he was one of my best friends, so to me was a good friend. he and i, we get together almost every day. we play dominos. he helped everybody. if you need help, he s there for you. he never say no. he never back out. he was there. my father is the man that i always want to be and the man i pretend to be. good father. you couldn t ask for a better father. good grandfather. good great-grandfather. angel is an active member of the community, someone who looks out for others. for seven years we used to go down and pick up clothes and stuff for the poorest people and bring it back to the city and help out the people in the city. angel s world and that of his family is changed forever. put on a ventilator and confined to a hospital bed for the rest of his life. he s paralyzed from the neck down. we could communicate with him. he talks but we have to read his lips. he doesn t have a voice. he s still paralyzed from the neck down.
spring storms really highlights how well, we can work together as three organizations. i am not going to repeat what you already heard about the storm. it is obviously a very big one. it will cover a large amount of area, and while you can t exactly predict what mother nature is going to throw at you, i do feel the american red cross is better prepared and more prepared than ever. we have forged, as craig said, a number of partnerships, with the faith-based organizations, like national baptist convention, like the southern baptist convention, a lot of the ngos, like n.a.a.c.p., hope worldwide, americorps and a whole host of other faith-based organizations and nonprofit organizations. we are anticipating that, as i said, it will be a huge geographical area with lots of
all of the planning and preparation will be in vain if people don t heed the evacuation orders and as the secretary points out we have a whole of government approach, which means all the federal agencies under her leadership and the president have been working together to get ready to support the governors and their teams but it s not just about government. it is about volunteers and the ngo organizations and the private sector as well as the public, and the key partner of that historically and more importantly today as we prepare for this is the american rec and i d like to introduce the ceo of the american red cross. thank you very much, craig and first, let me acknowledge the wonderful partnership that we have with fema, and with secretary janet napolitano and administrator fugate. you are going to go toe-to-toe with mother nature you couldn t ask for a better sense of. set of partners. and i think that the way we were able to respond during the
above central america, across the gulf of mexico, just going to be a little west of cuba as they do this. they will land at runway 15 at kennedy in florida. bill karins is with us. this is ideal weather right now. it s perfect. everything s going well. it s past kind of the critical point. as the shuttle comes in, it has to go through our atmosphere and that s the most dangerous part. that s when the heat tiles take the most abuse and i think it s past that point. it s now passing cuba and about to head over florida. then it will do a bunch of high-speed turns to lose some of its momentum as it approaches the runway. the sun s coming up, you couldn t ask for a more picturesque morning for the last shuttle landing ever. obviously the heat is the big story, yesterday oppressive heat across the country, that has now arrived on the east coast. you will feel it this morning in the humidity levels that are much higher than yesterday. we have heat warnings in orange
point. as the shuttle comes in, it has to go through our atmosphere and that s the most dangerous part. that s when the heat tiles take the most abuse and i think it s past that point. it s now passing cuba and about to head over florida. then it will do a bunch of high-speed turns to lose some of its momentum as it approaches the runway. the sun s coming up, you couldn t ask for a more picturesque morning for the last shuttle landing ever. obviously the heat is the big story, yesterday oppressive heat across the country, that has now arrived on the east coast. you will feel it this morning in the humidity levels that are much higher than yesterday. we have heat warnings in orange that spread from tulsa, chicago, pittsburgh, all of ohio and right up the busy i-95 corridor. this is the amount of moisture in the air, and that dew point is high. the heat index today going to be ridiculous. we had a chance for some near record highs. as advertised, two days in a row, it gets better by sund