i am joined now by labour councillor, josephine bartley. time where i imagine you in teams must be so busy dealing with the situation on the ground. give us a sense right now on the urgent needs and priorities for people there.— the urgent needs and priorities for people there. thank you for havin: for people there. thank you for having on _ for people there. thank you for having on the _ for people there. thank you for having on the show. _ for people there. thank you for having on the show. i - for people there. thank you for having on the show. i would . for people there. thank you for| having on the show. i would say the most urgent needs right now our shelter, safety for those homes were damaged, flooded, those affected by the landslides. that would be the most pressing need would be shelter. followed by food. i shelter. followed by food. i don't know how many of our viewers or member but we spoke tojust a few viewers or member but we spoke to just a few weeks ago at a time for you and your communities were battling pretty heavy rains

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the national state of emergency has been declared. counselor josephine bartley is in oakland where she says rescue workers are getting the basics to those people affected well. we doing right now, we still assisting the damage to peoples properties that have been displaced. got collision centers, which we didn't have when the 1st flood struck. so we were a little bit more prepared this time my, the regulations into that, that are set up in my community. we're taking a fly from a patch recipe that have been hit quite badly because we are getting power restored to people's homes. because we got a lot of homes lost power lost walk out, but yeah, everyone is just right now trying to get back to normal life and the heart that the we that has now seattle done and we've seen the worst of it. oh, nice clothing. when they have been to actually evacuations, interest, they need shelter, they lift the homes in a rush, so they don't have many things with them on food, but we feeding them actually traumatized. so they just needed a chance to just kind of process what's happened to them and how they