The media as well as there are growing questions and concerns about whether the island was prepared for this fire, whether the warning sirens went off on time and with the residents of the area were given enough time to try to make their way to safety, because these fires spread very rapidly. We know they might have been fed at least in part by a hurricane that was taking place in the area, so some very terrifying scenes of residents having to flee to the ocean. It might be ready to get under way here, so lets see if we can get to listen if we can get the hawaiian governor to take the podium momentarily it looks like, about to get under way. 0k. Thank you forjoining us today during this most difficult time, especially for the people of maui. We are here to provide you with the latest updates and information from the county, the state and our federal partners as it relates to the wildfires throughout maui. At this time, i would like to invite governorjosh green to share his remarks. Alo
Partners we have six fire units embedded with them to do their searches in case there are any Fire Suppression needs. The cooler fire, Fire Suppression needs. The coolerfire, the Fire Suppression needs. The cooler fire, the fire that went into another area, it still has many hot spots and fire does have a long perimeter and it is in a lot of inaccessible areas and forests as well as cultures. We have had Fire Resources on that nearly every day, since day one including the last several days multiple helicopters. In the evenings we will patrol the area with resources, at least one resources, at least one resource to be out at that fire at all times as well as two stations in the communities and ready to respond. The fire In The Valley has no active fire right now and is contained, we have no resources on that file as it provides the least amount of threat to our community at this time. We have Additional Fire resources that may become available soon with a team from the National Guard re
Concerns. It would be hard to pinpoint. Theres generalities and theyre related to the point in which they ran their meetings and how i think u. S. Soccer would be like to have a greater influence but being one of 35 voting nations and mind you mr. Warner came from the caribbean and 25 of those 35 votes are from the caribbean. It gave me a level of discomfort that we werent going to make progress in terms of transparency and some things i would have preferred as to how u. S. Soccer operates. Did you express those concerns to mr. Blazer . I did not. Any reason you might not have confronted him or asked why hes doing what hes doing . Generally speaking we have the potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would
The potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would be hard to categorize it that way. When we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations once again we were one of 41 or 35 voting members and there wasnt anybody else that had the same level i did as an organization. Once again were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa. We felt we had to find a way to participate and work our way through. Fortunately by a close vote, 18 to 17 he was elected to the seat in april of 2013 and we think that was a step in the right direction and a step ward reform. And that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment
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