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From exxon valdez can be applied here? >> i think, gregg, the important thing we learned up there and theyve already started this, hold the oil company responsible, bp. bp has got to pick up the lead. theyre going to have to hire a lot of people down there in the gulf area to help them. we do not want the department of defense to put national guard troops or regular army troops on the shores, on the beaches, cleaning up oil. there are other people that do that and they can pay them. this becomes...

Use -- request all funds from the stafford act. it also empowers the governor to request federal assistance, federal troops, federal assets, with the known fact that the state will be reimbursed in the event those resources are used. it also empowers the government -- governors to reach in to the private sector to get contractors and hire people to get the work that will be done thats needed to recover those very fragile areas. over. >> russel, whats changed since you when you were helping out i...

I have not heard word that the conditions are such they would not be able to fly. >> i meant the dispersing. >> the chemicals themselves, i think they have been using them in other coast guard already. i think its shown that it has been successful thus far. we want to get more assets out there that can be helpful to this effort. dod is here in support of the effort. we have a two-star general from northern command who is plugged into the command cell down there working with bp, dhs, as well as a...

Affiliated, gregg, it looks like, with a software systems service corporation, not exactly sure what that means, but indeed, he was registered to fly this aircraft. and a plane. >> absolutely. look, its a fairly common name, joseph andrew stack, so we havent been able to confirm that that is indeed the individual, but a spokesman at the northern command, megyn, now confirming to fox news that its pretty evident this is not a terrorist attack, nevertheless, the f-16s that you were talking about w...

All-clear? >> im not familiar, christi, with the processes within hawaii for sheltering in place. if all of those things are true, then its not a very good situation. this particular event yesterday was horrible and im sure very traumatic for anyone that lived on the island. but because it was a test that went awry and started from the wrong direction. usually, it is not the emergency management association that starts the warning. they, in fact, receive information from military sources that un...

Port, why didnt the white house order a factory military response to save puerto rico? as the navy hospital ship only sets north from virginia today. >> ultimately the government to puerto rico will have to work with us to determine how this massive rebuilding effort will end up being one of the biggest ever to be funded and organized and what we will do with the tremendous amount of existing debt already on the island. >> we have 20,000 federal troops. not federal workers, federal troops. i had...

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