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By Chris Van Buskirk, State House News Service February 1, 2021 Chris Van Buskirk, State House News Service Boston Mayor Martin Walsh spoke to reporters Monday at Faneuil Hall after swearing in the city's new police commissioner. Courtesy/Jeremiah Robinson/Mayor's Office As Boston looks back on one year since the first COVID-19 case was announced in the city, Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday cited a continued improvement in COVID numbers and the city officially moved forward into Phase 3, Step 1 on the state's reopening plan. The third phase of the reopening strategy allows businesses like movie t...

Southeastern north carolina, staying open is critical to the community. how are you preparing for the storm? >> well, good evening. thank you. we have been expecting this storm for several days now. it's been on our radar. we have an incident command structure that we've been deploying teams throughout our entire system getting ready for the storm, bringing in extra supplies, securing the facilities, planning for staffing. we've had several emergencies in the past such as ice storms or hurricanes. and this is unfortunately become somewhat routine. this storm certainly seems to be a little bit ...

[ all speak at once ] >> have you requested any additional help from federal authorities tonight? >> we have an incident command structure. the office the emergency management which plays a vital role. maryland law enforcement has come together in a very unique way. we're not a big state. but we're big in terms of our fraternalism with one another. and every one across the state, every jurisdiction, every county across this state has really stepped up and has pledged to protect this great city that really defines maryland in so many special ways. so it's a great partnership. >> mayor, what do ...

Important thing was there is another story i read in one of the malaysian newspapers which says malaysia is treating this more like a domestic incident as opposed to an international incident. what we really need to do is figure out a way to come in and help make certain that that incident command structure is strong enough that, one, we know what assets are out there, that all of these countries are using and we can pull in all that information. here's the reason why. because if this is something other than just a plane wreck, if this is an incident of terrorism, if it's a hijacking, sabotage...

Supposed to be an exercise in transparency. 325 layers of data from the incident command structure as well as federal, state and local agencies. if you look at the website information here, you'll see how this works. the blue lines and yellow lines along the coast, that's the impacted shoreline, like here in mobile. the green patch, that's the oil slick, where it's been mapped out today. the red border shows fisheries closures, again, as of today. yellow dots show the location of the bp claims and processing points all across the gulf coast. green dots show staging areas for the response team....