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>> what happens then is that the congress will have to do an emergency appropriation. i don't think that we would actually see fema depleted to the point where they can't respond. >> sometimes i feel like people have hurricane fatigue from the preparedness and warning signs. thank you very much for your time. next, why georgia could be a game-changer for democrats as they look to retake the senate in 2020. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey.rkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arr...

Good morning. >> good morning. >> president trump's late night announcement about deporting millions of undocumented families here in the u.s., do you think this is the way to go? the right way to stop the crisis at the border? >> i think what you're going to see us voting for today is where we feel the greater emphasis needs to be. that is with the border patrol at the border. we are overwhelmed with those 133,000 people that came across last month. that's what you're going to see reflected in the emergency appropriation that we're going to do. i think that's where the better consensus is amo...

Emergency, president trump will need cash already appropriated to build the walls. among the funds he is eyeing, $14 billion in a 2018 emergency appropriation that included money for hurricane relief in puerto rico. puerto rico's governor responding. president trump said he 100% has the authority to declare an emergency and build a border wall. he does expect a legal challenge. >> what will happen? i will sued. it will be brought to the ninth circuit. >> reporter: with federal workers missing their paychecks, president trump took steps to mitigate the impact and promised to sign legislation fo...

And so the money that we've been tracking here, one of "the beat" producers found these figures. got $3.5 million extra just to get through this match period along with other states. how does that work? are you blowing through that money? are you worried about what happens when you run out of it? >> well, we're spending that money. and we got an emergency appropriation for the month of october. we'll get another one for the month of november. but we have to make a decision this month as to how we're going to try and pay for this really important program as a state and for how long can we based...

Between federal and state authorities to try to prevent the worst from happening? >> totally. for example, congress has done, we've learned that after katrina when it took an emergency appropriation to give fema the resources it needed congress set up a fund fema can pull down dollars that doesn't need a special appropriation. we have forward positioned, if you will, the financial assets needed for fema to do its work. fema, which will just tell you they've always got more work to do to make it better but they've come a long way since that additional response to katrina becoming more effective...