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Then invest in making communities more resilient. to hopefully minimize or reduce the impact of these kinds of horrible natural disasters. >> i want to open this up to our folks here in new york, daniel. bob, coburn's office was asked about whether he would still call for offsets in increased disaster assistance and he said there's a legitimate role for fema. we ought to live within our budget. the oklahoma city bombing, we offset that. we offset that by using funds that weren't being used. we didn't offset it by cutting programs. which is in this time of budgetary quote-unquote discipline. is...

Extremely expensive and are only becoming more frequent. joining us now from washington, is senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the center for american progress, daniel weiss, daniel, thanks for joining us today. and as someone who has studied events like these, what is your recommendation as we as a country and a political community and a policy-making class try to wrap their heads around this. what should we be doing that we aren't doing now? >> first of all and most important, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of oklahoma. who have suffered this unimaginable disaste...

That encourage as more, levels out our, the extremities in terms of weather-related events, if we can in fact do that. >> well, you're right. and in fact, we should think of the $400 per household federal spending as our extreme weather tax. in addition, we put together this estimate, the federal government doesn't even know itself how much money it's spending on federal disasters. but most importantly, and the recent years we've cut money to help communities become more resilient, to tornadoes, super storms, drought and other extreme weather events. we need to as representative capps has prop...

The homes -- there's no news cameras there. i'm not saying that the politicians sit there waiting for disaster. but it's part of the norm of how we do stuff. we don't pay attention ahead of time. it's a tough situation. >> "new york times" andy rivkin. thank you for your time and expertise. my pleasure. >> another key component for handling natural disasters, we discuss the role for federal assistance when daniel weiss, from the center of progress joins us. [ male announcer ] it's 7am and steve is already thinking about tomorrow. which is why he's investing in his heart health by eating kell...

Governor before she delivers a press conference later today. no word yet on whether or not president obama will head to oklahoma. but it is very likely of course this is what we see him do as consoler in chief. he did it in the wake of the boston bombings. and of course, the plant fire in west texas. alex. >> kristen welker, live from the white house, thanks for the update. coming up, the tragedy in oklahoma comes just six months after super storm sandy devastated parts of the northeast. we will discuss multibillion-dollar disasters and the cost of relief, when daniel weiss from the center f...