Virginia News Headlines: Tuesday Morning

President Obama Signs Virginia Emergency Declaration (0.00 / 0)

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 29, 2012

President Obama Signs Virginia Emergency Declaration

The President today declared an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Virginia and ordered federal aid to supplement commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy beginning on October 26, 2012, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency.  Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.

W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Donald L. Keldsen as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.

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by: lowkell @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 09:20:01 AM UTC

Dominion Virginia Power outages by region (0.00 / 0)

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by: lowkell @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 09:24:51 AM UTC

Gov. Christie to Pres. Obama: THANK YOU! (0.00 / 0)

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by: lowkell @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 09:54:58 AM UTC

Video: Gov. Christie Says President Obama "has been outstanding," "incredibly helpful" (0.00 / 0)

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by: lowkell @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 12:43:15 PM UTC

Video: Christie says Obama "has been all over this and he deserves great credit" (0.00 / 0)

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by: lowkell @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 13:36:13 PM UTC

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Federal money (0.00 / 0)

Note that Chris Christie stated that New Jersey expects significant money to rebuild from the federal government, expedited by President Obama's rapid declaration of emergency. That sure isn't the Romney approach. His approach when he was trying to be "severely conservative" in the GOP primaries was to block grant disaster money to the states. (As if we could predict which states would need it.)

Romney's other "suggestion," that disaster aid could be "privatized," is the same greedy, conservative mantra that resulted in billion of dollars in money meant to rebuild Iraq pouring instead into the coffers of corporations like Halliburton.  

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by: Elaine in Roanoke @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 16:32:37 PM UTC

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Privatized My A%# (0.00 / 0)

Mitt is a phenomenal weaver of conservative 'facts.'

IOW: LIAR

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by: Dan Sullivan @ Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 23:22:45 PM UTC

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