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This dog is one of the lucky ones - he survived the tornado, and is rescued! If his owner had a disaster plan, he might not have needed to endure this.

COVID Has Exposed the Supreme Courts Utter Disregard for the Plight of Ordinary Citizens In every decade there have been judgments which cast a shadow on its functioning but the pandemic marks the darkest phase in the history of the apex court. The Supreme Court. Photo: Reuters Rights18 hours ago S.A. Bobde, on the occasion of his retirement as chief justice, said that he was leaving the court with mixed feelings. If this was a reference to the last hearing he held, many lawyers who followed it...

Texans reconsider disaster preparedness plans after historic winter storm KTRK Share: The Texas winter storm has some people asking, "How prepared do I really need to be?" The one thing we have seen over and over again is that very few were prepared to live without power and water during this historic cold. Some people even turned to the bayou for water to use in their bathrooms. You know things are desperate when Houstonians fill jugs with bayou water so they can flush their toilets. On the ...

Wicked Local Disaster Plan Needed Sadly, in the past few months, Selectman Judy Jacobi passed away unexpectedly and Selectman Dave Depew suddenly resigned.  We are now one member away from losing quorum on the Board of Selectmen.  Yet we have no mechanism in place to fill their seats other than wait for the next election. Coincidently, disaster struck this past week in Wenham when 2 Selectmen suddenly resigned and their BOS lost quorum. Without a quorum, Wenham Town business has ground to a h...

Perform. today this is turning into a make shift food pantry. behind me where you can see it is sort of just getting underway, tables getting set up, volunteers coming in. they are expecting about 800 federal employees to come to the barclays center today to pick up food. these are cans of food. this is bread, meat, stuff they can use for about a week and a half going forward. as you have been mentioning all morning, that fear that that paycheck is not going to be coming on friday is very real f...

Efforts of many of the first responders. thanks. rainfall as you can see has tapered off in the carolinas but the rivers remaining at major flood stage for the rest of the week. this will not go away any time soon. coming up north carolina lieutenant governor dan forest will join us ahead and tell us where the disaster plan stands now and what they can do for small towns like that one. >> sandra: another big move out of the white house. president trump heeding repeated calls from house republica...

Island and a lack of a disaster plan, all of which is about the coordination with the federal government. its about state resources. but again, as abby says, this is not a president who wants to know about those distinctions. you dont want to challenge him because that insecurity as a leader and as a person will rear its head. >> im so glad you brought that up, david, because yesterday it was hard with brock long when we interviewed him not to hear some victim blaming. he said, well, some of thi...

Or oxygen plants. now the government is going back one by one through the heart attacks and the diabetes to see if there were factors related to the hurricane that led to those people. it is important because they need to plan next season. next season is inj june. >> thats the important distinction, right? a death may have occurred because of a factor that took place whether or not they did not have running water or medical supply and all thooz thin these things. whats being done, francis? >> i ...

Hospitals. >> the community covered everything. they did a perfect job. >> john, say a few words to the press. >> we couldnt be more proud of the community response. every hospital took serious patients. everybody took care of them well. and weve exercised our disaster plan in las vegas, and it was rolled out flawlessly. >> i have to tell you, it makes you very proud to be an american when you see the job that theyve done and people that would not be around today are up there and theyll be leavi...

More so. the professionalism of the doctor here and at the other hospitals -- >> community covered everything. they did a perfect job. >> john, say a few words to the press. >> we couldnt be more proud of the community response. every hospital took serious patients. everybody took care of them well. we exercised our disaster plan in las vegas and it was rolled out flawlessly. >> i have to tell you it makes you very proud to be an american when you see the job that theyve done and people that wou...