please take care of yourself
and each ON AND RIGHT NOW AT 6:00, A
ON AND RIGHT NOW AT 6:00, A
PRESIDENTIAL VISIT AS TEXAS
RECOVERS FROM A CATASTROPHIC
WINTER STORM.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND FIRST
LADY DR. JILL BIDEN SPENDING SIX
HOURS ANT COUNTING HERE
UNHOUSTON.
THE PRESIDENT TELLING TEXANS WE
WILL GET FEDERAL HELP AS WE
REBUILD AND RECOVER.
!th AND JILL AND I WANTED TO
VISIT TEXAS TODAY FAR COUPLE OF
REASONS.
FIRST AND FOREMOST TO LET THE
PEOPLE OF TEXAS TEXT KNOW, OUR
PRAY REMEMBERS WITH YOU AND THIS
AFTERMATH OF THIS WINTER STORM
AND SECONDLY TO YOU KNOW WHAT I
TOLD GOVERNOR ABBOTT AND MAYOR
TURNER AND THE CONGRESSIONAL
DELEGATION, THAT WE WILL BE TRUE
NEATERS TO HP YOU RECOVER AND
ARE REBUILD FROM THE STORMS AND
THIS PANDEMIC AND ECONOMIC
CRISIS.
WRN FOE HER TO LONG HALL ARE
HAUL.
>> PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEAKING
THERE AT NRG PARK.
>> PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS NOW LEFT
NRG.
THE MOTORCADE ON THE WAY TO
ELLINGTON FIELD WHERE AIR FORCE
ONE IS WAITING TO TAKE THE AND
FIRST LADY BACK TO DC.
THREE STOP FORCE THE PRESIDENT
HERE TODAY.
HOUSTON FOOD BANG AND NRG PARK.
STORM RECOVERY WAS THE MAIN
FOCUS OF THE TRIP BUT THE. IS
HIGHLIGHT THE CONNECTICUT AND
VACCINATION HERE.
>> WE HAVE LIVE TEAM CON FOR YOU
TONIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT’S
VISIT, STARTING WITH BRANDON
WALKER LIVE AT NRG PARK TONIGHT.
BRANDON.
REPORTER: GOOD EVENING TO YOU.
THINK PRESIDENT’S MOTORCADE
DEPARTED FOR THE FIELD AT 5:13
THE SPEECH HERE LASTED FROM 20
MINUTE AND OVERALL IT PUSHED
UNITY THE PRESIDENT’S ROLL IN
THIS AND THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS IS
CHIEF AS YOU MENTIONED
SIGNIFICANCE BEING HERE AND THIS
BEING ONE OF THREE SUPE ARE
SITES RUN BY FEMA BUT THE ON THE
OTHER YOU BOTT THEREFORE PRI THE
BIG FREEZE AND WITHIN THAT I GOT
A FEW POINTS FROM THREE
PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TO SHARE WITH
YOU AS FAR AS FEDERAL RESPONSE
TO THAT IS CONCERNED AND
VACCINES SOME 50 MILLION PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN VACCINATE SINCE HE
TOOK OFFICE AHEAD OF THE HE
ASKED FOR 100 MILLION
VACCINATIONS WITHIN THE FIRST
100 DAYS OF OFFICE THE PRESIDENT
SAYS 500 PHARMACIES WILL OFFER
NATIONWIDE AND THAT MEANS 50
HERE IN THE HOUSTON AREA AND
SHOULD HELP WITH ACCESS.
FEMA TODAY ANOTION
SOME $9 MILLION IN VILL
ASSISTANCE ALREADY ISSUED
STATEWIDE TO FOLK THIS IS THE
OTHER FOCUS OF THE PRESIDENT
ATRIP WHICH INCLUDED A TOUR OF
THE HARRIS COUNTY OFFICE OF
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AT AROUND
JUST BEFORE 1:00 TODAY.
THERE MR. BIDEN HEARD FROM OF
NOR ABBOTT AND OTHERS BUT WHAT
IS NEEDED TO RECOVER FROM LAST
WEEK’S DEEP-FREEZE AND SAYS THE
FEMA DISTRIBUTEDDED TWO GALLONS
EVER WATER ARE ALSO THE EPA
OFFERING TEST THOUGHT THE STATE
AND 60 HELP KEEP THE LIGHT ON
THE L THE PRESIDENT SAID TEXAS
REFER RACE CRUCIAL AND NOT
POLITICAL.
WE ARE NOT HERE TODAY AS
DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICANS.
THE AMERICAN LEADERS AND
RESPONSIBLE ALL OF US HERE
RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL THE PEOPLE
WE SERVE ON CRISIS OUR STATE
LIKE THE ONE TO HIT TEXAS IS NOT A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT BUT OUR
A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT BUT OUR
FELLOW AMERICANS AND OUR JOB TO
LOOK OUT FOR WITHIN NER AND
LEAVE NOBODY BEHIND.
THAT WHIS WE HAVE SEEN TODAY IN
THE VISIT.
A WHO IS WHO HERE TODAY
INCLUDING SENIOR SENATOR AND
NOTABLY BE A SEN WAS SENATOR TED
CRUZ WHO INSTEAD SPOKE AT A
CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL
CONFERENCE TODAY AND MEANTIME
WITHIN THE PAST TWO MINCE WE
HEARD FROM MAYOR TURNER TODAY
BUT ALSO POINTED OUT THE FACT
THEY NEED HELP NU AND YOU TALK
ABOUT IT.
SO THOUGH MY YORE SAY SAYING THE
PEOPLE OF HOSTON WILL WATCH THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THAT
RESPONSE THAT WILL AND PEN AND
THE PRESIDENT SAYS IS ALREADY
HAPPENING.
WE’RE LIVE TONIGHT AT NRG PARK.
KPRC 2 NEWS.
>> AS YOU MENTION EARL AREA THE
GOVERNOR LOBBING ABOUT FOR MORE