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>> so there is no chance of -- you say recovery mode. no chance of further rescues? >> presently the coast guard has full efforts in a response positive dhur right now. were currently still in the response phase. >> are there divers in the water looking in the wreckage? >> i dont have any additional information regarding that at this time. >> what does response effort mean? >> search and rescue activities, yes, maam. >> so what can they be doing at this point? >> right now they are conducting sh...

How do you fix them? >> the weather service has these conditions will likely continue until wednesday. >> bret: thank you. lets get an update on the situation and nebraska. ben sasse joins us now. thank you for being here. he did a tour around your state and you said that there was a hundred year flood in 2011 but this is much worse. >> we are with the national guard on saturday visiting some of the most impacted communities. it is quite stunning. and it three counties and 53 of them have issued...

Jon: got a thousand fema workers on hand. exactly what kind of things are they able to do? >> john, the last part of course -- i know youve got a thousand fema workers on hand in the area, specifically what are they able to do? >> what theyre doing right now is at the local and state officials need additional assistance because every disaster starts and ends at the local level. a local community to assess an additional response made five the state assesses additional response needs. where there ...

Please dont use social media in order to call for help. call 911 or channel 16 to reach out and get help. the areas will still be hazardous. so please stay in a safe location while coast guard and other partners assess the damage and well let you know when it is safe to do so. thank you. >> next up we have the office of disability integration coordination at fema and its incredibly important for fema to help our partners do everything that we can to render the highest level of functional access ...

Finally once the storm has passed, please stay in a safe location while partners assess the damage and let you know when its safe to do so. thank you. >> thank you. next up we have the office of disability integration coordination at fema. its incredibly important for fema to help our partners do everything that we can to render the highest level of access needs we cannot only during the response phase but also after the recovery phase. say a few words. >> good morning. as the disability coordin...

Know, that he used to attack this church. the fbi would naturally send people to a case like this. you cant, you cant draw anything, you know, from that at this point in time unless there is an announcement that the fbi has taken over the investigation. that would be a whole different, a whole different ball game if that happened. but right now its still very much in response phase, and i think what youre -- one of the things that you have to remember, when you get 40 or 50 miles outside of a ma...

How much puerto rico took these warnings to heart? >> i think the governor did a tremendous job. his leadership was tremendous yesterday. he hit the streets, went door-to-door in many communities telling people to take it very seriously. through his leadership and the warning order network that we have through the national weather service partners, i believe they had people taking heed. >> bill: think about harvey in texas, irma in florida and the entire state of florida and the caribbean. are y...

The laura: with the second suspect under arrest in fridays london subway bombings, experts in the attack that injured 29 people is looking like it may be the result of a coordinated plot or the british government in the meantime lowering its terror threat levels from critical to severe. thats burning dana hoffman, former cia officer. thank you for being here today and lending your perspective because it is important. we want to ask you first the lowering of the terror threat from critical to sev...

That support to the communities, thats happening now. we have the truck loads of relief supplies that are headed this way that are responding, trailers with shelters supplies. one of the things that we know is right now people are in evacuation mode. those evacuation centers are really there to just make sure that peoples lives are safe from this weather. so when we look at what comes next and were in the response phase right now, when we look at recovery, that looks different. and there may be ...

Going from bottom to top. so its going to be very difficult to have those areas that are unaffected where folks can come from and work their way to be able to help others, and its going to take a lot longer to get there meaning folks that have not evacuated could be on their own for at least a couple of days. >> as soon as that storm clears and that we can find a base that we can operate from or we can find fuel, we will be there. were going to have to wait to see what that impact is. rest assur...