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Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Governor John Bell Edward said the storm is the strongest to hit his statement did not sustain the catastrophic damage that had been forecast parties joined at the briefing by other state officials. Good afternoon and thank you for being here this afternoon. We have our usual lineup today the officials here today with m me. Chip klein is going to speak in just a moment. He is of course chairman of the cpra he will talk about coastal flooding we have secretary of department of transportation and development, shawn wilson who will speak in a little bit on roadways. And then we have fire Marshal Butch browning who is here to answer questions that you might have about the fire at the Chemical Plant and west lake. And obviously you can ask questions of any of the officials here. First of all it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night. But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.
Arizona governors talked about the states response to the pandemic with the recent rise of cases thing the increase is linked to lower testing in hospitals around the state have the capacity to meet the needs of patients. From phoenix, one hour 15 minutes. Good afternoon everyone good to see everyone today. I went to begin by saying thank you to all the good people of arizona it has been an incredibly difficult several months increasingly so over the last couple of weeks. Thank you to all the peaceful protesters, Law Enforcement leaders, all the cops and deputies and our healthcare workers who have all been working overtime. Thank you for what you have done and i want to give you an update where we are in arizona around covid19. We will take a calm and steady approach and the decisions we make for Public Health and everything we talk about today will be informed by data and information and we want to make sure you have accurate data and information. Lets review briskly how far arizona
Pandemic with the recent rise of cases thing the increase is linked to lower testing in hospitals around the state have the capacity to meet the needs of patients. From phoenix, one hour 15 minutes. Good afternoon everyone good to see everyone today. I went to begin by saying thank you to all the good people of arizona it has been an incredibly difficult several months increasingly so over the last couple of weeks. Thank you to all the peaceful protesters, Law Enforcement leaders, all the cops and deputies and our healthcare workers who have all been working overtime. Thank you for what you have done and i want to give you an update where we are in arizona around covid19. We will take a calm and steady approach and the decisions we make for Public Health and everything we talk about today will be informed by data and information and we want to make sure you have accurate data and information. Lets review briskly how far arizona has come in the last three months. March 11, 2020 a declar