Good morning, the hearing will come to order. Er id like to say on one hand, its nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member, but thesa circumstances are unfortunate to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu, so senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We certainly want to send them our thoughts and prayers, for claire, for joe, and their family members as well. I just mentioned, i texted with claire last night to see how he was doing. He apparently had a massive heart attack, a serious heart attack, and had an internal defebrlter that mayay have save his life, and theres some additional surgery work that needs to be done, but to what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you. Ng i also want to thank our witnesses. Not only for being here, for your testimony and for what youre about to answer in terms of ouron questions, but really r the last two and a half months. I have been to femas response center. I have talked to the men and
Happening over the venetian bridge. Our pete suratos is standing by for a News Conference at the center there. What did you find out. Reporter they tell us theres going to be a News Conference at about 11 45 a. M. It could be a combination of police as well as other city officials speaking at that News Conference. I want to go and show you guys a live look right now. You can see it on the screen of the situation right now at the valero refinery. You can see the flames coming out of the stacks. When we were crossing the cartinas bridge earlier we could see the black smoke. The flares are a result of a power outage at the refinery just before 7 00 a. M. Were learning that pg e says it happened during what they call a routine switching but that power was restored shortly after. Now, as you mentioned, some places are still being asked to shelter in place such as Matthew Turner and Roberts Temple Elementary School and folks at the nearby Industrial Park were also notified to evacuate. Now,
Head across the bay, 48 Miles Per Hour in easton now. I did see a peak wind gust earlier at Virginia Beach around 60 Miles Per Hour. As the storm continues to move its track is expected to take it close to elgin, maryland and up toward lancaster, pennsylvania. It looks like the winds will continue to increase through the overnight hours. Topper will talk more about that wind field. I wish we had better news, but we dont. It looks like it is going to strengthen and give us more damaging winds tonight through tomorrow morning. This is the Hurricane Force wind 7 00, a couple hours from now it. Looks like pretty much the entire dell marv parks the bay, tidal delmarva, the bay, tidal potomac will be experiencing Hurricane Force warnings. There is a hurricane wind warning up for the tidal potomac and chesapeake bay. Well take you into 2 00 this afternoon. Pardon me . Now the twin fields are essentially over the the wind fields are essentially over the immediate metro area. Theyve shifted sou
Rock springs residents from returning home. It flooded. Crews are working to repair it. Now that water is slowly receding here, building inspectors will have to go in and check out each structure. The reoccupation will be phased based on our ability to clear, and also, were going to find some structures are going to be inhabitable. And others will be. Vietnamese residents were not getting details of the cleanup and when they can go home. I think theres some lack of distribution of information we have. Information flyers are now passed out in vietnamese, spanish and english. With the uncertainty of which buildings will be deemed safe, tommy vu doesnt know the process of how long it will take. Where are you going to live . What are you going to do . Im not sure. I have to go around and see my neighbors and cousins. The councilmember is asking landlords to suspend rent for three months. The flurry of activity to help residents included mayor sam licardo, who went door to door to offer ass
Building inspectors are starting the job of seeing whether jobs are safe to enter. With floodwaters from coyote creek receding, people are getting the chance to go home and assess the damage. The red areas show where mandatory evacuations are in effect for. Officials havent said when people could be back in their homes many residents live in still flooded rock springs area. David louie has been covering the flooding since day one. You know, youve been hearing lots of complaints. First residents were complaining they didnt get noticed about the evacuations and they ended up getting flooded out. A city councilmember is saying the vietnamese residents are not being told whats going on. Its a stressful time as thousands of flood victims are facing uncertainty. This sanitary pump station is one of the irk us holding back rock springs residents from returning home. It flooded. Crews are working to repair it. Now that water is slowly receding here, building inspectors will have to go in and c