be unfair to president obama if personal briefings were getting out that were given to him. governor, i d like your take on this battle now between congressman john lewis and the president elect. obviously the basis of it is that lewis said he is not a legitimate president. the president elect swung back saying that he is a man of all talk, no action. obviously the context of this is his civil rights work all the way back from 1965 on. what s your take on how the president elect responded? should he have swung back in time? well, let me first say this, i just got out of the toughest election i have ever been in, i lost by 10,000 votes out of 4.6 million, there were things i didn t like about the election, there are things that i m still questioning about the election, but my my replacement, the new governor of north carolina, is the legitimate governor of north carolina and that should never be questioned by another elected official and i feel the same way about the president ele
president obama declared a state of emergency over the lead contaminated water in flint, michigan. a year later, it is not safe to drink unfilt arered. governor pat mccorey signed the controversial law to limit bathroom options for transgender are people. major companies announced plaques to take the business elsewhere. and biggest shake-up in political history after donald trump won enough delegates to clinch the nomination. and he later named mike pence has running mate. and hillary clinton had had a tough charge from the independent senator from vermont, bernie sanders. she chose virginia senator tim kaine as vice-president candidate. and a gunman opened fire in a gay night club in orlando kill
the calls for assistance has been 754 and that s just in the last 12-hour period. am i right? we re looking at 323 collisions just in that time frame. unfortunately, we ve had three fatalities through this weather event so far and the rescue teams are really much at play here. we ve got eight deployed. we re receiving four from tennessee. five more on the way. that s something that we re continuing to do and make sure that we have on standby as we need going forward. we have 11 aircrafts available for aerial rescues as they are deployed right now and 106 high-water vehicle. so there s a lot of equipment and people and first responders on the roads. that s why we need everybody to stay off the roads. other states have been incredibly helpful. i just communicated with governor pat mccorey who has said he will help in any way
carolina is probably not as conservative as its current government may lead you to believe. and what we re seeing may be the inevitable backlash when one party controls government and pushes their agenda too far. democrats are in charge for a long time in north carolina, and now we re seeing a backlash that way. the situation has created plenty of headaches for the current governor, pat mccorey, many he made himself. for instance, mccorey made headlines in 2013 to protect the state s economic climate. i ve made a decision to get off the credit card and but i m willing to work with the president to see what we can do in the future and congress and have ongoing talks about the flexibility that states have in the issue. and i believe in flexibility, because each state has its own unique needs. now, the economy isn t mckory s only problem, still dealing with the coal ash bill, which raised questions of whether the governor gave special treatment to a company he once worked for.
about the street s sweetheart deal with the governor s former borks the week after that the u.s. attorney s office in north carolina opened a federal criminal investigation into the state s handling of coal ash. federal prosecutors subpoenaed duke energy and subpoenaed the mccrory administration. 18 separate staffers of the mccrory administration s environment agency. prosecutors specific kpli asking staffers for details about money or items of value they might have exchanged with duke energy. those subpoenas call for testimony, testimony, in-person testimony before a grand jury in raleigh, north carolina, starting tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and possibly continuing through thursday of this week. that testimony happens in closed court starting tomorrow morning. north carolina s environmental agency tonight said they wouldn t confirm whether the hearing is still scheduled for tomorrow or how many staffers they expect to testify. so what happens before that grand jury could remain a mystery. o