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Throughout the day. yesterday evening, the president concurred with the administrative recognition to approve governor brians request to add public assistance to the previously issued major disaster declaration in mississippi. per the governors request, public assistance will be added for three counties, forrest, lamar. yesterday the president had an amazing day at macdill air force base where he met with leaders of both southern special operations command and central command and then had lunch ...

Officials throughout the day. yesterday evening the president confirmed with fema administrators recommendation to approve governor bryants request to add government assistance to major disaster declaration in mississippi. her the governors request, public assistance will be added for three counties, forest, lamar and perry. yesterday the president had an amazing day at macdill air force base where he met with leaders of both special operations command and central command, and then had lunch wit...

This check goes to our resort that weve been staying at, because theyve been helping us, and i owe them $900, and today thats where this is going. its carried us through since the fire, and i think everybody in this community and i think what everybody has done is pull together and made this place so much tighter, and were going to rebuild, and its going to get stronger and get better. >> those fires killed 14 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. yesterday president obama sign...

Charleston church gunman dylann roof guilty of 33 counts against him. the same jury made up of nine white members and three black members will decide if the self-proclaimed white supremacist is sentenced to life in prison or death. we will have much more on this story coming up later in the show. also making news, president obama has signed a disaster declaration to aid the victims of recent ten na wildfires. 14 people were killed and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed by the fla...

Instead of trying to stop it she made it possible for him to take advantage of even more women. she put even more women in harms way. and then she goes out and says, i love women, im going to help women. shes a total hypocrite. the hypocrisy of the media and our politicians is hard to believe. . >> residents across the southeastern united states are still feeling the effects of hurricane matthew despite the storm still being well out to sea as the death toll and floodwaters both continue to cli...

Yesterday signed a disaster declaration for north carolina officially declaring it a federal state of emergency along with florida, georgia, and south carolina. north carolinas governor pat mccrory announced yesterday rescue crews were racing to help residents in lumberton after a levee breach forced some people onto their rooftops. it seems the februarys of matthew wont quit. >> lingering, rivers are swollen, eventually levees and dams give way, then new towns that have to evacuate. thats the c...

Damage. for the overtime of the police and fire and all of the work thats been done by the community. you know, communities dont budget for hurricanes. there hasnt been a hurricane for 11 years. so if they had been budgeting every year, they would have been budgeting for nothing. so they dont budget for these big disasters. so when they happen, all of a sudden their coughers are runniru -- coffers are running dry. so the federal government will pay for 75% of all costs. when theres a disaster de...

Not as powerful as it was. but it still doesnt mean people can go book to their homes and relax and people should heed the warnings of the local authorities. >> youre making the point from the fema perspective the fact that this is not quite as horrific, by no means alleviates the kind of precautions that authorities took precisely anything in this range carries that threat of devastation. weve heard a lot about emergency directives versus disaster directives. can you walk us through what all th...

May have temporary housing for some time. we may see a disaster declaration tomorrow which will unleash all of the federal assets to help individuals and public assistance for the cities and counties that are affected too. tomorrow is going to be in just a couple of hours, as soon as the sun comes up, we are going to know so much more than we do now but fema has been forward leaning tch leaning. the director of fema, the form director of florida management, hes a class act and he knows what hes ...

Water that had not been poisoned by lead the way flints tap water has been. up until this weekend, unbelievably there has been no government-run water distribution of any kind in flint. but now even today six days into the official state of emergency and two days after the state announced that people would be able now to get water and water filters and all of these supplies at their local fire stations, theyre still not doing it. nbc affiliate wdiv visited this firehouse, one of the five water r...