and i will do tala first. so, in recognition of your quick response to your family member's need and your ability to keep calm, and to help make you a 911 hero. thank you very much for your wonderful courage. [ applause ] and for edgar in recognition of your expert assistance and compassion for those in need of help, thank you for providing calm assurances to encourage others, you are a true 911 hero. thank you. [ applause ] >> now we would like to present the 911 for heroes awards to both tala and edgar. >> supervisor avalos thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy day to come and join us, we know that you are tied up in budget meetings, thank you very much. [ applause ] >> all right, so, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to please have you join me in welcoming kante brown and public safety dispatcher kim tuae and on behalf of the mayor's office, paul henderson, deputy chief of staff for mayor lee presenting the awards on behalf of martha coen who is the supervisor for district ten. >> thank yo

tala hall. if you come up and we have supervisor john avalos here. if you want to read this and i will play an audio clip. >> great, it is really wonderful to be invited here to honor this young person, tala hall. and on october 25th, at 8:25 p.m., ten-year-old tala hall, called 911 requesting a medical response for her mother, who was having a severe headache, semiconscious and shallow breathing. her call for help was answered by a public safety dispatcher edgar velasco. but out the contact, he provided assistance and compassion to her and her two young siblings. he gave assurances that help was on the way and reminded her that she was doing a great job helping her mother. together, they worked to help insure a successful out come to this medical emergency. let's take a moment to listen to a brief segment of tala's 911 call. >> i would like to invite edgar to come up on stage, too. >> sorry about that. >> come on up. >> police department. >> this the highway patrol i have a transfer, i have paula, she is ten years old and she needs an ambulance for

. >> my name is talae, i go to girls 2000 help me with me homework and i know some of my math now. >> a small comment, i have an older girl, i am proud of her, she's giving me a look. she's not graduated from the garden and working with the tree service, planting trees in the community. more than just district 10. we are moving them up and out and creating real sustainability within our community. >> i am karylna, i have gone to girl's 2000 and i learned they are there when you need them. say your parents are not here, and you can call them and they are there for you any time. they don't leave you out and like i was working at the garden. i don't work there no more, but they are still there for you even though you are not a part of the area. they are a lot of help. they give you great advice. i can go to them when i need them. i really love it there. and we really like it because we need more money to help us go to trips. like to go to nevada and travel and see the world. you know, that's about it. [applause] >> hello. my name is candace peerson, i started off in girls 2000 a few year

the well is owned by talas energy. the company says a five-man crew was trying to plug and retire the well when a combination of natural gas and oil started flowing to the surface. the crew was evacuated out of caution and two other wells on the flplatform were shut. the well did not blow out and no explosion or fire on the platform. a flyover reveals a rainbow sheen of four miles wide and three-quarter miles long, expected to evaporate. they expect to seal the well in the next day. the leak is tiny compared to the deep water horizon spill which dumped 4.9 billion barrels of oil into the gulf in 2010, it is one of the first reported incidents since then. the platform installed in 1972 has been cited a dozen times for regulatory infractions since 2008, most involve maintaining and operating equipment in a safe manner. u.s. crude prices are at 14-month highs today following an industry report showing a bigger than expected drop in u.s. stockpiles last week. the american petroleum institute says u.s. inventories fell by n

. >> my name is talae, i go to girls 2000 and they help me with me homework and i know some of my math now. >> a small comment, i have an older girl, i am proud of her, she's giving me a look. she's not graduated from the garden and working with the tree service, planting trees in the community. more than just district 10. we are moving them up and out and creating real sustainability within our community. >> i am karylna, i have gone to girl's 2000 and i learned they are there when you need them. say your parents are not here, and you can call them and they are there for you any time. they don't leave you out and like i was working at the garden. i don't work there no more, but they are still there for you even though you are not a part of the area. they are a lot of help. they give you great advice. i can go to them when i need them. i really love it there. and we really like it because we need more money to help us go to trips. like to go to nevada and travel and see the world. you know, that's about it. [applause] >> hello. my name is candace peerson, i started off in girls 2000 a