Name: Gov. Cooper update on Moore County power outages, criminal investigation
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Description: Governor Roy Cooper provides briefing on the Duke Energy substations that were heavily damaged in Moore County over the weekend, causing a State of Emergency and major investigation.

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Governor Roy Cooper provides briefing on the Duke Energy substations that were heavily damaged in Moore County over the weekend, causing a State of Emergency and major investigation.

<p>good to see you a little bit on the flash. Should be good. All right, good afternoon. Everybody what happened here, saturday night was a criminal attack and federal, state and local law enforcement are actively working to bring those responsible to justice. I've been briefed regularly since this happened both on the investigation and on the emergency management effort here to support those who have been affected by the loss of power. Today, I visited one of the substations that was attacked and I want to thank the people who are working so hard to restore power. It's very complex what they're doing and they've been working around the clock to do that. I've met with the emergency management team here in moore County and I've met with local, state and federal law enforcement to get updated on the investigation, helping the vulnerable people and the places where they live, including adult care homes is a priority. Making sure that people are warm as the night approaches, Making sure people are cared for, making sure that critical services at hospitals and law enforcement at emergency management services or supported and available. All of that is crucial. Now, while we are determined to keep people safe, we're also deeply concerned about the small businesses that are losing out on valuable retail time right here before the holidays as well as our school students who are missing valuable class time because of closure of schools, local and the state response to all of this has been swift and strong and I know that we'll all keep working until the power is restored and do whatever we need to do afterward as well. Will be important protecting critical infrastructure like our power system must be a top priority. This kind of attack raises a new level of threat. We will be evaluating ways to work with our utility providers and our state and federal officials to make sure that we harden our in frustration our infrastructure where that's necessary and work to prevent future damage. I will continue to get briefed on this investigation as it continues and I'm sure that we will learn more about motives of this intentional attack. An attack that damaged an entire community regardless of motive violence and sabotage will not be tolerated. In the meantime, I have been impressed with the resilience and the community spirit of the people of moore County. I'm grateful for their public spirit and their help for each other, helping to serve meals to the people down at the substation, who are working on making repairs, helping each other in the community. And I am deeply appreciative of the first responders. The 911 operators, uh the good work that they were doing today in Moore County, making sure they had all of those positions uh filled with personnel who were handling the load the law enforcement, the people who are helping with traffic with traffic likes being out, the healthcare providers, the emergency personnel and others who are doing their very best to get us past this. Have a number of people here who are with me working from the state perspective, Secretary Eddie Buffalo, who is the Secretary of our Department of Public Safety also have Will Ray, who is our Emergency Management Director from north Carolina. Colonel Freddy johnson who was the head of our Highway Patrol and of course share fields who has been working diligently on this case since the beginning. He's here as well. And we have Jeff brooks from Duke Energy who is going to give us a briefing here as well. First, I'm gonna turn it over to Secretary Buffalo for a word or two. Secretary Buffalo, thank you Governor for your leadership sir. First of all, let me say thank you to the moore County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Fields and to the moore County Public Safety Director mr phillips for your extraordinary quick response in this event. And thank you all the public safety partners as the governor alluded to. The North and the Department of Public Safety is fully engaged. We're fully engaged with personnel and resources. We have the north Carolina State Highway Patrol, the North Clan Division of Emergency Management, the alcohol law Enforcement. And of course, our State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the FBI as well as the moore County Sheriff's Office to bring these folks to justice that did this unprecedented uh event here in moore County. We're resilient here in moore County. I know citizens are helping you out Sheriff. We do ask those who have information that they contact the moore County Sheriff's office to assist in this investigation and we'll be able to bring these folks to justice as the law requires. And governor alternate back over you sir. Now hear from Jeff brooks from Duke Energy. Thank you. Governor. Mr Secretary, thank you as well for being here and for the opportunity to give an update. Duke Energy continues to keep this community and our hearts certainly as we work diligently to restore power uh for the homes and businesses here in this area, we recognize how challenging these conditions are and we recognize that as the days progress, those challenges become more acute. So we take our jobs very seriously and are very committed to serving you in this time. Um As a reminder, we had about 45,000 customers that were impacted by this uh incident here in in moore County on saturday evening. Uh we have worked to make some progress as our repairs continue. We were able to restore about 7000 customers last night uh as we were completed some repairs on some of the equipment that was damaged, uh that work continues and we have some repair past that we hope can can potentially restore a few 1000 more. Uh but as we said yesterday we continue to to maintain that for the majority uh this outage will continue until we get those repairs completed and so we will gradually see more recovery, but we could still see this extend uh Wednesday into thursday somewhere in that time frame. So just keeping those expectations, you know transparent and as you think about that, obviously one message we say is you know, if you do rely on electricity for medical needs, our our local communities have offered resources uh that you can take advantage of and and certainly we want you to keep your family safe and the way you need to be um we are working diligently to make those repairs. In some cases equipment could be repaired in place and that is a that's a good thing in other cases that the damage was to the point that that the equipment had to be replaced. And so we are working to get those those equipment that we need here to get it into position, understand though that that it's not as simple as changing a light bulb as it were. Some of this equipment does take, you know, a significant amount of work, a significant amount of process that goes through putting into place safely getting it in service. But we are working in parallel on many paths to make sure there is nothing that delays this return that when one piece is ready to go into service, the grid is ready to receive it and we're ready to restore your power incrementally as we go. Um We continue to partner with our local sheriff and his agency as well as state and federal partners to make sure that we are providing all the information that is needed to be able to assist in your investigation and we appreciate the resources. Uh, we appreciate the support from the state, certainly in this as well. Uh, resiliency is about community, it's about more county, it's about the state, it's about all of us working together and Duke Energy is committed with this instance to make sure that that we are getting our system back up. But we also remain committed to continuing to make the the improvements that are needed on the grid to strengthen the grid to make it increasingly resilient, increasingly able to uh to uh recover quickly when these types of outages occur. So we will continue to learn from these situations. But obviously our focus right now is on recovery. We're also focused on helping the local community. Um, we live and work in this community just as as many of you do. And uh in addition to our crews working to restore power. We have been on the ground here volunteering trying to help out where we can speaking with local leaders and local businesses to understand what are your needs. Um and as part of that, uh, we have announced today that we're gonna make an initial commitment of $100,000 to this community to be able to help with some of those community needs. Um we'll be working with organizations like the Red Cross and other groups to to help help address where we need to be. And it's just it's a way that that we can do something as employees and as an organization to assist even as we're trying to get the power back restored. Uh, but we will continue to work until everyone is back up. We appreciate your patients. Uh we, you know, this is a situation that has affected us all, but we will we will get through this together and we will appreciate the opportunity to serve you in this time. Thank you. So I've spoken with us District Attorney for the Middle District, Sandra hairston. Uh, Mike Harden, the district Attorney. Uh, the FBI, the FBI uh Sheriff Fields. Uh they were just meeting upstairs. I know that they are leaving no stone unturned uh, in this investigation to find those who are responsible. I know you had told me that there wasn't really an update sheriff, but if you would like to to speak, you certainly may thank you Governor and I just want to thank you again for all the support uh that you have given us through the state. I really truly appreciate that citizens of moore County appreciate that. The only thing I may add is just our tip line. We're working together with the federal and state agencies were running all tip lines through the moore County Sheriff's office and our tip line number is 910947 44 44. Any information or anything you hear, please call that number and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you so much. Take any questions that you might have. Yes, about to share about the attack itself. A little bit about sort of what we know about what firearms, what of the, so I'm I'm not gonna get into the specifics of the attack. I'm gonna leave that to the local, state and federal investigators. I know that they are working hard on this. I do know and they've said this publicly that this was an intentional attack that caused significant harm to a lot of people. The Sheriff wants to comment on that. They certainly can. Governor. I don't have anything further to comment. Uh, we other than to say it was uh, the damage was done by farm and uh that's pretty much all we want to elaborate as far as that was it just the two substations shot and then the other ones like failed due to stress on the system 20. Yes. So there was physical damage at two substations in the area. And then, you know that the effect of that ultimately resulted in the larger outage that affected 45,000, which is nearly all the customers that Duke Energy serves in Moore County 45,000 customers. Individual people were affected. I don't have an estimate. But you're exactly right. Those are those are households and businesses. So you can imagine if a typical house has two or three people in them. It affects far more than just the number of customers that we mentioned through that count. Yes. Let me make sure I'm clear on the question. You are asking if if if the hurricanes recently, is that what you're asking or affecting the part? Now in this case it's more of a situation of of the time it takes to to move those materials from from either locally or, but in some cases regional distribution areas and locations to then install them in place. Um And and it would be more like perhaps the comparison of of of changing a small thing, like a light bulb in your house versus your H Vac system. If you want to kind of get a sense of of some, some repairs are easier. Some repairs are more complex and there's a time associated with those governor. Did these attacks happen simultaneously? Or was one substation attacked and then the other. Sure you want to answer that? Uh, that is still under investigation and that's not been determined yet. Sheriff, can you say more about what the word intention, The average person doesn't know station looks like the person who did this acknowledge well you handled it pretty well. The other day, I will say this, the individual, uh, that done the damage knew exactly what they were doing to cause the damage and caused the outage that they did very basically security, personal Wednesday. We're we're working with Duke Power here in the county. Uh and uh the Governor as well uh to make sure that our substations here in the county and and as well as across the state that they're looking at all security issues with our utility company. Let me, let me just respond to that. Uh, I'm always concerned about critical infrastructure and I think we certainly need to learn from this incident as to what we may need to do because these kinds of things cannot happen. I mean, we cannot tolerate this type of wide power power outage to so many people. And I know that I had a conversation with the ceo of Duke Energy today, Lynn Good. She is understands that as well. Uh, we know that there may be some things that that need to change to make sure that our infrastructure is protected. The military involved in the investigation. Training soldiers. We we have been in contact with the Colonel over in fort Bragg. They've offered all assistance with us with us uh to formulate any investigative needs that we might need from them. Yes, sir, you all have any. I think the sheriff would want to say that that's a matter of the investigation right here. Yes. And if you can the questions dealing with the investigation, what specifically happened? I don't think you're gonna get very many answers on that today. So what other questions might you have being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism? I think investigators are leaving no stone unturned as to what this is. They are looking at every motivation that could possibly occur here and they want to find the perpetrators. Yes. Right here, the sheriff, um, for security reasons, we don't speak specifically about measures that we have at our at our facilities. What I can say is that Duke Energy has, you incorporates multiple layers of security across its system to, to monitor and protect critical infrastructure. And uh, we're certainly working with the Sheriff's office and with law enforcement to provide any information that we have that's available to assist their investigation. Any information governor about the shelter. Some people will work help with this. I think they had 19 people who were there last night and I think they were ready for most any capacity. Will, would you like to comment on that? Okay. There was a similar incident back in 2013 in California where a substation was shot up by people who clearly knew what they were doing. So since then, what has been done was anything done to upgrade the security around the stations here. I would just say we learn from every incident that security is always an evolving process and from those incidents, we took learnings from them, incorporated them into our security response plan. Uh We take information from our peers. We share information with with our trade organizations, government, uh agencies and, and it's a collaborative effort to stay ahead of these types of challenges. Uh, certainly that event provided learnings for for all of the industry and was incorporated into, into our responses. This question is for you also while you're out there help. So, you know, as far as the equipment goes, it's more of a case of, of getting that equipment in place and getting it installed that takes time. Uh, there's there's there's very, you know, deliberate processes that go, this is not a small equipment. This is, this is big stuff. So that's really what's driving some of the timelines is the ability to to have that equipment in place and get, there's not so much a supply, you know, issue. The second aspect of it is, um, substations have specialized personnel that work on them that are trained to do that. And we have those, you know, here in the region that can do that. So unlike a storm where, you know, I know you've experienced before, we might bring in crews from out of state or we might bring crews from other regions. This is a fairly localized incident that that, you know, we just, we have to get through the work process. It's not as much the scale of work as in a storm where you might have, uh, you know, thousands of locations. So in some cases, equipment could be repaired in place. In other cases, it was damaged beyond repair and that equipment then has to be removed, other equipment brought in and replaced. And when you consider what it takes to decommission that equipment bring in new commission or equipment and commission it, there is a time factor involved in that. And that's certainly playing into the, to the estimates that we've, we've provided to customers. Obviously security was a concern at the substations initially what is being done now to secure them better even as crews are still out there working. Well, again, one of the things that that we said earlier, our security model involves multiple layers and, and so um, you've seen part of that in this in this instance. But what I would say is that that we are continuing to take information from this, this incident, it will be incorporated into near term and long term planning. But uh, we evaluate our security measures on an individual basis when we look across the system and then we have other measures in place. You know, uh full time teams that do nothing but monitor and respond to these types of things, processes and procedures, all of that is working and in play here. So I would, I would say that that physical security is absolutely an important part of it. But there's many layers to that that are still in place. You speak at all to the state of you call this. And I mean, I think for americans watching this story all around the country right now, it's a bit unsettling to see how the infrastructure by a random group of individuals on a saturday night. What does this mean for north Carolina? Well, we know that our infrastructure is critical and one of our areas of concentration lately has been cyber security. We know that massive damage could potentially be done uh, by the cyber terrorists who are located worldwide. So I I formed our joint terrorism task cyber Security task Force. Sorry, that helps us to plan and to prevent those kinds of attacks. I know that with our power sector, uh, water infrastructure, uh, there we know that potential vulnerabilities are there? I think that you will look at this, this incident and evaluate where we are, not only with this, but for other infrastructure hoping to that this criminal investigation, we can determine what's going on and what the motivations are and learn from that as well. Thank you guys for for being with us today. It's all right, okay.</p>

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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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Sky 5 flies over code red lockdown at Enloe High School 

Enloe High School is under a code red lockdown. Sky 5 is flying over the school.

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