Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
For being with me. We will be here to take any questions related to testing. I want to start by thanking all of the state and local first responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. And certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night, i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to r
Taking place across the state of louisiana and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government, so i directed that request for President Trump in order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus. And deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continue to rise more drastically than we would like. As of to date, we have 1,388 cases and 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we reported at noon yesterday and 12 more deaths since our report yesterday. I want to remind you that we are updating the numbers once a day now at noon. Because it just became too much to try to manage with all the various testing labs and reports that had to be coming
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