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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) â Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the âheroes among usâ as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days to the disaster zone.

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Vice president. We are so glad to see you and welcome you. Once again to North Carolina. This has been an unprecedented disaster for our state. But what you are seeing thanks to you, the Bide Harris Administration, state and local officials, volunteers, private organizations. This has been a massive unprecedented response. We are deeply grateful for the federal resources that we have fema has been on the ground with us since the very beginning of this. So we look forward to briefing and giving you details about the significant progress that's happening and all that we have to do. Unfortunately, we have 68 people who've lost their lives, but people are still working hard in search and rescue to save people and to surge resources into Western North Carolina. So thank you for being here. Thank you, Governor. And um I thank you all, everyone here. I've talked with many of you within actually hours and certainly days of uh Helene hitting this beautiful state. And um I thank you all for the work you've been doing around the clock. Administrator. You and I have talked many, many times and your team on the ground are just doing extraordinary work. But the work that's happening here that is so positively impacting so many people is really an example of the best we can do when we bring resources together at the federal state and local level and tap into the kind of collegiality that produces results. And this is the work that you all have been doing for the folks who are local. I also know what this means for each of you as a leader to be a leader at a time that your own homes, your families, your friends, people, you know, your community has been directly hit um for the folks that work in your various divisions and offices. I know that they've been showing up um at a moment of need for others even when their own families and their own homes um have been directly impacted. I think that these moments of crisis um bring out some of the best of who we can be and who we are. I've been seeing and hearing the stories from here in North Carolina about strangers who are helping each other out, giving people assistance in every way that they need, including shelter, food, and friendship and fellowship. And um and so I thank everyone for all the work that they've been doing. Those who are in the room and those who are out there right now working around the clock. And I'm also here because I wanted to make an announcement that yesterday we added Mecklenburg County to the major disaster declaration. So that means that we're gonna be getting substantial resources in to help folks and in particular to help them. Um now be able to apply for federal assistance for a range of things that will be um including home repair. Um what folks need in terms of generators or even just compensation for the generators that they've had to buy. Um the, the kind of shelter that they've had to seek, including hotels and federal assistance for these um issues is I know extremely important because a lot of folks don't save for these kinds of emergencies and when they hit, um it takes a real drain on their resources and ability to take care of themselves and their family. Uh But again, I thank everybody here, I'm looking forward to our briefing and um and I will say that also we are looking forward to working with our congressional partners. Um And, and congresswoman, you've been a great leader to work with your colleagues as you always do so that we can get Congress to also issue the resources that fa will need to be um an active and resourced federal partner with all of you on the ground at the state and local level. And with that, let's start our briefing. All right. Thank you madam, vice president at this time, I dismissed the press. Thank you for joining us today.

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