to come in and secure the area before we can assist local authorities if needed in debris removal. and finally, general, is there anything from washington that you re not getting that you need. i will tell you that we have the federal declaration and all of the support we needed. i was at the georgia emergency and home land security agency last night. the federal emergency management agencies, they show up at the headquarters ready to go and help our local authorities and couldn t be more proud of the interagency support and all of the things everyone has done in preparation to come. we saw it coming for days and everybody involved has prepared for days. while we can t control the weather, we can control the level in which we prepare for the weather effects and i believe every agency from the local to the federal level have done everything that we can do to this point. thank you so much, general carden and thanks to all of the men and women in the georgia
haven t had a hurricane of this magnitude in my 31 year career. i can tell you we ve practiced for this for years and i feel very confident that we ll be in a position to alleviate suffering and help get things back to normal as soon as possible after the storm passes. and what are they telling you will be the worst hit areas. we had a report from savannah where the bridge was closed and it looked like it was getting pretty tough there. yes, the storm moves north as we expected, we ll see more weather effects from the storm. i think the good news is that our governor and the georgia emergency management and home land security agency called for an investigation evacuation of east early enough so those people could evacuate. so at this point we re worried about infrastructure and what will happen with the power infrastructure particularly because that slows the reentry. if we have power lines on the ground, the power companies have
should we be concerned that there is a slowing in the momentum of what really is still just kind of this steady but not really gangbusters recovery. we have gained over the last year. we have been averaging about 180,000 jobs a month. this report is 175,000 in a very bad weather month. so you look at the trend lines. you see 48 consecutive months of private sector job growth to the tune of 8.7. sir, i m sorry to interrupt you. what i m wondering is, when you look at the last few months, and i know there has been some weather effects. the last few months compared to the last 12 months as a snippet of that, not excellent. should we be concerned that there is a dip here in the momentum? you don t think so. i look at longer trends. when we have a really good month, i don t get too giddy. when we have a really bad month, i don t get too down.
million people in connecticut so you have a significant population here without power tonight. we re actually next to a hotel resort that has generator power and this is one of the few places that does have power. if you look at the power grid outage maps along the shoreline nearly every community is at least 75% or more out at this hour and as we saw with irene and then with the october snowstorm, it can take a long time, perhaps a week or even nine or ten days before the power gets restored for a lot of these folks. and that is the latest from old saybrook, connecticutment we want to go back to cape may, new jersey. we told you this is a continually developing story and more weather effects being felt although the worst is over. jay gray is there and i understand it started raining again. reporter: yeah, chris, we have seen a little more rain dropping in which is exactly what they don t need in this small community. there s already been some flooding problems.
attention to this as we ve been saying, this is the worst we have ever seen in this country. human cases have been reported in 38 states. explain why we are seeing such severity this year around? what do you think is driving this? i don t understand we understand exactly why this year has been such an aggressive year. we ve only seen this virus in our country now for about ten years, though so we still don t have a lot of understanding of exactly how this virus spreads, what makes it worse, what makes it better. but certainly based on the numbers where we have seen to this point in august this is going to be a very, very severe year for west nile virus, and may be one of the worst years we have ever seen. why? a lot of people think it may be because of the very dry and mild winter we had, followed by a very dry and mild i m sorry a very hot summer. it would be those kinds of weather effects that have caused this to be much more aggressive.