i cannot hear you, commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: can you hear me? >> president feinstein: yes. >> commissioner covington: okay. i have a question regarding the minutes. did i somehow miss the conversation regarding members of the department that were not vaccinated? i had some comments regarding that, you know, just trying to encourage everyone to try their best to keep your dream job by getting vaccinated, and then, our president has some very pointed comments. i may have missed it, but i don't see those comments on the part of either party included in the minutes. >> president feinstein: any comments from anybody in the command staff? >> commissioner covington: i don't think it's pertaining to the command staff. >> president feinstein: i just wanted to see if they had an opportunity to comment. your point is well taken because i think we had a significant discussion. i don't know, madam secretary, if you wanted to address that, or the chief. >> clerk: well, i just have, on page 3, that commissioner covington encouraged everyone to get vaccinated.

any further -- commissioner covington. yes, sir. >> i'm sorry, commissioner cleaveland. >> i did have a couple of follow-up questions and i wanted to recognize assist apartment assistant chiefo'conner for thet commissioner covington missed because it was a really great event and well orchestrated and well put together although it was freezing cold. so, you would have really had to bundle up for that and you missed the opportunity to see commissioner in his full turnout coat and looked just like a regular firefighters. it was cool. so, yes, it was a great event and i want to commend the assistant chief o'conner for putting it all together. i also had a question for chief o'conner with your permission, chief, regarding the studies that are being done on the a.w.s.s. system and i know that they were required to be done by the end of last month and if they are available for us, i know they're going to the board of supervisors, is it also possible for the commissioners to get copies of these studies? >> good evening. i believe

covington: that's my flag. >> president feinstein: there you go. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president, for calling on me. i want to echo the compliments of my fellow commissioners and everyone who worked tirelessly on the budget. this will give us all such a sigh of relief from 10% reduction to now being able to, you know, have so many different needs met for this next fiscal year. it's an amazing turnaround, and i appreciate the mayor for seeing that our needs were credible needs and that certain parts of the department are growing in responsibility. you know, we have a number of different kinds of street teams that need to support and need personnel. you can't give people on the street support without people committed to giving them support for transition to something more stable. i do have a question for -- let's see -- chief tong. i wanted to ask you about [inaudible] and about some of the things that are under discussion because you said you have now a new appreciation or a new expectation said that there will be more collaboration under this, so can you talk a l

covington: that's my flag. >> president feinstein: there you go. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president, for calling on me. i want to echo the compliments of my fellow commissioners and everyone who worked tirelessly on the budget. this will give us all such a sigh of relief from 10% reduction to now being able to, you know, have so many different needs met for this next fiscal year. it's an amazing turnaround, and i appreciate the mayor for seeing that our needs were credible needs and that certain parts of the department are growing in responsibility. you know, we have a number of different kinds of street teams that need to support and need personnel. you can't give people on the street support without people committed to giving them support for transition to something more stable. i do have a question for -- let's see -- chief tong. i wanted to ask you about [inaudible] and about some of the things that are under discussion because you said you have now a new appreciation or a new expectation said that there will be more collaboration under this, so can you talk a l

>> thank you, commission covington. no, nothing. we've heard bits and pieces of stories but nothing that i could say with certainty is the reason why people are saying no to it. so, again, the mandate is coming and we're just waiting direction from d.h.r. >> ok. all right. thank you for that. i really do want to commend you on the program, launching the program for these young people and it's important step for the department and it's an important step for young people who may not have previously in the past even considered a career in the fire service or becoming a medic so this is really, really wonderful and i'm hoping that all of them have been vaccinated. >> i do not know the answer to that question. what i can tell you right now is the city's d.h.r. has said moving forward from here we will be permitted to make it a prior to anybody getting hired they have to have it. >> y. i have read that in the local news. and is there going to be a second class of these young citizens? they are currently working on applications for the nex

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hancock county, sunrise mobile home park in hancock county, and willow grove water association in covington county. continuing those assessments, we will be working through the night and into tomorrow as we work toward assessing for recovery. it is important to remember that the storms can be just as dangerous in the after the storm components. let me go over a few precautions and that covered one of them that i wanted to make sure one that everyone hears. it is about generators. carbon monoxide is something you cannot see, smell, or taste. you don't know it is there. don't operate a generator anywhere near a window, in your home. make sure it is out and away from the building. signs and symptoms -- headache, skin colors of family members turning red, carbon monoxide is present. be very, very safe with the generators. that is usually one of the leading causes for injuries we see after a storm. the second is people operating chainsaws. you don't operate a chainsaw all the time, today may not be the best time to start to practice. remember that our health care system has a lot of pressure on

there's a bridge that takes you to the other side of covington. is being pounded right now by hurricane irma. you can see the trees are taking a beating from that wind. that's the reason why we have -- thousands of people without power. that's one of the fears -- so many people could lose power for what could be weeks because of the storm. take a look. we're also concerned about storm surge. the wind coming over, picking up the water and moving it over the levee system. that levee system some $20 billion that was poured into it all through out this area after hurricane katrina. you know, this is the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. so many people remember what happened on that day and what happened the day after when the levees broke. we are feeling the impact of ida as she makes her way through the gulf coast. so many people were frying to evacuate. we met some people who were pretty stubborn saying i made it through rita and katrina, i'm not leaving for ida. the governor of louisiana, governor john bel edwards made it clear no one is comin

>> we are getting the calls that are emergency operation center here in covington, to the tune of trees down, power lines down water coming into our homes. those are the kind of calls we are getting in our emergency response teams are not able to go out with winds over 40 miles per hour. and we are still seeing sustained winds with winds over 40 miles per hour. it will be until such time as the winds subside before our emergency services can get out. >> michael cooper, presidents of saint tammy parish, we cannot safer now for the bravery and expertise for those who dear this year after year. thank you for being with you. stay safe and our best you and all the folks and tammy. much more of our coverage on hurricane identical. up next we will go live to new orleans, where the entire city is out of power tonight. raising the question of whether or not the pumps that keep that city from flooding, can't keep running. we will be right back, can't kep running. running. we will be right bac now with the samsung galaxy z fold 3 on verizon 5g, running. we will be right bac there's no more fear of

the metro new orleans area, covington, slidell. the mississippi coast as well. also in alabama.ouisiana as well, and all this moisture is going to travel north. this will be well inland, places that get heavy tropical rainfall. >> i want to that tap into your expertise. you were part of this award-winning team that made critical repair to new orleans after hurricane katrina. what is your assessment of the levees now looking at what's in front of you? >> yeah, really looking at some of this, it's about the levees. i want to go back to the storm surge map, and it really is outside that risk reduction system. think about the protection that we have in some of these areas. outside that have with some of the -- you don't have that tape type of direction. some of the local levees could get overtopped easily. we are talking 12 to 16 feet of storm surge. so it's outside some of that risk reduction system that people need to get out of there in those areas from the storm surge. just a life-threatening amount of storm surge. that's water up your pant leg. 12 to 16 some of these areas, the

that happened was when the guy sat on the bus, the train car in new orleans, and said i am going to covington. and they said, oh, no, you can't sit here. he was an african-american. they said you can't sit here. he says, oh yes, i can. well, that case goes all the way to the supreme court and that was plessy versus ferguson. and the decision was separate but equal. so, at the time, blacks were considered colored and so we are going to put this first train car is going to be for whites. this one on the back is going to be for coloreds. so, it's separate and equal but you can't sit with us. and that started just an enormous amount of -- of -- of different disparities. because right after that, we had the jim crow laws. the jim crow laws, colored entrance, white entrance. colored restaurant, white restaurant. um, then we had the ku klux klan that intimidated african-americans from voting. well, in alabama, most of the men that had weapons were the confederate soldiers, so they become the policemen. and then, they created all of these laws, like loitering. that, if you were just standing on the c

and by the way not all of us got the covington catholic story wrong. actually watched the video of what happened. so if you're mad because the news got it wrong maybe you just need to upgrade your news. take that with you. on the one hand i feel like we have to reach a point where facts have to matter and grown ups have to be accountable for grown up things like truth and logic. on the other hand internet misinformation and disinformation is so powerfully pervasive we're not used to fighting back against this as a culture. so i view this with some scorn, i won't lie, but also with a lot of compassion for people who are still kind of learning how to navigate social media and how to tell fact from fiction. >> and that compassion, joshua, makes you a better man than me. the toughest thing here -- as a comedian the toughest thing in the world is coming up with jokes funnier than reality. if i went on stage and told you we have a worldwide pandemic but people are going to cure it by taking horse parasite killer you'd laugh. yeed be like no, really? if i tol

and her husband, bob, both from covington, georgia. lori was one of our heroes. she spent much of her life serving her neighbors as a trauma nurse in the memorial hospital. i've been to that hospital time and time again as a pastor and now as a senator. i've seen firsthand the important work that they do. she was a trauma nurse there at grady. and while working as a health care professional in georgia, lori was diagnosed with pelvic adhesive disease. and the chronic pain associated with this condition eventually pushed her to leave the nursing profession. after that while also working to manage her own chronic condition, lori struggled to maintain steady employment in the restaurant industry. health care professional, no longer able to serve in her profession as a trauma nurse, working as hard as she can, as hard as she could in the restaurant industry. she believed in working. she understood the dignity of work. but while working she could not afford health insurance. she made too much to qualify for medicaid but not enough to afford other insurance plans. and w

that happened was when the guy said on the bus the train car in new orleans and said i'm going to covington and they said oh no, you can't sit here. he was an african-american. they said you can't see he says oh, yes, i can no. yes. well that case goes all the way to the supreme court. and that was plessy versus ferguson and the decision was separate but equal. so at the time blacks were considered colored and so we're going to put this first train car is going to be for whites. this one on the back is going to be for colors. so it's separate and equal but you can't sit with us. and that started just an enormous amount of different. disparities because right after that we had the jim crow laws. jim crow laws colored entrance white entrance colored restaurant white restaurant then we had the klu klux klan that intimidated african-american from voting. well in alabama. most of the men that had weapons were the confederate soldiers so they became the policeman and then they created all of these laws. like lottery that if you would just standing on the corner you could be arrested. and they ame