miami-dade.gov/hurricane. due to our own perhaps rigs, we continue to work at the county emergency operation center. we will begin to implement plans at the collapse site. our office of communications will provide you with information on when we will move for the hours and teams of our future briefings. we will remain service hours between 12. and 5:00 p.m. daily. the total number of families served today is 127. fema is also supporting our efforts. in order to access information for families, survivors, please go to fema.gov/disaster/3560. anyone impacted by this tragedy or wanting to stay up-to-date
south carolina. thank you very much for joining us. it s still unclear where this hurricane is going to go, where it s going to hit. but how prepared are you? well, the not knowing is one of the largest problems we face, but preparation, we re prepared because we work with our county emergency operation center and also our state emergency operation center just as governor mcmasters have given the orders for mandatory evacuation. so we re prepared from the standpoint that starting first thing in the morning, which is tuesday morning, we ll start doing an overall cleaning of our storm water system. so we ll start cleaning catch basins and stormwater grids. then on top of that, we ll start doing what we call trash and debris removal so that we won t have any hazards when the wind and rain starts around tuesday
now it is somewhat of a waiting game on a lot of this. molly: what sort of communication have you had with the broader state? with fema, that sort of thing? most of our contact with communication goes through the county emergency operation center. i just got off the policy committee call, and we are kind of following their lead as it relates to fema. we certainly have a lot of contacts and people who are contacting us. as it relates to these other agencies he referred to. at this point in time, it s still a little early and we are getting all of our pieces in place to make sure we are ready to respond when the time comes. molly: in the aftermath of a storm, very often there can be major economic hits, as well. not just the physical damage, but what it does to the economy when you have to take a break like this. this is a big spending weekend. has your community come forward with concerns about that? how things will be revealed till mike rebuilt on how
it up and running as soon as possible. a further press conference will be held at the county emergency operation center at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon of which the elected officials and first responders will give you as well as fbi will give you an update. at this time, this do being considered a federal violation and the primary investigative agency will be the federal bureau of investigation. i would like to personally thank the many first responders that had respond today this incident today to include the pittsburgh bureau of fire, pittsburgh bureau of police, ems, county police and fbi, atf and numerous others that i don t even can t even count how many first responders are here that are providing assistance. this will be a lengthy crime scene, we are asking people to that don t need to be in this
some nearly $8 billion and now enhancing that to 14.5 billion. the trump administration on friday sending $14.5 billion and funding request, we are watching the president, first lady there boarding air force one. final days before doors close and head off to next destination, the international airport in louisiana where he will be sitting down expecting to have a meet and greet on the ground there with members at the county emergency operation center. he ll be meeting with the national guard as well and as i mentioned a few moments ago, the cajun navy once he sets took back again in louisiana as the trip goes forward where it s possible we will be losing the shot. we are looking back from video moments ago before he actually boarded the plane to take off for his next set of this trip through the disaster area onto louisiana where we watched him interacting with coast guard members saying the final thank you, mentioning the 11,000