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devastating tornadoes we saw earlier this year, the national atmospheric and oceanic administration says there have been more than 15 events already this year that have totalled over $1 billion in damages. and now fema is saying they need more money or they're going to have to start prioritizing and putting ahead life saving operations over recovery operations. so some places that are devastated like maui, those recovery operations could be pushed into the next year if they don't get more funding. fema administrate deanne criswell spoke about this and the urgent need for more funding over the weekend. here's what she had to say. >> we do anticipate we'll have a shortage of funding at our current spending levels by mid september, and so what we will do is we will continue to push. we will push projects, recovery projects into the next fiscal year, so we always have enough money to support any of the immediate life saving needs. >> and chris, she says that that bill is to the tune of