a process that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/02/workplace-safety-california-indoor-heat/\">could take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much is publicly known about overdose deaths at California worksites. A small office in Cal/OSHA that compiles workplace fatality data has, for at least the past two years, noted the rise in overdoses in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/CFOI/California-Occupational-Fatalities.pdf\">annual reports\u003c/a>. However, the office said it cannot release details due to privacy restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has not responded to a public records request CalMatters filed in September for all overdose incidents, fatal or nonfatal, that have been reported at worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State won’t release details on deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>County coroners’ offices, which investigate some deaths, vary widely in whether they can identify incidents based on whether a person died at their job. Death records from the past three years obtained from Alameda, San Bernardino and Riverside counties provide glimpses into the grim trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a flooring installer stepped out for a smoke break at a construction site in Temecula and was found by coworkers on the side of the house, dead from a fentanyl overdose. A packing plant worker in Corona went to the bathroom and did not return; coworkers found him bent over with a straw, lighter and piece of foil nearby, having overdosed on methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin. In Fremont, a manager found a night-shift janitor in the bathroom with a white powdery substance, overdosed on fentanyl. In Livermore this year, a driver was found in his parked semi-truck as he waited to make a scheduled delivery, also dead from fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narcan nasal spray containers available at a rally at the First Street U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California officials have little to say about the rising death toll. Cal/OSHA refused to make an official available for an interview and would not explain why overdoses account for a much higher share of the state’s workplace deaths compared to the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the agency cited the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-opioid-crisis/\">broader national opioid crisis\u003c/a>. “California had more than 7,000 people die from opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022,” spokesperson Erika Monterroza wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, these deaths happen all over our state, including in our workplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Public Health said it is considering conducting a study. That agency’s occupational health branch is “aware of this issue and is considering a project to examine all opioid overdoses by industry and occupation,” a spokesperson said. In October, the department said staff are in the “initial stages of preparing for an analysis” but did not provide a completion date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies in other states indicate the problem is worse in certain industries. In Massachusetts, where overdoses are the top cause of workplace deaths, researchers with the state public health agency examined all overdose deaths — whether at work or not — and found deaths occurred disproportionately among those working in manual-labor, high-injury industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs, said Emily Sparer-Fine, director of the Massachusetts public health agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/orgs/occupational-health-surveillance-program\">Occupational Health Surveillance Program\u003c/a>, are often seasonal or unstable, and workers may be financially strained and pressured to work through pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certain industries and occupations, (such as) construction, fishing had a much higher rate of overdose,” Sparer-Fine said in an interview. “But it was also jobs that had lower access to paid sick leave, higher rates of job insecurity, higher rates of overall workplace injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new study this year, Sparer-Fine’s team also dug into \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/doc/opioid-related-overdose-deaths-among-injured-workers-in-massachusetts-findings-from-the-public-health-data-warehouse/download\">workers’ compensation data\u003c/a> and found that working-age Massachusetts residents were 35% more likely to have died of an overdose if they were previously injured on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in similar industries are overrepresented in the California workplace overdose deaths, including in trucking and warehousing, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So are workers in construction, where unions and employers are confronting a mental health and addiction crisis. Nationwide, construction workers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-07.pdf\">more likely than workers in any other profession\u003c/a> to overdose and also have one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7250a2.htm?s_cid=mm7250a2_w\">highest rates of suicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Trahan Cain, executive director of the National Center for Construction Research and Training, has since 2018 led the response to the industry’s opioid crisis. She has focused on a longtime reliance on painkillers to deal with injuries involving the muscles and bones, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpwr.com/wp-content/uploads/KF2020-MSDs-Opioids-US-workers.pdf\">nearly a third of construction workers\u003c/a> report experiencing. Studies like the ones in Massachusetts were among the first to reveal the toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center, formed by the nation’s construction unions, has recommended stocking naloxone in union halls, requiring apprentices be taught about opioid abuse and ensuring members have coverage of drug treatment programs. They’re also providing tips on talking to doctors about how to treat injuries without long-term opioids prescriptions. The goal, Cain said, is to avoid blaming individual workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this information first came to light, what I heard was, ‘Oh, it’s just the macho culture, it’s the type of people who go into construction,’” she said. “We can’t tell you how many of these deaths are because somebody started on a prescription, but we know that some of them are. We know a lot of these deaths are also from illicit drug use that have nothing to do with workplaces, but where we can (make) changes as an industry to impact these numbers is what we’re trying to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Businesses respond to crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Employers, too, are trying to break the stigma of seeking help. Since 2021, the Associated General Contractors of California has provided materials to hold jobsite meetings about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all employers know how to raise the issue and some fear reprisal for appearing to pry into employees’ personal lives, said Frank Nunes, CEO of the Wall and Ceiling Alliance, a Pleasanton-based specialty contractors’ group. Some, Nunes said, are advised by attorneys to avoid talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still very sensitive,” he said. “You’ve got to be very careful how you ask somebody how (they’re) doing and not offend them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Nunes joined officials of District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades at a recovery event in San Leandro in October, promoting treatment programs covered by their contracts and encouraging workers to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to address these things in the field,” he told about 100 union members. “There’s a cultural change we all need to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a cavernous training hall where apprentices learn how to install drywall, union members told their peers how they had recovered from addiction. The union invited former Raiders tight end Darren Waller to talk about his own experiences with addiction and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on union officials’ numbers on construction worker deaths by overdose or suicide, Waller told the crowd: “Those are lives that still deserve to be among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Williams, the local’s business manager and secretary-treasurer, described what he called a familiar scenario: A worker experiences a job site injury or persistent soreness, feels pressure to work through it, then escalates from an over-the-counter pill to a prescription painkiller to an illicit opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only with our families a small portion of the day,” he said. “The people we work with, we’re with 80% of the time. 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After sifting through their health plan records, they found 91 members had died of overdose or suicide (not necessarily at work) in 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation forced union officials to rethink their roles in workers’ lives, Williams said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look out for safety on the jobs, so if there’s a death on a job site because of a safety hazard, it’s front-page news,” he said. “But if there’s death by an overdose or death by suicide of a construction worker when they go home, nobody talks about that. So instead of thinking about just the safety side, it’s that holistic side of, how do we make somebody better for themselves and their families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams quickly appointed a director of addiction and mental health. James Boster, himself in recovery from a painkiller addiction he said he developed after a non-work injury, speaks at apprenticeship programs and worksites, helps workers get into recovery programs and acts as a crisis counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, Boster said he’s helped place 51 union members into residential or outpatient treatment programs. During a recent interview at the union’s headquarters in Livermore, he said he was anxious: He had secured a “scholarship” for one member who hadn’t logged enough hours in recent months to have full health coverage, but the worker had chosen to postpone treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can never walk away from a member, and something happens, and not hold that personally,” Boster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boster and Williams are eager to expand their program. Ideas include installing someone with Boster’s role across the district’s 20 local unions and establishing a fund to help members who haven’t worked enough hours to afford treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other advocates, meanwhile, have pushed the state to require naloxone at worksites as part of an overall strategy to reduce overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the National Safety Council, an advocacy group, petitioned California labor agencies to do just that. Proponents said the medication, which can temporarily reverse an overdose by blocking the brain’s opioid receptors, is easy to administer and not harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='fentanyl' label='More on Fentanyl']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing its workplace death data, Cal/OSHA supported the proposal before the independent Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board, which decides whether to approve such regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the top two or three killers of workers now, and just a few years ago, it was a very small number,” Eric Berg, Cal/OSHA deputy chief of health and research and standards, said at a June 20 board meeting. “So it’s just become a really serious problem for workers, and it’s killing workers. I think we have an obligation to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But board members hesitated. Chairperson David Alioto called the proposal an “odd request.” While addiction is a legitimate public health concern, it’s not a workplace hazard like wildfire smoke for employees who must work outside, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not seen a regulation where an employer is providing a remedy for a risk that the employer did not create,” Alioto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members also said they worried about whether all businesses would be able to store the medication at the right temperature and whether employers would bear liability over the medication’s use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards board ultimately voted for the agency to discuss the matter before an advisory committee. In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law directing Cal/OSHA to draft a workplace naloxone rule by December 2027 and giving the board until December 2028 to consider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no advisory committee has met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Share your story\u003c/strong>: We want to hear from workers, family members and employers. If you have experience with addiction, mental health or overdose on a job site, and you’re willing to share your story with a CalMatters reporter, please reach out to jeanne@calmatters.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When fentanyl came around, we started having a huge uptick in overdoses and deaths — even suicides,” said Paul Moreno, president of Ironworkers Local 433 in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, his local began holding recovery meetings for members that now draw as many as a dozen attendees a month. Moreno, who said he’s been sober 19 years, visits worksites and the union hall, passing around the 988 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/09/988-911-funding-crisis-hotline-suicide-california/\">mental health crisis hotline number\u003c/a>, giving out his own personal phone number and distributing doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone (commonly sold as Narcan).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took Narcan classes. I passed out Narcan on the job sites. I never thought I’d be doing that,” he said. “The phone calls from the members, sometimes I don’t know what to say besides listen. We still need more training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new California law directs the state’s workplace safety agencies to require worksites to stock Narcan in their first aid kits, but the regulations haven’t been issued yet. A spokesperson said Cal/OSHA is “in the early stages of rulemaking,” a process that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/02/workplace-safety-california-indoor-heat/\">could take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much is publicly known about overdose deaths at California worksites. A small office in Cal/OSHA that compiles workplace fatality data has, for at least the past two years, noted the rise in overdoses in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/CFOI/California-Occupational-Fatalities.pdf\">annual reports\u003c/a>. However, the office said it cannot release details due to privacy restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has not responded to a public records request CalMatters filed in September for all overdose incidents, fatal or nonfatal, that have been reported at worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State won’t release details on deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>County coroners’ offices, which investigate some deaths, vary widely in whether they can identify incidents based on whether a person died at their job. Death records from the past three years obtained from Alameda, San Bernardino and Riverside counties provide glimpses into the grim trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a flooring installer stepped out for a smoke break at a construction site in Temecula and was found by coworkers on the side of the house, dead from a fentanyl overdose. A packing plant worker in Corona went to the bathroom and did not return; coworkers found him bent over with a straw, lighter and piece of foil nearby, having overdosed on methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin. In Fremont, a manager found a night-shift janitor in the bathroom with a white powdery substance, overdosed on fentanyl. In Livermore this year, a driver was found in his parked semi-truck as he waited to make a scheduled delivery, also dead from fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/04222LA-Homeless-Court_TS_CM_27-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narcan nasal spray containers available at a rally at the First Street U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California officials have little to say about the rising death toll. Cal/OSHA refused to make an official available for an interview and would not explain why overdoses account for a much higher share of the state’s workplace deaths compared to the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the agency cited the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-opioid-crisis/\">broader national opioid crisis\u003c/a>. “California had more than 7,000 people die from opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022,” spokesperson Erika Monterroza wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, these deaths happen all over our state, including in our workplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Public Health said it is considering conducting a study. That agency’s occupational health branch is “aware of this issue and is considering a project to examine all opioid overdoses by industry and occupation,” a spokesperson said. In October, the department said staff are in the “initial stages of preparing for an analysis” but did not provide a completion date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies in other states indicate the problem is worse in certain industries. In Massachusetts, where overdoses are the top cause of workplace deaths, researchers with the state public health agency examined all overdose deaths — whether at work or not — and found deaths occurred disproportionately among those working in manual-labor, high-injury industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs, said Emily Sparer-Fine, director of the Massachusetts public health agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/orgs/occupational-health-surveillance-program\">Occupational Health Surveillance Program\u003c/a>, are often seasonal or unstable, and workers may be financially strained and pressured to work through pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certain industries and occupations, (such as) construction, fishing had a much higher rate of overdose,” Sparer-Fine said in an interview. “But it was also jobs that had lower access to paid sick leave, higher rates of job insecurity, higher rates of overall workplace injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new study this year, Sparer-Fine’s team also dug into \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/doc/opioid-related-overdose-deaths-among-injured-workers-in-massachusetts-findings-from-the-public-health-data-warehouse/download\">workers’ compensation data\u003c/a> and found that working-age Massachusetts residents were 35% more likely to have died of an overdose if they were previously injured on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in similar industries are overrepresented in the California workplace overdose deaths, including in trucking and warehousing, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So are workers in construction, where unions and employers are confronting a mental health and addiction crisis. Nationwide, construction workers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-07.pdf\">more likely than workers in any other profession\u003c/a> to overdose and also have one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7250a2.htm?s_cid=mm7250a2_w\">highest rates of suicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Trahan Cain, executive director of the National Center for Construction Research and Training, has since 2018 led the response to the industry’s opioid crisis. She has focused on a longtime reliance on painkillers to deal with injuries involving the muscles and bones, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpwr.com/wp-content/uploads/KF2020-MSDs-Opioids-US-workers.pdf\">nearly a third of construction workers\u003c/a> report experiencing. Studies like the ones in Massachusetts were among the first to reveal the toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center, formed by the nation’s construction unions, has recommended stocking naloxone in union halls, requiring apprentices be taught about opioid abuse and ensuring members have coverage of drug treatment programs. They’re also providing tips on talking to doctors about how to treat injuries without long-term opioids prescriptions. The goal, Cain said, is to avoid blaming individual workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this information first came to light, what I heard was, ‘Oh, it’s just the macho culture, it’s the type of people who go into construction,’” she said. “We can’t tell you how many of these deaths are because somebody started on a prescription, but we know that some of them are. We know a lot of these deaths are also from illicit drug use that have nothing to do with workplaces, but where we can (make) changes as an industry to impact these numbers is what we’re trying to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Businesses respond to crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Employers, too, are trying to break the stigma of seeking help. Since 2021, the Associated General Contractors of California has provided materials to hold jobsite meetings about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all employers know how to raise the issue and some fear reprisal for appearing to pry into employees’ personal lives, said Frank Nunes, CEO of the Wall and Ceiling Alliance, a Pleasanton-based specialty contractors’ group. Some, Nunes said, are advised by attorneys to avoid talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still very sensitive,” he said. “You’ve got to be very careful how you ask somebody how (they’re) doing and not offend them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Nunes joined officials of District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades at a recovery event in San Leandro in October, promoting treatment programs covered by their contracts and encouraging workers to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to address these things in the field,” he told about 100 union members. “There’s a cultural change we all need to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a cavernous training hall where apprentices learn how to install drywall, union members told their peers how they had recovered from addiction. The union invited former Raiders tight end Darren Waller to talk about his own experiences with addiction and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on union officials’ numbers on construction worker deaths by overdose or suicide, Waller told the crowd: “Those are lives that still deserve to be among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Williams, the local’s business manager and secretary-treasurer, described what he called a familiar scenario: A worker experiences a job site injury or persistent soreness, feels pressure to work through it, then escalates from an over-the-counter pill to a prescription painkiller to an illicit opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only with our families a small portion of the day,” he said. “The people we work with, we’re with 80% of the time. 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After sifting through their health plan records, they found 91 members had died of overdose or suicide (not necessarily at work) in 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation forced union officials to rethink their roles in workers’ lives, Williams said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look out for safety on the jobs, so if there’s a death on a job site because of a safety hazard, it’s front-page news,” he said. “But if there’s death by an overdose or death by suicide of a construction worker when they go home, nobody talks about that. So instead of thinking about just the safety side, it’s that holistic side of, how do we make somebody better for themselves and their families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams quickly appointed a director of addiction and mental health. 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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. 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?[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. 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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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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. 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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. And all that is to say we’re always going to err on the side of protection of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have any concern about people going through something like this, seeing that nothing happens, and then that desensitizes them to the danger the next time something like this happens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, absolutely. There’s always the concern about desensitization to warning-level events. We see that in Tornado Alley when people get so many tornado warnings. The next one there, they’re just ignoring it because all the other ones before haven’t manifested in a tornado at their location. But that doesn’t negate our responsibility to issue the warnings based off the scientific data that we have at that time, and as soon as we know more data, we update that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kinds of lessons might forecasters and local officials take from what happened with this warning? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that we talk about often internally with the sciences and the response agencies is, you know, these things are now forefront of mind. We have our media partners doing stories on it. We have photos of \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RobinBuller/status/1864766166465671563\">kids on parking garages\u003c/a>. We’re going to have a lot of after-action reviews and \u003ca href=\"https://www.alertmedia.com/blog/hot-wash/\">hot washes\u003c/a> within these agencies, and we can’t let these events go to waste. We’ve got to look at them and say, “OK, what could I, as a resident of San Francisco or Berkeley or whatever, what could I have done different in this scenario? What do I need to be ready for, for the next one?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if there’s one thing to learn from this, it’s what we say after every earthquake: Have a plan, have your go bag, have your kit ready to go at a moment’s notice, so that you can be ready for when the next one happens. We live in a dynamic environment. And we need to be ready for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. And all that is to say we’re always going to err on the side of protection of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have any concern about people going through something like this, seeing that nothing happens, and then that desensitizes them to the danger the next time something like this happens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, absolutely. There’s always the concern about desensitization to warning-level events. We see that in Tornado Alley when people get so many tornado warnings. The next one there, they’re just ignoring it because all the other ones before haven’t manifested in a tornado at their location. 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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. 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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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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has been talking about immigration, border security and government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California farm country, his comments about water are also getting top attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State grows three-quarters of the country’s fruits and nuts and more than a third of its vegetables, largely thanks to a complex network of dams and canals that funnel water to the state’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, farmers have faced more limits on how much water they can access from this network because of environmental concerns, as well as on how much groundwater they can pump after years of overuse and drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, farmers are hoping the second Trump administration will ensure more stable water flows to their fields from the federally managed Central Valley Project and a plan for future water supplies. Trump recently posted on his Truth Social platform a criticism of the “rerouting of MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER A DAY FROM THE NORTH OUT INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, rather than using it, free of charge, for the towns, cities, & farms dotted all throughout California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='farming']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the number one issue,” said Jason Phillips, chief executive of the Friant Water Authority, which represents more than a dozen irrigation districts serving a large swath of the crop-rich valley. “You only need labor, and you only need the products and the equipment and everything else to grow food if you have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California relies on water supplies from the Central Valley Project and the state-run State Water Project. The federal project provides 5 million acre-feet of water to farms each year and 600,000 acre-feet to cities, as well as water to maintain water quality in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which provides critical habitat to fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the prior Trump administration, government officials issued rules to allow for a greater flow of water to California farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups blasted the move. The Biden administration pushed back on those decisions and has been working on new rules aimed at balancing farming with protections for endangered wildlife such as the delta smelt, a tiny fish that is an indicator of the health of California’s waterways, and Chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California farmers said federal water allocations have been more limited than they feel is necessary after two years of ample rain boosted the state’s reservoirs. The state previously grappled with a yearslong drought that in 2022 saw the driest January-to-March period in at least a century, with scientists saying weather whiplash will likely become more common as the planet warms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996553 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of olive trees at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is a big concern of environmentalists and commercial fishermen, who want to see less water diverted to agriculture and more flowing to the delta. Salmon fishing has been banned off the California coast for the past two years because of dwindling stocks, and critics say Trump’s prior decisions to move water away from salmon-spawning areas are to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They delivered all the cold water behind Shasta Dam. It literally cooked the baby salmon before they were hatched,” said Barry Nelson, policy advisor to the Golden State Salmon Association, a nonprofit focused on restoring California salmon. “Math is a brutal master, and we’ve hit physical limits on the amount of water we can take from the Bay delta, and the sign of that is the collapse of the ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a long-time Trump critic, recently called on California lawmakers to gear up ahead of another Trump presidency to safeguard the state’s progressive policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates, however, contend that Newsom has not done enough to improve the situation in the delta for fish and wildlife. During Trump’s prior administration, Newsom opposed his rules for water flows, filing a legal challenge, but since then put forth his own rules, which Jon Rosenfield, San Francisco Baykeeper’s science director, said “were never that much different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competing demands on California’s water have led to numerous battles over who gets how much. Advocates for fishermen, environmental interests and farmers all say more must be done to shore up future water supplies. But what that looks like depends on who is asked, with proposed solutions spanning from more conservation to expanding water storage to technological upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aubrey Bettencourt, who oversaw the Department of Interior water policy during the prior Trump administration, said she would like to see the system updated to respond to swings in climate rather than setting water releases based on the calendar. One of the issues, she said, is not how much water you get but knowing how much water you will get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes it very hard to plan not just as a farmer but as a city manager,” she said. “I would expect an emphasis on restoring operational certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incoming Trump administration has discussed a series of economic policies that could also affect agriculture, including tariffs that could wind up affecting some exports and push up input costs for growers, according to a recent Rabobank report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to water, many farmers in California are hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Errotabere, a third-generation farmer and previous Westlands Water District president whose family grows tomatoes, garlic and almonds, is among them. As California ramps up limits on groundwater pumping, it is even more important to ensure a stable flow of surface water to grow the food the country is counting on, he said. 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