 All right, we're going to come back to the the EOC as they look to work that that out. And next up in our agenda is transportation and public works update with 1, uh, Cadenia 1, are you available? And can you talk to us about road conditions? Yes, yes, I'm available. Can you hear me good? We can. Thank you. All right. Well, we have started our 24 hour rotation started Monday morning. So, we have crews working 24, 7 sanding, sanding as needed. Uh, just keeping in mind our priorities right now are bridges and hills. We've also added emergency room entrances and some other emergency response areas. But right now, we're pretty much sanding all our locations that we cross about 95% of the bridges we're dropping sand on. Keeping in mind, I guess everyone needs to keep in mind, we are just looking at. City bridges, uh, text dot, text dot maintains its own highway. So everything text dot, all the highway roads are maintained by the toll roads are maintained by another entity as well. But we're just focusing on our city streets. For our city bridges and hills, right in that difference is important for our. Residents to keep in mind anything else you have to add and we thank you for the crews that are out keeping the streets of worth, worth, safe. All right, no, really just want to add that, uh. Accumulation is significant on our on our roads. So just, we just ask everyone to be careful drive slow. Uh, just be aware of the vehicles around you and leave plenty of distance between you and the vehicle in front of you. Okay, next up, we'll go to the Fort Worth lease department and their public information officer Joshua Johnson Joshua. Yes, thank you for making him. We can. Well, yes, thank you to 1 and all the great work that they're doing that directly affects us and the many things that we're responding to. As of when this weather system rolled in yesterday, we've responded to approximately. 225 accidents, both major and minor from yesterday and today. We'd like to report currently there are no fatalities reported related to the weather related accidents. Just want to remind people. If they can stay inside, we understand sometimes you have to leave. And when you do just some helpful tips to remember. Dress warm, if you can't put a blanket in your car. Allow yourself tons of time and patience and more importantly, have a cell phone. Or another way to contact emergency personnel if there happens to be an emergency. That you, uh, you become a part of just a couple of reminders that there's. Extreme importance right now and for emergency situations to call 911, but if it's a non emergency situation, as if you're just a stranded motorist. On the side of a roadway, you're not in any immediate harm. You can call her non emergency number. Which is 8173924222. Or you can call the phone number on the back of the Texas driver's license for roadway help as well. And just lastly, go ahead. No, that was I didn't know that. Yes, yes. Yes, on the on the back of the Texas driver's license that I have that number right here. It came up with it after I sent this in it's 1 800 525. 5555 and like I said, both those numbers are for a non emergency. If you have to be stranded on the side of the lastly, just during these times as a community, it takes everyone looking out for each other. To remain safe and for us to make it out of this. So. Just please remember to check on your elderly and vulnerable neighbors in your community in your area. See if they need any help and just contact us if we need to check on them as well. Okay, Craig, it looks like the EFC is on mute still. There you go. Let's go back to the emergency operations center update with Kyle clay. Folks, it's Kyle clay, CLA Y. So, uh, Mercer operation center activated yesterday morning for the winter storm. As we're currently running with about staff about 20 persons from various city departments, the main focus of that operation center is to work to keep our center or services working effectively at present. We're well stocked and we're ready for any responses. Oh, I can't hear me. Can you hear me? We can. Okay. So, weather wise, the weather today, we have light precipitation, which will continue. We expect about a 10th of an inch of accumulation. Big weather starts tomorrow, tomorrow, the afternoon and the evening hours. We expect. Conditions to worsen as the temps will remain below freezing. Resulting in ice accumulation, affecting infrastructure. Our lines tree limbs that's throughout Thursday morning. Driving is going to be very, very hazardous travel is not advised. If you can, if you're able, please stay at home. Tips should we expect them to be rising by Thursday and really improve my Friday with a high of about 51 and sunny skies. So, we'll turn around when it does. Okay, thank you for that update, Kyle, and we'll keep it on you guys and move over to the fire department update. Craig project, the public information officer out of our fire department. Yeah, it's Craig, C, R, A, I, G, tragic TRO, J, A, C, E, K. And I keep saying I'm the public information officer for the fire department working here at the EOC the last couple of days. So, the numbers that I have, we kind of started yesterday midnight. So, yesterday morning, 12 a.m. January 30th. And we're kind of keeping tabs on specific calls that would be more geared towards towards weather right now. MBA wise, like I said, from that time period, we're looking at about 167 MBAs, both major and minor. C. O. calls. So, people are in their homes and they've got warming equipment. That's not burning. We only we only have 1 call CEO right now, which that's a that's a good sign. I know right now with the weather, the way it is. And the temperatures below freezing people are doing they kind of go. Do some some crazy things sometimes to try to stay warm. So we're we're excited that that numbers has stayed so low. In regards to that particular call, if anybody is experiencing, you know, carbon monoxide is odorless, colorless. So it's not something that you're aware of. If that's happening in your in your home. But if you do start experiencing any kind of headaches, nausea, anything like that, do you tell people. Kind of gauge it that's out of the norm for you and you've got multiple people in your homes that are doing that to go ahead and call us. I'm out and kind of check, check you out at your home. Exposure calls, we've had about 12 calls for exposures, basically code related being out in the elements, things like that. Again, at this point, no fatalities because of the weather. We're aware of we've had about 12 outside and grass brush fires. We have had 6 residential fires. Since the weather storm kicked off to commercial fires. And when I'm talking about those particular fires, those are all working fires. So those are things we show up on scene. All the companies that are assigned to that ticket, everybody's all hands on deck. It's not something that we show up and we can just kind of control with one truck. The number of displaced because of those fires is 3 adults and 6 children. Like I said, we have had 2 more fires today that I'm not sure on the displaced of the residents at that point in time. Kind of the same messaging being down here at the trying to make sure we keep everything consistent as we move forward. So, all the safety tips and things that you already heard from today. We mirror those messages. Thank you for that update. Next, we are going to our code and solid waste department, which is combined into 1 under the leadership of director Brandon Bennett. And we know folks are interested in their trash pickup. Good afternoon everyone Brandon Bennett and, you know, the worst thing that can ever happen to a solid waste director is an ice storm because people really want their garbage picked up. On the day that it's supposed to be picked up and when the roads are icy, we have challenges with that. And we really appreciate all the work that public works and the police department, the fire department are doing to prioritize. And we don't want to be something that hinders that. And so we have worked with our landfill and our recycling partners are contractor that picks up the residential waste. And then all of the private outfits that pick up the commercial industrial waste and collectively everyone agreed to close early on Monday. Decided to stay closed on Tuesday and looking forward to Wednesday. Those operations will not open up. So, for our residential customers that we are responsible for a few people on Monday and then all of our Tuesday and Wednesday routes. Go ahead and bring your carts back from the curb next week. We will collect your garbage on your normal collection day. You can have excess garbage that you put in plastic bags, but those outside of the cart will get those picked up on collection day. Just be aware that in order to expedite the service that there'll be 1 truck that comes along that will empty the cart and then another truck that'll come along and grab the bag. So they don't miss the bags. It's just a separate truck that comes by after the cart truck to get those picked up. The other is that because the landfill has been closed since late Monday, that commercial industrial routes, they have not been picked up either. So we are going to waive enforcement for the next several weeks. We're going to allow our commercial and industrial partners to also have bags outside of dumpsters and other receptacles. Give them a chance to get caught up as part of getting caught up. We have suspended yard waste collection this week. We'll suspend it next week. That way we can take those crews and those trucks and put them on picking up garbage and get everything caught up next week. And that's critical for it worth like every other major city. We have enough garbage trucks to service certain parts of the city every day of the week. If 1 day gets pushed, there's not enough resources to pick up that schedule day. And then the day that was that was missed. And so that's why we push things a week out our drop off stations. They're closed due to the weather. We anticipate getting those open on Thursday, maybe a late start, but we'll get those open. So people have garbage. They just have to get rid of they can take them to our drop off stations. It's free of charge for residents. And we will allow residents to actually bring a little bit more garbage free of charge if they so decide. Um, the, the other thing that we want to make sure that that that we touch base on is animal welfare that our 2 shelters closed early today. They'll be closed tomorrow. The welfare of our animals is our highest priority, both taking care of the ones that are in our shelter and the ones that are that are out in the neighborhoods. So, if you see a stray animal continue to give us a call, if you are aware of or see an animal that doesn't have proper shelter, food, water, things like that, give us a call 24, 7, we have call takers and we have staff that continue to answer those on our priority basis. So, the gist of it is take care of your pets, take care of the neighborhood pets where you can work together on that. And then on the solid way side. Um, this is just 1 of those rare occurrences where we had to push several days and next week. It'll be all hands on deck to get everything caught up and get back to a normal schedule the following week. Sign on to your your garbage for now, and we'll make it up to you in the coming days and if needed weeks. Appreciate that update from you, Brandon. And then our, as we begin to wind down an important element is our homelessness services, which actually falls under the neighborhood services department and with that we have Scott Daniels, the public information officer for the neighborhood services division. Scott, can you hear me now? We can. Okay, so I'm Scott Daniels with the city for us neighborhood services department. Our mission is to protect our most vulnerable. We use city funds to support overflow shelter beds for people experiencing homelessness on cold nights like tonight. When all regular shelter beds are full. We could not do this without the help from our community partners. Presbyterian night shelter union gospel mission. DRC solutions, the Salvation Army and true worth place. So let's take you through what this week has looked like so far. On Sunday night, 31 guests stayed at Riverside community center. 40 guests stayed at Presbyterian night shelter. Last night it was even colder out and we saw more guests. 45 guests stayed at Riverside community center. 40 guests stayed at Presbyterian night shelter. Now that 45 sounds like a lot. There are 100 beds at that location. So it wasn't even half full. We will open as much overflow as needed. Overflow is moving locations tonight. Due to transportation safety concerns. So it will be at union gospel mission instead of Riverside community center. Presbyterian night shelter will continue to offer up 40 beds. DRC solutions provides overflow shelter staffing at union gospel mission. We anticipate overflow to continue tonight and tomorrow night. The city funds our partners to provide these needed services. The city also supports with providing cuts and blankets. We urge all people experiencing homelessness to seek out shelter. Report to regular shelters and then overflow will be opened as needed. True worth place opens to all from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. with breakfast and lunch served. Salvation Army and Presbyterian night shelter allow regular guests to stay at shelter all day during the cold weather streaks and the Salvation Army continues to serve homeless families. So any homeless family seeking shelter should go to Salvation Army. Presbyterian night shelter allows dogs as pets and all shelters. Welcome service animals. We also use outreach and science to spread awareness and of course we use our phones. So if you or someone you know is homeless. We urge you to text FW cold. To 817241 3544. That's one of the ways to get alerts and stay up to date with changes happening in our shelter program. And it's how we've been staying in contact with many of our unsheltered residents again FW CO LD text that to 817241 3544. And when you add that number make sure that you save it to your phone so it doesn't go to spam. Great. What you got Scott appreciate all the work that your department and those working on behalf of those not housed are doing. So just reminder that we have an active website that has all of the absolute latest updates that you may need to get. That's Fort Worth Texas dot gov slash winter. We're also updating all of our social media platforms as they come in and if you go to that website you'll see drop down boxes within each of the departments within the city of Fort Worth. And then you can gain the latest information from we also remind folks to use the my Fort Worth app. It is the official app for residents to report non-emergency issues. And then of course Fort Worth Texas alerts at Fort Worth Texas alerts dot gov is a place where you can receive information via your choice phone text or email regarding emergency ongoing situations. I think at this time I'd like to turn things over to our mayor, Maddie Parker. Thanks Renee I'll be brief. Mostly just wanted to be on to thank all the city staff for working so hard. And when other family members across Fort Worth get to stay home especially our first responders and essential city staff which is really why we canceled all city council meeting this morning and tried to not be part of the problem. People at home as much as possible. And we already went over this with Scott. Thanks for such a thorough overview for those families that are experiencing homelessness special. Thanks to our nonprofit community for stepping up in such a significant way. UGM the RC solution for the turning night shelter. And of course Salvation Army. We know that you're stretching resources to make sure we're serving those most vulnerable. And to the city staff to making sure all those efforts are coordinated. Thank you as well. It's already been mentioned, but just making sure we're taking care of one another in our neighborhoods, especially the elderly or those that can't get out very easily. Making sure that their, their heat is on or they have resources as needed to the public. Please utilize is not emergency numbers as much as possible if you're not experiencing emergency that were that we went over today. But of course, if you do have an emergency call 911 that's where our first responders are doing right now to respond to those that need us need us the most. And thank you very much for organizing this array. I hope that those in the media found this to be helpful. There's a lot of moving parts in a large metro area. We know how important it is for you to have the latest and greatest information for, for your listeners and for those that are watching on television. Appreciate those words and thank you. Mayor Parker for your leadership as always. If we have any reporters who have questions in the chat, Michelle Goot is the host presenter and so you can send those messages at this time to her to be able to ask for any. Um, one of our speakers that we've had or questions that you may have in general for the city of Fort Worth, Michelle, do you have any that you'd like to get started with or reporters are looking like we've provided the information that you need. I see several of you still on with us. So thank you again for your time. Yes, can you hear me? Yes, I believe I'm Harrison had a question about the commercial. Pick up and if Brandon could provide a few more details on that. Yes, I can. So, you know, from Fort Worth, because we are responsible for the residential side. We generally just talk about residential collection. What's different in this particular ice storm is that the, the face of the landfill with the ice and the bridge that goes across with the ice to get to the landfill. Are so unsafe that they close the landfill down Monday afternoon today and it'll be closed tomorrow. So there's no place. Reasonable place when the reasonable distance that the trucks can pick up the garbage and then take the garbage to empty and then go pick up more garbage. And in fact, that's not necessarily a bad thing as icy as the roads are. I think if we put these large garbage trucks out there, we would just be adding more work for the police and fire department. So. The commercial and industrial folks who are private enterprise, they're not regulated by the city. They've also made decisions to not pick up waste. There's some specialty waste. There's some certain customers where they were serviced. So I don't want to say it's across the board. But then again, the trucks that service them are filling up with garbage are now full. And there'll be some delay even for them. I don't see this as a public health crisis that there's still capacity for those special waste customers. And I also see this as on Thursday when things open up that all of our vendors private and public are ready to get all hands on deck. Get the garbage picked up and get back to some sense of normalcy. Great. Thanks for that update Brandon. Hope that helps you Harrison with the four star telegram. Any others Michelle. I don't, I don't see any others. If there's anything, any questions that people have they can email. Oh, Teresa Woodard. Has raised her hand. So, hello, I'm sorry, I put a question in the chat, but I guess it hasn't been seen. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. I just wanted to see if somebody could explain maybe some specific streets in Fort Worth, maybe some specific problem areas that emergency responders are seeing problems develop maybe repeatedly over the last few hours. And then if there's any specific area you're concerned about moving forward now that an ice storm warning will go into effect for Tarrant County. Why don't we go to the EOC for that to see if you've noticed repetition in areas and how the, the forecast might affect what we're looking at. Yeah, so a lot of the things when you can also hear me. Okay. I know that issues earlier. You can hear you fine. A lot of the issue issues that we're seeing are all the flyover ramps that the entrance onto the highways, intersections, things like that. We're having MVAs. They're placed all over town right now. So it's not like you explain that word. I'm sorry, motor vehicle accidents. So we are seeing a lot of accidents and they're, you know, yesterday morning when this storm first came in, we were seeing a lot of accidents on the north and on the west side of town. As it's progressed into today, all the roads city wide are pretty bad shape right now. So that's why there's they were some travel that was going on and today we're asking everybody to stay at home as much as possible. So, like I said, the overpasses and those intersections are kind of the main areas and there's not just one specific place. It's pretty scattered city wide. Okay. I do have another question. What's the status of warming centers across the city? Will community centers libraries be open at all for people who may not need shelter, but need a warm place to stay during the day. So, yeah, what's that? We have Tara Perez. She's also part of this. She's the director of the manager rather. For the homeless, but the question regarding where people can stay during the day. We have our community centers closing at 5 p.m. today. But they are expected to be reopened. Maybe Tara can hop in and answer that question for the reporter. Are you still on? Yes. So, I specifically work with our community experiencing homelessness and so what is serving as the warming center for those folks is true worth place. Which is open to all adults. From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and this is done to coincide so people can go from a day shelter to overflow shelter or night shelter as needed. And so at this time, that is the the warming center for the population experiencing homelessness. I can't speak to the to the other warming centers. Okay, appreciate that continuity though. Go ahead. We're we're updating the website with places that are that are opened each day so that if anybody needs some place to go, that information will be on the website. So that's a good resource for everybody. Great. Any other questions? Shall do you have any? No, I don't have any other questions, but if anybody thinks of anything, feel free to send it to. Fort Worth media at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov, or you can use the online form. On our media page to submit something and we will work with staff to get you an answer as soon as possible. And to those at the emergency operation center, transportation and public works, the police department, the fire department, code and solid waste neighborhood services. And our officials and our city manager, David Cook, all working today to keep the city. Active and going and keep the services as strong as possible for our residents. We thank you and know that in addition to those we heard from there. Our countless other departments and individuals that we didn't hear from that are dedicated city municipal workers and we thank them for their work as well. Does anybody, any 1 of our speakers spoke have any closing thoughts? 1 more question just popped in what time do the night shelters open. Yes. So they're, they're open now. And so what some of them are doing is they're starting. What we call early check in. So my understanding is check in is happening now at Presbyterian night shelter. And salvation army at UGM. I believe it happens again at 6 o'clock, but I can confirm that information for you. Great. And if any reporters are needing any of the specific information that was on the slides. That we included in today's virtual news conference. We'll be glad to share those with you again. Thanks to all of our participants today. And we appreciate you amplifying the messaging and the great work. The city of Fort Worth and the information that we gave out today. Thank you all.