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Her husband on the trip to texas. they are not likely to go to the heart of the disaster zone, more likely to go to san antonio or austin, texas. the reason being, the president is concerned whenever he travels, he has contingent of public safety personnel who have to assist him and he doesnt want to destrakt from the ongoing response effort. the administration trying to show a bit of sensitivity to the situation on the ground in texas right now. as far as the presidents day goes today, he is al...

Remember, anytime the president travels it is a massive undertaking. it takes a lot of planning and resources, and at this point resources are already stretched extremely thin in texas as local a agencies are focused on saving folks lives and getting them back on their feet as well. arthel: meanwhile, governor abbott of texas, he gave the president and his administration an a+ on federal response. can you give us more details about the federal response, garrett? >> reporter: yeah. leading up to ...

Feels totally vindicated. this is a little bit of an unusual relationship to see the republican national committee sort of playing the rapid response effort for the white house because the white house could be at the zmaerlt of this investigation and so they they would have felt better standing up this arrangement allowing the committee to spearhead this response. the thats what were going to continue to see on the hill tomorrow. >> thank you very much. lets go to republican senator susan collin...

When we can or immediately after the storm instead of focusing on recovery. youre actually putting responders at risk to save you in the worst part of the storm and sometimes we cant come. now youre going to divert resources away from speeding the recovery as were having the search and clear areas because people didnt evacuate. we cannot urge people enough evacuate. if its not bad, go home, it was an inconvenience. if it is that bad, it may be you and your familys life at risk. this is the one t...

Began the chairman at the house homeland committee who gets regular briefings told fox news the numbers of americans affected will go higher than the current estimate of 21.5 million because of damage assessments are ongoing. >> i think were going to discover that more have been compromised. we didnt know for months that the systems had been compromised in first place. when homeland security went in to do the response effort, thats when we found out how widespread the threat and the damage was. ...

And theyve train good 200 volunteers. so its a fair number of people out there, theyre still working about 14 boats as well trying to recover what they can. it is at the tar ball stage. theres not much floating oil on the water. theres certainly a lot of activity on shore, in particular now theyre trying to figure out what to do about the rocks the oil that may have seeped into the soil. >> you know im looking at all sorts of reports about how long it took for workers to get there. and in fact, ...

Office of emergency management, just a short while ago about preparations as the storm hit the north carolina coast. >> the storm is here. the conditions are going to worsen, and everyone needs to be advised. until this storm is past us tomorrow morning at daybreak, the best thing to do is to stay indoors. all of our agencies and departments that are involved in a response effort to a hurricane, the plans are in place. d.o.t. has staged equipment. well have assessment teams out as soon as its po...

University, weve add great ongoing relationship with the university in terms of providing a response protocols and assisting them in setting up their potential response it a situation like this and theyve been very good partners. we tried to work outweighs that they could prevent and support a response effort in the event that this should happen. and todays events appear to us that those policies and procedures that they work so hard on were not only implemented but helped reduce the possibility...

State of washington, allowing the federal government to provide funds to support the local response effort. earlier today nbc newss miguel almaguer assessed this devastation from the air above oso, washington. >> one square mile of debris. 550 football fields worth of destruction. it just goes on and on. demolished by the mudslide. dozens of homes are damaged or destroyed. crews in the air and on the ground have been spending hours looking for victims, but their job is dangerous. theres concern ...

We learned today president obama will visit the oklahoma city area on sunday to tour the devastation from mondays deadly tornado. and see firsthand the response effort under way. today we also learned that the cost of the tornado is being estimated at $2 billion. thats an early damage tally by the oklahoma insurance department. we also know that the medical examiners office has identified positively 23 of the 24 people who died in the tornado. thats 24 deaths. ten of them children, including two...