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University. At tufts university. We are joined by craig fugate , the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency. We are joined by Seth Bornstein and usa today. Mr. Fugate, i want to start with the deadly flooding in texas and oklahoma. What is fema doing now, and what are you expecting in terms of assistance that will be asked by the federal government in recovering . Guest we have been working with both states. In fact, several states have been impacted. Right now, they are still in a response phase. Under the governors leadership local officials, the national guard, they are ma...

President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they performed exceptionally well during sandy black hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars in damage....

Health and other issues facing veterans is Tom Tarantino, a former army captain and current chief. Announcement last weekend a good sign for veterans waiting for their benefits claims to be processed . Guest it was an expected announcement. The backlog has been reduced by about 1 3, which is outstanding news. There is some light at the end of the tunnel. We have about 400,000 claims still in the inventory. They were going to halt the mandatory overtime. We expect it to resume after the holidays in february. We have 400,000 claims. If they want to make their goal, it is going to require overtim...

We went down to southwest florida for the second day in a row. We were able to do a little bit more extensive touring of some of the damage that we saw. And you have places like Fort Myers Beach, santa bell, some of those areas really where the front line got the massive storm surge and an extensive damage throughout there. You also have Charlotte County had damaged north north part of naples and collier county. The one of the things that were working on and is having staged all the power and everything is the restoration of services right now statewide, 85 of customers have power and the main...

Working on is having staged all the power and everything is the restoration of services. Right now statewide, 85 of customers have power. And main outages are, of course, in lee and charlotte counties had the most as well as hardy but then you also have about half out in collier. You have about half out in sarasota. And then it really gets better in many other parts of the state until you get seminole is about a third out or 40 out. Volusia is about 50 out. Flagler is about 40 to 50 out. Then it gets much better as you get to st. Johns and jacksonville and nassau county. Theres over 42,000 fol...