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Floridas merritt island east of florida. there are inmates who have been dispatched to help line the island with sandbags? >> reporter: yeah, and three hours is an understatement, brianna. we actually just got another shipment of sand at this distribution center, but thats not the issue. theres no lack of sand. its actually the efficiency of the whole entire process thats really slowing down people here who are just trying to get ten sandbags per household. because like you can see, these inmate...

Time every week looking into policy, not quick points. the fact is youve got to take time to do this and over time i think you will see a reduction in the government size and its scope and more efficiency. based on whats being done by the different bureaus and departments. >> kat: still spending too much and more and more on wars and stuff we shouldnt be getting involved in. up next, congressional leaders delivering big talk over daca today. will they act? stay tuned. ♪

Said. im concerned about the national debt. and i dont think congressional g.o.p. is. i dont think they care. i think i dont even really know what republican is anymore. its not seeming to be very fiscally conservative if this is no big deal. certainly not small government. at some point we will need to balance the budget. >> jessica: the same size as that democrat bill. peter you are simplifying it. when you look at the structural things being done in d.c., reducing the size of the epa. 500 peo...

Help us understand, because when you talk to people who have lost everything and now hear theyve got to provide documentation what is really meant by that? >> you see, thats the issue of how much the dbureaucracy will require to accelerate payments. one thing we learned in the katrina program that i designed, and administered, was that efficiency and speed trump everything. you have to make certain presumptions about documentation. youve got to get the money out quickly. every day that you delay...

Mres, meals ready to eat, they had on site as well as a bag of ice. another center set up at the antioch baptist mission mare church, the southeast texas food bank distributing from noon to 3:00. we are waiting on word from the city they will be opening a second water distribution site as well. really impressive the efficiency with which the city is working to get people clean water to drink. >> wow, im sure a lot of people are very relieved to know that there is clean water now available, just ...

Stronger than ever and people have a better sense like we saw in louisiana and new orleans that that community came back and knew something about itself and how people care about each other that they may not have known as well before. talk about money. there are two different angles of a immediate concern. the one is flood insurance. the what do you hear about the sustainability of programs, payouts, efficiency thats going to happen? because was we both know, thats the first big immediate fear a...

Home ownership programs, native hawaiian home programs. the recipients of some programs saying, what am i supposed to do? >> i have seen the allegations theres going to be a lot of the evictions and people out on the street. let me just say first of all our conviction is no eviction. we will do what is necessary. do recognize that with some of the reorganization that weve done already, we have realized some tremendous savings. this is a concept thats foreign to a lot of people in washington. the...

Besides, "look how bad you are." >> rachel: i think you are right in the case of charlie hebdo but politico, it is their liberal bent. i didnt think they thought we were going to be over-the-top outrageous. i think this is who they are. this is over they are. when regular american see this kind of stuff, it pulls them back into the arms of donald trump who doesnt look down on them, doesnt make fun of people because they are from the south or they are white or assume they are racist. >> brian: if...

Home ownership programs, native hawaiian home programs. the recipients of some programs saying, what am i supposed to do? >> i have seen the allegations theres going to be a lot of the evictions and people out on the street. let me just say first of all our conviction is no eviction. we will do what is necessary. do recognize that with some of the reorganization that weve done already, we have realized some tremendous savings. this is a concept thats foreign to a lot of people in washington. the...

Attack, its sez toy to help your neighbors. what were trying to discourage is having floods and floods of other people coming in to volunteer. >> from other states and other places because that would be complicated. >> we already have stress on our infrastructure. the hotels and rooms and and dag dagss arent ready for it. so over these next weeks ahead, working with fema, working with the red cross, with the local, theres been a lot of skepticism about governments. to see this government, the st...