Andy Beshear (Clip)

The National Weather Service is just an amazing organization. I work with them every day, every week in this job. They work so hard. And if you look, especially at the flooding disasters, on a couple of them, they gave us a week, a week's worth of notice.

The National Weather Service is just an amazing organization. I work with them every day, every week in this job. They work so hard. And if you look, especially at the flooding disasters, on a couple of them, they gave us a week, a week's worth of notice.

The National Weather Service is just an amazing organization. I work with them every day, every week in this job. They work so hard. And if you look, especially at the flooding disasters, on a couple of them, they gave us a week, a week's worth of notice.

Over the weekend, Governor Andy Beshear said he had put in a request for a federal disaster declaration, a process that he noted has become familiar.

Over the weekend, Governor Andy Beshear said he had put in a request for a federal disaster declaration, a process that he noted has become familiar.

This is the third major natural disaster to hit Kentucky this year, with two rounds of heavy flooding happening in April and in February. For NPR News, I'm Stan Ingold in Richmond, Kentucky.

This is the third major natural disaster to hit Kentucky this year, with two rounds of heavy flooding happening in April and in February. For NPR News, I'm Stan Ingold in Richmond, Kentucky.

The parable of the Good Samaritan says everybody's our neighbor. And so we need the whole world right now to be really good neighbors to this region. We're gonna need a lot of help. We're gonna need a lot of funding. We're gonna need a lot of cooperation, but we will not abandon the people that have been impacted.

The parable of the Good Samaritan says everybody's our neighbor. And so we need the whole world right now to be really good neighbors to this region. We're gonna need a lot of help. We're gonna need a lot of funding. We're gonna need a lot of cooperation, but we will not abandon the people that have been impacted.

The parable of the Good Samaritan says everybody's our neighbor. And so we need the whole world right now to be really good neighbors to this region. We're gonna need a lot of help. We're gonna need a lot of funding. We're gonna need a lot of cooperation, but we will not abandon the people that have been impacted.

Governor Andy Beshear surveyed damage from the air, then on the ground. Beshear said right now all efforts are on search and rescue, and he has one fear in mind.

Governor Andy Beshear surveyed damage from the air, then on the ground. Beshear said right now all efforts are on search and rescue, and he has one fear in mind.

Beshear has put in a request for an official federal disaster declaration, and several members of the Kentucky General Assembly have promised state funding would be made available for recovery. For NPR News, I'm Karen Czar in London.

Beshear has put in a request for an official federal disaster declaration, and several members of the Kentucky General Assembly have promised state funding would be made available for recovery. For NPR News, I'm Karen Czar in London.

So I'll give you an example of our 2022 flooding. I called the FEMA administrator directly as it was going on. She was in Tennessee and she had the Tennessee National Guard send extra helicopters to hoist people off of their roofs that could not escape what was catastrophic flooding. In the flooding we just recently had, we had boat teams from all over the country that we were able to bring in

So I'll give you an example of our 2022 flooding. I called the FEMA administrator directly as it was going on. She was in Tennessee and she had the Tennessee National Guard send extra helicopters to hoist people off of their roofs that could not escape what was catastrophic flooding. In the flooding we just recently had, we had boat teams from all over the country that we were able to bring in

So I'll give you an example of our 2022 flooding. I called the FEMA administrator directly as it was going on. She was in Tennessee and she had the Tennessee National Guard send extra helicopters to hoist people off of their roofs that could not escape what was catastrophic flooding. In the flooding we just recently had, we had boat teams from all over the country that we were able to bring in

along with ours. They saved over 1,000 people in a 24-hour period. They come into our emergency operations center and bring more people with expertise that have been through this before. In fact, the FEMA representative they sent to us to help with this flooding was my head of emergency operations in the last flooding. So I had two very experienced people helping me lead.

along with ours. They saved over 1,000 people in a 24-hour period. They come into our emergency operations center and bring more people with expertise that have been through this before. In fact, the FEMA representative they sent to us to help with this flooding was my head of emergency operations in the last flooding. So I had two very experienced people helping me lead.

along with ours. They saved over 1,000 people in a 24-hour period. They come into our emergency operations center and bring more people with expertise that have been through this before. In fact, the FEMA representative they sent to us to help with this flooding was my head of emergency operations in the last flooding. So I had two very experienced people helping me lead.