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Technologies and the new commandant of the u. S. Coast guard, and a discussion at the Hudson Institute about cybersecurity. Today the Senate Small Business Committee Held a hearing on Disaster Relief for Small Businesses. It focused on changes made since Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast ten years ago. The senate began its district work period yesterday. This is an hour. Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome. Thanks very much for joining me here today for this discussion roundtable about a very important ongoing challenge in relation to Disaster Recovery. Natural disasters are obviously ind...

Kevin ashton, tonight on the communicators, on cspan2. Tomorrow on washington journal, gretchen working set of morgansen talking about the Affordable Housing program. Vince is a girl soon talks about alcoholrelated problems and all fetal syndrome in drinking mothers. Washington on journal, life tuesday at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Officials with the red cross talked about economic recovery, Agency Coordination and delivery efficiency. They were joined by representatives of the Small Business administration fema, and the private sector, during a hearing on postdisaster issues for Small Busin...

Its a dynamic situation. We continue to track everything going on not only in beaumont, texas where we have serious operations taking place for search and rescue in life sustainment. We have had a number of evacuations around the Chemical Plant last night. We were able to evacuate about a mile and a half radius around the Chemical Plant to make sure people were safe in anticipation of any problems. We continue to push the lifesaving operations. We are continuing to evacuate people out of areas where the rivers have not receded yet. In some cases, today and tomorrow, they may be cresting. The S...

Have andy barr, maxine waters, matt gaines, ted and karen. Thank you, we are glad that youre here we will allow each of you to give testimony without objecting anything, if you make an order will be ended into the record. I miss waters, well have you first and the gentleman knows the green light is on. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. I would like to commend you and the rules Committee Members for allowing all of us to come before you to share with you our concerns and help shine a light on where we think we should be paying more attention. So, the testimony of have today will combine a numbe...

Floridas gulf coast. Plus, the firing of james comey, called the biggest mistake in modern political history. What you did not see in the interview on last nights 60 minutes. Now, a look at todays eye this is truly an eye wall, full force of force. Tropical storm irma marches through florida. Were still getting heavy conditions here. Even though irmas now downgraded to a Tropical Storm, dont sort of let your guard down. Irma has spared virtually no one. There is flooding and extensive Property Damage but it will take days to understand the full impact. Now is not the time to return just yet. T...