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Newtok is a very rural. Community with their language and their culture and their subsistence its really strong here still and thats a good thing but worst Case Scenario my fear is that a couple of houses are lost families or are displaced and have to move to other communities or bethel with other family members and that yeah this that that new village doesnt get built quick enough for new talk to move there and then it the Community Ends up repairing out. What they see the river the truck. Well. For folks who believe that sense of belonging is taken away so then you have to try to reestablish that feeling of belonging. You not thank you every day that i got a whole lot of money here you get those conveniences but what you lose is the access to food and the access to community and when youre part of the tribe its very difficult to leave and not kill a sense of loss. To see this gas station or. Someone going to some guy was shot here last summer got killed right there the gas station a
Gov. Abbott first i want to thank everybody for being here. Everythingk the people around me have been working on so very much. The chief, who has been one of the leaders in responding to covid19. We have the general who has done document is job in helping texas respond to covid19 and to instill a sense of safety and security in our communities to allow peaceful protests to occur. I want to point out in particular the director who has been involved across the entire state over the past week, making sure that our communities are as safe as possible. Also, all of these people behind the cameras who have been manning this Emergency Operations center, for everything you have been working on in the course of responding to covid19. In typical texas fashion, we are dealing with multiple challenges at one particular time. What we are here to talk about today is the status of this Tropical Storm. You can see the map of it behind me. I will be making reference to that map as we talk about the pa