we call them islanders, they have that spirit they love that area. they have been here with us for quite some time, we have a lot of new people, through covid-19 they migrated here because of crazy policies of thethe blue states, but i tell you, everyone i don t care if you got here 6 months or been here for two decades or your whole life, everyone attitude is pick up the piece and get moving, you know have that on the ground, from your state constituency it makes it easier to do the job and make the decisions swiftly, get aid where to needs to go and order rebuilds, people who have come here, they came here for the same culture, same freedom spirit that caused them to come in the first place, we re seeing that on the ground. mark: are you getting calls from other members of
last thing you want them to do is learn a whole new school because you have to send them somewhere else. we re going to try real hard if we have to delay a couple extra days to get them back to their own schools, those are days well spent. that would be the priority. i feel like i have so many questions for you just on a logistical level. i look at these pictures of the destruction and i can only imagine how many families are now displaced. i m talking about students and staff as well. do you have any idea how many teachers, how many school staff no longer have a home? the answer to that is many. it s not a few. we have teachers and staff members at every school who have varying levels of damage to their home from ceilings on the floor to damage enough that they can barely get out of their own driveways to they will need complete rebuilds.
community and they re going to make such a big difference as puerto rico rebuilds. thank you, governor, for your partnership as we work together to rebuild puerto rico. and i mean rebuild it all and in a resilient way when storms come again we don t have the damage they caused before. i want to thank community leaders that join us today, ever since the hurricane struck. jill and i are had people in puerto rico in our mind and in our prayers. we came here in person to show that we re with you. all of america is with you. as you receive and recover and rebuild. i m confident to confident we re going to be able to do all you want, governor. i m committed to this high land. puerto rico has been through so much in recent years. hurricane maria five years ago, 6.4 earthquake two years ago.
large puerto rican population in delaware relative to our population, we have the eighth largest black population in the country and between all minorities we have 20% of our state is minority. and so i was sort of raised in the pores reek puerto rican community at home politically. and we came here for a long time both for business and pleasure, since you re part of the third circuit court of appeals and delaware as well, and our chairman of the judiciary committee, i spent a lot of time in the northern part of the state. but look, it s people like you, who do so much for your community. and who make such a big difference as puerto rico rebuilds. thank you, governor, for your partnership, as we work together to help rebuild puerto rico. and i mean we build it all. and rebuild it in a resilient way. so when storms come again, which they will, they are not having
for climate studies has said that over the next 80 years, the state can expect disruptive sea level rise, a substantial increase and the chance of flood from coastal storms. after this hurricane do you think that now is the time to talk about how and where north carolina rebuilds. this is an issue of climate change. well it is simone i think it s important to say first of that i m really sorry and my prayers to the folks who have suffered devastation and loss of life. and north carolina, south carolina, florida and other states and we are certainly felt the impact of heavy rainfall here. the wind and flooding as you just saw. a lot of folks have lost electricity. we certainly want to make sure that these folks get back on their feet, and that they have the support that they need to be able to move forward. this is a tough time for north carolina. our hurricane season gets