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You did tell the house committee on homeland security that your agency was under staffed by more than 2,000 people. are you concerned that you guys aren't going to have enough responders for this storm? >> not at all. we have plenty of staff out there in the states that are impacted and it's not just fema that responds to these storms. it's the entire federal family. we're coordinating that right now. between the core of engineers, department of energy, weather service, plenty of staff out there making sure that we respond in immediate time and needs of the states or locals. >> peter gainer, y...

Packing winds of 65 miles an hour. it's getting stronger as it goes along. it is expected to develop into a cat one hurricane by this afternoon. and parts of new orleans are under water. barry is expected to dump about 20 inches of rain total in some areas. tens of thousands of residents are without power, and they're under a shelter in place advisory. and joining me now to look at what is happening on the ground is the acting deputy administrator of the federal emergency management agency, peter gainer. peter, thank you for joining us. >> good morning, jo, thank you. >> what's your main con...

Leave. deputy fema administrator peter gainer will serve as acting chief when he does leave. so we now know who tipped off the "national enquirer" about the relationship between amazon ceo jeff bezos and laura sanchez. two people confirmed to cnn it was sanchez's brother michael, he was the leaker. now he denied to the "washington post" that he played a role in leaking information and a blog post last week bezos made unsubstantiated claims that president trump or the kingdom of saudi arabia may have been involved in the leak or the "national enquirer" may have acted to curry favor with them....

Second in command of fema. peter gainer who will be onside working already with a local resource management team that is on the ground. the state and local teams that are in place already. but we know that a tragedy of this magnitude will require outside resources. the governor has declared a disaster. we will work on our end here to ensure that we have whatever resources may be called upon to assist in the aftermath of this quake. as of this point in time, we don't know the full extend that we're dealing with. >> shepard: we don't. senator, we're thankful to learn that we have no reports of s...