00:00Just a couple points I want to make at the outset, because I know it's been in the news
00:04this morning about this earthquake in Venezuela. I had an opportunity to talk earlier this morning
00:08with Delcio Rodriguez, the acting president. We're obviously awaiting the, we're already
00:13deploying search and rescue teams from Fairfax County, Virginia, and Los Angeles. There'll be
00:18some others we'll add. That's their most immediate need right now, is search and rescue efforts. They
00:22have much of collapsed buildings, and so they'll need a lot of help in terms of digging through
00:26that. The airport there is badly damaged, so we'll have to rely on the Department of War
00:31to deploy assets there. And then we're also helping them with some overhead imagery, especially
00:35in coastal areas where they don't have full visibility over what the damage has been and
00:39what the impact has been. Those are the acute, like, short-term needs over the next 48 to
00:4372 hours, because in search and rescue, you're trying to get to people while you can still
00:48save their lives. They're buried under rubble. And other countries are responding as well.
00:52The Qataris are, have already offered assistance, as we spoke to them earlier today as well.
00:57El Salvador has stepped up, and multiple countries around the region, including Chile and others
01:01have reached out to us to communicate and get that happening. As we move forward with
01:05that response, with the sort of the short-term phase of response recovery, the second phase,
01:10of course, will be identifying their more longer-term and acute needs. What are the things over
01:13the long-term they're going to need help with? We'll have a better assessment of that after
01:17the next 48 hours when we're on the ground and as the Venezuelan authorities get more
01:21visibility as to the level of damage in terms of housing. Where do you put all these people
01:25that don't have anywhere to go live? What we can do to help restore or help them restore
01:30their communications, their internet, their telecom, and so forth. We'll also have to manage
01:34what we expect is going to be a surge of private donation. I can imagine that there's going to
01:39be a lot of people from the United States and entities in the United States. We've already
01:43been in touch with some of the leading charities, but I know at the local level, particularly
01:47in places like where I call home in South Florida, there will be a lot of people that
01:50are going to want to step forward and help and provide assistance. And we just need to
01:54find the way that we can step in and provide logistical support from that.
01:57In addition, of course, we've already stood up our disaster response teams at the Department
02:02of State in our humanitarian efforts. It's something we did very well in Jamaica after that storm,
02:08and it's something we're really prepared to do now. So I've already spoken to Secretary
02:12Hexf. The Department of War is going to have to play a logistical, a big logistical role
02:16here because they have the ability to land in challenging places. Right now, the airport
02:19in Caracas is damaged. One of the runways is cracked. And so, but the Department of War
02:25has the capability to land in situations like that. So we'll need that. So we have an awful
02:31whole of government response. It'll be big, it'll be fast, and it'll be effective.
02:43We'll need a lot of people, and it'll be big, it'll be big, it'll be big, it'll be big.
02:43So we'll need to be able to make contact with us. So we're going to be able to save a
02:43ton ofİ
02:46much, and then we'll need to make contact with us at the end of the day. S Snap . So
02:48I can get to know that you've got to make that question. It's
02:48going to be big, and that's what we're seeing. It's going to be big for you for the long
02:48time. It is going to take a little bit, and you know it's going to be big enough. So we
02:48can get to check out that, and I'll be able to do a good for you on the way.
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