WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:01.731 Are uh North Carolina National 00:01.731 --> 00:03.953 Guardsmen who are still on state active 00:03.953 --> 00:05.953 duty . They're in caught over North 00:05.953 --> 00:07.909 Carolina and represented by Major 00:07.920 --> 00:10.409 Makita Young who I will note has been 00:10.420 --> 00:13.420 on state active duty since 25 September 00:13.430 --> 00:17.299 Circuit . Mr President . My name is Yes 00:17.309 --> 00:19.420 sir , Mr President . My name is Major 00:19.420 --> 00:21.365 Makita Young and I'm from the 1/30 00:21.365 --> 00:23.476 maneuver enhancement bra brigade part 00:23.476 --> 00:25.642 of the North Carolina National Guard . 00:25.642 --> 00:27.698 It's an honor to represent the North 00:27.698 --> 00:29.920 Carolina National Guard here in Western 00:29.920 --> 00:31.865 North Carolina joint tars forest , 00:31.865 --> 00:33.920 North Carolina is operational in six 00:33.920 --> 00:36.689 affect 16 affected counties . We have 00:36.700 --> 00:40.119 1570 North Carolina National Guard 00:40.130 --> 00:42.686 personnel in which 30 of the guardsmen 00:42.695 --> 00:44.986 are from other states . We currently 00:44.995 --> 00:48.566 have 636 vehicles and eight aircraft on 00:48.576 --> 00:51.726 duty since September 25th . The North 00:51.736 --> 00:53.847 Carolina National Guard has made over 00:53.847 --> 00:57.296 860 rescues and delivered over 00:57.305 --> 01:00.895 18,000 tons of commodities by both land 01:00.905 --> 01:04.496 and air to include food , water and 01:04.505 --> 01:07.241 cold weather gear . I'm so proud to say 01:07.251 --> 01:09.692 that we have removed more than 1600 01:09.702 --> 01:13.402 obstacles and cleared 575 routes . 01:13.802 --> 01:15.942 Today , we continue distribution , 01:16.211 --> 01:18.522 emergency , road repair , debris 01:18.531 --> 01:20.753 removal . And we're currently providing 01:20.753 --> 01:22.975 engineering assets to the Department of 01:22.975 --> 01:25.232 Transportation , sir . It is an honor 01:25.241 --> 01:27.463 and a privilege to serve with my team . 01:27.463 --> 01:29.519 Thank you so much General Morrison , 01:29.519 --> 01:31.519 sir . If there are no questions , I 01:31.519 --> 01:35.089 turn it back over to you . I got a 01:35.099 --> 01:37.432 question . Could you go ahead , General ? 01:37.432 --> 01:39.599 I got a bunch of , yes , sir . That uh 01:39.599 --> 01:41.710 that concludes our set of briefings , 01:41.710 --> 01:43.877 sir . And I , I turned the floor up to 01:43.877 --> 01:45.932 you for your , your question , sir . 01:45.932 --> 01:48.155 And like all of , you know , a lot more 01:48.155 --> 01:50.321 work has to be done . A whole lot more 01:50.321 --> 01:53.059 work . You did all the work and do more 01:53.069 --> 01:55.239 than that . But I want you to know I'm 01:55.250 --> 01:57.472 not gonna , we're not gonna leave North 01:57.472 --> 01:59.694 Carolina or any other state behind . So 01:59.694 --> 02:01.806 all the job is done , for example , I 02:01.806 --> 02:03.750 committed to the Governor of North 02:03.750 --> 02:05.639 Carolina . We get , we remove all 02:05.639 --> 02:07.949 debris for six months at the full cost 02:07.959 --> 02:10.210 of the federal government . Not like we 02:10.220 --> 02:12.929 don't have , we have 100% bigger rule 02:12.979 --> 02:15.201 in the next five months and the federal 02:15.201 --> 02:17.368 government is gonna pay for it . We're 02:17.368 --> 02:19.590 recovering 100% emergency work , repair 02:19.590 --> 02:21.201 the bridges and other public 02:21.201 --> 02:23.423 infrastructure , 100% . We're providing 02:23.423 --> 02:25.990 $600 million to build a more resilient 02:26.119 --> 02:28.230 energy infrastructure . You just , we 02:28.230 --> 02:30.230 can't just build back , gotta build 02:30.230 --> 02:32.341 back , better , gotta build back more 02:32.341 --> 02:34.508 secure than we did before . You got to 02:34.508 --> 02:36.899 provide 100 and $40 million to repair 02:36.910 --> 02:38.910 the roads of North Carolina . South 02:38.910 --> 02:41.149 Penn State , Virginia , 100 and $40 02:41.160 --> 02:43.520 million just upfront and the sum I 02:43.529 --> 02:47.039 accrued over $2 billion.02 billion 02:47.050 --> 02:49.479 dollars for state communities affected 02:49.490 --> 02:52.250 by the hurricanes . And folks , let , 02:52.259 --> 02:54.660 let me , let me close on this . When we 02:54.669 --> 02:57.369 talk about what needs to be done . We 02:57.380 --> 02:59.436 have to , we can't , who the hell we 02:59.436 --> 02:59.850 are . We're the United .