state of emergency

Thirteen-thousand employees have been secured by Florida Power and Light (FPL) in anticipation of restoring powerlines and equipment damaged by Hurricane Dorian.

Florida Governor Ron De Santis set a state of emergency for all 67 counties as Hurricane Dorian could reach the state as a Category 4 storm.

“Today I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump said. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it.”

President Donald Trump dismissed Senate Republicans on Thursday who vowed to block his decision to declare a State of Emergency on the border.

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, including his decision to declare a state of emergency on the southern border.

President Donald Trump urged Republican Senators on Monday to back his declaration of a State of Emergency at the southern border.

Actor Jim Carrey showed off his latest piece of politically-provocative artwork on Friday, declaring the birth of President Donald Trump the country’s “real state of emergency.”

“We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our border,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump is expected to declare a national emergency on the Southern border on Friday, in an event at the Rose Garden.

The White House scheduled a press event in the Rose Garden where Trump is expected to deliver remarks on the national security and humanitarian crisis at the Southern border.

“President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action – including a national emergency – to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

Several winter storms that have pounded Washington state have killed about 1,600 dairy cows in the area, a group of dairy farmers said Tuesday.

AFP – Governors in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan declared emergencies as the worst of the cold threatened on Wednesday.

“The table has been perfectly set by the president in order for a good deal to come together where everybody gets a little bit of something they are looking for,” she said.

Ret. Gen. Michael McDaniel explained how the president can redirect funding appropriated for emergency executive operations.

“I’m not going to do it so fast … What we’re not looking to do right now is national emergency,” he told reporters at a roundtable with law enforcement at the White House.

“I have the absolute right to declare an emergency. I haven’t done it yet. I may do it if this doesn’t work out,” Trump said. “I probably will do it. I would almost say definitely.”

There are currently 31 national emergencies recognized under federal law. If President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over the border crisis, it would increase that number to 32, putting in perspective how common it is for U.S. presidents to exercise that legal authority.

President Donald Trump “will prevail” in “securing the border” if he “declares a state of emergency,” Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

“I have the absolute right to do national emergency if I want,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “My threshold will be if I can’t make a deal with people that are unreasonable.”

The president said he wanted to highlight the border fence renovations already under construction as he continues to make the case for more border security.

“We’re looking at a national emergency because we have a national emergency,” he told reporters after returning from a staff meeting at Camp David on Sunday. “Just read the papers. We have a crisis at the border.”

 “Absolutely, we can call a national emergency,” Trump said. “I haven’t done it. I may do it. I may do it.”

President Trump on Saturday declared a California emergency after the Carr Fire that became a tornado and roared into Redding killing 2 firefighters, burning 80,906 acres, causing 38,000 evacuations and threatening another 4,978 structures.

Turkey announced on Thursday the official end of the three-month “state of emergency” that began in July 2016.

Three people have died and governors issue state of emergency declarations as winter storm Grayson bears down on the Northeastern U.S.

President Donald Trump approved a declaration of a state of emergency in California on Friday, ordering federal assistance in response to multiple wildfires that have broken out and continue to cause massive damage in the state since December 4.

New fires continued to spread throughout Southern California from Thursday into Friday as firefighters battled to contain those fires that have already been burning throughout the week, and dangerous weather persisted.

Several wildfires in Southern California continued to blaze out of control into Wednesday morning, as firefighters reported “zero containment” on the Thomas fire near Ventura and the Creek fire near Sylmar in Los Angeles.

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb hs stated that a major terror attack could return the country to a state of emergency despite new broad-reaching terror laws enacted to replace it. The new French terror laws passed by President Emmanuel Macron were