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Unprecedented step to direct the Department Of Defense to use military Health Care Personnel to operate all covid facilities. At the Javits Center in new york, at the Convention Center in new orleans, and at the Convention Center in dallas. And we informed each of the governors of those states today at their requests we were making those military medical personnel available to operate in all covid facility. But we would emphasize to people in that community who believe youve been impacted or hav...

Imposed some forms of export restrictions in their country against the rest of the world. and what were learning from that is that no matter how many treatyious have -- >> i want to pull out for a second good, to our white house correspondent kristen welker. i want to go to dr. megan rainey that you have gotten to know during these broadcasts for a little bit of a reality check about the situation with the ppe and the supply chain. first to you, kristen welker. you know, before the day began, if...

Advice, telling people to download the app while they still have phone service and power and that app will help people understand what their local risk is so that they can react accordingly. >> and president trump making this rare trip to camp david this weekend ahead of the storm, canceling his overseas trip. what is on his agenda? >> we do know that the president will be going to camp david to monitor this hurricane and he will be holding meetings. weve brought up this point again that the hea...

For hurricane dorian? >> well, fred, you know all eyes are going to be on this acting fema director and how he leads the agency through all of this, peter gainer. he took over, as you know, after brock long resigned in february. but federal officials, they say that they are bracing for this big storm and it will warrant a big response and it will have a multi-billion price tag. fema is saying if this truly does hit florida as a category four, its going to be into the billions of dollars. as far ...

Officials atop the department of homeland security and deputy secretary of homeland security post and in the position of acting administrator overseeing fema. what do we know about those officials? >> so peter gainer is currently the administrator at fema. thats probably a name most of your viewers ever heard of before. he replaced brock long last year. this will be his first hurricane season. by all accounts hes one of those longtime government emergency response managers who has done this befo...

You did tell the house committee on homeland security that your agency was under staffed by more than 2,000 people. are you concerned that you guys arent going to have enough responders for this storm? >> not at all. we have plenty of staff out there in the states that are impacted and its not just fema that responds to these storms. its the entire federal family. were coordinating that right now. between the core of engineers, department of energy, weather service, plenty of staff out there mak...

Packing winds of 65 miles an hour. its getting stronger as it goes along. it is expected to develop into a cat one hurricane by this afternoon. and parts of new orleans are under water. barry is expected to dump about 20 inches of rain total in some areas. tens of thousands of residents are without power, and theyre under a shelter in place advisory. and joining me now to look at what is happening on the ground is the acting deputy administrator of the federal emergency management agency, pete...

Leave. deputy fema administrator peter gainer will serve as acting chief when he does leave. so we now know who tipped off the "national enquirer" about the relationship between amazon ceo jeff bezos and laura sanchez. two people confirmed to cnn it was sanchezs brother michael, he was the leaker. now he denied to the "washington post" that he played a role in leaking information and a blog post last week bezos made unsubstantiated claims that president trump or the kingdom of saudi arabia may...

Second in command of fema. peter gainer who will be onside working already with a local resource management team that is on the ground. the state and local teams that are in place already. but we know that a tragedy of this magnitude will require outside resources. the governor has declared a disaster. we will work on our end here to ensure that we have whatever resources may be called upon to assist in the aftermath of this quake. as of this point in time, we dont know the full extend that were...