you can take care of others and if you re able, please take care of strangers and others in need. i think that s something we ve seen in texas and i have every reason to believe that the people of florida and south carolina will show that same american spirit and value. lastly, if i can, there s been a lot of coverage of florida but not necessarily media coverage of the u.s. virgin islands, and if i can, i ll give you a brief update on where we stand. i just talked to the department of state and department of defense officials engaging in this life-saving, life-sustaining operation until the following way. governor mapp is experiencing loss of power, loss of water as a result, loss of communications and some other sheltering needs. and so what we re doing is sending in air operations and surface operations to evacuate citizens. we re also doing that in st. martin and the dutch, french island that s been reported. there are some american citizens there. we are currently in the final sta
lastly, if i can, there s been a lot of coverage of florida but not necessarily media coverage of the u.s. virgin islands. if i can give you a brief update on where we stand there, as i just talked to the to the department of state and department of defense officials engaging in this life-sustaining operation, they are experiencing loss of water and loss of power. we are sending and air operations it to evacuate citizens. we are also doing that in saint maarten and saint martin, we are currently in the final stages of operations planning to evacuate those citizens, that was our planning assumption. those american citizens will be
this is a 92 special report from actions news. good evening i m peter jennings, a brief update. the voters of new hampshire, very concerned with the state of the economy. their own particularly has given president bush an unexpected surprise. commentator patrick bowie can fan is about to get 47 of the vote. pat buchanan will get the people with his charisma. h. ross perot, the texas billionaire. i would not run as either a democrat or republican because i will not sell out to anybody but to the american people. rus perot went on larry king and announced he was going to run for president as an independ. i don t want any money from anybody but you.
bossert, the president s homeland security adviser to pri an update on the administration wide effort to support the recovery and relief efforts in the wake of hurricane harvey. he ll make a few opening remarks and then stay to take questions specific to the storm and what the administration is doing to help the state and local authorities and the people of texas and louisiana. and as always, after tom speaks and takes your questions, i ll be back up here to take questions on other topics. thanks, guys. thanks, sarah. let me see if i can start by addressing maybe some different audiences. we ve got international audience, national audience, state and local audience and i want to speak to each one of them on a brief update. from the international perspective we ve had heads of stated from a lot of different countries, in particular i would stress stress, yesterday the heads of state mexico and canada called to express their condolences, their prayers and thoughts but also assistanc
and the canadian authorities. our prayers are with the officer and his family for a full recovery. thank you. good afternoon. i m the official agent in charge of the fbi in the state of michigan. i appreciate you being here again today. i want to qualify my brief update with the fact that this is still a pending investigation. i won t get into a great deal of the investigation since a tack yesterday morning at 9:45 a.m. at the bishop international airport in flint. as you know, i wouldn t recount exactly, but as you know, we know that subject ftouhi traveled into the united states legally at lake champlain new york on june 16th. preliminari