cabana rather than commander-in-chief. the first blaze in hawaii broke out august 8th. he announced a statement on the 9th and aid on the 10th. gave no comment death toll on the 13. when you say no comment that s tell me you really didn t care or you didn t have nothing planned for today s visit casting a long shadow over the island s response effort amid reports hawaiian electric failed to adopt emergency plans and update its equipment despite known fire risk. biden said in a statement sunday i know how profoundly laws can impact a family and community and i know nothing can replace the loss of life. is he earning low marks for empathy in east palestine, ohio. after promising to visit 170 days ago. more than 200 families are still out of their homes with epa testing still unfinished. they are a no-show here and haven t been arnold. haven t really heard from them. biden faces pressure from
probably similar information to what was passed today. if any new information comes up, we ll update that. but i think ideally we have been putting out press releases daily, and we d look at doing another briefing tomorrow. can i just ask you one last [ inaudible question ] i don t know. can you reiterate for us how big of an urgency is this for the coast guard? how do they give it priority? do you prioritize these things? do you classify them at priority red, one, two, three. how big owe priority is this? this operation is our biggest priority right now within the district. we have every available asset we can that s to this that we can designate to it on this. that s why we are spending so much time and energy trying to coordinate really this response effort to truly understand the scale of how far away this truly is. and in the context of the type
of support here in turkey in terms of the humanitarian response effort and, indeed, from the international community. we have seen those commitments of aid and humanitarian support from turkey s international partners, including the united states and we do know that secretary blinken has departed from munich and is on his way to turkey, expected to be touring the province of hatay hard hit by the earthquake. thousands there have lost everything in hatay. he is also expected to be touring an aid distribution center in the province to take a look at that response effort. but the message that we have been hearing from aid groups and from the territories working on the ground is that they simply need more. they need more support from the turkish government, and crucially they don t want to be forgot been i the international community because, of course, this is a process that is going to take months, if not years. we have heard from the turkish government.
international community. the united nations for its part has already announced a flash appeal over the next three months for $1 billion in aid. that is going to be pushed towards the aid relief program. that comes after a further appeal for some $400 million in support of the response effort in northwest syria. but for the turkish government as well there is going to be a huge challenge ahead when it comes to the infrastructure in southeast turkey. as you mentioned there, more than 100,000 buildings so far identified as either having already collapsed or being unsafe and requiring immediate demolition. there are still hundreds of thousands of buildings left to be assessed and examined. that is a process that is ongoing. and then there is the question of accountability. there is a growing sense of frustration here in turkey, some even angry that perhaps the government wasn t as prepared as it could have been for a disaster of this scale. the government for its part is carrying out an in
mentioned, a lot of distrust over what officials are saying about how safe this town is to be in. that is a challenge that they acknowledged during the trip here. i m asking that they trust the government. that s hard. we know that there s a lack of trust, which is why the state and the federal government have pledged to be very transparent. as soon as we get information, we ll post the information. as to why he waited nearly two weeks to come out here, this morning regan said it s because he didn t want to pull resources from the response effort. we should point out, senior administration officials including president routinely visit disaster areas a lot sooner than this. today we asked governor dewine if she wishes it hadn t taken so long. if i was a federal official, would i have gone to the scene? yeah, i would have. coming out and being there, you know, shows that we re focused