Good evening. Thank you for coming. I want to thank the governor. For being here i welcome the governor home. We appreciate the opportunity for this update to stay up on the activities in the parish today. We have a lot of needs. Some of our folks feel like we are not covered, but we should be, but we thank the media for being here to make sure everyone knows what is happening in tangipahoa. I want to put it out there that Tangipahoa Parish, myself, my family, we want to extend our deepest sympathies to the families who lost loved ones at the incident at the nursing facility, the terrible situation that happened there. I want to thank the mayor and chief edwards for being so proactive in making sure all of us paid attention to that, the conditions that were happening there. Of course, the governor and his staff for the quick response in saving more people from having to go through that experience. We know that there are better homes coming. We are working very hard all day every day. I
Good evening. Thank you for coming. I want to thank the governor. For being here i welcome the governor home. We appreciate the opportunity for this update to stay up on the activities in the parish today. We have a lot of needs. Some of our folks feel like we are not covered, but we should be, but we thank the media for being here to make sure everyone knows what is happening in tangipahoa. I want to put it out there that Tangipahoa Parish, myself, my family, we want to extend our deepest sympathies to the families who lost loved ones at the incident at the nursing facility, the terrible situation that happened there. I want to thank the mayor and chief edwards for being so proactive in making sure all of us paid attention to that, the conditions that were happening there. Of course, the governor and his staff for the quick response in saving more people from having to go through that experience. We know that there are better homes coming. We are working very hard all day every day. I
Louisiana governor talks about state and federal response to ida, the Death Toll, as well as the upcoming visit from president biden. [inaudible] gov. Edwards good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. We appreciate the opportunity to update him and his staff on all the activities today. We have a lot of news on our current recovery operations. We thank the media for being here to make sure everyone knows what is happening. Myself and my family want to extend our deepest sympathies to the families who lost loved ones in the terrible situation that happened in independence. We want to thank you for being so proactive with the conditions that are happening there. A critical response in saving other people from having to go through that experience. On Hurricane Ida, from our federal partners to our state partners to all the local officials who are working very hard all day, every day. I can assure you that no one will be left behind. We will be stronger than ever. Ida left behind a tre
rules that have been around forever. thank you. one other note on uber. republican presidential candidate jeb bush plans to hail an uber during his visit to san francisco tomorrow. he is trying to show that he embraces new technology drawing a contrast with hillary clinton. clinton has bashed the business practices of companies like uber. san jose police will be begin testing body cameras in the field next week but critics say it won t work. kpix 5 s devin fehely found out that s because officers won t always have to keep them on. reporter: that s right. it s taken the police department years to get to this point. it s on the verge of equipping its officers with body cameras and while that might sound like a major milestone, a watchdog of this department says this new policy has major problems. after years of false starts and food dragging san jose police will begin field testing body cameras on monday a reform that watchdog groups have long hoped would provide greate
august. reporter: the commission also wants the country s police chief investigated to determine if she is fit to hold office one of the miners injured that day is lucky to be alive and shot eight times and said the investigation is not enough. translator: what is important is that when you have wronged someone especially if you have taken a life and even though one cannot buy life you have to ask for forgiveness and the third thing is they do not want to ask for forgiveness and still making our life miserable. reporter: but her husband was killed at americana lives and works to pay but constant reminders of how her husband was killed have been unbearable. translator: this is affecting our minds because we know that it s police who caused these problems. when we look at videos it is clear that it is them who killed people. reporter: but mine bosses and unions have not escaped criticism and continues to be concern around workers living conditions and the role the un