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A flood response, both shallow water rescue boats spread out across the state. were paired up with state and local partners there, with fema. were part of those water rescues. its a big storm that expands over 400 miles in width. its very slow moving, 3 miles an hour. its a deluge inundation across the state and its going to be expanding here, so i think were just in a protracted flood situation and were teaming up and getting ready to respond to the demand here. >> i assume youre seeing lots of...

And im sure the number is good to double by this evening. >> sandra: i speak for everyone listening now. thank you for what youre doing. it is purely a volunteer basis people coming in with boats trying to help people. as far as communication, how are you able to communicate with those that are volunteering to help especially with so much electricity already lost and down? >> we have an app called zello that we use and a response system we use. its a system ics and follow the same code as a lot ...

We are going to have to start talking about mental institutions. a lot of the folks in this room close to her mental institutions also. we have nothing between a prison and leaving him at his house, which we cant do anymore. i think you folks have to start thinking about that. we have to improve our early-morning response system so and friends, family and neighbors, action is taken quickly. you are the one mother, you remember in connecticut, she was begging to take her son in and help him, do s...

The system operates, how the response system should detect this, youre just going to assume that its true. what happened here is that an entire state and all its visitors were terrorized, and most importantly, there was no calming effect until it had already worked its way through the entire state system and finally the news media started reporting in dribs and drabs that there was no actual threat. it should have come right from the white house. immediately the president or one of his senior na...

System. we all assumed it was probably a false alarm, but when youre sitting there and you see the state emergency action message system has come across and is telling you that theres been a ballistic missile launch and it is inbound to hawaii, if you dont know anything about how the system operates, how the response system should detect this, youre just going to assume that its true. what happened here is that an entire state and all its visitors were terrorized, and most importantly, there was...

Urging support from isis. i interviewed him several times i followed this group. they are very active in that area. that is one of the things theyll be looking at. were looking at whether theres any overseas connection but given the crude techniques that they used in this attack, doesnt appear they were trained killers who would have been overseas with a group like isis. the focus is much more domestic right now in this investigation. >> so juliette kayyem, crude weapons here. the british author...

Have to go into a dangerous area and rescue people they shouldnt have had to rescue, so it puts a stress on the entire system. it stretches our whole response system and makes a very thing response where we should be able to concentrate on certain areas. so by now listening, not doing what youre supposed to do, what you should be doing, it puts a lot of people in danger. >> are there sufficient emergency resources who helped those who stayed behind and the question is even the ones who stayed be...

Response time was minimal. we dont have any issues with the response system and the response that we received. >> councilman stanley, have you ever seen anything like this in all your time in texas? >> no. i was born and raised right here in the garland area. and this is -- we were touched back around 1980 with a tornado in the area in south garland. but this is the first time weve had this type of devastation thats hit our community. its unfathomable what everybody has gone through. and were ju...

Of shootings rise at the same time that the number of murders plummets. it is because getting shot does not necessarily mean being murdered. the main thing that intervenes there is an ambulance and high-quality emt response system. youre thinking as mayor you can actually bring down the murder rate not even by changing the crime rate but by changing things like street access, the number of ambulances and the ways in which we actually are responding to crime in neighborhoods. >> and gun control. ...

There. so i other thing i was going to mention, martin, about 1999 -- >> right. >> -- as a result of that tornado, it changed the culture in oklahoma. so when another incredible tornado came along in 2003 that was very similar, just four years later, they had many more saferooms and much better response system. that survives to this day of the 1999 tornado. they are much more ready. im not saying were not going to have horrendous news come out of this event. its just too big, too many structures...