Announcer 1 President Trump visited cookeville, tennessee to see the damage created by tornadoes earlier this week and to offer condolences. He was joined by tennessee governor bill lee and local officials. Pres. Trump thank you very much. This is governor bill the and he has done a fantastic job of working with fema and the federal government and everybody, bill. This is real devastation like you will never see hopefully again. This was about as big a tornado as you can have. It was 50 miles long which was extraordinary long. We had Immediate Response from fema. Emergency disaster declaration which will be very helpful to the families in this community and all across tennessee have suffered a great loss. It has been a painful, tragic week for our state. Tennesseeans are hopeful. God has used fear to bring hope and your presence here reminds people that you care about what is happening here. Thank you. We so much appreciate you being here and showing compassion. You called the other night and expressed your sorrow and how you have shown up. First time a sitting president has been in our city and county. Hope and compassion to our community and residents. We appreciate that. Very much. Very much. Loss of life like our county has never seen. The outpouring of love and support from our community, our First Responders, we have got a great group of folks, has been an outstanding response for those folks, all the local support. Just was ask big asterisk on that. The cooperation from the federal government and the State Government has been absolutely amazing. We have never seen that before. I have been in Emergency Services for 35 years before became county mayor. We have never seen the cooperation and response we have seen from your administration and from the states administration. Your instant declaration for our Community Last night. ,pres. Trump great people. It is a great state. What is the final count of death in the state itself . The entire state . Gov. Lee we had 25 tennesseans lost their lives in this. Many injured, thousands without homes and power and supplies. But tennesseans have shown up. We are the volunteer state. We have shown up by the thousands to surround our neighbors and to provide hope and provide assistance. It has been inspiring. We are going to overcome. The state knows how to do that. That is who we are. That is what we do. Government can do so much but reallye people can provide the hope, and they are doing that in tennessee. Pres. Trump thank you very much. We are going to see some of the people that really survived, some not in good shape and some in very good shape, incredibly in good shape. But anybody in these homes, this is a swath that it went right through on this side, on this side of the street. Obviously anybody in these homes for the most part, they were killed. Even given very little warning. Yet a phone call, hey there is a tornado. And boom, it is on them. They just appeared. And it is, we are very working hard. Fema is doing a great job. Doing a great job. Thank you very much. You have any questions . Do you have a message for the survivors . Pres. Trump i do have a message and i have a message for the families of those that lost their lives. We love them. They are special people. It is an incredible place. Incredible state. Tremendous heart. Already you see people rebuilding. It took place literally hours ago a couple of days. , theyre already rebuilding. We wereever seen flying over, you see the blue roofs going up all over the place. They are just great people. It is a great state. They have great leadership in this state. That is why is working out like it is. But still, 25 people at least and some really, really badly hurt. Very, very badly hurt. The mayor was telling me some of the houses came down. They got here right after that happened. And people are walking out of their houses and you might explain that, what that looked like. It was just it was a war , zone. Middle of the night. Very difficult to maneuver. That was the First Responders. We cant say enough about the First Responders that were here. Went in they run in when , everyone else is running out. They ran in and took care of these folks. Ems, it wasire and amazing. We have people that were so disoriented, they were wandering out down the roads and through the fields and the woods trying to get to safety and figure out where they could go. And our great group of responders took care of them immediately. And it was, we are so sad. Pres. Trump they did not know what happened. All of a sudden they are watching television or something and all of a sudden they are , walking on the street. There was one young boy i heard he was taken out of the house. One minute he is in his house and the next he is laying in his yard. It happened that fast. Pres. Trump a couple blocks away. Another family, the husband huddled over the wife and child and the roof came off, and he was sucked out. They were all sucked out of the yard. They survived. But i think it is important to cookville here in and in the county, while the re were 25 deaths in the state, 18 were right here in our city and county. Eight of them on this particular street. We can continue to ask for prayers for the community, for the families that will be burying people over the next week. Pres. Trump thank you very much. President trump, [indiscernible] pres. Trump as we are doing it now, we will also stop at the church where there are a lot of people, huddled up in the church. It is a cold day. And they are all huddled up. We are going to go to the church also we are seeing people over here. Mr. President on another tragic topic, regarding coronavirus. [indiscernible] considering deferring taxes for the airlines and cruise tips and cruise ships and others affected . Pres. Trump we are looking at options. We did get tremendous job numbers this morning. They were talking about a few at the 80,000 to the 270,000, that is in the three had a 50,000 range. That is not something you want to be talking about. [indiscernible] pres. Trump almost momentarily the mayor called me and the governor called me and we had calls from a lot of people. That was an immediate emergency but we spoke and we approved it within minutes of the call. [indiscernible] pres. Trump to be determined, what they need. We are going to take care of what they need. Will be doing assessments area that helps determine what the numbers will be. The way it works is, as we determine the amount, that is how the numbers will be assessed. And that is how what the , assistance will be. Pres. Trump much of that money goes to help for people wiped out. Theyre wiped out. Have nothing. And many people died. [indiscernible] people out here the past couple of days, do you have any words you may not be able to [indiscernible] pres. Trump well i love them. , i love them very much. That is why i am here. Some people would not be here. There was no way i was not going to stop here first. And i was going to do it yesterday. But they asked me for one more day because they were looking for bodies, believe it or not, up until just now. Now they have pretty much covered everything. But and just, god be with them. And we are going to be with them. We are going to be with them all the way. I can tell you, the governor feels the same as i do. And the mayors, i want to just congratulate because of the job you have done, everybody is talking about it. They have not slept in 48 hours. Neither have you. Come to think of it. We are going to see the people now. Say hello to them. Do whatever you can do. It is tough. A lot of people have lost people within the family. One family got entirely wiped out. There was one case, and eightyearold boy was ripped flown to a certain area, dropped off in the street, they found him walking. He said i flew through the air. They were deceased . They were dead . So it took him and he said i was carried by the air from my house. There. Over his parents were killed, and his sister. So we are going to see some of these folks. It comes out to be a campaign in which we are one candidate who is standing up for the working class and the middle class, we are going to win that election. Who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. Tuesday for six states, idaho, michigan, mississippi, missouri, north dakota, and washington. Watch our campaign 2020 coverage of the campaigns speeches and results, tuesday evening, live orcspan, cspan. 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