not get. 74 lost kentuckians as of now. that number will grow. brittany, we can use good news. this weekend, like everyone across our commonwealth, devastated to see the destruction in our western communities. these tornadoes would have marked one of the most awful days in our state s history, no matter when they struck. it s even more painful that this tragedy happened just a few weeks before christmas. especially during this time of year, we look forward to being home for the holidays spending time with those that mean most of us. many of us don t have homes to go to or even worse, they have lost someone that they love who
introduction that so many black lgbtq people don t have houses, don t have homes. we deal with housing insecurity. so the thing i grapple with in this moment of acknowledgment, this isn t just about climate change or natural disasters but the policy decisions that city planners are making. this is about the lack of ethical city planning that has resulted in the widening of roads, the natural processes that deal with water. and i want us to be clear that we have an obligation to think about the climate, the earth that we are inhabiting for a short period of time and we need to ensure that city planners and those that make decisions at the municipal level have an understanding of and experiences with communities who are most disaffected. yeah, completely. i just want to give you a quick two seconds before we move on. climate change is something that i do think with some pockets people are into it.
to rush them to help. the really good news is that all of our hospitals, i just told our last hospital, are online now. so all of our hospitals have electric power. as the days go on we ll have more victories like this. it was nothing but bad, bad news for several days. and i told my teams this will flip on us as more assets come. we will start rebuilding and getting better and better news as the days go by. parts of your parish have been repeatedly decimated by storms. are you rethinking where and how you rebuild as hurricane season becomes an even greater annual threat down the road? absolutely. the immediate need now is we have people who don t have homes, and then we have people who have liveable homes if we could get tarps on top of them. so that s the difference there. but many of the more modern buildings are going to build back stronger. some of those homes in lafitte
welcome back. louisiana is beginning down a road that looks to be a long one for recovery following hurricane ida. the whole communities were destroyed in the storm, and many areas under water and yesterday the louisiana governor john bel edwards told the residents do not come back to your homes in no uncertain terms, and some don t have homes to come back. and there is still so many without power, and that means no refrigeration for food or hospitals and many of the areas that have been hit hard by covid have to use the backup generators for overcrowded patient care. fema was able to evacuate some for less impacted hospitals, but even at capacity, there were few hospitals that had room to take the patients. ellison barber is on the ground there in new orleans, and there is a couple of things about new orleans, and i would like a near-term update on the power
cost proposing it be about $20000 per unit. at $3 billion you would solve la s problem four times over. la would only need half of the money they pledge of they would follow plan like this, so i like the private market solutions to some of these homeless problems. i get it, you like the private sector solution. if politicians get their hands in the mix and they want the government to solve it for everyone , but is this really the solution? no one wants homelessness, you want to address it, but is building a amusement park for people that don t have homes the way to address the problems that folks have? what i like about it is low-cost shelters are for sure they need more shoulders up are the reason we ve seen such an explosion in california is that they are no longer enforcing the laws about sleeping on the streets and if you allow a behavior you will encourage that behavior and the response from la politicians and others is to make it more comfortable for these people to sleep on