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Lost everything. thank you. >> my name is albert ashwood the state director of emergency management. i would like to reiterate what craig said. whether it's the federal government or the state government, we have a very simple job. that's to support our local jurisdictions to make sure that they have everything that we have to offer to help them get through this emergency phase of this disaster. and to help to effectively respond. we will also begin recovery as has already been stated. we are looking at setting up assistant centers or area that we can have many assistant centers to help out wi...

1-800-621-fema, f-e-m-a. or log on to disasterassistance.gov. that's dot g-o-v. if they need help they can go that direction or donate through the other website. >> a the although of addresses and numbers coming at you, we'll put it on cnn.com/impact so you can go there and we'll have the information that the governor has given us right now to put it there. because helping people here is the first priority. we know people are organizing, first baptist for many of us, five different in the area set up. if you're in the area they have water, they have power. which is scarce right now. there's a ...

The president made the declaration. this was pretty quick turn-around, because of the devastation and the evidence of how bad it was. that the president concurred and issued that last night. so important that people start registering, we know a lot of people are staying with friends and family. some of them are probably even staying in their cars right now. we can provide some assistance, rental assistance. we want to get people a place to stay and so the first step is to register so we can start that assistance, so 1-800-621-fema. or go with their mobile device, if they have connectivity, the...

The devastation and the evidence of how bad it was that the president concurred and issued that last night. so it's important that people start registering. we know a lot of people are staying with friends and family. some are probably even staying in their cars right now. we can provide some assistance, rental assistance. we want to get people a place to stay. and so the first step is to register so we can start that assistance. 1-800-621-fema. they can go with their mobile device if they have connectivity outside of the heavy hit area go to disaster assistance.gov and register online as well...

Organize various teams. they have the map of the city itself. both moore and oklahoma city. in which they've been sending out various teams and determining what the most important need is at that particular moment. so thank you and job well done to the command team itself. at 9:00 a.m. this morning, i brought together all of my cabinet secretaries from my various heads of my agencies. for the state of oklahoma. we had a thorough meeting going through each division of our state entities, talking about the current needs and challenges facing the state of oklahoma. we want to encourage anyone tha...