WEBVTT - We Cannot Forget - 9.11 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.000 Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:07.680 the Sean Hannity Radio show podcast. This just into our newsroom. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:12.440 A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Was 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.880 another apparently that was another plane seized. An airplane has 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:24.680 crashed into the World Trade Center lost. There appears to 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:30.760 be a gaping hole. There goes, there goes, there goes there, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.640 it goes, but the full side has collapsed. A building 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:49.160 has collapses. Our two him complete cower by. Two airplanes 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:55.960 have crashed into the World Trade Center. This We're not 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.240 going to be cowered by it. If we're not afraidful. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.360 The freedom loving nations of the world stand by our 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:08.840 sasshion stars rout to have the red, white and blue 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:17.399 whiz twee. We'll not gland to sue way brought to 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.600 be a part of this country. Je me, I think 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.560 about the families children to the play. Freedom itself was 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:33.120 attacked and freedom will be defantasy East are you here? 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:40.479 You'll just leave? You think it might be just let 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:50.360 you leave the fes. Someone raised DESI to raise the 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.960 resolve of our great nation is being tested. Then she 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:01.200 stands I pre through the wagon united see from fur 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:08.760 courage scar I mean, I'm the writing dy. Then we 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:14.120 will not forget the twenty eight hundred people feel. Police 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.480 and fire not only were heroes at the beginning, but 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.840 they're still heroes. Miss with. We're gonna come out of 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.280 this emotionally stronger, and the commitment of our fathers is 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:34.399 now the calling of our time to the bridge. Those 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.560 guys stood more to them anyone ever expected. Over this truth. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.720 They messed with the wrong city, They missed with the 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:46.040 wrong stake. Stand and I just don't want people to forget. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:52.520 Well they all have a sense of duty to protect 0:02:52.639 --> 0:03:03.200 us all we still first in our decombination rust of 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:09.079 the country. Now understand who the true defenders are made 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.639 the Irish Hills, Krussian maker lakes and rivers. Blession, we 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:18.200 see we made the look of the Irish infrolls. You 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:29.480 we seem made the blessings of Saint Patrick. Behold, God 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.240 blessed Ireland and God blessed the United States of America. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.240 She stands now America's embracing a new ethic and a 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:44.560 new creed. Let's roll. The phrase new York's Finest and 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.560 New York's Bravest mean something, now, doesn't it? This is 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.800 a time to reflect and be thankful for where we 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:58.160 are today through the we will rebuild New York City. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:05.120 She still yet after America was attacked, it was as 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.640 if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.600 our better selves. That was seventeen years ago. I can't 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.600 even believe how long it has been. Michael W. Smith. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.120 The story behind that song, and obviously we added a 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.160 lot of the audio to it, and we have other 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.640 songs we'll be playing throughout the day today. Is that 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.120 at some point after the attack that happened here in 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.720 New York City, George W. Bush said to Michael W. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.760 You got you gotta write a song, the video to it. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.800 We'll put it up on our website, Hannity dot com. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.240 I mean, if you watch this video and hear this 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.279 song and you don't cry, you don't have a heart, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.280 you don't have a soul. Anyway, eight hundred nine for 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.240 one sewn toll free number. You want to be a 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.280 part of the program. Later on, Bernie Kerrick will we'll 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.560 go back. We'll remember seventeen years ago. Then we'll go 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.600 back and remember six years ago. It was also nine eleven, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.760 twenty twelve, when of course there was the attack in 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.960 Benghazi and the stand down orders and the people. It's 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.520 how fascinating that Barack Obama this past Friday, I called 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.880 it a conspiracy theory about Benghazi. Can I add something? 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.359 Do you mind? You know I never interrupt your monologue, 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.279 so it's worthy. Go ahead, Linda, it's the lending them 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.720 on Glacklin show. No, I just wanted to I was 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.039 talking to someone the other day. I had never heard 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.040 this as someone who lived here on nine eleven was 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.560 trapped into building on nine to eleven myself, and I 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.960 was talking to this guy who went down and volunteered 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.400 on nine to eleven, and he was there. He was 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.960 about three feet from the President when he came and 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.040 gave that iconomy when he stood on the rubble with 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.040 the bullhorn one hundred percent and was like, you know, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.320 giving soon the rest of the world will hear from us. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.560 And the interesting thing that he said to me, which 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.279 I was like in shock, He's like no one could 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.360 hear him because even though he was on the bullhorn, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.000 we were kind of behind him, right, and everyone on 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.640 the job site, as they were calling it, was whispering 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.080 in case they heard signs of life. Right, So there 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.920 was this weirdness when everyone, like the President comes on 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.320 the you know, the scene of this horrible terror attack, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.160 and you would think there'd be applause or cheering, and 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.120 it was silence. The fireman, the elderly gentleman next to them. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.960 President Bush, I've run into many times. He's a wonderful man, 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.480 and you know, it's it's an amazing thing to go 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.760 back and think that we lived through this. And one 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.240 of the things that always comes to mind, it's like 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.240 you just can't believe it. One tower's hit, another tower's hit, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.720 the Pentagon's hit. I mean, think of it this way. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.120 My daughter just turned seventeen years old. She was born 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.120 August twenty ninth, two thousand and one, and I asked 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.440 her it sometimes, do you know what happened, you know, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.760 just a couple of weeks after you were born. She knows, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.680 she knows what happened, but she didn't live it. And 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.280 it's amazing. How scared were you. It's like you're bringing 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.320 your baby girl into this world and this happens, like 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.680 what ten days later, those thoughts I wasn't afraid. I 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.280 America had strength. It was chilling to watch. It's something 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.760 that I've always known that evil exists. My dad had 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.880 fought in World War Two after Pearl Harbor. I knew 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.600 about his life experience four years in the Pacific. And 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:20.600 we all know. I've learned enough history about your fascism, Nazism, communism. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.800 We know what happened Imperial Japan and that unprovoked attack. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.640 You know day that we'll live in infamy in nine 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.360 to eleven with the worst attack in history. We're living here. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.440 And you know my son was in college. Now he 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.720 literally dropped him off at nursery school, just dropped him off. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:45.800 Then I gotta call Gomez, calls me, Hannity Gomez, are 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.680 you watching this like what? That's a run home race 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.960 to the TV? And you know at that point he 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.120 just stunts, just stunning one thing after another. Now, this 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:01.200 is often the methodology of these terrorists, and all world's 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.520 changed a lot from that. We forget you know, I know, 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.040 we go through airports and we get padded down and 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.200 we get wandered. Especially if you travel with sweet baby James, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.360 you get wanted more than usual because he has a 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.480 big sign on his back that says wand me and 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.800 everybody with me. He's the only one that gets wanted 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.840 every single time. Now that he has an artist, unfortunately, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.840 well now he has a fake hip that this last 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.480 Russia Summit disaster. Yeah, um, and but that never used 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.280 to be the case. I remember how that day we 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.800 were able to get on the air and radio. I mean, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.040 we couldn't get into the city. Nobody could enter New 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.400 York City. And so Phil Boyce was our program director 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.040 at the time over at the ex Wife our other 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.200 station once that was once Good Good station and anyway, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.120 so over there, I'm just teasing our friends there, but honestly, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.920 we got up. We went. I went to w l 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.720 i R in guard City, Long Island. It's since changed 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.839 call letters a number of times, but it was a 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.320 big station over at the time when I was growing 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.680 up as a kid. It was an alternative rock station. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.160 And we went there and I'm sitting in one studio 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.160 I think WLTW, which is light music in New York 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.000 that they're in that studio. Opie and Anthony are in 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.079 that studio. They were on ANYW at the time, and 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.599 then that station was doing the Rome broadcasting and you 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.520 got wires literally all up and down the hall, and 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.880 somehow magically they were able to get everybody up on 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.839 the air, and we were able to broadcast that day 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:37.920 because I couldn't get into the city. I've lived on 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.920 on a long island, and by the way, this is 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.120 a very competitive business, but not that day. Everyone was 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.760 all hands on deck. And the thing that stands out 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.719 in my mind and what I remember the most, it 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.640 was one shock after another, then the field in Pennsylvania, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.439 then the Pentagon. I remember when I was broadcasting. It 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.920 was during the broadcast I had gotten a call from somebody. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.120 I don't think we've taken commercials that day, and I 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.599 remember somebody said Barbara Olson was on the flight that 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.920 hit the Pentagon, and that's Ted Olson's wife, former Solicitor General. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.280 Great guy. Barbara Olson had been a regular. She wrote 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.599 about Hillary Clinton Held to Pay. I think it was 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.760 the name of her book. I still have it. She 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:27.000 had Hillary thesis from college, I remember. But more importantly 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.040 is all of these families to this. This is a 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.720 hard day for a lot of people. You know, there 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.440 are kids that have grown up having never seen their 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.719 mothers and fathers because they died that day. And a 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.439 lot of the people that died were firemen, and a 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.920 lot of them were policemen, and a lot of them 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:50.720 were transit police people and other paramedics and first responders. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.600 And the most amazing thing that happens is while everybody 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.959 is trying to get out of what is a horrific situation, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.320 those guys going up in the other direction. And even 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.959 for a city like New York, which can be pretty cold, 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.840 I mean, it's it's kind of a true image. I mean, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.040 Linda's walking through this. Come up, can you walk fast? 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:12.920 Let's go? How are you going? Can we talk about 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.520 my finer points today? And not bad thing? Yeah? Okay, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.720 But the point is New York came together because New 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.280 York is a very impatient place at times, with impatient 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.360 walkers on the streets. I am not alone, okay, But 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.840 out of nowhere, all these you know, people started popping 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.480 up tents and feeding all the first responders everywhere, all around, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.040 all around where the rubble was Campbell's soup. I never 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.520 forget campbell soups. But they weren't charging anybody. Restaurants open, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.640 they didn't charge anybody, and you know, volunteers going down 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.640 to the extent that they could allow people in. And 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.839 I think we have a lot of lessons to learn 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.760 from this. We had let our guard down. They were 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.400 war with us. We had forgotten the Cobard Towers, the 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.320 embassy bombings, and Kenyon and Tanzania, we forgot the USS 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.920 coal the First Trade Center bombing. All that had happened, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.960 and we didn't do anything about it. And I don't 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:12.080 Those enemies still exist out there, and that's a danger 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.520 to every good man, woman and child on this earth. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.040 There is evil that wants to destroy us. You only 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.319 need read the history of Stalin and Russia and fascism 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:29.199 and Hitler in Germany. That is pure, unadulterated evil. You 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.200 open any newspaper on any given day, you read about 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.280 murder and rape and horrific things that are done man's 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.520 in humanity demand. And on the other side of that, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.839 in the midst of such evil, you get the other 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:49.240 side of the human experience, just pure generosity, goodness, courage 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.840 on a level that you never see before. And that's 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.400 what I remember. All those people that went up in 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.480 the other direction and never went home that night pretty lieable. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:07.640 We better never forget, because it can happen again. We'd 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.280 better keep our guard up. Do you have opinions that 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.559 you feel you can express. I think we all do. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.000 Are you looking for a place to stir up conversation 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.640 and let your opinions be heard? 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And I'm not particularly somebody that likes 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.800 Hollywood a whole lot, but you know, all these action 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.560 figure hero movies, I know a lot of them do 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.760 very well in the box office and people like them. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.000 But there were actually more real heroes that day, seventeen 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.880 years ago. You know, you think about this, two planes 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.120 hitting two towers, another plane hitting the Pentagon, A plane 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.080 goes down on a field in Pennsylvania because a bunch 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.520 of brave people said let's roll. Those were all heroes, 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.400 every one of them. And we forget, but they're remember. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:59.720 We remember them all today, their courage. I don't even 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.960 know to say about this idiot Joe Scarborough, Liberal Joe 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.320 and Mika. It really outdoes himself this morning. He actually 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.280 writes a Washington Post column. It's not like he miss spoke. Now. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.720 I'm on the era. I fly without a net four 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.320 hours a day, live radio, live television, every single day. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.600 But when you take the time to really write something, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.960 you have time to sculpt it, go over it, think 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.120 about it. He just made a total asse out of 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.560 himself and he's trying to walk it back now Mediaite 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:34.560 has the story up that, after receiving heavy criticism, he 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.560 was asking whether President Trump had a more detrimental impact 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.360 on America than nine to eleven. I mean, this is 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.320 how sick and twisted and ugly and deranged that Conspiracy 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.280 Network has become. I mean, it's twenty four to seven 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.520 hating Trump. You can't put it aside for five seconds, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.960 not even on nine to eleven oh one. And just anyway, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.840 he does a title a title piece in the Washington Post. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.200 Trump is harming the dream of America more than any 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.880 foreign adversary ever could. Is it even worth talking about 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.480 this guy? No, it really isn't just pretty disgusting, it's 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.440 really twisted. It's sick. You know, all the success that 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.920 we're having. Maybe you don't like the style of the president, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.440 the tweets of the president, things he says, sometimes the 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.720 fights that he picks. But you can't deny it's worker. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.000 That's one thing. By the way, Joey Scarborough'll meek they 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.600 used to love the president. Yes, they don't like them 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.479 now so now they've gone all in. That's a Republican 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:42.600 on Conspiracy TV MSNBC job STARTI joins us in a minute. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.680 The President now is at his desk at the White 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.520 House in the Oval Office and talking about Hurricane Florence, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.960 a Cat four headed right for the Carolina Coast and 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.760 the eastern coast of the United States. Here's what he says. Okay, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:03.640 thank you very much. I've received a briefing from Secretary Nielsen, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:09.000 administrat along and my senior staff regarding Hurricane Florence and 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.639 other tropical systems that will soon impact the United States 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.600 and its territories. The safety of American people is my 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:23.640 absolute highest priority. We are sparing no expense. We are 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.280 totally prepared. We're ready. We're as ready as anybody's ever been. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.120 And it looks to me, and it looks to all 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.639 of a lot of very talented people that do this 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.080 for a living, like this is going to be a 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.719 storm that's going to be a very large one, far 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.800 larger than we've seen in perhaps decades. Things can change, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.840 but we doubt they will at this stage. It's pretty 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.120 late stage. We doubt they're going to be very very 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:56.280 far off course. The places that are in the way 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.880 and in the most jeopardy would be Virginia, North Carolina, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.560 South Carolina, that area, and again they haven't seen anything 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:09.040 like what's coming at us in twenty five thirty years 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.920 maybe ever. It's tremendously big and tremendously wet, tremendous amounts 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:21.520 of water. So I've spoken with the governors of South Carolina, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.800 North Carolina, and Virginia. They're prepared, We're prepared. We're working 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.080 very well in conjunction with the governors. I'd like to 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.520 ask Brock along our administrator has done so well for 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.080 US and Texas and Florida, we have something it could 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.360 very well be very similar to Texas in the sense 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.800 that it's tremendous amounts of water. Texas was the one 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.520 that had I would say to this point, Brock probably 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.159 more water than we've ever seen in a storm or 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.919 a hurricane, and it went out for seconds and thirds. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.000 We've never seen anything like Edward. But females, you know, 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.840 did a fantastic job, and a fantastic job well so 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.399 in Florida. And I'd like to ask Kruc if you 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.760 would to just say a few words to the media 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.240 as to where it is now, what's going to be happening, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.560 and how well prepared we are. Thank you as president. Unfortunately, 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.480 Hurricane Florence is setting up to be a devastating event 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.480 to the Carolinas and potentially Virginia as well. So as 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.800 you can see their forecasts, they're forecasting a major landfalling 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.679 storm category three or four storm. At landfall, the biggest 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.399 hazard that we're worried about is storm surge. That's the 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.240 primary driver of the evacuations that are underway by the 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.399 states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia right now. But 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:42.200 as this system comes in and makes landfall during the weekend, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.879 it's forecast to stall out, lose this steering it's steering 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:51.080 currents and drop copious amounts of rainfall. Unfortunately, the remnants 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.200 of Gordon passed through the Mid Atlantic over the weekend 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.159 and dropped a lot of rain, saturating rivers. So Hurricane 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.359 Florence has it come in and puts anywhere between twenty 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:06.639 and thirty inches more and isolated areas to create a 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.200 lot of indland flooding. So right now, sir, we're supporting 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:15.400 the governors with achieving their life safety evacuation movements. We're 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.000 focused on mass care and sheltering, and then we'll be 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.200 focused on helping them to execute their response and recovery goals. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.280 What are the chances that it veers off costs and 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:28.359 the hit won't be so direct. What are the chances 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.280 of that? Unfortunately, I believe there's quite a bit of 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.440 certainty in the track forecast because the forward speed is 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.040 picking up, it's getting faster, and when systems do that, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.320 the track forecast becomes a lot more accurate. And I 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.720 think the expectation needs to be set with the citizens 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.840 in this area that if you've been asked to leave, 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.560 get out of the areas that are going to flood 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:50.720 and get into a facility that can withstand the winds. 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.080 Let's set the expectations as well. This has an opportunity 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.600 of being a very devastating storm. The power is going 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.720 to be off for weeks, You're going to be displaced 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.840 from your home in the coastal areas, and there will 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.360 be flooding in the inland areas as well. So these 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.520 are going to be statewide events. The hazards will be statewide. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.040 Thanks you wanted to show us this one, then this 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.119 is a This is a seven day rainfall graphic. As 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.800 you can see, the pink areas and the purple areas 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.600 indicate twenty inches that's a mean area rainfall, that's an 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.840 average rainfall amount, but you may see isolated amounts greater 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:33.520 into the thirty inch range over Virginia, the central portions 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.440 of Virginia and West Virginia. And these impacts are they're 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.359 going to be through the mid Atlantic. So we're coordinating 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.239 not only with South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, but other 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.760 mid Atlantic states all the way to Delaware. Good, I guess, sir, 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.760 And it has been great coordination. I have to tell you. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.680 The states have been terrific. Everybody's working together. The governors 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.119 and all of their representatives have been absolutely fantastic in 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.879 FEMA as nobody like you people, I mean they what 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.600 they're doing is incredible. Do you have any questions for 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:07.080 Secretary Nielsen or for Brock? Long since we see from 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:13.080 what happened Puerto Ricos, Puerto Rico, I think Puerto Rico 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:18.320 was incredibly successful. Puerto Rico was actually our toughest one 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.119 of all because it's an island, so you can't trump 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.960 things onto and everything is by boat. We moved to 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.720 hospital into Puerto Rico, a tremendous military hospital in the 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.280 form of a ship. You know that. And I actually think, 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:32.840 and the governor has been very nice and if you 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:34.560 asked the governor, he'll tell you what a great job 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.879 I think, probably the hardest one we had by far 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.000 wast Puerto Rico because of the island nature, and I 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.640 actually think it was one of the best jobs that's 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.200 ever been done. With respect to what this is all about. 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.880 Puerto Rico got hit not with one hurricane but with two. 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.120 And the problem with Puerto Rico is their electric grid 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:58.240 and their electric generating plan was dead before the storm's 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:00.480 ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:05.119 in bankruptcy, had no money, it was largely you know, 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.760 it was largely closed, and when the storm hit, they 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.840 had no electricity essentially before the storm, and when the 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:15.119 storm hit, that took it out entirely. The job that 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.560 FEMA and law enforcement and everybody did working along with 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:22.840 the governor in Puerto Rico, I think was tremendous. I 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:28.840 think the Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success. Texas. 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:32.600 We had been given a pluses for Florida, we've been 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:35.640 given a pluses for I think in a certain way, 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.639 the best job we did was Puerto Rico. But nobody 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.120 would understand that. I mean, that's it's harder to understand. 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.200 It was a very hard, very hard thing to do 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.399 because of the fact they had no electric before the 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.440 storm's hit. It was dead, as you probably know. So 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.480 we've gotten a lot of receptivity, a lot of thanks 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.400 for the job we've done in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.400 was very important and by the way, speaking of Puerto Rico, 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.639 and there to be affected pretty much pretty soon by 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.000 something else that's on its way, is it right? Potentially 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.080 Hurricane Isaac right now is tracking south of the island, 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:12.640 but we are We have several thousand people inside Puerto 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:14.960 Rico right now working on long term recovery that have 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.960 shifted to the response mode to monitor as Isaac passes 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:20.560 to the sea. Do not want to see Hurricane Isaac 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.200 hit Puerto Rico, That's all we need. But we have 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.600 a big hurricane out there and then sort of skirting 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:28.639 along Puerto Rico and the edge of Puerto Rico, that 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:33.159 would not be good. How much do you think you 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:38.280 need for ricovery efforts next, Well, we have it currently. 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.080 We're gonna obviously these are all unanticipated, so we'll go 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:44.800 to Congress. Congress will be very generous because we have 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:49.840 no choice. This is the United States, and it's whether 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:54.840 it's Texas or Florida, or frankly, if it's Virginia, because 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:58.120