individual. we ll leave that at that. before announcing sentence on these cases, with regard to all of the other pending cases, are any of them here in colleton, i m sure some of them are. yes, sir. half of them or? i don t have that in front of me, but there are a substantial number of charges here, buford s, allendale, there may be others i m not thinking of right now. we might have warn out our welcome here. they have been and i ll take this opportunity to thank sheriff hill and all of the court officials and really everyone i ve met and dealt with while here in colleton county, just been great. without any delay we re going to schedule some of the other matters. i know mr. harpootlian s scheduling is complicated and you ve sacrificed quite a bit to be able to be here defending mr. murdaugh as well as the attorney general s office with all the other many, many they thinks and obligations you have and to be able to have the attorney general here, alan wilson, for th
you re working as fast as you can. you re getting some help from the california natural resources agency fire department. they ve committed about 255 crew members to you guys. how helpful has that been, and what else do you need? absolutely. we ve cleared more than 7 million cubic feet of snow, which is unprecedented. you know, we have more than 3 to 400 firefighters working around the clock with our folks from local and state and county agencies clearing snow. so i think that, you know, the help from our local agencies and our state agency has been really helpful for a county to fete really get back on the road. we ve been running hundreds of incidents as well on the fire department side. benji hoping you have enough supplies so you can stay hunkered town. but have you heard anything about when things might get cleared for you? that s the big question is when will the roads be open, when can we get back to the grocery store. we are faring fine here. the power has remained on
still, know of on the fire-department side. and and our efforts, again, is still to to search the entire building. continue to search. and continue to looking through those voids and see what we can do to possibly rescue anybody that s still viable in the building. just how unstable is this 12 story what s left of this 12-story building. what sort of conditions are rescuers risking right now to carry out this search? that s a very good question. obviously, there is a lot of things that you can see from helicopters, drones, and/or the media on scene. unfortunately, what you don t see or don t see a lot is is what we are doing underneath this building. right now, i mean, what the rescue efforts that are going on underneath this building. trying to go, basically, from the parking garage, which is the basement of a building, into the actual building from the ground, up. it s it s a miracle what what the rescuers are doing and
fighting for their lives. harris: i do want to acknowledge the argument on the other side is when we look at orlando and other shootings were rethought san bernardino is probably better example because we thought there that we were dealing with radical islamic terrorists and that pretty so the conversation does go to different things politically. the president at the time hadn t called it the right thing. no matter where you stand, just busting away from politics no matter what the situation is. pete: these debates are predictable and completely predictable. radical islamic terrorism, the motive is unclear, and i talk about guns. harris: we need a safe zone zone. it should be obvious to everybody. pete: the left cannot resist themselves and they never will. rahm emanuel s adage that you never waste a good fight. harris: to ask after orlando, two weeks after san bernardino when the left, the right, everybody said we were going to talk about these issues, we didn t. so maybe yo
captain ketelsen standing in the back row, very humble. he doesn t want to be recognized. and captain kevin hanna standing in the back. those too general for the last four or five years have drove this boat from the fire department side of the fence to the police department and built the system along with the committee that came together to vent everything out. they ve done this. they have acquired the equipment to grant funding, they built this thing and told him yesterday at some point in time, the enormity of what you have done the united states fire services going to get done. this is what we are going to be writing reports and sending out as a result of this incident. so the work they ve done on the work we ve done collectively as a whole going to change the fire service across the country and away we integrate with our law enforcement partners on critical events. so at this point in time, i ll take a few questions. regarding the incident that night. at some point, i m going to ca