 This press conference is about Hurricane Joaquin, which is making its way. We don't know exactly where, but I just wanted to reassure the citizens of Pennsylvania that we are doing everything we can to make sure that we're prepared for this. I just got off the call with all of us and 67 county emergency managers to talk about preparations, to talk about the direction that the hurricane seems to be taking at this point, and to make sure that the Commonwealth is in a position to do everything it can to support the work of the county emergency managers in doing what they're doing to make sure their citizens are safe. And by the way just want to say thank you as I did on the on the call to the county emergency managers for doing what they're doing to keep us safe. The agencies here, we hit the state police, National Guard, the Department of Health, Department of Transportation, of course Pima. We're all working together to make sure that we're doing what we can to prepare for this hurricane. And the purpose of this press conference is to make sure everyone in Pennsylvania knows that we're doing everything we can. It's possible to make sure that that they're safe depending on in case anything happens with with the weather. Again, we don't know what's happening. You see the same news reports we do. This particular hurricane has taken a lot of different tax. The modeling seems to say that it's moving a little bit farther east now, and we may not be hit as hard, but we don't know this and this hurricane especially has taken a lot of twists and turns. So I think it's too early to say that we're not going to get hit. So we're we're again, as they always say, hoping for the best, but we're preparing for the for the worst. We I received some additional briefings from director Flynn. Again, we're coordinating state agencies. We're working with the private sector non profits like the Red Cross. And again, as I said, counties around Pennsylvania to make sure we all have the resources we need. And they're in place to make sure that that if needed, we're ready. We're coordinating with the federal emergency management agency. This are federal partners and in law enforcement and public utilities across the state to make sure that we're prepared. Obviously, we're concerned about any outages, electricity outages. We don't want to we want to make sure that we respond as quickly as we can to those things. The key here again is we're doing everything we can at the state level. I just want to repeat that it's really important that that the individual citizens and families do everything they can. You ought to have any emergency weather emergency or otherwise have three days worth of food. If you need medications, make sure you have three days worth of medications so that you're set stay in your home with the inclement weather you want to stay in the house. And if if it becomes necessary to evacuate, either because you think you're not safe where you are or because you've been asked to evacuate by the county emergency management agencies, then do so as quickly as you can. Take documents that you need and make sure that you evacuate as quickly as possible. The counties will have places that you can assemble an emergency shelter for you if you should should need that. So again, we're doing everything we can. Let me turn this over to director Flynn for more details. But the idea is that we don't know what the weather is going to we don't know what this hurricane is going to do. What impact is going to have on Pennsylvania. We are taking every making every preparation we can to make sure that we're ready for whatever comes our way. Director play. Thank you, Governor. And good afternoon. You know, we have been watching this thing for the last three or four days. We've been in constant communication with the National Weather Service and in fact with the National Hurricane Center in Miami. We have had a call this morning at 7 30 will be on a call at 5 30 this evening with the National Hurricane Center and FEMA working very closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Them is roles to support the states where Pima's roles to support the counties and their roles to support the locals and local first responders. And we're doing everything we can to in fact take our plans and we have the hurricane plan checklist that we it starts off with five days out and we go walk right through that plan to identify what are the things that needs to be done. And it ranges from again making sure that our specialized teams are in place, our equipment's in place, working with the counties to identify any shortfalls, any gaps that they may have, making sure and I think and this is the critical component of this news conference is making sure that the public truly understands that they are in fact a critical aspect of our emergency response capability. We've always said we need to make sure that as citizens the public has 72 hours and stabilize to say 72 hours to be able to maintain their capability so that we can provide that assistance and if you will have the cavalry come within that 72 hours to help them. But there's little things that the public can do just as the governor pointed out and and we have the the website www.readypa.gov where folks can go there and get a plan identify what what in fact they are able to do but I will tell you even my 10 year old daughter this morning said to me you know because I was on hurricane call at home early and she says well what should we do dad should we go to the basement. Taking that time to speak to talk to your kids and go through that this is what we're doing we're prepared and you know everything from you know obviously is the governor pointed out food and and medications but little things like what if I lose my power and I need to have a cell phone to be able to call well do I have a cigarette lighter charger in my car to be able to charge up my cell phone. We're asking you to to recognize that you're all the citizens are all part of our emergency response community it's a whole community response our job is here to coordinate the state agencies and the tremendous capabilities they have to be able to support the counties but we do need the help with the guy from the citizens to be able to help us help you and at this point I'll turn it back to the governor of it and in any of the cabinet members would like to speak. Good afternoon my name is Tyree Blocker and I'm the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police and first of all I just want to say that from the state police perspective our members in the Commonwealth are prepared to go to what we call condition W and essentially what that is is troopers will be monitoring road conditions as well as weather conditions and we're in the process of ensuring that our watch center is prepared to gleam information throughout the state that the troopers provide to the watch center to ensure that roadways and the Commonwealth are passable and that there's no obstacles on those roadways so we're in a position to work with Penn Dot and Pima to ensure that the citizens of the Commonwealth have the resources that they may need in the event that there is a weather related incident. Our job is to just ensure that we're coordinating that and making sure that our roadways are passable and that we can get that information out through our watch center in the event that there's a there's a problem on our roadways. So we're still continue to look forward to working with our state partners. Hi, I'm here to report Penn Dot preparations. Penn Dot is preparing for the storm like we would for any significant potential weather event. Our crews are out right now to areas that are prone to flooding. Our crews are looking for tree limbs making sure that all inlets are cleared. We're working with our state agencies as core of course and also with our county emergency centers to make sure that our roads are best prepared for whatever may come. Of course we are in direct contact with the weather forecasting agencies as well. We're keeping a close eye of course coordinating with Pima on that. We will be having our WebEx communications which means that all of our staff and all 11 districts across the Commonwealth will be in direct communication. We will have we have scheduled one planned for late tomorrow afternoon and to make sure that we are prepared and planned and of course schedule any upcoming communications that we feel are necessary throughout the weekend. But we are prepared and ready for whatever the forecast may bring us and of course we'll be working closely with all of all of our colleagues here in the state to make sure that everybody is safe over this weekend. No matter what the hurricane brings. Thank you. Oh PennDOT Secretary Leslie Richards. Thank you. Thank you. Hello good afternoon. I'm Karen Murphy Secretary of Health for the Department of Health. As my colleagues have shared we are all working together to help ensure the health and safety of all Pennsylvanians. The Department of Health will be posting information over the next 72 hours on exactly how to stay safe and tips for facing the weather situation whatever that may be. So our website is health.pa.gov and we hope that everybody consults the website so that everybody stays safe for the weekend. Thank you. Thanks Governor. Good afternoon Major General Jim Joseph Diage in General Pennsylvania supporting the Air and Army National Guard with 20,000 great soldiers and airmen of your Commonwealth. What we do is not only our federal mission but we support all domestic operations through Pima. So as my counterparts gave their their website I would suggest if there is a problem that you call Pima and Pima will will call us to support them. That's normally how that works. So all those county commissioners and folks out there if you have a problem please go through Pima and we will be there to support you with all the needs or desires that you may need. Thank you. I have one correction here. I apologize. www.readypa.org.com www.readypa.org critical website for folks to get on there, identify. It has how you can set up a plan, contacts and such. So readypa.org Thanks.