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Your local municipality and the county will start the damage assessment process. currently we actually have joifr flights occurring to capture a larger area of imagery in some of the most impacted areas of the commonwealth. this is being done to hasten the request process for federal aid. it's critical if you've been impacted that you report the damages to the local emergency management coordinator or county emergency management officer. you can contact your insurance company as soon as possible to discuss your coverage and begin your claims process. take pictures of the damages you incurred f...

Clarify. >> mike might want to chime in, too. basically what we got the other day was a federal emergency declaration. it's only for direct federal assistance. if we ask for federal assets, they will come here and at a 75% cost, 25% to us. at some point here, and we're already starting to gather the damage assessment piece of it, is that we will be working with federal partners to get a major federal declaration that would include both public assistance which would be assistance for damaged infrastructure, bridges, schools, roads, that sort of thing. and then the potential is also there for in...

That there are going to be long-term effects that you have not yet even encountered? what is your game plan for the health effects, for the environmental damage down the road that hasn't even been calibrated? >> well, in the process of the natural resource damage assessment process, we collectively are working as a scientific community to assess, evaluate and understand those medium and long-term consequences. in addition, bp is funding through a ten-year grant of more than half a billion dollars scientific research that looks at both environmental, economic and human consequences to the tragi...

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