The @WhiteHouse press pool is in the Oval Office where @POTUS has just been briefed by @SecNielsen and @FEMA_Brock.
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Congress will be asked to approve funding for #HurricaneFlorence recovery efforts, @POTUS tells reporters.
Electrical power will be off for weeks in affected #HurricaneFlorence areas, predicts @FEMA_Brock.
Citizens who've been asked to leave the areas expected to be most severely affected by #HurricaneFlorence should leave, says @FEMA_Brock.
"The safety of American people is my absolute highest priority," says @POTUS. "We are sparing no expense. We are totally prepared. We're ready. We're as ready as anybody's every been." #HurricaneFlorence
"They haven't seen anything like what's coming at us in 25, 30 years -- maybe ever," adds @POTUS. "It's tremendously big and tremendously wet."
#HurricaneFlorence approach prompts @NationalGuard activations in the Carolinas:
"A Hurricane Warning has been issued from South Santee
River, South Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina, and the Albemarle
and Pamlico Sounds," according to the latest @NHC_Atlantic update. nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/M…
River, South Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina, and the Albemarle
and Pamlico Sounds," according to the latest @NHC_Atlantic update. nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/M…
