I talked with both President Biden and Vice President Harris last night. They pledged their full support. This is going to be a tremendous effort in the short run, but looking at it in the long run, with the hundreds of roads that are destroyed, communities that were wiped off the map, we have to make sure that we get in there, are smart about rebuilding and doing it in a more resilient way,
So that’s simply not true, and it’s irresponsible,
I don’t know why he does this, and the reason I get so angry about — I don’t care about what he says about me,
Let me get this straight. He’s lying, and the governor told him he was lying,
He just said, 'Hey, what do you need?' And I told him, you know, we got what we need. We will work through the federal process,
It’s too much for me in terms of interrupting access to help there, to land in Asheville, to survey the damage other through the air,
I would have loved it Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, ... We’re not going to say ‘no.’
As weather moves in toward the mountains, the clouds have to rise up and over the mountains, and that’s the upslope effect,
They are elderly, they are also senior veterans and they need supplies. They were barely able to get supplies up there and the only way out is to be airlifted and this is happening all over these counties,
I don't think these people thought it was going to be this extreme. Everyone keeps hearing about Florida... But no one is focusing attention to these western and northern North Carolina Cities, other than Ashville."
This is the biggest test we’ve ever faced,
We have catastrophic failures of our transportation system throughout the city,
The rivers reached heights that have never on record been reached before
We’re fully up and running as of this morning,
By the time Helene came into the Carolinas, we already had that rain on top of more rain,
Our poll workers are being affected,
Joe Biden’s visit is too little, too late."
I've come to Valdosta with large semitrucks, many of them filled with relief aid. A tanker truck filled up with gasoline, a couple of big tanker trucks filled up with gasoline, which they can't get now. And we'll be working to distribute it throughout the day,
I’m going to North Carolina on Wednesday. It’s planned now. We’re going to be landing in Raleigh for a meeting with the Emergency Operations Center, and I’ll then do an aerial tour,
The response has been disappointing,