President Trump on Monday declared a state of emergency in North Carolina and South Carolina as the two states brace for Hurricane Florence. Trump ordered federal…
President Trump on Monday declared a state of emergency in North Carolina and South Carolina as the two states brace for Hurricane Florence.
Trump ordered federal assistance be made available to bolster state and local responses to the storm. The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will coordinate response efforts.
Hurricane Florence developed into a Category 4 storm on Monday, and has the potential to strengthen to a Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.
As of late Monday night, the president had not yet declared a state of emergency in Virginia, which is also expected to receive damaging rains and winds after the storm makes landfall.
Virginia’s congressional delegation called on Trump earlier in the day to issue such a declaration to assist with the state’s emergency response.
Trump warned residents in a series of tweets earlier Monday to heed local guidelines about the storm. He also noted that he’d been in contact with the governors of South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia to assure them the federal government was available to provide assistance.
