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Other disasters would be less expensive and others were looking at, are we driving trends down . Are we seeing overall we contain overtime costs are we not, you know, doing things just because people always did it that way to really drive down the costs of every dollar we administer. I can give you things we work towards, case studies of disasters where we have done reductions versus what we would have spent before and show you trend. Youll show us metrics on outcomes . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you...

Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be de...

That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Pro...

Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard...

And maintaining old systems that we think we can do a better job by modernizing the system and reducing our costs. In many cases we think we can have substantial reductions by upgrading to newer systems than to pay legacy costs. This becomes a Cyber Security concern as well. When you have systems running on old, old systems including the fact that microsoft is no longer supporting serving 2003, but your systems are built on that, if youre not upgrading them youre going to increase your signer vu...

And make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you ex...

Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encourageme...

Host Robert Mcdowell, what is your reaction . Isst i think tom wheeler the type of leader who is going to do what he says he is going to do. I have known tom a long time. He is saying there is that hole in the fence, and he will look at other ounces. Whether it is under the Legal Authority the cap Court Granted him under section 706, i think he will explore that. I think you will explore all his options. ,t may be full court of appeals or an appeal to the Supreme Court and it could be an attempt...

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It is meet the press daily and i am chuck todd. Were following a number of developments right now about the pandemic, on capitol hill, and on the Supreme Court. And were also following news that the president is about tosh to issue a few pardons. We begin with what could be the biggest hack of the u. S. Government ever. The list of Government Agencies and private Companies Reportedly breached by what is suspected to be a russian state hack is astounding, alarming, and, sadly, its growing. The ag...