Inexperienced Severe Weather multiple regions across the state last night, with tornadoes inortedly touching down floyd, murray, walker and other counties. There are 59,000 georgians without power. We have 49 who were injured. 23 homes we know of that were destroyed. 59 other homes have minor damage , and there are 248 homes waiting to be assessed for damage. So far, we have confirmed that seven georgians have lost their life to this terrible storm, and certainly my thoughts and prayers go out to them, as well as their loved ones and their communities. Impact ofwidespread the declared state of emergency this morning for all counties to facilitate the deployment of criticallyneeded resources across our state. In coordination with private sector partners, the department of public safety, the department of Natural Resources, the department of transportation haneda georgia for Street Commission, are all working hard to restore power, clear debris, and provide assistance to the families and
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Mr. President , thank you very much for coming today. I want to again thank you for your support of everything weve been doing in this obviously very important problem. First i would ask to have Francis Collins make a couple comments about the nih in general and then i will talk about some of the things you and i have been talking about for the past few weeks. Thank you. Welcome. Its wonderful to have you here. Even though we are in fact faced with a Serious Public Health situation we have a lot of people here working hard but are honored by the presence of the secretary. Starting over here the Deputy Director of the Vaccine Resource Center ancenter and that is whee right now. Next to him the frontline on the bench making this thing happen. You know doctor fauci of course and next to him, the director of the Vaccine Resource Center and next to him the principal Deputy Director of nih and we are all thrilled to have you here. I just want to say a word about nih because we havent had the
very real sandy hook mass massacre, calling it a fake. they today a texas jury ordered him to pay more than $4 million in damages to parents of six-year-old jesse lewis, one of the 20 young children and six teachers murdered in that shooting. jessie s parents wanted at least 150 million for defamation. this afternoon their lawyer said the next step in this case is the real name of the game. the jury just returned a verdict for damages exceeding $4 million. that s a darn good start. we now have the punishment phase. it s perfectly expect-able that we are going to see an over nine figure judgment against mr. jones. that punishment phase of the trial begins tomorrow. jurors have already heard about the damage done by alex jones s lies. i can t even describe last night i have nightmares of the living hell that i and others have had to endure because of the negligence and the recklessness of alex jones. jones may soon face even more legal jeopardy. yesterday the lawyer for