leaving behind death and destruction. i noticed that the tornadoes and their aftermath have generated a politically unified response while republican senators rand paul and mitch mcconnell have backed governor bashear s efforts. even a former legislator running against rand paul for senate praised the goffer s leadership and he joins me now. former representatives charles booker democrat of kentucky now a senate candidate. mr. booker, thank you for being here tonight. we saw the devastation from the tornadoes that tore across your state last week and what caught my attention is kentucky senator rand paul asking president biden for immediate federal assistance and biden of course declaring a federal disaster the next day providing kentucky with the full
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bashear. telling them we re here for thinking in a you need is the important message today. they are announcing cases of the highly transmissible omicron variant is being detected and millions of americans are getting ready to travel for the holidays. so how concerned are you with the rapid surge of positive cases that we have seen some 1,000 cases there, they re shutting down the campus and going virtual. yeah, there is a few things. he is torically, but with alpha and delta we had a four to six week lag period, but it looks
one of the most impactful statements was when governor bashear the number of missing on sunday when he was talking to chuck ran eight pages single spaces. gabe, over in mayfield, where the president made a stop this afternoon, i wonder what you re hearing from the community about what they thought about the visit and also federal action overall? reporter: hi there, chris. well certainly they re glad for the attention. but they want to see the follow up. i ve noticed today, even more so than yesterday, you see all of this activity here. and down here, if you could look, this power pole is one of many that were splintered and so many people here with without power. just a few minutes ago, actually right over there behind me there was a utility crew putting up new power poles and continues that work just down the street and the recovery effort here is really moving at a quick pace. of course, can t come quick enough for some of these
it, but it s not stopping people from getting breakthrough infections. so i think the messaging was not clear with either administration. and i think that s one of the ways we have been successful in our state, is with clear, direct messaging that people can believe in. and listen to. and that s been a problem all over the map. governor bashear, i m curious on your thoughts on the biden task force and your metric, if you hit the number, mask mandate triggers. if you re below the number of infection, no. why has it been hard to just create a statistical line here? we know when a tropical storm becomes a hurricane because you measure the wind speed. why has that been difficult with covid? well, it has been difficult, and it shouldn t be because it s just basic science. and our health care providers have been wearing masks for decades. why? to prevent infection in different areas. i think this is a test of our