Mayors and governors are still wondering. do they have enough bed space and what's important here is we need a very agile plan. You can't do something three weeks ago, and I think that this is gonna continue to stay cuz this virus gets a vote in this entire team. The federal government tried to be as agile as they can support in those States and those governors the beauty of the paint plan. that was it doesn't have to be built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. So we designed about an extra 50 - two facilities. we gave those to the governor. I've gotta be very very a lot of story to the governors. They then impose and put a lot of those on the on the ground and did those themselves. So let's go to. I'm just gonna show you some real simple pictures here. go to the next slide If you don't mind so this is an example of the Jazz Center and you've heard the President talk about it quite a few times this one about 20 - 100 bed spaces. What you get is about a 11 or 12 foot square cubicle. There is a lights in there. There's a nurse call so if you need to be able Nurse Station There aren't nurse patients throughout there's pharmacies throughout this one started as non covered, but then we came back in and put in Sentral oxygen, so everybody has oxygen right behind their bed to be able to take care of those patients and again built this one about a thousand pound patients treated let's go to the next one. I was up in Detroit with Governor Woodmere and she walked us through and told us her intent. Here's what she needed to do this in the TCF Center, you'll see all the cubicles that are laid out. This is right in the Middle of a convention floor where there might be like a boat show or a car show and then went in and it builds 970 different capabilities there and again a lot of great work by my guys in the core of engineers and the rest of the mayors in the city's team, all pulling together, let's go to the next one. This is called the McCormick Place Governor Prisco satisfy down, he said. Here's kind of our intent or what you wanna do. Mayor Lightfoot walked us through and we went into another large convention Center. This is actually 3000 bed spaces. A. Very large build and got this one done in a relatively short time, and then here's another one that kinda helps you understand the dynamic here go to the next one. Please this is in Miami Beach and I flew in to see Governor DeSantis and my guys had kinda scoped out about 450 beds and he said. Todd, how long is gonna bake take to build us and we kinda said probably til the 20 -seventh of April and he went to his health people, he said. How long do you need and he said the day we need us as the 20 -first of April and I told my guys you don't. Till the 20 -seventh figure out how to get it done by the twentieth, This is where you don't get to build to be able to have the perfect solution. You gotta be able to get the mission. Essential done lives are on the line here and we've gotta be able to get everything done to be able to save those lives and let's go to the last one. here. This is one we're doing right now. Colorado This is in Denver. another gigantic Convention Center. You'll see all the different cubicles here to be able to just bring in that oxygen six inch copper pipe that comes in and it's all pipe throughout Convention Center, six miles of pipe that's able to go in to be able to make that happen and in closing, I just wanna be able to say that we are a very very focused in the core of engineers getting this done, but this is all about the team the federal team, the state team, the local team, the vice President's task force and a lot of the people sitting in the year have informed us of how fast we need to go and it goes back to again all the layers the governors and the mayors and make this happen, but I wanna reiterate President Trump has called me three times in Secretary Esper has been on the phone at least one of those times and said what else do we need? Do to set you up for success? Is there any other knobs? We can turn to be able to help you go and you think about that equation of those three essays. I think that we're the federal government and the mayors and the cities here we've effectively taken that first ass out of the equation and so I can't tell you of all the things I've done in my career. This is a noble calling to be able to step up and save American lives so well. that's right. Thank you very much. Jeff Thank you very much anybody have a question for the general is here because I think it's very self explanatory. It's an incredible job. Jeff But our job we still have. We have enough time to go build. We wanna get in there and do the assessment we work for the mayor and the city and the governor here and we can still get them done if the mayors and those elected officials make a fast enough decision. you might say when you're here, we're building the generals in charge of the Wall on the southern border and we wanna build 450 miles of Wall and it's very much under construction and might give them a little bit of an update how we doing with the Wall. so sorry, I think the most important thing and you stress this and Secretary experts arrest this. there's really several different. Our number one priority in in Department of Defense in the core of engineers is to protect the team protect the force. no matter what we do. We've got to continue to take care of our civilians and our service members out there and so every single thing we're doing whether we're building for the VA and we're building for civil works projects or for the Department of Defense or building on the Southwest border. We are going out of our way. I talk to my commanders this morning. we've got over 4000 contractors that are on the ground out there and we've had no positive as of this morning knock on wood same thing with my 400. Employees were testing them not necessarily where the more stringent test, but with temperatures to be able to make sure that everybody is safe and everybody goes out of their way to do things the right way. construction is going very very smooth. What we're seeing is our contractors are extremely focused. now that we've we've got a good clear path both on the CBP program, as well as some of the DOD program we I think very well. postured isn't a very very aggressive build, but we're well postured to me be able to make your expectations or 450 by the end of December two. 20 and we're over a hundred and 60 miles, a hundred and 60 -, four today's 64 miles and we'll have it done sometime pretty early next year. Very exciting. Yes sir. and you might just say one thing the quality of that Wall in terms of its power for stopping people that shouldn't be coming into our country so same thing if you have a standard design that you trust in and it works very well. I've got a I've got a a Pat on the back Commissioner Morgan he was very adamant and continue to be able to make sure that it supports his agents and so we've gotta. Design Now that certainly does that and then we've got a phenomenal contractor workforce. That's in there, my core of engineer employees and it's going in well. We don't see any significant problems and I think it's also important to point out that they're we wanna do this the right way. so we try to balance this with environmental considerations are out there. We're trying to do due diligence when it comes to anything to do with any of the citizens are affected. We're trying to make sure that we're protecting all of the things that we need to protect and try to find that balance where we can vote. Meet the the Administration's directive while the same time making sure we're doing this so that everybody's gets a vote and everybody has a fair shake. Yeah, please ask what you're doing regarding the availability of at the recreation sites that the army core of engineers offer. it's how the access is going there and whether or not those restrictions. So I'm an engineer. I take my guidance from some of these experts sitting on the bench over here and when the President says turn on America, what we initially did like many many other governors they you know, shutdown beaches sat down cities. I had a meeting with my commanders this morning and as soon as we think it's safe, turn it back on. I mean parking out there the wreck area where you're 500 feet away from everybody in a camper is. Low threat I will continue to take guidance from the administration, but where we get Green lights to continue to put our wreck areas. full up and let everybody go back out there and do things safe way and we work for the administration so I wanna do it safe but I don't wanna be the last guy that turns things on not at all. Yes ma'. Thanks for walking through some of the efforts do you have any you say anything about whether or not there are any specific efforts in communities that are hardest hit like black communities or Latino communities. Communities of colors are the army core of engineers doing anything that would be building any sort of temporary facilities for those communities. so we basically key off with the city ask for the city and the governor. there are a couple specific areas that certain city mayors have asked us for again. I'm not gonna go into details, but we basically if they go in and say I'm very worried about a hot spot on this side of town or a specific community here we will do this with us. Administration's charges to do is whatever we can do to be most responsive. We just don't want an ever to have an ambulance pull up to the back of a hospital and somebody says we're out of room go to the next hospital down. So that's where we're trying to make sure that that beds faces available and so far everything we built has been ahead of need. in other words were able to finish the building two or three days before it's need. Thank you. man Okay. So you already have a choice. You can stay in. Watch. Watch these wonderful people ask system really nice questions or you can go back to building better. Sir. I got a lot of building to do. I'm gonna let you feel. Are very impressive That's impressive job seriously. It's really great. Thank you very much, he said. Terrific gentlemen, We have a lot of great people doing that kind of thing that they really have to get recognition for the incredible job. they're doing cuz I don't think anybody else could do it. Nothing like that and that's on top of thousands and thousands of hospitals that you know he built just in New York alone, four hospitals and 2900 beds and got them done. So quickly, nobody, nobody said anything like it. Fortunately, we haven't had to use too many of them and that's okay. That's probably better news than having to use them all right cuz a lot of good things are happening in New York and elsewhere so through the public, private partnerships and deregulation, the federal government is already made immense testing capabilities available, but some States need to take action to fully utilize it to date. the United States has conducted millions more test and any other country. you can animal all up. And they don't catch us and our numbers are doubling almost on a certainly on a monthly basis, but almost on a weekly basis, we're moving very rapidly far at a number of nobody thought possible and we'll be doubling our number of daily test of the governor's bring their States fully online through the capability that they have. We have tremendous capability out there already existing and we explained that to the governor today by can all of the people explained it very strongly to the governor's seat. They really get it now. I think as the. Have explained this capacity is sufficient to allow States to conduct diagnostic testing to treat patients as well as contact tracing to contain outbreaks and monitoring to pinpoint potential hotspots during phase one and there are some hot spots and we have them pinpointed and they can really covered very very nicely when they know exactly where to go and they're being told where to go and also these locations where they're going and some of them are federal. Some of the governors didn't realize they were allowed to use federal locations They are and Have a booklet of the federal locations we can hold it up. I think you'll show that maybe we'll hold it up now. Yeah, okay fine, but you see the number of things Thanks man. These are all locations where they can go, which is really pretty amazing. This is just one page out of many over 5000 look look at this. This is these are all locations. A lot of locations and they can all what is it 5000 5000 pieces of equipment. so that's thank you very much. That's more than anybody thought, but and it's already there. They have to use it. That's all they have to use it somewhere in aware somewhere very much aware somewhere where my administration also continues to support States with our massive operation to deliver Mass gowns, gloves and other vital supplies, Admiral polished and Team at Fifa are really that what a job they've done in Pete. what a job he's done, They're calling on Easter Sunday to make sure everyone's okay, but they're using detailed data about supply chains to track the deployment of one billion pieces of protective equipment through private distributors every two weeks. So what we're doing is we're delivering a number that nobody anywhere in the world is delivering females working closely with Doctor Berks and the distributors to pay. Artist supply of resources where they are most needed, We're finding the location that they have to they have to get to that location. We have locations that are very important to get to and get to him fast and that's where they're going so we have a very strong priority. This pandemic is reaffirmed the importance of keeping vital supply chains at home. We cannot outsource our independence. We cannot be reliant on foreign Nations. I've been saying this for a long time if we've learned one thing. It's let's do it here. Let's build it here. Let's make it here. We got the greatest country in the world. We gotta start bringing our supply chains back somebody years ago. Got this screen idea. Let's build all over the place and let's have parts. Let's have a screw for a car delivered in made in a country that's far away and let's have a offender made some place else and let's do this. and let's do that and let's put it all together and I like making it right here in the USA and I think we've learned a lot of. That and especially maybe when it comes to pharmaceutical products, we've also conducted major military operations, providing cities and States with additional medical capacity and the incredible 1800 men and women from the army Core of engineers you just met with Todd. He's the job. they've done is incredible, but we have nurses doctors we have experts in every field all over spoke with. Governor Cuomo spoke with Mayor DeBlasio spoke with many of the other governors that on both friendly and I think I'm friendly with just about all of them if you can believe it, but I've gotten friendly with a lot of them. I did gained a lot of respect for a lot of the governors, both Republican and Democrat during this process. Some really good people. some really good talent, but we're sending a lot of our medical people not only our construction people like Todd Semonite, but a lot of our medical people are being sent all over the country to different locations New York City. State of New Jersey I spoke with Phil Today's doing a terrific job in New Jersey, but New Jersey got hit very very hard. Phil Murphy governor from today this crisis began America launched a scientific mobilization of colossal size and scale someday. they'll be able to write the true story because nobody seen anything like it. the fake news just refuses to cover it correctly. but that's okay, but the people are understanding and that's what matters to me. they are now. To active trials underway across the United States, researching dozens of therapies and treatments and another 211 are in the planning stages them getting I mean they literally mobilizing on therapeutics and also on vaccines. a tremendous progress is being made on vaccines and I must say on therapeutics. I've been frankly if I had my choice, give me the therapeutic.