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There s a whole lot of this grid that s under water. but what s not seen and is a big deal today is while we continue to do search and rescue mission is establishing the priority of work for logistics. if you were the commander you would come up with because there are so many different challenges you would have to come up with a priority list of where to deplo people. that has to be driven down to the counties and stays. the and where are you going to establish distribution system, where do you need them? some places like this you ve got grocery stores that are open. some have farmpharm a sees. alisyn, talking, give people confidence. helicopters popping people on roofs save lives, watermen going out in boats save people lives. but the true solution to a ....
structu destruction of the wildfires in texas. this now stretches across a 16-mile area. winds whipped up flames again today. a separate fire in eastern texas killed a mother and her 18-month-old child. tropical depression lee slogging its way north today after dumping as much of a foot of rain in parts of louisiana. pumps in new orleans helped prevent any major problem there. that was good. but the storm caused flooding in other towns and cities along the gulf. in alabama, lee spun off portable tornadoes and strong winds damaged at least 20 homes in thewn the television say, tornado warning, and about that time, we had an ungodly clap of lightning and the hard ligwind by. lights went out, came back on and everything opened up. it was like a machine gun going off. breaking news on the political front. texas gov senior riernor rick p poultd pulled out of a political forum in south carolina to go back to texas to deal with the wildfires. five others will take part i ....
Who s exactaccountable for it, e need to make sure everyone in the chain of command needs to under the oil spill response doctrine, the laws on which it s based and how it s going to be coordinated. i think the cognitive disdance that arose when we went in and tried to carry out our federal authorities was not well sunday and i think that s the challenge going forward. when you look back on this, what didn t you do that you think you should have or vice versa that you think can be applied to the future? well, i think undertaking bringing all the vessels of opportunity under contract and trying to coordinate what they were doing when we had never done that and by vessels of opportunity you mean i just want to explain for our viewers, vessels of opportunity, those were just boats that were around that got employed to help both with rescue and cleanup? right. bp was trying to employ the fishermen that were out of work and other watermen. and that was very well intended, but wi ....
The whole issue is going to be unity of effort. regarding may personal activities and what i have been doing, i was down there yesterday and our vessels with the opportunity to with fish gids out of the barataria bay. i will be meeting with the departmentsy secretary of interior and homeland security. we will go down to grand isle and we will also get a briefing on the vessels and an opportunity and hopefully get out of the water and see what they are able to do down there. this follows several of the trips i made to grand isle with the president where we met with local watermen regarding the best use of the vessel opportunities. i would tell you this is focused on vessel opportunity week for us. getting the command and control down there and most i can effectively apply the resources. to that end, the most place we can apply them right now is in the area from onshore to 50 miles off where we have patches of oil and trying to get to it ....