Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Governor John Bell Edward said the storm is the strongest to hit his statement did not sustain the catastrophic damage that had been forecast parties joined at the briefing by other state officials. Good afternoon and thank you for being here this afternoon. We have our usual lineup today the officials here today with m me. Chip klein is going to speak in just a moment. He is of course chairman of the cpra he will talk about coastal flooding we have secretary of department of transportation and development, shawn wilson who will speak in a little bit on roadways. And then we have fire Marshal Butch browning who is here to answer questions that you might have about the fire at the Chemical Plant and west lake. And obviously you can ask questions of any of the officials here. First of all it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night. But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.
Criticism of its approach. From moscow thanks for joining us tonight on our team. Welcome to the program now the russian opposition figure has been admitted to hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from a siberian city of hes been in a coma since falling violently ill during a flight to moscow on thursday your correspondent peter all of a has the latest from the german capital. Alexina volley arrived here at charlottes a in a Emergency Vehicle a intensive Care Transport vehicle that was flanked by Police Motorcycles as well as other Police Vehicles we had a statement from the shallots a hospital asking for patience saying that they are going to be carrying out extensive diagnostic tests on him to try and determine what was the most of the coma that he is being in it comes after a lot of wrangling between russian doctors in the city of almost and the family he was transported here to germany on a medical plane that was paid for and charted by his supporte
Live from moscow thanks for joining us right on our to international wherever your today welcome to the program. Russian opposition figure has been admitted to a bird in hospital for emergency medical treatment he was at a fit on saturday from a subir in city of hes been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday your correspondent has the latest from the german capital. Alexina volley arrived here at charlottes a in a Emergency Vehicle a intensive Care Transport vehicle that was flanked by Police Motorcycles as well as other Police Vehicles weve had a statement from the shot its a hospital asking for patients saying that they are going to be carrying out extensive diagnostic tests on him to try and determine what was the cause of the coma that he is being in it comes after a lot of wrangling between russian doctors in the city of almost the novelli family he was transported here to germany on a medical plane that was paid for and charted by his supporters that p
Its approach to cope with 90. 5 from moscow thanks for joining us tonight an audience and i dont know hawkins welcome to the program. And the russian Opposition Leader has been admitted to a hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from a siberian city of hes been in a coma since falling violently ill during a flight to moscow on thursday our europe correspondent peter all of a has the latest from the german capital. Alexina volley arrived here at charlottes a in a Emergency Vehicle a intensive Care Transport vehicle that was flanked by Police Motorcycles as well as other Police Vehicles weve had a statement from the shot its a hospital asking for patients saying that they are going to be carrying out extensive diagnostic tests on him to try and determine what was the cause of the coma that he is being in it comes after a lot of wrangling between russian doctors in the city of almost the novelli family he was transported here to germany on a medical plane t