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Now federal officials on the administrations response to Hurricane Ian. This is about half an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Im the associate administrator for the office of response and recovery at fema. Thank you for joining us here today. And for your continued attention to florida as well as South Carolina and all the people impacted by Hurricane Ian. I also want to thank the dedicated leaders standing up with me here today. The partnerships across the federal family enable our Effective Response to this disaster and ensures floridians and south carolinians get the help they need during these unimaginably difficult times. Our hearts are with floridians as they endeavor on this long and difficult recovery. And our resolve has never been stronger. Together we will rebuild from this tragedy and we will be there until the work is done. This morning administrator chriswell traveled to florida to meet with Governor Desantis to survey the damage and assess what other assistance may be ne
About 40 miles up there. She hasnt got the center of the storm yet, mariana, but youre getting very heavy winds and rain there. So ali, this storm has made landfall and its coming here. Id have to say the wind is about 40 to 45 miles per hour. But some gusts can feel up to 60 miles per hour. I want to give you a glimpse of this beach. This is the southfacing beach here in oak island. Im going to ask my camera man to pan because in three hours with high tide, ali, you will not be able to see this beach and i probably will not be able to be standing here because, again, this hurricane, and i have to emphasize this, wants the eye passes us west, thats when the direction of the wind is going to change. And this south facing beach is going to get the worst of the storm. So the lesson here for residents, its going to get worse before it gets better. Ali. All right, and thats whats going to happen. If that eye passes over you, it will get calm for a while. They might even decide thats the mom