We have your statement. It will be including the record in its entirety and under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety if you wish or summarize, either way. I will summarize it. I am here to provide a frank response the questions regarding the Exxon Valdez Oil spill and to describe our continuing efforts to deal with its consequences before this i do this however i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of the exxon and certainly on behalf of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred and we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and in particular those in the Prince William sound area thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this we take full responsibility and weve done so from the beginning and well continue doing all we can to clean up and mitigate those
soon they ll have no choice but to start shutting down the vaccination vaccine delivery operations. that means more mutations, more variants, more infections, more deaths abroad and at home. keep in mind what we re doing with a.i.d. is trying to stop this pandemic outside our borders. it s because we realize that every single one of these variants is one airplane trip away from crossing our borders. even as we have to do things to stop it within our borders. finally, i want to make clear that we don t have time to say what we can to say well, we can act later on. this is not a problem that can be solved by flipping a switch. nor does it produce the tens of millions of doses of vaccines and therapeutics necessary to prepare for a fall surge. the government and biotech companies need to begin purchasing supplies now. they can t say, oh, we have an pandemic? golly, go out and buy some supplies. but we have to make them first. come back to us in a few months. that doesn t do an
3 in the last hour since we went on the air. The snowfall total has doubled at the Westgate Shopping Center in asheville. That is where news 13s Lauren Brigman continues our Live Team Coverage this morning. Lauren. You say traffic is picking up there as well. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 the roads are snow covered and slick all across our area. The big message today. Stay off the roads right 3 now i26 is terrible right now. There are several wrecks between Henderson County and eastbound is closed eastbound is closed 3 between saluda and the columbus exit. We also have a lane closed on i26 eastbound due to a few vehicles that are stuck. Apd is barrcading off sand hill road near manila road there is a downed pole due to a crash. 3 im Jaclyn Deaugustino with this ontime traffic report. Brought to you by the wired mouse computer solutions. 3 3 3 stay with news 13 for complete Team Coverage of the storm. After the show. We will have live reports and updates each hour. We will also post any updates
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