governor fallon and her staff and, of course, to the federal officials who have come here in our hour of need and been with us. thank you all. oklahoma city police department, as usual, the response has been overwhelming by all the partner agencies. public safety, all the volunteer agencies. from the state, local, federal, just overwhelming as we have come to expect. obviously we have dealt with this in the past. right now, oklahoma city itself, which has a smaller smaller task than moore has. the area has he been affected is only about an eighth square mile. that s is with moderate to really extreme damage. there is about four square miles now that we actually have cordoned off. that mile only people right now. homeowners to go into those
and again i want to spread my thanks to governor fallin and her staff and to the federal officials who have come here in our hour of need and been with us. thank you all. chief with the oklahoma city police department. as usual, the response has been overwhelming by all the partner agencies. and public safety. all the volunteer agencies, from the state. local, federal. it s just overwhelming as usually you come to expect that. obviously we ve dealt with this in the past. right now, oklahoma city in and of itself, which has a much smaller task that moore has, the area that s been affected is only about an eight square miles, that s with moderate to really extreme damage. there s about four square miles that we actually have cordoned off. that area is cordoned off where people onlyt pnt we re
593-5312. you re welcome to call that. and just get in contact with me. thank you. i m sam porter. i m the state director of disaster relief for the convention in oklahoma. and i also want to speak on behalf of all the volunteer agencies, nonprofit and faith-based agencies in oklahoma. there s about 30 to 40 of them that are responding. we had a conference call today. and they are we work very closely with the governor and albert ashwood and even mr. fugate, we appreciate him coming. we work over the united states, but the grandfather of tornadoes came yesterday. we just want you to know we will be working as long as. we re oklahomans, we ll be here until it s over. one of the main things we do is provide many meals. we have a truck that can do 30,000 meals. if we need more, we ll that does it for this edition
to those seniors who rely on them. and as one oklahoma man interviewed by a pbs affiliate put it, it forces volunteer agencies to make some awful decisions. willfully, do you want to be the person who says, you, you, you, you and you, no meals today. you, you, you and you, can t get a ride to the doctor. but it s not just meals on wheels. head start cuts are likely to effect up to 70,000 children. in fact, in indiana, they ve had to hold lotteries to determine which students they must remove from their programs. even small business, which republicans claim they represent, stand to lose up to $902 million in loan guarantees. congressman mike rogers of alabama is one of many congressmen just back from recess. and while at home, well, he got an earful from a small businessman about the sequester cuts. if the house of representatives had done more to
doing at all levels. it s about what the volunteer agencies are doing. we have people from the salvation army and red cross. we ll talk about what our volunteer agencies are doing to support our citizens. thanks, administrator fugate, and thank you secretary napolitano. we appreciate your leadership. our organizations are very tightly linked. they continue to work well together, and we really appreciate the partnership. we re now in the middle of what could be one of the largest responses that the red cross operations have had in recent memory. there were a number of evacuations and that reinforcing the serious nature and how far-reaching this storm is. we have operations in more than a dozen states. our priority right now is sheltering, and last night we had 13,000 people in our shelters from the states that were evacuated. we have nearly 150 shelters open