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Good morning . My name is Brian

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Hastings , Chief Patrol Agent Rio

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Grande Valley . I just want to take a

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few minutes and provide a situational

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update . An awareness as to the

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planning and the response for Hurricane

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Laura . We stood up the lead field

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coordinator position two days ago in

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order to plan and be prepared for this

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event . Along with that came the

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standing up of two Incident command

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centers , one in Houston , Texas , and

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the other in New Orleans . We stood up

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both of those incident commands to be

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able to give on the ground oversight of

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what's actually occurring and where our

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assistance may be needed for both

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saving lives and responding to our any

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needs that our personnel may have .

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Along with that of the deployment . So

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far , Aaron Marine Operations has

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deployed four helicopters up to the

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area to be able to respond and have

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quick capability to get into the year

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very fast and do rescue missions like

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they have so many times before . Along

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with that , they provided a P three

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aircraft , which has given us great

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situational awareness on the ground of

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where the flooding in the damage has

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occurred . Border Patrol so far are GV

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has deployed . Last night at eight

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o'clock , we deployed 40 agents , a mix

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of revering vessel commanders , more

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attack and more star along with 14

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vessels to be able to perform any

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lifesaving missions again like we've

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done so many times in the past . This

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has been a very , very well planned ,

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well thought out operation We've had

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involvements from , as I said , every

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component out there , the office of

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Field operations serving in several

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roles . But they've been they have been

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involved in incident planning so many

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times before . GFO . Murdoch as the

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incident commander in Up in Houston and

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Mr Steffen Noah , the F . O Stephano

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involved is the incident commander in

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New Orleans , providing that on the

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ground oversight of what's going on in

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accountability to make sure that all of

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our agents were safe . So we continue

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working very closely with our state and

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local partners embedded with fusion

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centers and emergency operation centers

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today to see if there's any need for

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any of our assets in any of our folks

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as far as rescue capabilities . So far ,

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we're very pleased to hear we're very

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happy to hear that the storm doesn't

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appear to be near as as destructive as

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what we had originally heard As far as

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the water levels so far , all of our

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folks , all of our CBP employees , are

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accounted for , and that's that's very

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good news . We're glad to hear that .

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But we continue to make these

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assessments throughout the day ,

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working closely with our state federal

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local partners to make sure that none

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of our rescue capabilities air needed .

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But we've done this so many times

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before . In so many instances during

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Hurricane Harvey , CBP participated in

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over 1400 rescues , and so we stood by

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and standby continue to stand by ,

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ready for any mission , any lifesaving

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mission that we're called upon to do .

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So I just wanted to take a quick minute .

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That's the updates that we have so far

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will continue working closely with our

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state , local and federal partners ,

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but an outstanding CBP response and

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very thankful for all our partners that

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came together to make this happen and

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make this seamless . Thank you