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Went on interstate 80, 27 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the maccarthur maze. When you get to the bay bridge you will notice a big back up stretching through the maccarthur maze, backed up with no major issues driving through the area. Looking at interstate 880, traffic is moderately heavy. Looking at the san mateo bridge, everything getting more crowded but no major problems. We have some slow traffic, and we talked about the crash northbound at 880 at the Stevens Creek boulevard, but not...

This is 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about a status update. As you may know, we just had a statewide call, a call that involved more than 30 state agencies involved in helping to respond to this hurricane, a call that involved county officials, everyone around the entire state of texas that is involved in this process. We talked to people from the Gulf Coast Region all the way up to north texas who were helping in their own way to respond to these challenges. Let me make ...

Part but as of right now were not hearing reports of major damage so the biggest concern is flooding. Texas governor greg abbot called evacuation says Hurricane Harvey approached the states coastline and warns the storm will likely bring disastrous flooding. Flooding. You can hold that. Thats the report. Sure. Well good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about dates. We had a statewide call. That involved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this hurricane. Cal...

Part but as of right now were not hearing reports of major damage so the biggest concern is flooding. Texas governor greg abbot called evacuation says Hurricane Harvey approached the states coastline and warns the storm will likely bring disastrous flooding. Flooding. You can hold that. Thats the report. Sure. Well good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about dates. We had a statewide call. That involved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this hurricane. Cal...

Part but as of right now were not hearing reports of major damage so the biggest concern is flooding. Texas governor greg abbot called evacuation says Hurricane Harvey approached the states coastline and warns the storm will likely bring disastrous flooding. Flooding. You can hold that. Thats the report. Sure. Well good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about dates. We had a statewide call. That involved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this hurricane. Cal...

You can hold that. Afternoon. I wanted to let you know about a set of dates. S you may know, we just had a statewide call, a call that nvolved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this afternoon. Call to involve local officials, county officials, and entire stateund the of texas that is involved in this process. The lked to people from Gulf Coast Region all the way up helping texas, who are in their own way to respond to challenges. Fema for thank responding and...

Thank you all for being here today. What has happened in the past 24 hours i would like to bring you up to speed on what i know and take a few questions. Let me start with some generalities and then get down to some more details. First, now that the hurricane has come onshore, our concern remains dramatic flooding. According to information that i was provided, there has been about 20 inches of rain in the Corpus Christi area, 16 inches of rain in the houston area. The biggest concern is the poss...

Thank you all for being here today. What has happened in the past 24 hours i would like to bring you up to speed on what i know and take a few questions. Let me start with some generalities and then get down to some more details. First, now that the hurricane has come onshore, our concern remains dramatic flooding. According to information that i was provided, there has been about 20 inches of rain in the Corpus Christi area, 16 inches of rain in the houston area. The biggest concern is the poss...

We are leaving this program to take you live to a briefing with greg abbott. We had an extended briefing. During the briefing, i received a telephone call from the fema administrator as well as the secretary of Homeland Security. Talked, in the phone call, about more ways in which the state of texas will be collaborating with fema and with the federal government. That will be part of the material i cover today. We had a long briefing that i will like to break out in a lot of detail because, as y...