Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from National Weather ServiceClear
0:24
“It is really important to heed the evacuation advisory. Life safety is our number one priority, and we've we really want to stress for folks to evacuate during this event. We have a very high level of confidence in the HESCO barriers, but this is a dynamic event. It's a natural disaster, and we can't predict every element of it.”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:10
“absent the Governor compelling an evacuation for the Mendenhall Valley, the evacuation notice will remain an advisory.”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:36
John Bohan“The breach locations that were chosen are the potential high-impact areas. And so tree strikes and direct, you know, even though we fortified these areas, the direct impacts at the 90-degree corners just effectively to, you know, to prepare for the worst-case scenario. As Ryan said, these are sandbags, they are temporary measures.”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:27
John Bohan“as we saw last year, fortunately above the waterline, but a tree completely blew up the barriers behind the Field House very quickly, very easily. So we do need to be prepared for those events. So be careful. And that's also why we're requesting evacuation because they are temporary and we don't know what, you know, we don't know what force might crack one open.”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:24
“this year we're advising evacuation for just over 1,900”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:27
Ryan O'Shaughnessy“we have a tremendous amount of confidence in the HESCO system. We saw it perform relatively well last year and we're very confident for this year, but the entire system is fragile. And that's really why we want everyone in the evacuation area to heed that advisory and to evacuate. These are resilient structures. We do have a little bit of testing with them, but they are essentially sandbags, right?”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:53
“without them, we would not have— we would have 2 pumps in Juneau capable of pumping water from behind the Hesco flood barriers. So they have basically stripped all of their resources from the Lower 48, and also working on acquiring additional pumps outside of what their normal resources are to provide us the number of pumps we need to work to pump behind the HESCOs”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:29
Aaron Jacobs“this year, in conjunction with the USGS, we were able to improve our monitoring so we have more redundant information. And one of that more redundant information is a camera that looks over the overflow channel. So from the monitoring page, if you go to latest images, and now you will see this overflow channel to the right. And so this is a new camera for us so we can see when water is starting to go over this overflow channel.”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·
0:34
Ryan O'Shaughnessy“Once the state resources you know, primarily the drone monitoring and public assistance support and those kinds of things come into play, the CBJ will be requesting that the Governor also declare a state disaster. So that is, we're working really closely with the SEOC to move that process along, and at this point, all indications that we've received are that the state will very seriously consider a pre-event disaster declaration again.”
Juneau: July 9, 2026 CBJ Media Availability ·