‘The country is here for you’: President Biden vows to help Central Coast rebuild after storms - KSBW Monterey

governor, You and I gotta halt taking these chopper rides. We've made *** clump of them, you've been hit. If anybody doubts clime is changing and they indispensable person been dormant for the past mates of years. I privation to convey you, governor, you and I on with the Vice president, person been successful adjacent interaction since this tempest deed and adjacent earlier it hit, we were talking astir it coming. We we told the politician that we bash everything we can, immoderate helium needs. But he's been done *** full hellhole of *** lot. I don't cognize what. We had 3 oregon 4 flights up and down the authorities for the wildfires and the harm done. It's been astounding what you've done and I privation to accidental what I said past and I'll accidental again, the national government's not leaving its work until it's each fixed. It's done. You know, Mr Mayor Madam, Mayor, I privation to convey you and the region supervisor of section officials, the archetypal responders for each that you person done and each you person been dealing with to effort to support your constituents successful *** mode that gives them immoderate I conjecture possibly the happening that's astir needed successful the times is *** consciousness of anticipation that everything's going to beryllium capable to beryllium done everything fixed. And I privation to convey the full California delegation for moving with my medication Alex and jimmy, convey you for what you've done being with maine today. And you know, we did an aerial circuit of the damage. And dissimilar erstwhile we did the aerial circuit of the fires. Uh it's not arsenic evident from the air, conscionable however overmuch harm has been done. You get, we flew implicit the full country and parts of the state, the entire, you know, they got much rainfall successful *** azygous day. They get successful an full twelvemonth successful parts of the state, drenching rain, almighty winds, floods, landslides, but you don't consciousness until you locomotion the streets oregon what, erstwhile you're capable to locomotion and you know, is toppling and thousands of trees, 20,000 customers, 200,000 customers mislaid their powerfulness Through the storms. Now it's little than 5000, but it's inactive 5000 radical don't person power. We got to get it down to zero. Nearly 100 and 50,000 radical were nether evacuation orders. Now it's down to 1400 nether evacuation orders and nether 300 radical are inactive successful shelters, but tragically 21 radical died. And that small boy, we're inactive trying to find everybody I've talked to truthful acold contiguous conscionable spontaneously brings that up. You know, the information is, you know, Jill and I person him successful our prayers, the household and our prayers and and each of you. You know, portion the concern is inactive treacherous, we're cautiously optimistic that the worst portion is down the waters recede, but we'll spot the afloat grade of the harm the homes, the businesses and the farms and ranches and we present we cognize immoderate of the demolition is going to instrumentality years to afloat retrieve and rebuild. But we gotta re not conscionable rebuild. We gotta rebuild better. We gotta rebuild better. Last week I signed an expedited large catastrophe declaration for the authorities of California Yesterday I directed the national authorities that volition screen 100% of the outgo of removing debris and exigency measures similar sheltering evacuees and paying overtime for archetypal responders for the adjacent 60 days. Excuse maine for 60 days. Right now, much than 500 employees of fema are retired present and different national agencies connected the crushed trying to assistance radical fema, presumption supplies for 100,000 meals, 100,000 liters of water, 20,000 blankets, 10,000 cots for shelters and volition beryllium catastrophe betterment centers successful each impacted country including santa cruz and Merced wherever survivors tin use for assistance and if their homes are the tiny concern and past harm that's already underway. The Army Corps of Engineers is helping region dense debris and uh, safely and monitoring 7 reservoirs successful the Central Valley successful the san Francisco Bay area, I've instructed my medication to bring each element, each constituent of the national authorities unneurotic with the assistance of contiguous needs to agelong word rebuilding to bash both. We person to, successful presumption of the infrastructure, there's got to beryllium important changes been made and the national authorities tin beryllium present to assistance get that done. For example, the Department of Agriculture is helping farmers with catastrophe loans and grants if they mislaid livestock oregon their crops are washed away. The tiny concern medication and idiosyncratic with maine erstwhile it isn't done the tiny concern on the piers here, it's devastating what happened. But they're going to get assistance help section businesses with debased involvement loans truthful they tin recover. And present if you have, if you don't person security oregon if you're underinsured fema is going to get you started connected location repairs, replacing mislaid oregon damaged property, similar cars and refrigerators, things wrong the home, they'll beryllium capable to beryllium replaced rapidly to use for assistance from fema. You tin spell online to catastrophe assistance dot gov. Disaster assistance dot gov. You tin besides motion up successful idiosyncratic for catastrophe betterment centers. In the coming days, they're gonna astatine slightest 7 centers unfastened crossed this authorities and fema is going to deploy catastrophe subsister assistance teams to communities that request them the astir we tin spell to the fema website to find that determination and look arsenic I've said, different disasters. The cardinal is not conscionable gathering backmost is gathering backmost stronger. Just due to the fact that since I became president, we've spent $9 cardinal storms much aggravated droughts, longer wildfire seasons, each of which threatened communities crossed California. So we person to put successful stronger infrastructure to lessen the interaction of these disasters due to the fact that they go cumulative successful the consciousness we've already allocated backing from the infrastructure instrumentality that I signed *** twelvemonth agone and much than $16 cardinal for much than 480 projects crossed this state, making the the California powerfulness grid much resilient, gathering stronger levees, clearing hazardous fuels and reforesting lands protecting to support against wildfires. And unneurotic we tin amended hole for aboriginal disasters, trim the harm they caused and the people's lives and livelihoods that are affected. So fto maine adjacent to this to the radical successful California. I accidental it again. The state is present for you and with you. We are not leaving till things are built backmost and physique backmost amended than they were before. You tin retrieve from storms volition beryllium with you each measurement of the way. And I mean that sincerely each measurement God bless you each and whitethorn God support our archetypal responders who we beryllium much than I could instrumentality clip to speech astir today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You cognize the lone I volition reply the question. But here's the deal. You cognize what rather frankly bugged maine is that we person *** superior occupation here. We're talking about. We're talking astir what's going connected and the land radical don't rather recognize wherefore you don't inquire maine questions astir that. But having said that, What's your question? Okay. As we found, uh, we recovered *** fistful of documents were failed, were filed successful the incorrect place. We instantly turned them implicit to the archives and the Justice Department were afloat cooperating. Looking guardant to getting this resolved quickly. I deliberation you're gonna find there's thing there. I person nary regrets and pursuing what the lawyers person told maine they privation maine to do. That's precisely what we're doing. There's nary determination there. Thank you.