Biden Increases Funding For Tornado Recovery

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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President Biden speaks live about the historic and heartbreaking tornado damage in Kentucky. The devastation is so extensive in some communities that residents still do not know how many lives were lost. The White House reports Biden amended the disaster declaration today for Kentucky, increasing the federal level of funding for emergency work. A somber milestone is set as 800,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19. But, as the Omicron variant spreads, Dr. Fauci says a third shot will improve efficacy against infection. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It may be one of the toughest parts of the job the lead starts right now.
0:08.7	President Biden touring the historic heartbreaking tornado damage in Kentucky the devastation
0:13.9	so bad in some communities residents still do not know how many lives were lost.
0:21.5	A terrible milestone 800,000 Americans gone because of COVID but as the Omicron variant
0:27.5	spreads, Dr. Fauci has some good news today about how to fight it then.
0:33.7	The assassination plot against a political leader involving anonymous packages, threatening
0:38.1	letters and wrong meet and it's all over vaccine mandates.
0:48.8	Welcome to the lead object tap where we start today with breaking news any moment we expect
0:52.4	President Biden to address the nation from one of the town's hardest hit by the string
0:58.1	of deadly tornadoes that ravaged several states in the U.S. last weekend this afternoon
1:02.2	the president started his visit in Mayfield.
1:05.0	Part of Graves County Kentucky where 21 Kentuckyians are confirmed dead so far, Biden promised
1:10.6	local leaders that not only is the Biden administration on the ground to help now they are committed
1:15.5	to helping rebuild as long as it takes he said.
1:19.0	Mr. Biden also saying he's in awe of how these communities have come together in the wake
1:22.7	of such destruction.
1:24.2	I think it does come out nowhere to help as a community and that's where it's supposed
1:31.6	to be done.
1:33.3	That's what America's supposed to be.
1:36.2	There's no red tornadoes or blue tornadoes.
1:39.3	There's no red states or blue states when this stuff starts to happen.
1:44.9	CNN's Caitlin Collins is traveling with President Biden in Dawson Springs, Kentucky
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