washington republicans have momentum here. a lot can happen between now and november. the latest report is providing us all key insight. gallup says over the last year it conducted 13 telephone polls asking americans which political party they were leaning closer to. at the start democrats led by 9 points. 49% leaned democrat. as 2021 progressed the numbers flip-flopped with more americans identifying with republicans. however, gallup says republicans shouldn t be popping champagne corks yet writing the gop advantage may be starting to ease, however, as gallup s latest monthly estimate from december showed the two parties even. 46% support for republicans and democrats with 44% democratic leaning. polling appears to be tied to president biden s approval rating. his support has flipped significantly but the white
we have no decrease in numbers for telephone polls and power poles that are down. 8,000. three of the large co-ops across the state. so expect a delay in putting the new poles in. that is a very intense labor and then they have to string the wires. update on water and sewer systems out of the impact area. most all of the systems are operating and that includes 16 to the system. one in south hopkins and one in morton s gap are about to come back online. we have provided a generator for that power to powerer that water system. so that should be fine. james, if you could bring up the one slide, please. this is a slide that depicts the actual number of tornadoes.
where ridge crest is, again, trying to help with that, as we look through the response here that s happening. you can imagine, this happened just about an hour ago. so, 10:30, 10:40 pacific time. it does take an hour or two to begin to get the information in about where there is damage and how bad it is. but at least two dozen incidents they re saying, and structure fires. one can also wonder how difficult it is for the fire department, the police department in and around ridge crest and also china lake to get around. telephone polls have been knocked over, etc. it is a difficult scenario there. we haven t been able to turn around and get the video on air of liquor stores with everything on the shelf cleared off. looks like someone walked through and just pushed everything onto the floor. arthel: keeping in mind dr. jones of caltech, she said, listen, there is a 48 second
of electrical people putting in more telephone polls than i have ever seen in my life on major thoroughfares, the utilities are being restored. the key factor is the weather is good, the winds are gone, everything is calm. it s not hot. the moisture, the fuels is going up, so we re in a good position. we re actually scheduled to get some rain next week and so long as it s a little bit of rain, that will actually be a good thing. if it s a lot of rain, it could be a bad thing, but as i understand it s supposed to be a little, but we are preparing for the worst and getting lots of sandbags out there. everything has been, all those beautiful hills, there s nothing on them anymore. that is the next disaster, mud slides, very much going to affect your town, sir, and so will you be ready for it? do you have the resources and if you don t, what do you need? we re getting all the resources we can, and as i said, so long as the rains are not too severe, i think we ll be okay. they re very s
maria showed up, and when this hurricane came knocked down 80% of telephone polls and electricity was out, a catastrophic scale. david, precisely, because everything you just said is true, precisely why puerto rico was in such bad shape, infrastructure, electric grid-wise, it needed and required more preparation. it required more help and that is where the federal government and the puerto ricans failed. it s a failure on multiple levels. the puerto rican people were failed by all levels of government. the facts are facts. when you take a look at the way the federal government, fema, reacted to harvey in texas and irma in florida, and i was in florida, and then you see within the same nine days, it is it was millions and millions and millions more meals in the first nine days to texas and irma. let me finish. i m basing this on the gao report. not according to the gao report. fema did acknowledge in their after action report that they