and joanne scordino who is our fema representative in fema district 9 over in oakland for disability integration. and the take away from that conversation is that community is the key here for truly being prepared and supportive to us all. we can't really assume that the government is going to come and rescue us or that the government is going to make effective plans would you tell us. and, so, if we have one take away from that, the most basic is get to know your neighbors. agree to support your neighbors, and get involved in the city's efforts, and especially get involved in our disability disaster preparedness committee meetings. we will be meeting next on friday, may 1st -- friday, may 1st, here in city hall at 1:30 in room 43 1 -- 421, excuse me. also touching a little bit on some of the ~ discussion that we heard earlier, i wanted to talk a little bit about elevators. and i don't know if the council remembers them -- sure that you do -- there was a story in the chronicle a few months back about the housing authority, and specifically the clementina towers and the need we have i

but money from fema has yet to come through. >> there is delay in that. we're very afraid that the fema will give the money only for trimming the trees and not removing them, which would be a disaster. >> the eucalyptus thought to be a major contributor to the oakland hills fire that destroyed 3,000 homes in october, 1991. over two decades, uc berkeley and regional parks initiated programs to clear fire hazards, including many eucalyptus trees. >> having tall trees for shade results in a lower fire risk. >> dan garcetti is leaving the charge to save an estimated 1 million eucalyptus in the east bay hills, he says clear cutting two wo not reduce the fire danger. it >> increases the risk because it promotes growth of species such as hemlock, poison oak and thistle that, thrive in open, sunny environments >> a fema spokesperson says the agency helps to have a environmental study for it's fire hazard mitigation plan completed by the end of the year. in berkeley, abc7 news. >> and what a great day to be at the beach. here is a live look at santa cruz beach. te

awarded in january of 2011 there was a delay on the federal level from approval for the grant from fema and so this backed up and there were parolee process for the rfp there were billing for the vendor and it got stretched out we requested an extension and were not able to get one through fema. >> so for the architectural work for the fire boat the process they went through there was a second rfp process for the second fire boat. >> same boat the first was for the indulge and specifications because the current boats are 60 years old we started from scratch to design the fire boats the specification are in the because of the rfp. >> the need to do open additional process to put the project out to bid for the specifications did that cause the delay. >> that caused a portion of the delay. >> there's not another mechanism we can fast track it. >> we worked in a short timeframe and everything had to really smoothing but we explored a variety of things to move our timeframes along with you due to details beyond our control at the federal level unfortunately lost the funds. >> in this process

why is fema refusing to pick up the tab? >>> general motors is going charged millions of dollars in fines for waiting to recall cars with faulty ignition switches. federal regulators slapped a '$5 million fine, the maximum. critics believe is that doesn't go enough. is. >> what we cannot to wait, what we will never accept is a person or company that knows danger exits and says nothing. asigh. >> sigh rents can kill. >> co battle and other cars, the problem with shut-off engines and disabled airbags, power steering and breaks is listed to 13 deaths and 32 crashes. executives received detailed briefings about this safety-related defect. engineers knew about it. gm investigators knew about it. gm lawyers knew about the defect but gm did not act to product americans from that defect. >> under a consent agreement with transportation officials, gm pust pay a $35 million fine, the maximum allowable. an additional fine of $7,000 a day until gm answers 107 detailed questions and the company must make wide ranging changes to the safet

. >> back to the picture of mitchell, you can see she is wearing a fema id. they tell me the name tag is a fake and mitchell never worked for fema as an employee or volunteer. kristen beck's film was playing and i have details at abc7news.com. dan and carolyn? >> what a story, thank you. >> thank you. >>> new video of spring storms rumbling through colorado and large hail and a number of tornadoes. even the animals were not spared. the storms lead to flight delays and cancellations that affected flights to and from denver and san jose. forecasters say the end of may is a peak time for severe weather in colorado. spring is a pretty volatile time in that part of the country. >> it warmed up nicely and sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> temperatures did come up today and springtime for the bay area means the marine layer. here is live doppler 7hd. you can see how gray it is not just near the coast, but over the bay. the visibility is down to five miles in half moon bay. watch out for the fog. first thing tomorrow morning you will have to deal with the g

fema was moved to d.h.s., d.h.s. disbursed its authorities and responsibilities throughout the department creating real confusion as to who was in charge for responding to a disaster. and we saw the results of that in the poor response to hurricane katrina. i hope that this is not what is happening here. but when i look at this may 1 memo, it says there are no nac. unity of command at this is very disconcerting. frankly, i wonder if we had the correct witnesses from d.h.s. because it seems decisions are being made about fps from somewhere else in the department and it is not clear by whom. i expect we will have a number of follow-up questions as we assess what we have heard today. if no other members have anything to add, this subcommittee stands adjourned. >> i want to understand post traumatic stress. i want to be able to tell with certainty that someone has post traumatic stress not by asking them 20 questions and i demand that we treat today's veterans better than we treated other veterans who we know had post tr

. >> back to the picture of mitchell, you can see she is wearing a fema id. they tell me the name tag is a fake and mitchell never worked for fema as an employee or volunteer. kristen beck's film was playing and i have details at abc7news.com. dan and carolyn? >> what a story, thank you. >> thank you. >>> new video of spring storms rumbling through colorado and large hail and a number of tornadoes. even the animals were not spared. the storms lead to flight delays and cancellations that affected flights to and from denver and san jose. forecasters say the end of may is a peak time for severe weather in colorado. spring is a pretty volatile time in that part of the country. >> it warmed up nicely and sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> temperatures did come up today and springtime for the bay area means the marine layer. here is live doppler 7hd. you can see how gray it is not just near the coast, but over the bay. the visibility is down to five miles in half moon bay. watch out for the fog. first thing tomorrow morning you will have to deal with the g

. >> back to the picture of mitchell, you can see she is wearing a fema id. they tell me the name tag is a fake and mitchell never worked for fema as an employee or volunteer. kristen beck's film was playing and i have details at abc7news.com. dan and carolyn? >> what a story, thank you. >> thank you. >>> new video of spring storms rumbling through colorado and large hail and a number of tornadoes. even the animals were not spared. the storms lead to flight delays and cancellations that affected flights to and from denver and san jose. forecasters say the end of may is a peak time for severe weather in colorado. spring is a pretty volatile time in that part of the country. >> it warmed up nicely and sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> temperatures did come up today and springtime for the bay area means the marine layer. here is live doppler 7hd. you can see how gray it is not just near the coast, but over the bay. the visibility is down to five miles in half moon bay. watch out for the fog. first thing tomorrow morning you will have to deal with the g

but 6 million dollars in money from fema for uc berkeley and other agency to clear the trees has yet to come through. >> there's delay in that and we are very afraid that the fema will give the money only for thinning the trees and not removing them which would be a disaster having tall tree for shade actually is results in a lower fire risk than removing them. >> dan also lives in clairemont canyon but he's leaving the charge to save an estimated 1 million eucalyptus in the east bay hills. he says clear cu cutting the tree would not reduce the fire danger. >> actually increases the risk of fire because it promotes the growth of species such as hemlock, poison oak and chapparel that 35 in oakland environment. >> fema spokesperson told us the agency hopes to have long awaited environmental study for the fire hazard mitigation plan completed by the end of this year. in berkeley, abc 7 news. >> by the way if cal fire is the primary fire protection agency you are required to have 100 feet of defensible space around your home. clear that dry grass and brush now. cal fire has increased its

. >> remember that picture of mitchell at last year's trans march, she is wearing a fema id. officials say the name tag is a fake and mitchell never worked for fema as an employee or volunteer. by the way christian beck's film is playing next month. details at abc7news.com! dan noyes, abc7 news. >> as we head into memorial day let's get one last check on our weather from francis. >> live doppler 7hd is showing clear conditions around the bay area. around the nation things are different. in texas 1.8 inches of rain that continues into tomorrow. 86 in atlanta and 80 next there. and then showers as well and seattle and portland in the 60s. golden sunshine for us. 94 in chico and 96 in sacramento and 100 in fresno. 76 in saying. in san diego. it will be warm with plenty of sunshine. a nice day to celebrate the holiday. 70 in san francisco and 75 in oakland and 84 in san jose. and even low 90s in antioch. if you are heading to the game, the giants game at 1:05 and near 70 by the time the game ends. here is the accu-weather seven-day forecast. another beautiful day for us for memor

unfortunately, this looks like what we saw happen to fema. when fema was moved to dhs, dhs disbursed its authority throughout the problem creating confusion as to who was in charge of responding to disasters and we saw the results in the poor response to hurricane katrina. i hope that is not what is happening here. but this shows no unity in command. this is disconcerning. i wonder if we had the correct witnesses from dhs because it seems decisions are being made from somewhere else in the department and it isn't clear by whom. i expect we will have a number of follow-up questions as we assess what we have learned today. members have anything to add? the submit -- subcommittee -- stands add adjourned. >> later, a decision on how technology impacts policy making. next, a debate on whether state surveillance is a breach of freedom. this is part of toronto's biannual taped remark

we're afraid fema will give the money only for trimming the trees and not removing them, which would be a disaster, having tall trees for shade is resulting in a lower fire risk than removing them. >> began garcetti is leading the charge to save the yu liptus. he says clear cutting would not reduce the fire danger. iet increases risk of fire because it promotes growth of species such as poison oak, thistles and chaparelle. >> a fema spokesperson told abc7 news the agency hopes to have a long awaited study for it's fire hazard mitigation plan completed by the end of the year. >> eyes in the sky who watch for fires in the bay area are on the job earlier than usual the crew in santa rosa took its first flight today wayne freedman joins us live now from santa rosa. >> if you've seen the airplane it was moments away in walnut creek. but that will be a long fire season, a given as you consider this fire base closed two months late last year, this year, opening six weeks early. they fly together and fight tires together. >> each day is different. >> every year, too. consider it's still may

we're afraid fema will give the money only for trimming the trees and not removing them, which would be a disaster, having tall trees for shade is resulting in a lower fire risk than removing them. >> began garcetti is leading the charge to save the yu liptus. he says clear cutting would not reduce the fire danger. iet increases risk of fire because it promotes growth of species such as poison oak, thistles and chaparelle. >> a fema spokesperson told abc7 news the agency hopes to have a long awaited study for it's fire hazard mitigation plan completed by the end of the year. >> eyes in the sky who watch for fires in the bay area are on the job earlier than usual the crew in santa rosa took its first flight today wayne freedman joins us live now from santa rosa. >> if you've seen the airplane it was moments away in walnut creek. but that will be a long fire season, a given as you consider this fire base closed two months late last year, this year, opening six weeks early. they fly together and fight tires together. >> each day is different. >> every year, too. consider it's still may

. >> remember that picture of mitchell at last year's trans march, she is wearing a fema id. officials say the name tag is a fake and mitchell never worked for fema as an employee or volunteer. by the way christian beck's film is playing next month. details at abc7news.com! dan noyes, abc7 news. >> as we head into memorial day let's get one last check on our weather from francis. >> live doppler 7hd is showing clear conditions around the bay area. around the nation things are different. in texas 1.8 inches of rain that continues into tomorrow. 86 in atlanta and 80 next there. and then showers as well and seattle and portland in the 60s. golden sunshine for us. 94 in chico and 96 in sacramento and 100 in fresno. 76 in saying. in san diego. it will be warm with plenty of sunshine. a nice day to celebrate the holiday. 70 in san francisco and 75 in oakland and 84 in san jose. and even low 90s in antioch. if you are heading to the game, the giants game at 1:05 and near 70 by the time the game ends. here is the accu-weather seven-day forecast. another beautiful day for us for memor

las aseguradoras piden que se comuniquen con fema para reportar lo ocurrido, las condiciones comienzan a mejorar desde maÑana en la tarde. >>> gracias. y avanza un incendio forestal en la poblaciÓn de rancho cucamonga, consumiÓ muchos acres de terreno, obligÓ a la evacuaciÓn. las llamas se pueden observar a varias millas de distancia. >>> un niÑo de 4 aÑos falleciÓ tras ingerir venano para ratas, podrÍa haber sido dejada por exterminadores que intentan controlar la plaga, habrÍa sido atraÍdo por los colores que contienen el veneno. pedro ultreras busca respuestas. >>> su muerte tiene muchas interrogantes, juan sÁnchez de 4 aÑos muriÓ despuÉs de ingerir veneno para ratas que pudo encontrar en el apartamento donde vive la familia en el bronx. le empezÓ a salir espuma por la boca. fue cuando llame al nÚmero de emergencia. culpa al departamento de servicios para los desemparados que administran un albergue para indigentes, y con frecuencia envÍan a acabar con ratas, y dejan contenedores o bolsitas que llaman la atenciÓn a menores, pero no todos los residentes estÁn de a

fema created check lists for different types of disasters. and you can see the check lists by going to www.ktvu.com. just click on web links and there is a earthquake section under the news tab. >>> amazon rolled out its same day delivery service in san francisco. however ordvers to be placed before noon in order a get delivery before 9:00 p.m. amzahn prime -- amazon prime members pay a fee for one order. >>> protecting against dangerous lands, where they are most likely to happen in the bay area and what is stang -- standing in the way of giving people early warning. >> a california woman battling against dozens of birds who keep taking over her home. >> and record warmth again today but a cool down is coming. i will give you the timing on when the fog will return. >>> tonight 2 investigates a effort to predict the next marriage landslide in the bay area. we aren't immune to the deafen station that -- devastation that struck washington earlier this year. ktvu's eric w is here now with what is being down to understand the chances of a similar

keeping with that fema theme we're going to ask chief suhr to come up at this point (clapping.) so i'm also in locked up you usually with supervisor breed but ask for people to keep their loathes on. in custody i didn't it not okay we not deferring to those who don't have six-pack there are kids and families to could say united nations are good bathing suits whatever. i'm the rules guy i don't need to be the unfortunate person we had the boston marathon it went off watt a incident we expect the same thing here so the security this year will be many place this year no colorful pitch points along the route please observe there obey families the bag policy you can have a bag but they're basically about the size of a shoe paper plus 4 inches wide to carry water but certainly no urban siefrt backpacks no wheeled objectives like floats or baby strollers but this is a registered race waterwayser man group makes this wonderful please register to do this another year i've added more private security to the race in addition to a large compliment that was beefed-up last year, i have to tha

i want to take a moment and thank you and fema administrator fugate for traveling to washington, the site of a massive mud slide in my district. i think you'll agree it's impossible to describe the scale of what happened without being able to see it, and i appreciate you coming out. the support of the department through fema assistance has been very critical to everyone there, and as we continue with the recovery efforts, i look forward to continuing to work with you and fema to make sure that we have all the federal resources available to support the communities of oso and derrington and and arlington as they continue in this long rebuilding process. so thank you again. i want to turn to the issue of immigration policy which is particularly relevant in my district because we have the border with canada, the northwestern border with canada. under federal law right now cbp officers have the right to stop and conduct warrantless searches on vessels, trains, aircraft or other vehicles anywhere within a reasonable distance from an external boundary of the united states. , currently, cent

. ♪ hurricane katrina ♪ >> one of my favorite show was saturday night fema. that was actually a really powerful show to be a part of. it was that really cool dance between trying to make it funny and then having a serious thing to say. >> you mean to tell me you're just going to let somebody go without bothering to find out the truth? >> it's the job. we're americans. >> when you can make somebody laugh about something that might be painful or hard to talk about, i think that's a really powerful tool. >> obama mia, here we go again. >> i'm pleased there are no subjects that we have not at one time or another tackled. >> make sure the first lady's okay! >> and at least for a time, being the only voice in town talking about a particular sore point. many were in the third race riot, we were always doing our summer series called the race riot review. >> one of the things that is instilled in us is that our shows should try to be ahead of the curve. dudley can tell stories about he would go and get first early edition of the paper the night before and the more edu

different kinds of cost recovery government recovery funds and one through the state and then, of course, fema we did get a federal disaster declaration and so we are in the midst of that we have lessons learned that we thought that we would share quickly. on the response side, in general what we learned is that the traini and exercise works, so that is good news for you. that is good news for us. one of the focuses of our training in the year before the fire, was water shed fires and so we got lucky, and we partner with cal fire and we talked to them, and we train with them about what to do in this instance and so it really helped us to find of integrate into the unified command and the fire command, so that we could make sure that the city's interests were represented and that decisions were made that protected the facilities and the infrainstruct structure. >> the plans are there and they are helpful, and generally we suggest that you follow them. and we did a lot of training with field crews but what we realized is that the management, the support management of a large incident is critical

and today, the president at a briefing with fema. >> as hurricane season begins, we have to remember that responding to a hurricane is a team effort. >> reporter: reminding all of us that now is the time to prepare for what noaa says will be a season with 8 to 13 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, and 1 to 2 major hurricanes. >> three to six hurricanes. and you always point out, don't be fooled by the number. >> right, because all it takes one to hit land. all of them could be in the ocean, or several could hit land. they're just probabilities not specifically how many can hit you. >> and this weekend? >> we do have some tropical moisture coming. that's why i wanted to bring you. in pacific, the remnants of amanda. and saturday into sunday, a little tornado risk for south dakota, severe weather, damaging winds into the panhandle of texas. >> thank you. >>> and tonight, more signs hillary clinton is mulling a presidential run and talking and fighting back about benghazi. with a new book coming, politico reporting she is taking on her critics. what is she writing? here is abc's chief glo

believe me, believe me george bush was investigated, fema was investigated, the department of defense. i mean -- >> how about going into iraq on false pretense? how about 4,000 americans being killed? republicans didn't choose to investigate that, but benghazi? we're going to soften up hillary clinton. we're going to play gotcha on all these things. >> so, then, look, let me be honest. i actually thought it was fair of democrats to fund raise on those issues. you guys were passionate about those issues and you felt like they were betrayals and asked the american public to say, if you feel betrayed, too, come with us and vote in democrats. you seem to have a problem with it when republicans do it. >> no, we don't have a problem when republicans do it. we have a problem when republicans do it again and again and again and again. there have been four hearings in the congress. >> i'm talking about the fund-raisi fund-raising. >> i to move to another question. part of the thing is this is a question of credibility. seems to us somebody gave you guys the memo. wru guys used to talk about ob

why is fema refusing to pick up the tab. >> the last bodies removed from a mine in turkey - it's been called a mass murder. >> you see students from different backgrounds sitting at different lunch tables. >> michelle obama marking 60 years sense a supreme court ruling that change america. we talk to a plaintiff from the brown versus the board of education much. >> by the grace of good the firefighters saved my house. >> it was red, bright red - the air, the light. >>> stories of survival from residents forced to flee the flames. welcome to al jazeera america, i'm morgan radford live from new york city. >>> cooler, humid conditions are preventing flames in california spreading. dozens of homes have been destroyed in one of the worst-hit towns. >> we plan on living our lives here. around here it is remnants of 30 years of life, family. >> we were going to lose everything we worked hard for. >> flames broke out on the grounds of camp pendleton forcing nonessential personnel to live. official arrested three people, connected to two. our investigations continue into the cause of the fires

unfortunately, this looks a little like what we saw happen to fema. dhs, dhs was moved to dispersed its authorities and response abilities throughout the department, greeting real confusion as to who was in charge for responding to a disaster. that inhe results of the poor response to hurricane katrina. i hope this is not what is happening here. ,hen i look at this may 1 memo it says there is no clear unity of command at nac. this is very disconcerting. frankly, i wonder if we had the correct witnesses hear from dhs. it seems decisions are being made about fps from somewhere else in the department. it is not clear by whom. i expect we will have a number of follow-up questions as we assess what we have heard today. if no other members have anything to add, this subcommittee stands adjourned. >> coming up in one hour, president obama is expected to name shaun donovan as the nominee to become the next white house budget director. replacing sylvia burwell, who will now likely be the next director of hhs. the president will introduce cooling castro as the

. >> i'm considered a critical area now through fema. and i don't know what they are going to do about it, we can't go this every year. >> mr. mayor, a former fill dan said to me, they are accustom to flooding all the way out perhapses to the rocky steps but not usually past that point, this was a different day. >> well, it is a very different storm, although we did not see that kind of flooding, it was the areas that we anticipate through our coordinated emergency operations plan, areas like some parts of southwest, philadelphia, and certainly along the kelly drive, and the martin luther king drive, those are the areas that historically flood, we had 4.81 inches of rain, the river actually crested at 13.91 feet, which is higher than we had during hurricane irene or sandy, so quite unusual storm. it has now gone below the flood stage level, and waters are starting to reseed. so everyone is safe, no one was injured, and all is most areas all is very dry. were you able to anticipate how much water you would get? >> we knew when the storm w

why is it people aren't watching female sports but the male femae athletes are in these outfits. >> because they lack exciting stories. there was nobody for everybody to tune in and cheer on every day. thank goodness we have this 11-year-old that qualified for the u.s. open. >> they will put too much pressure on her and she will collapse did >> stop it, we wish her the best. this goes back to all the years women did not have the abilities. this is built around men's sports. as long as we have a compelling story, we will watch. look at the olympics, ice skating, speedskating, lolo jones track and field, what a compelling story. >> danica patrick. >> do you want to weigh in before i say you are all wrong? >> young, female athletes, if i am not sexy when i am older, will i not get any attention? >> i don't mean to cut you off, what is wrong with capitalizing on what god gave you? >> there are compelling stories. most of the audience is male. they are almost gone out of business. >> i am a huge tennis fan, obviously. i also enjoy nascar. i named my first kid danica. >> they don't watch nba, don

>> they should leave now to avoid the traffic and the second disaster, fema, that follows. >> that's a really good point. if you had to pick one of those countries to go to, which would you choose? >> argentina is socialists so that is out. brazil is in worse financial straits. i would pick australia. >> any tips for people who live in the joan -- who live in the zone? >> store up 10 years of canned food. if you can't get 10 years of canned food store up 9 years of canned food because people in your survival party will probably pass away and then you will have more food. >> as always an excellent tip. a british man undergoing a neurological procedure was given a vasectomy by mistake. the doctor carried out the operation on the wrong side. they say he could look at a six-figure settlement, so is that bad? >> it is a six-figure sell at the present time meant which is bad, but there is another surgery to fix the vasectomy. >> did you ever have surgery and were you scared they would dot wrong operation. >> i had my wisdom teeth out. i said whatever you do, do not render me sterile. any o

fema headquarters, secret service headquarters, tsa, the u.s. coast guard headquarters. so, and we do a very good job there. and we have a robust presence there. and i'm sure we will continue to provide the same level of support. the bottom-line is we are proactive partners with the department of security, ensuring that we provide a safe and secure environment. what were the problems at the department of homeland security headquarters to cause them to take this action and are there similar problems at the other 9600 problems that fps provide security for? and finally, could you explain security is inadequate for dhs, but good enough for the other agencies? >> yes, sir. i do not believe this is an indictment of fps security. again, i think this is a matter of efficiency. we will continue to provide security. that is not the issue. security the office of , i believe is looking to fulfill the secretary's vision of how they will streamline and better conduct business. >> who is in charge of the purity at the dhs head -- security at the dhs headquarters, and if there were an

bush and his problems with fema and hurricane katrina. that was epic at the time. and this administration, i think, it's getting to a certain critical mass, people are going to wonder these people don't know what they are doing and they are not finding out. >>> put aside the security concerns for this person and his job, what about here at home, the politics of how this and the size of the blunder? >> well, first of all, the comparisons i think to the valerie policemane -- plaim case. where karl rove by scooter libby whoven the person who leaked the name. this was a woman, even though her status was supposed to be classified, she was working at a desk in virginia. this is a guy on the front lines in afghanistan. it's a very different matter and i think it's fair to say much more serious. i think the public will recognize that and as i say, i think it feeds into this question whether these are people who can run anything. >> finally, going back to the afghanistan drawdown announcement. your thoughts on that and how it plays? >> well, look, if you are going to take t

. >> now it's partnering with fema, to make certain that next time, the city will be better prepared. we are looking to make sure that we are more prepared than we ever have been. because it only takes one. >> but getting ready for the next storm will be costly. last year federal lawmakers planned to build a sea wall of steel along the jersey shore. the project will cost more than $23 million, and it won't be finished until storm season is over. we with have had really significant storms in a quick succession. and building like states that have frequent hurricanes built. and making sure we have sustainable buildings. the action center located in far rock away new york. something we should keep these finger crossed for, but that may or may not go to how prepared they are. the same prediction at the same time in 2012, that it would be a relatively slow season. it's best regardless, of what the prediction is. and quite frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be. >> did things improve substantially? >> not for every community. i think when there's a wakeup call, and you are dealing w

>> fema has been great to work with in the recovery process itself. one of the things we have done in our state since 1999, we have utilized fema money that we have received over many different storms that we've had in our state and been able to put in 12,000 new individual storm shelters into homes through a matching grant program where people get about $2,000, match it with their own personal money, so we've put a lot of new storm shelters in our state. but this program that we've been talking about would allow our local communities to put shelters into the schools themselves. >> for you, you're running for re-election coming up in november. how i guess parental do you feel about fostering this rebuild, this regrowth for the community of moore? >> well, my husband and i have six children between us and i can still remember coming up on this site the night of the tornado when it hit. it was about 11:00 at night. i drove up and all the first responders were moving stone by stone, brick by brick, sawing through the metal, having concrete jackhammers tr

people who hadn't thought about it before saw fema pass this community by. >> whole reason that we ask to you come is because we need input from you. >> area do is director of the action center a nonprofit that has been working in far rockaway for 15 years. >> within this 11.5 mile stretch of land in the middle l i is a d world community. of those 45,000 residents roughly 65% of them low 200% below poverty level and this is before they lost everything when hurricane sandy hit. >> aria believes its was particularly difficult for one contingent, the mother of far rockaway. >> mothers are the glue that not only hold families together. i dare say mothers are the glue that hold the world together. i say this with no prejudice towards men but i say it as a fact. i am a mother. i know when i'm sick my whole household is out of sorts. if you don't hold families together the whole family comes apart. >> according to save the children worldwide women and children are up to 14 times more likely the die than men in a disaster. state of the world report took a look at how mothers fare in crisis and

fema rejected the request a second time saying the impact was not beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments to necessitate additional federal assistance. >> i was disappointed. i am over it. >> mannier thinks insurance and state funds will cover some costs but not everything. the payor doesn't want to raise property taxes to pay for this recovery because he is afraid it could discourage some from rebuilding in a town where only about half of the 600 people who lost homes have applied for building permits. >> something on the fence saying, i am going to build or not rebuild, if i raise your property tax, you will probably make the decision to live in the next city over. >> loralie cox quality higher taxes are inevitable but is rebuilding anyway. >> you are okay with that? >> i am particularly when i see taxes at that time work. >> she is confident washington can emerge from the physical and financial storm and put this difficult chapter behind it. diane esterwrong, washington illinois. >> the defense minister and deputy prime minister of laos were among tho

as i talked-about i kept seeing fema and set a chapter or something like that. he said i you writing a movie or book? i found so much gorgeous original material with texture of that it feels like a movie at times because there was so much dialogue written down an hour later by the participants and they would write down what their thoughts were across town somebody else would be writing a letter with their experience, the same event, and there would be a news story telling everything about the weather and to the famous people were present, there is some much texture, dialogue and detail that it comes alive in a way that completely captured my imagination and i love biography and i read biographies obsessively and occasionally i get frustrated with some of them because they seem to forget that these people didn't know they would amount to anything. they didn't know they would become famous, they didn't know anyone would care, they didn't know anyone would be poring over their letters and diaries 150 years later or they would have been more discreet definitely. you

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president obama visited fema's headquarters and got a briefing and urged americans to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season sunday. >> newly released fbi documents show former south africa president nelson mandela faced multiple assassination attempts during a trip to the u.s. >> american citizen who carried out a suicide attack in syria last sunday has been identified. the man was from florida. back to lockup. >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> so this is my crib. this is 414. got a big 13-inch tv. you know what i mean? go ahead and get a pan of that. this is my living room/bedroom/studio. we've got the tunes. that's not eight-track but cassette tape. might as well be. we don't got refrigerators in here. however we do got foot lockers. soup, soda, beans. some kool-aid. get some kool-aid and that's about it. >> well we have inmate kevin blanco who was a little upset. he was issued three disciplinary reports. he has his own way of thinking. he portrays his own outcome before it's actually there, and he implies whatever he feels is appropriate. so it'