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We'll see how it pans out during the course of the day. the president spoke with governors of louisiana, mississippi, and alabama yesterday to talk about those preparations. fema has already deployed staff to the region as well as meals, tarps, generators as the storm is approaching. as the president receives the hurricane briefing today, it will also be the first time we see president biden since learning of the air strike that killed two isis-k targets in afghanistan yesterday. the president held a national security team meeting at the white house in the "the situation room," got the latest ...

Borrow to fund fema and we should find money where we spend it unwisely, sending money to people who hate us, is not a good use. but beyond that, most disaster programs would be better handled at the local level, and i have a great deal of respect for the churches, the salvation army and the firefighters, the police officers but i am still waiting for the trailers to get to new orleans, the trailers sat in arkansas for three or four years and we had warehouses full of ice for years, they had to hire contractors to melt the ice ands does pose of the ice it was a hazard after holding on to the i...

Drought. some help is on the way, wendell, but there's only so much they can do. >> reporter: the agriculture department has cut the interest rate for emergency loans and cut the pricing for grazing or haying on public land, but the government can't make it rain. with more than half the farm land in the coul continental u.. affected by the drought, congress said they need to get involved. >> we need to create greater flexibility in program to revive the disaster programs that were allowed to expire last year when we passed a food farm and jobs bill. >> his message to congress, as you say, it's...

Months. updates as they happen. judith, thank you. >> now the record drought. the agriculture secretary now warning that it will trigger a spike in prices on everything from wheat and grain across the board. more than half of the lower 48 states now report drought conditions, the widest area we have seen in half a century. according to the federal government. and wendell, what is the administration's idea of what to do about this? >>guest: well, secretary of agriculture has cut the processing time, for disaster and cut the price for grazing on public land but the government cannot make it rain...

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