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As Hurricane Florence bears down on North Carolina, state legislative leaders won’t commit to an immediate emergency session to approve disaster relief funding.
But they also don’t necessarily need one.
Local firefighters and law enforcement officers gathered Tuesday morning at the Southern Pines Fire and Rescue Department to pay tribute to the first responders who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Billed as “A Day to Remember,” the annual ceremony was canceled last year because of inclement weather. It returned to mark the 17th anniversary of 9/11.
More than 3,000 deaths are tied to the terror attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. The toll includes 412 emergency workers who died in the burning rubble of the World Trade Center.
Fort Bragg officials are developing a plan to inspect more than 1,500 homes believed to contain lead-based paint.
The homes, built before lead-based paint was banned in 1978, are in seven neighborhoods across the nation’s largest military installation. They include Anzio Acres, Bastogne Gables, Casablanca, Corregidor, Hammond Hills, Normandy and Pope.
Leaders from post and Corvias Military Living, which manages the privatized housing on Fort Bragg, addressed the issue during a town hall on Monday.
6:25 p.m.: Officials ask president for Emergency Declaration
The 15 members of the North Carolina congressional delegation sent a letter to President Trump asking him to grant a request from Gov. Roy Cooper to have a federal Emergency Declaration made for the state.
“An Emergency Declaration will provide the needed assistance to the state and local communities to allow them to properly prepare for the effects of Hurricane Florence,” the letter says.
All of North Carolina’s congressmen and senators sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking he approve Gov. Roy Cooper’s emergency declaration ahead of Hurricane Florence.
“Hurricane Florence poses an imminent and dangerous threat to North Carolina, and its approach necessitates the state to once again activate the State Emergency Response Team and numerous other state resources,” the members wrote.
Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr led the delegation.