David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
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.
He was really excited that rolling by and that fog will individual went around knocking steadily recovering thanks in linger for a little while longer on those doors. He said his grandmother is okay. Part to changes to its business but help keep us nice and cool her unit, though, suffered model. The company says it believes it for some of our inland areas. Were looking at a hot day as we will return to profitability in the next few months. Reach into the 90s. Significant damage. There is strong smoke and water along the coastline up to 60 in 6 19 for you this morning. Half moon bay and mid60s for damage. We all know that line everything back out here live the fire old is new again. Trucks have gone. San francisco. There are still some well talk about the week coming investigators on the side of the well, during the pandemic, that up. Mike, how is it looking for the building. We dont know what started the commute . Applies to movies. It looks like im worried fire. We do have a cause, we
Needed systemic change against racism today. Thank you. Thank you. You have zero questions remaining. We can continue, kate. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Director, chair tsen, robert beck. Covid19 continues to impact the lives of residents and commercial ten xhants and provide commercial tenants with the most pertinent information. Housing providers are following the Mayors Office and moratorium guidance in cases where residents have been unable to pay rent and title will be sending Additional Guidance to all commercial lease olders this week. The Health Officers shelter in place remains in effect and government is planning for reopening of activities and the department, office, and facility and health and safety plans prior to reopening. The reopening will not look the same as things did in january or february. We are as part of this effort, were exploring what services we can put online. And continued to be deployed to the gratest extent possible and factore