04142020 Gov Lee press conf Chattanooga

04142020 Gov Lee press conf Chattanooga

Love someone was family.

There is great loss.

Great for the out there like this region will no that tennessee efforts of the state combined with even the federal government.

Fema.

Most importantly, the work will loca community ... is the continued work to help refill this really tragic right.

This area let me come in and talk about local officials and will just say the emergency response team in hamilton county sloan done credibly incredibly good job immediately connecting with tina with work that's occurring across state with the agencies in the state senate drama county emergency was the mayor's here have coordinated efforts of response and its oppressive or happening out there some very devastating one of the hardest this morning to tort damages talk to some of the homeowners and some of the residents in the area we solve already efforts being made to god and put relief to those homeowners team is on the ground.

I will say that i was a call from head of fema nationally.

Pj yesterday heard about before and it is called awful famous response to the god team the is on the ground today assessing the day that process will continue today tomorrow.

We believe that's why damage is done and i'll be in to declare a to ask for a major disaster declaration from the president ... on that declaration announcement did the process of not insist you that will be for individual assistance or not.

For those who do not covered by insurance for their losses in this storm and public assistance utilities and infrastructure in the damages associated with with infrastructure ... i'll add to that while all of these efforts are being debated right now there are shelters provided by the carlson hotels around their there is work being done by the utility teens because of the significant powe outages.

There is a lot of disruption in this area right there in lala there were a lot of folks agencies organization from private sector, nonprofit and government agencies that on the ground working the response is impressive.

The loss has been heartbreaking and was again were challenged with tragedy in a different but were we will see this region through the challenge asked a prompter to marks and labor as well so the essay we found all so all spaces of the people was result of said only this is no was born on the web is not on effort as possible i want is special.

We believe this is on your side is all on saturday.

No giveaways as actions on his still so one is no these types of class we will we will all but remember false the list is ... so will say, here i basically you hours of yesterday morning, we all need asked if there was anything else to do and that wa of: the bottom.

Call me around the same time regarding fema and of course (i always consistently throughout the day at the bills but the rules and local officials together really complex problem or a.

We went out there today and get all the very first homeowner that i do his house, which is what but tonight the father's house.

There was so much presence.

Five police officers and everybody else that you're like that that could have a little bit.

Most everybody you talk to help their recognizes the devastation that they face but also teens like their already readying their plans.

That's this is a devastating moment, said in the middle of telling people state will be seen somewhere hundred structure is void in our very and we know that everyone safe.

During this time i said this yesterday.

We are taught we are resilient.

Don't mistake politeness for we at chattanooga have seen it after over these last five years.

Take your time away through this one as well, those families that need our arms around them.

Make sure that person understands what to do and how they can get to the other side, there is humility in this incident.

As i stand out there devastated a lot of what i think about is man just strong enough to to the mother nature, but there's so much that you do, that's what we now and i noted that ... i will add one additional question ... we talked response on so organizations is to delegation people that are actually out there on the front line.

The first responders ... you moan.

Officials that are out there right the healthcare workers are treating not only patients that are treating the injured as a result of this, those folks are doing the work that will actually part of the organization is saving you to long to post on this to help he work that or in the midst of crisis layered on top of crisis, we would be incredibly and all of those agencies know that her health care home of real struggles across state.

We also had also have patrick she had tina your to answer any questions regarding tina's response to this and we already this is all the specialties is possible on this morning as what her needs were we yes for focuses on the microphone on us is that we might have been.

Also on this site is extremely over as is (as early as the standard goal is to we have on which help us was still gardens wills is was we asked the area of the assessment so that we resources ought to know this is a residence location announces the resources.

This is we have about people children's notes the screen you'll sleep as long as the hotel is valid so resources such as citizens that were not possible.

Just follow that if the state is ... but and what else last night about what i say everything we need.

The state is doing, not a usual seat great cooperation team and making all the assessment they may this declaration which the number has talked about is really and i think it does sell some of what so what are the things we talke about on the ground today was the fact that we have dictation was set up in the mist of this.

For example team has regular regular calls with every county emergency management agency for italians state connecting with them around the efforts of gordon, post equipment of all things related to the rehab that dictation i talk weekly with the mayor.

Some are more for larger cities and corresponding counties we have a federal delegation call every there on account call with county mayors across the state every week.

Rt's there is so much coordination going on right now across this because of the pandemic ... that the way to accomplish what's happening in will the tornado is actually the lord your team is already in your processes in place to manage that the biggest challenge that we will have traditionally provided resources for folks a disaster like this.

The having them come to a place where we come.

That's not will have that resource was we get this declaration placed resources ar available.

Visuals we will develop.

I location the last social distancing allows for limitations that technology wil robustly report how to do that in putnam county.

We went to that tornado is more than just the biggest extent greatest and that tornado occurred about three days worth so in the mist of the ima schema efforts over the next week or two we had to transition additional fema to a new strategy for providing providing a response relief to victims. there and we did so in a way to say socially distance technologically more than way out of outages or question think we were we are believing that are responsive.

This will be a ... because of the way we are operating ... so, so, for example, instead of the traditional american red cross shelf in a gymnasium utilizing hotels so that people can individually stay and be socially distance and protected from other victims. i think jus like every way in our society we have learned over the past several that we can live and continue to live safely and that's what will be doing in our efforts here.

Whether it i see no relief efforts team is outreach the american red cross, the way that will providing services to the residents here.

We can say and in the pandemic has been here long enough just well we believe your existing that's the safety, health and safety tips.

He ... that would be true to say this will response but we also believe that our economy cannot stay close down for months on end.

Tennesseans need to get back to work and we believe that those two things can be so that is why yesterday i talked about the need for social this state no more.

But at the same time, our strategy in to begin to take steps to.

I was on the phone call just yesterday with the white house vice president.

His and our relationship with the white house as many states it is one of cooperation and we we all know that it's time for us to consider ways to open economies that will be us continue to provide for recognition of the safety, health, our states are citizens.

That's what is happened to see happen nationally.

Certainly th president were in was to be a part of weekly seal.

The reason why we can't say ... as we did in fact go in.

We facilities that had positive case staff workers and so we went.

Both of those cases both of those facilities and tested all of the staff.

I don't remember the numbers several hundred ... 1500 and zach staff members, both of those we do not currently have ... inmates tested positive in this facility, so we had.

We had a major additional had developed additional strategies that we have that test positive.

We should expand testing populations across the will robustly talk a lot about growing the testing capacity in the state were going to be doin that will actually be announcin some specific ways that we hope testing.

We are looking at you asked about prison population population that we should consider explaining that testin into prison.

We will we look at the population were looking mos closely for the overly those in this assisted living and nursin homes.

Their most at risk if they develop or they contract the virus we will, as we develop our expand our capacity testing likely to those who are most global were looking at a strategy will robustly test the elderly that are currently living in assisted, but this is something we look at ... this our teams of all will be touring through helicopter and i went to one day the most part flight our folks, particularly the ones that are ... that are most able to assist the team.

I state officials tha will hold him assistance with locals will be on the ground it actually can be pretty disruptive for a large group of us to drive areas while that was cr many of these areas are not fully opened up and available yet so ... you have been listening to tennessee governor now only is discussing numerous things at a press conference at wilson air center.

He not only talked about the distraction from the tornadoes he was discussing the cove at night pandemic as far as the tornadoes go insane.

The devastation this morning.

He said that our emergency respons teams have been very strong and he called the tornado devastation completely.

The loss was heartbreaking.

He also taught it to little that amount asking for a major disaster deck ration from president tromp tomorrow which is very important for our community or federal aid.

There is team a and fema agents that are on the ground surveying the damage as we speak, we will have much more on this press