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To put pressure? >> well, its mostly to put pressure. fema and the department of defense actually has a lot of authority right now. the problem is the trump administration just dropped the ball 100%. they did not properly plan for what was going to happen after the hurricane. and every excuse ive heard so far has been nothing short of really almost criminal. i was on the phone with north com not too long ago, and they described to me the assets they had en route to puerto rico. and it was, you k...

States have volunteered to go down and drive the goods out there. and what youre seeing right now is just utter incompetence by the trump administration, and its going to affect 3.5 million americans lives and potentially cause a humanitarian crisis that was created by essentially american inaction and lack of leadership from this administration. >> so what do you say to that when youre talking to officials and they describe to you what theyre sending, or they say this or that has not been reque...

Theyre going to open the barn door and send everything thats required, but we have lost in the meantime about five days of response that we should have had the first team. fema is a great organization, and im not getting into the patting on the back. they got there early. the problem is they were running tasking through north com for so many mres and so many aircraft. that mission should have been given to the department of defense. that is the plan we had for going to puerto rico and virgin isl...

Im not pleased with what happened and im not pleased with whats happened to peoples homes and their families and lives. but as far as the response and people moving in, i think it is great. we did use north com during hurricane katrina. but it was not a mass amount of helicopter flying everywhere. it was transporting people from hospital to hospital. so its a different scenario than what i think he is seeing and again im very respectful for him. hes been a good friend, but i think were doing ver...

Seamlessly as we have worked every single day to keep our state and our citizens safe. im proud that we have with us today the leader of this effort, general robinson, who is the commander of north com and i would like to ask her to come up and say a few words. >> sir, thank you very much. >> sure. >> thank you very much. governor, i cant tell you how excited i am to be here and how proud and honored that you would have me be here with you. you know, on behalf of secretary mattis, chairman dun f...

Dual commandership, so that north com now, military assets are helping, so theres a rescue effort going on, that you can see. theres also a lot of folks that are in shelters. i think there are 146 shelters that are open, upwards of 22,000 people. the last statistic i heard was that 100,000 homes were hurt. so whats got to happen is people have got the get back to normal as quickly as possible, but they may not be able to go as quickly as they want. so those shelters have to stay in front of the ...

Supposed to be super prized by north com because now we have 50 different state solutions on how to mark a house thats been cleared. we have to fix that. the american people have put too much confidence in us. we have been too successful overseas to come out in amateur hour and incrementally deploy the force. you have to come in big and you got to be there right at the edge of the storm so you can come in as soon and go in and rescue people. we dont have 100 helicopters here as of last night. >>...

North com on the title ten side and the additional capabilities that come from surrounding states on the national guard side to be able to add to that. just to give you a round figure of numbers, we are looking at posturing just on the national guard side, an additional 20,000 to 30,000 guardsmen that could be brought in. they are eveningineering capabl high profile vehicles and rotary. that is to finish the response phase, then go into the recovery phase. like first responders get tired, guards...

The number of nuclear weapons we have. were saying about 20. we were thinking 10 to 15. theyre saying 20. an american general -- sorry, an admiral, has said north korea might have road mobile intercontinental missile with a warhead to put on top of that. and of course this. >> so they have the capability already already, you believe, to deliver a nuclear bomb? >> thats what the commander of north com said. he said this publicly. some people dispute it, but it is big news if its true. the fact s ...

landfall this morning, on the outer banks of north carolina. more than 1 million homes are without power tonight. flooding is widespread. >> now, the winds have died down a little bit, but irene is expected to remain a hurricane all the way to new england. and as you can see, the surf is already pounding the coastline nonstop. right now, ocean city, maryland, getting hammered. and if theres some good news, well, an admiral with the u.s. coast guard says the preliminary survey of damage...