Today, the covid and convention, but this is a big deal. Im outside in port arthur, texas. That is the biggest u. S. Oil refinery. That is the motiva refinery. It is shut down, flaring some gas. Just a skelton crew. They cant shut it completely down. That is shut. Oil and gas throughout this region shut. But more importantly the people. Take a look at the latest pictures of this morning people getting, the last plane out of saigon almost. The last few buses out of the port arthur dead center in the cone. Were dead set the eye of the storm could come ashore. If it is a cat4 storm that comes ashore, and youre in the wall, you will get quite a ride. You point out unsurvivable water in terms of storm surge. We talked to some folks that stayed in other hurricanes but after their experience, this time they say, im out of here. Trying to stay, when they said it would be category, would end up being a category 4, the possibility we would be in the eye, that is kind of scary. With harvey, we we
At every Single Agency and we also appreciate all the work that happens on the local level with the sheriff offices and Fire Departments and oeps and you name it and just people being Good Neighbors to one another. Well certainly need more neighborly love as we prepare for, respond to, and recover from this particular storm. I want to remind everybody that we have this historical storm at a time when were already in a Public Health emergency. And the covid situation remains very serious in louisiana as well today reporting 846 new cases and 32 additional deaths. You all are expecting an announcement today on my executive order, which expires on friday. I will tell you now were going to extend the current phase 2 order for two additional weeks and take another look at that point in time. The challenge is well basically be blind for this week because we are having to discontinue much of our Community Based testing, whether the surge testing sites federally sponsored or our Community Test
Covid situation. And everything we do, we need to be wearing the mask, we need to be practicing social distancing, good hygiene, get out of harms way if theres an Evacuation Order in place, whether its mandatory or voluntary, and understand our state hasnt seen a storm surge like this in many, many decades. Those are potentially lifethreatening, so keep yourself safe. Joining us now for the latest on the storms track is the today shows al roker and from port arthur texas, is sam brock. Al, two things. What is the track, and i dont think i have heard the National Hurricane center call storm surges unsurvivable in the past. What does that mean . Well, katy, we have been talking, i have been talking amongst our meteorologists at the nbc news climate unit, and nobody has ever heard the National Hurricane center use that term. What that basically means is at a 20foot storm surge, youre not going to survive that. Its going to wash over everything, take everything in its path. People dont rea
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