This story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. Greetings and salutation. The United States of america is on fire in the course of just over one weeks time thousands upon thousands of protesters have taken to the streets and city after city across the country from sea to shining sea to announce in one unified voice that black lives matter and that the violence and institutional racism of the u. S. Criminal Justice System and is now. The rebellion my friends has begun and i dont use that word lightly i dont use rebellion lightly and while this massive uprising may have begun on the streets of minneapolis with the murder of the 46 year old black man george floyd by 4 Minneapolis Police officers for the horrendous crime of supposedly buying cigarettes with a counterfeit 20. 00 bill no make no mistake that the spark that ignited this fire was actually lit centuries ago when the 1st a
This, we are going to get through this together. I know it looks a little bit different today. Atts because we are over our Emergency Management operations center. Muchis the area where so do in response toin battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and every challenge we face and everything that happens here. An opportunity to show you a little bit to show the inside of our response. I want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management in kentucky. Gives him an opportunity to welcome you to the center. He has been doing a great job. Thank you, governor. Christened the building in 20 13. We have about 25,000 square feet on the roof. Currently at level three. We are under unified command. About 100 personnel working. If you have an opportunity to see some of the floor, we are spread out over a number of buildings to social distance and do our work. For this event, we are in support of our department of Public Health, also colocated with u
Operations center. Of the work that we do in response to battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and other challenges that we face. Some of it so much of it happens here. It gives us an opportunity to show you a little bit of the inside of our response. Inside of our response. And i want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management here in the National Guard has a joint Operation Center and we work in concentration with all cabinet. Every cabinet is represented on the floor, and we work shifts seven days a week, and we assist in procurement for ppe, obviously that is a strong issue about the nation and for our state, and we also do Resource Management in support of 120 counties. Thank you. Gov. Beshear michael has been team,aluable part of the as has all of his staff in everything from securing ppe to coordinating our kroger testing sites, we appreciate his work, and he is renowned across the country for his experience in Emergency Man
Stream forroviding a sign language. ,868f today, we have 13 confirmed cases. 515 people in the hospital. And 527 deaths. Briefing since our states first death, i have shared the number of fatalities due to covid19. As North Carolina moves into phase one today, i want to everyone to a member what those numbers mean. Every time our state counts another death, a family and a community descend into mourning. I want to share with you some of their stories. One of them belongs to a man from Montgomery County known as officer bud. He served as a sheriffs deputy and School Resource officer for 14 years and was in good health, never missing work or calling in sick. One person described him as a superhero. A local mom recalled how he sat and talked with her son, who was frequently bullied and have found himself alone at the school dance. Officer bud made home visits if he was worried about a students home life that might be troubled. His motto was anything for the kids. He died march 31 at the a
I know it looks a little bit different today. And that is because we are over at our Emergency Management Operations Center. This is the area where so much of the work that we do in response to battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and other challenges that we face. Some of it so much of it happens here. It gives us an opportunity to show you a little bit of the inside of our response. Inside of our response. And i want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management here in kentucky. Give him an opportunity to welcome you to the center. s name is Michael Dossett and he has been doing a great job. Michael . Michael thank you, governor. Welcome to the state eoc. We christened the building in 2013. We have about 25,000 square feet. We are currently at level three for this operation. We are under unified command. We have 100 personnel working. If you have an opportunity to see some of the floor, they are spread out over a number of buildin