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Before harvey hit, fema was reacting to disasters across the nation in many states you folks represent, and now in addition to those major disaster declarations, we were also responding to fire management assistance grants due to fires taking place. while there are many improvements to be made to ensure that the whole community response and that the asset management system continues to grow in a positive way, i do recognize there are many challenges ahead, particularly when it comes to california, texas, florida as well as the virgin islands and puerto rico. cleaning roads, fixing roads, getti...

Helping those impacted by harvey with a bridge to recovery. we are laser focused on the life-saving response mission of irma not only in florida. it's going to be georgia and alabama. looking at south carolina as well. >> before speed 21 hit the florida keys, fema had more than a million liters of water, 1 million meals, 20,000 tarp than seven-day generators en route to texas along with 900 search and rescue personnel. major disaster declarations, federal support extends to the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico. irma can be felt in five states. fema deploying federal assets from florida to a...

Get some things done in the congress you are going to have to develop some kind of bipartisanship. i commend him for doing it this last time on the debt ceiling and on hurricane relief. >> how do you think the trump administration has been responding to the back-to-back natural disasters? >> my sense is that lessons have been learned here, lessons have been learned from katrina and sandy. i have to say that fema, homeland security, they have actually done well in getting ahead of these terrible hurricanes as they approach both houston and florida. they were able to develop their disaster decla...

Helping those impacted by harvey with a bridge to recovery. we are laser focused on the life-saving response mission of irma not only in florida. it's going to be georgia and alabama. looking at south carolina as well. >> before speed 21 hit the florida keys, fema had more than a million liters of water, 1 million meals, 20,000 tarp than seven-day generators en route to texas along with 900 search and rescue personnel. major disaster declarations, federal support extends to the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico. irma can be felt in five states. fema deploying federal assets from florida to a...

Local officials. make sure you understand who issues that warning and why you are being moved and take precautions. obviously governor scott has been leaning very, you know, very far forward. we have been in support of governor scott. we are helping him to address the fuel issues. yesterday the president proactively waved the jones act to be able to supply more fuel to help the governor get more fuel into his state. the president has been very quick to also issue disaster declarations in support of the response movements that are going forward. and we will continue to work with our partners. w...