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Description: The Georgia Secretary of State's office will hold a news conference in Atlanta as votes roll in for two runoff elections for the US Senate.

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The Georgia Secretary of State's office will hold a news conference in Atlanta as votes roll in for two runoff elections for the US Senate.

74,994. That gets us to a total of 3,093,000, 376 votes that air in the bank ready to go? The one thing I could tell you about that is it means we're standing here today with a record turnout for a runoff. So out of the gate, we have that, Um Now let's move. I'm gonna come back to the military and overseas in a moment cause it's in the computer. Really Get through. We have on the sheet right now. Let's move to our equipment. Questions. We went over what happened in Colombia County this morning. There was Ln a done, but apparently it might have been incomplete logic and accuracy testing. So some precincts were fine. Think that 26 of their abilities 46 that were affected by not having what they call an eye button, which is a small magnetic key. It allows you to turn on the I C P, which is the polling place scanner so you can open the polling location for scanning. They couldn't do that, so if they couldn't get the poll worker cards, toe work as well in these emergency ballots, put those into the emergency been so voting never stopped these locations. But because of that potential issue, having slowed down, they have gone to court for two precincts, Super locations for extension and almost laughing, says extend one from 7 to 701 and then do another one from 7 to 704 The only other court order extension we have. We don't have a reason for yet. It's one in Tift County for 7 40. We anticipate a couple of other ones that might have opened up Blake, but we know specifics on that yet. Um, there was a rumor of an issue in Gilmer County, where they had to ask the people in courthouse to evacuate for a moment. What? We were unclear to what that was about, that there was a domestic dispute in the in the atrium area, I believe, and it resolved relatively quickly, had nothing to with the election, had nothing to do with the other threats we've heard about for the last couple of days. Um, we all have a fake reports of power outages in Cobb County. We're in close conjunction with both the M. C s and Georgia Power. There are no power outages currently in Georgia that we're aware of. There was a rumor of one in Cobb. It's not true. Um, actual equipment issues we've seen today. We've had to swap out three ICP. So those are the polling place scanners? Um, two. Because of a jam. One. It wasn't scanning properly. The two with the jam one was in Douglas, one was unfolding, and the final one that was scanning properly was in accounting. So that is, of the deployed scanners. That's 0.1%. Then, for the touch screens we've seen on the MDs, we had to replace one and tattle and for in the cab. And when employed, the power supply wasn't working properly. So that's four out of about 27,000 sticking. Just 2.2% of the touch screens had to be replaced. Um, let's see now on the military ballots. Sorry. Keep hanging up on people on your phone. Walter, um, I want to give you all the details of that. What we're trying to do is get to a point where we know exactly what the outward bounds of all the potential battles are gonna be relatively quickly by tomorrow. That includes all the new absentees and everything except the military ones. Which, of course, if they're postmarked by today, they can be received by Friday. So bear with me one second. I'll reopen this. My computer will work. Give All right. So we have a total of 27,942 Ukawa which are the military and permanent and temporary overseas voters that are out there. Now I'm gonna break this down to two sub categories of the military. There were 14,260 requests of the temporary and permanent overseas. There were 13,682 so so far accepted on the military, we have had 4748 accepted. And of the overseas permanent temporary, we had 6272 accepted. So that means they're remaining potentials for those overseas and military or ast follows. For the military, there are 9512 that still could be coming in by Friday. And for the permanent or temporary foresees, that could be 7510 get to a total of 17,000 and 22 that could still be coming in. And let me re explain for those remember here from two months ago, that is the all of them came in. Let me tell you right now, not all of them come in. We know that because they they never all come back in. But that is the outward bound we can see. For that. We have put out instructions of working with the county's to have them quickly followed the SCB rule. We had that they had to begin scanning last week. On Monday, the counties followed that rule, the majority that have caught up to what they had through today so they could still accept balance through today. They could empty the drop boxes. They could get their mail today, but those who have to be signature matching everything. But guess what? There's an election today, so they were gonna have till tomorrow morning at noon. We're asking to please get it all in. I anticipate many of them will make it. Some of them may not make it all the way through just because of the volume and again, as we have said, repeatedly thes elections workers and county workers have beaten into the ground or worked into the ground. They're exhausted, so they're trying to the best they can on some of these things. Um, so hopefully we'll have those answers relatively quickly. Fulton specifically had 98,000 that had been brought in, and they had gotten through 92,000 last night. Um, they had to still do signature verification of the other 6000. I know they worked through last night part of this morning, so I don't know how far they've gotten their the largest load, obviously, of those that are out there. Eso we feel really good the county's air doing a good job of catching up on this doing signature verification in public. And we just put out official election bullets, reminding them they have to be the center verification public, reminding them through the ballot processing in public. So with that, I'll take any questions you might have no well adjusted first. Sorry, any indication you were planning for a million turnout today. Any indication with that turnout is looking is a subset of a million. So far, we have no. The problem is there's Despite what you might have read, our systems are hooked to the Internet, so we do not know how people have come in. So it's anecdotal evidence that we received. And there's a difference. Now. Between were usedto lines, meaning there's lots of people, but we've actually got relatively efficient with putting people through our processes. So if there's not lines, it doesn't mean there's not a high turnout. It doesn't mean they're processing people. Uh, we do have some lines in some specific areas. Um, and Bon Aire and Housing County. There's an hour lunch. They had a lush A ranch. Yeah, they're a lunchtime rush that came in. We've seen some in which doctors about an hour in Paulding counties, about an hour and counter saying 20 to 30 minute lines into cab. This morning we saw some 20 minute lines, but those seems to have abated. But again, this is mainly anecdotal. We do not have specific ways to get this. Uh, we get some more information the same way you all would from your friends texting you. Yes, ma'am. Hammer, you know, by the about a million people have turned out to be on Election Day that, would you? I know we didn't. Some people said that. I said, I hope we had a good, healthy turnout. I mean, we could see is low a 600,000. We could see as high as 1.1. We just have no way of knowing. I mean, we've already blown out the turnout record, so no matter what we do is gonna be a success. Um, so we feel good about that. The we would love to see a million people because that means that we will have really more than doubled the amount of that we would have seen in a regular. The previous run off record was 2.1 mill. Um, and that was the Saxby Chambliss runoff in Don't make me do math. That's one thing. There's 2004. Yeah, so if we did, this would be a four million or so, which is almost double that. You don't think this is a sign that the fact that you guys are having wait times in most right don't be that of the client? Turnout may or may not because we're trying to learn this new system used to what those kind of things mean because we're we're more efficient getting people through the lines now than we were previously. Um, remember, we've eliminated a step. They don't have to fill out certificates, which is generally speaking the longest particular thing. And when you're the only chokepoints, we've seen our check in and potentially at the scanners. And if a poll managers managing their poll location correctly, you should really only have the scanner because they could watch and see if there's one coming up at the I'm sorry a t the chicken spot because they could watch and see if the scanners, if there's a line building things like Hold on for a second now let people through. So that could be part of the reason you have line. So that could mean there is heavy turnout there. But just because they're not heavy turnout as an example at a friend who was who voted at 7 30 this morning at a Roswell location and she came out and she was voted number 35 at 7 30 which means they were doing averaging one person a minute. So that's pretty efficient. They're doing a pretty good job getting people through it. That's the morning rush. It's gonna slow down again, like we usually see there's a rush in the morning slows down that 10 11 o'clock, our people going lunch, break it, picks back up again there about one and rolls back down again. People start leaving work around four starts kicking back up again. So we have no way of knowing that voter behavior is gonna be on this one. We do know that there are several are large counties that had already reached over 80% of their turnout for the November election. Um, Fulton, the cab being the two largest ones that did that. But again, we don't know what voter behavior is going to show on this. We hope people will go out and vote. And again, we want to reiterate Don't self suppress your vote if you feel like it's not gonna count. If you care about who wins these elections, one way or the other, please turn out and vote a zoo. You've seen we have relatively short lines in most places so that it should be easy for you. Who else? Hey, Mark, talk about. Wait times and turn out there kind of connected your line management tool, I believe. What? Wait. One point of confused. I'm going. Well, you know how long line is. Why don't you know what? The turnout? You're quite how this Well, the line manager in this particular case to is not as robust as it was in the November general election. We do not have as many techs who we can control. So hey, do this. We're looking We're still sort of a test module to kind of see how this all works and what it is is There's an app with a human being who's going walking around, going toe asking poll manager. How long is the wait? About 10 minutes. Okay. They're putting in, or they're giving a person. Uh, you take this note and they make a note of the time. And then when they get there, they go time again. And then they put in that so much time has nothing to do with the check ins on the machines themselves. Because, as we've made clear, they're not connected to the Internet, so we can't know turn out at the same time. They're two separate and apart systems much. Yes, I Fairly. First, you got to people in the room. Yes. That's fair. Do you think is your hometown or something? Um, can you give us the latest number of think absentee ballot? I can, actually. But while I'm looking that up, I'll take another question. Yeah, I definitely plan. Yeah. Remember the county's count way. Anticipate the results to continue to come in, especially on the absentee by mail that came in today. So we don't know the outward bound up that that's what trying to say. We're trying to get in to check them all in. We all know what the final number is because we saw confusion based on that because people didn't understand the people are still voting. No, they're just finally getting around to getting signature match and making sure, Yes, it's an accepted ballot, and they have time to do that. So bear with me a moment while I open one of the 9000 spreadsheets and I keep on turning down people. You're very, very popular. Walter, when you get back your phone, um see? Sorry. Yeah. Yes, You You have an estimate. Of how long Get the results? No, I mean, we're gonna start getting results on tonight. We're gonna biggest bulk of them like we did last night. Depends on the margin. When you want to get a final outcome, we will know the outstanding number of ballots. If I'm a betting person, which I'm not I would say it's gonna be a couple of days because I anticipate it will be a close race one way or the other for for probably all three of these seats. Because most people gonna vote straight party, one way street party, Another way from the polling that we've seen days before. Yes. Again. As best as we can tell, if it's a blowout, you know who knows? See, that's not right. Let me get back to Oh, never mind. You see, bear with me a second. I'm doing math on the fly. Chicken is always so exciting. I have to get back to hold on. Let me open up another another screen because my math is definitely not working on this. We don't have half a million that are still out. I don't think, um, say and this exciting television, everybody, normally they have this in a nice pretty pdf for me. They didn't do that today. because we're busy doing other things. 306,855 is what we still have about and when. But when can you have until the cut off is seven o'clock tonight? Um includes Dropbox has had to be locked by seven o'clock tonight, so that's that's considered accepted at that point, and that's just getting them in. They still have to be with their signature match, unless remember, if there's a signature issue. Thieve voter has up to three days to cure that ballot. And again, there'll be teams of Republicans and Democrats running around the state getting those last ballots cured. The other thing that can happen is one provisional ballots. Those could be verified through Friday on those that need to be verified. Alright, what else? When we get the vote count, everybody's watching boats come in. Will early votes be counted first, Generally speaking are already in. It depends on how the county's choose to do their work today. Going to take it's the early voting scanners to get the memory cards off. That actually takes a little bit of time. Some of the gonna be doing the mail on first. Some will be doing the absentee in person first, But again, it's up to the county. We have encouraged them to get their mail in voting quickly because I think that was one of the things that cause major confusion in November tomorrow. Yes. Sorry, She hadn't had one yet. How long live did you expect today really have that record for now. What was it like to kind of Okay, every everyone These elections has been different and had their own new sets of ways of making things seem crazier, you know, So today has been relatively light, has been sort of calm down stairs. I mean, the biggest thing we have to deal with more rumors, like, you know, the rumor of, ah, closure, the rumor of a bomb scare that was actually a domestic incident, you know? So everybody's kind of on edge for some of these things, but in general, it's been steady as she goes. Like I said, we had 0.2% of touch screens have a problem. 0.1% of scanners, you know, way. Our biggest issues were kind of like when a plane takes off and lands or you two biggest things we took off this morning. We didn't really have any poll pad issues other than a few user errors in some of those cases where, like, the encoder wasn't quite in. Exactly. Right. You have to wiggle it a little bit. Kind of like, you know, when your iPhone gets older and you have to wiggle the cord so it starts to charge that kind of thing. But in general, we haven't seen anything be too over the top crazy, Which is good. We want steady. But we want to see that the people who want to cast their vote, their votes are gonna count. And they turn out to vote today. Tomorrow? Um, you about Columbia County? Um, the precinct may stead. Well, two of them will one until 701 and the other one until 704 Which again, feel ridiculous to say they're called the county that the county themselves because they can't keep it open themselves. They have to get by the county of themselves. They don't have the only way you could go past what the state law says is to get a court order. The county felt okay. We were a minute late starting. Let's add them into the back. Were four minutes late. Starting. Let's add that four minutes to the back, Correct? Yes. And we and there'll be a couple of other precincts and polling locations around the state that happens with. Like I said, Tift County has one of 7 40. And as we get further in the day, we keep collecting. This court orders in, and we'll have a full list by the end of the night. A few complaints about people off work to vote. You're on heard, and Georgia law does from way have sighted people to that specific law. It's not that anybody could take off for two hours to go do this. Your hours have to cover the times. You wouldn't have a 12 hour shift. Basically, you have to have time within that. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm giving you the basic. It's a layman. If you work from 9 to 5, they don't have to give you time off. You have two hours of the beginning and two hours at the end, so that kind of thing doesn't happen. But say you work a 12 hour manufacturing shift. They do have to give you that. Those two hours to go do it. Anything else? All right. Thank you all. Thank you. Know anything fun? Off the record, nobody asked me about the president's tweet or anything. Yes, I guess that's that's not old news at this point. Yeah, I guess. The old news now. Yeah. Yeah, they wanted.

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<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. Uh So it's my honor now to introduce to you the 75th governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper. Thank you so much, Greenville, aren't you proud of Jordan Witcher? Let me just say, Chief Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. And uh you might notice that I have a lot of people in my administration who are from Eastern North Carolina. It's because I grew up here and I know the kind of people that they are. So I am so happy to be here. With you today, seeing so many friends and familiar faces uh and to celebrate what's gonna happen today. Uh Thank you Marquita for being here, Representative reader. Thank you for, for, for being here. Thank you representative for you. Uh Thank you, appreciate all of you guys candy. Thank you for coming. Very grateful for you coming and being part of this. Um II, I wanna thank Mayor Pro TEM Daniels and say thank you very much for your hard work here. But it's great to join with you today with an outstanding announcement for the city of Greenville, Pitt County, eastern North Carolina and I am our entire state. I am so proud to announce that Bovi at Solar, an international renewable energy company has selected North Carolina for its first North American solar panel manufacturing facility that will create 900 jobs and invest $294 million right here in Greenville, North Carolina. Our economists predict that this project will lift North Carolina's economy by more than $2.9 billion over the next 12 years. This economic development. When shows us how teamwork, teamwork and that's a fitting word here in front of Dowdy Ficklin Stadium, teamwork and our amazing workforce. Keep bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to our state here in Pitt County. You have a great legacy of manufacturing, making everything from life saving pharmaceuticals to packaging personal care products and now comes important components for clean renewable energy. North Carolina is becoming an epicenter for clean energy that's putting money in the pockets of North Carolina families and small businesses. And as we've learned in North Carolina the last few years, a clean energy economy is a strong economy, providing American security. North Carolina is a leader in that 19 billion in capital investments and nearly 16,000 good paying manufacturing jobs created here since 2021 with the fourth largest producer of solar energy in the country. And with our bipartisan clean power plan that will get us producing zero emission clean energy by 2050. That means a lot more solar panels need to be made right here in North Carolina. This announcement means that they're going to be made right here. And North Carolina's emergence as a clean energy leader has fueled our growth and helped set us apart as the number one state to do business in the country for two years in a row, we all get to celebrate that recognition and much of the credit goes to our well trained, dedicated and diverse workforce, the people of North Carolina, they make up the best workforce in the country. And Bovi at solar is gonna find out about that. And our university Chancellor Rogers, thank you for hosting this today. Our university and community college systems including East Carolina Pitt community College and our research institutions and workforce partnerships help North Carolina stay first in talent coupled with our central east location, East coast location and includes easy access to transportation infrastructure by land, plain sea. And of course our excellent quality of life. North Carolina continues to be a top choice and we don't take opportunities and announcement like these for granted because we know that companies like Bovi at solar can choose to locate anywhere in the world, but they chose us. And that's why we must continue to increase our investments in education, workforce training in our public schools and in early childhood education, that is absolutely critical. This announcement is the result of strong collaboration by company executives, elected officials across both aisles and economic development professionals. In addition to Secretary Sanders and the Department of Commerce, I'd like to thank our Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina that works so well led by Chris Chung works so well with our Department of Commerce, our North Carolina General Assembly. Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, we accept this gift and hopefully we can sit and drink some tea and talk about the great success of this company. Thank you, Jimmy very much. Thank you. Mm Let uh let me begin to say uh by saying, thank you to the press, our partners and everyone who took the time to join us at today's event. Uh We are around to be receiving this investment grade and uh we are excited uh for how it uh will enable us to get our first us solar panel manufacturer facility up to and running and uh created, created uh economic uh uh our opportunities for the pul air. Yeah, for those who uh who aren't familiar. Let me introduce the about the poet founded in 2013 poet, solar head office in Unite, unite us Germany and our group uh headquarters in Vietnam. We have a proven track record of successful working with many of the industrial leading players. And our PV module are known for their power performance. And quality. This is evident because Bo has uh maintained its uh pos uh position at a Bloomberg new energy financing T one solar module manufacturers. Since 2017, we have been written at the top performance on people's PV module reliability uh score card since 2019 BB. Successfully completed. And in the independent e estimate of bo uh uh water solar manufacturers facility in 2022 the US uh solar industrial had been in K for water solar since we first uh entered the uh in 20 17 as of 2020 f uh three world solar PV sales and the PV models manufacturing capacity is more than three gigawatts and it's a shar a total of more than 6.6 gigawatt since uh in fabric, manually operating in us. Marketing. We are dedicated uh to helping to build uh American solar manufacturers uh with our new facility and uh filing, you know, cutting power in uh petit county, North Carolina and the, the natural. Uh let me tell you more about our plan for the manufacture plant. First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

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A lockdown has ended at Enloe High School in Raleigh, police said Friday.

Good afternoon. My name is Lieutenant Jason with the Public Information Office of the Raleigh Police Department. Deputy Chief Boyce is going to provide an update on the incident that happened at a high school today. Uh Good morning, uh Deputy Chief Rico Boyce of the Raleigh Police Department. I want to provide an update of the incident that occurred here at in low high school this morning. I'm joined here with Major Harrison of the Field Operations Division as well as major latour of the field operations division. I want to begin by saying that everything and everyone is safe at Inlow High School. There's no students, no staff that has been injured as a result of this. Obviously with uh with the allegation of a firearm on campus, it really has an effect on the students and staff, but I want to alert the public that everything is ok. Uh Wake County schools have been very helpful in investigating this matter with the Raleigh Police Department. So what happened just after 10 a.m. this morning, a student approached the principal and made the principal aware that there is a subject on campus with a firearm. The principal immediately placed a school on code red lockdown and with the assistance of the school resource officer, additional officers were called to the scene. Once officers arrived on scene, they began to do a systematic search of the entire school interior and exterior of the school to determine that there was no one on campus with the firearm. Obviously, when you talk about a firearm on campus, it has a very large impact in our community and that's why we had a very large presence of law enforcement. But I will say Raleigh PD working with the Wake County public schools, we have determined that there is no threat on campus. We took this matter very seriously. We're going to continue to investigate and see how this all originated. But at this time, I just want to let the community know that this threat is unfounded, right? There's no threat, there's no firearm, there's no one injured at in high school. So we're going to continue to make sure that the message get out and Wake County public schools will put out an update of how the rest of the school day is going to go as far as any potential early release. I cannot say that right now, what I can say is a student made the principal aware that there is a potential of someone on campus with a firearm. The principal took that information very seriously and placed the school on a code grade lockdown and we began to investigate from there. So at this time, I can't determine if it was a hoax or not. Are you looking for anyone else? I mean, there have been a report that there was a student who said her boyfriend was with a gun. Are you looking for that person? Since no one was found in the school with a gun? We're investigating right now, like say this originated from a student and the information was shared with the principal. So we're still trying to determine what exactly was shared with the principal to lead to the core lockdown. So right now that is like say under investigation, did you guys do a systematic room by room search? Yes, we did. Like I say with this being a school and the threat of a firearm on campus, the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit, state capital PD County Sheriff's office, they all responded to help us do a systematic search of the entire campus, not only inside the school but it outside school in the surrounding neighborhoods is the lockdown lifted currently. No, it's still code red lockdown right now. We're just finishing up like say some last minute details with Wake County public schools and they will update us when they're going to lift that code red. One more question. I just want to make sure I'm clarifying this correctly. A call from the principle that a student had reported this. Are you still on the lookout for someone who might have been on campus and then left or are you investigating this in a different way? We're investigating this in a different way that this was a alleged threat of someone with a gun on campus. So right now, there's nobody on campus, but we're trying to get the exact details. Like what else was involved in this communication with the student and the principal. Can you really quickly just talk about the response? I mean, this is a massive response to something like this and the impact that has on officers, parents, students out there actually has a huge toll, a huge effect on our officers responding to any school with the potential of a firearm b on a campus. That's why you saw the response to get today. Uh We work very well with our law enforcement partners and we're very thankful for them helping us to clear the school. Uh And obviously with parents, of course, this is going to have a huge impact on parents as well as student and staff. Anytime you see a large police presence on a, on a school campus, but it's all to make sure that everyone is safe. Uh And then we're quickly, we'll try to get the school back to normal operators uh operating as soon as possible. So yes, we came with a lot of resources if there was a threat or would someone would have gone, we wanted to quickly mitigate that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.

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