{"id":7063,"date":"2021-07-08T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-statement-on-suspected-tornado-at-naval-submarine-base-kings-bay-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-16T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:31:58","slug":"sen-ossoff-statement-on-suspected-tornado-at-naval-submarine-base-kings-bay-2","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-statement-on-suspected-tornado-at-naval-submarine-base-kings-bay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Statement on Suspected Tornado at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kings Bay, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Tonight, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis evening at approximately 5:50 p.m., a suspected tornado touched down at Georgia\u2019s Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. Multiple people on the base sustained injuries. I spoke this evening with Captain Chester Parks, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay commanding&nbsp;officer, and assured him that he and his team have my full attention and I am standing by to provide any necessary Congressional assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy staff is&nbsp;here&nbsp;to support affected military personnel and their families, who can contact my office at 470-786-7800. My whole team and I are praying for a full recovery&nbsp;for&nbsp;everyone hurt by this storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe urge all Georgians to comply with state and local orders and monitor local news media and the National Weather Service for updates as Tropical Storm Elsa continues to affect the&nbsp;state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings Bay, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 Tonight, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement: \u201cThis evening at approximately 5:50 p.m., a suspected tornado touched down at Georgia\u2019s Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. Multiple people on the base sustained injuries. I spoke this evening with Captain Chester Parks, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay commanding&nbsp;officer, and assured him that [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7063","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7063\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}