Congresss role in funding fema and other support. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted the event. I am so excited to bring you this event today. We have an amazing several panels of speakers. Project thatture buildars said we need to the loss ofreduce property and life and bring down the cost of a Natural Disaster response. Hit, we convened a task force of former state and federal officials who oversee Disaster Recovery and have had to secure overseas and federal funding. Many of the programs are being withd as never before covid. As we saw with the recent hurricane, there has been a lot of attention about how you safely evacuate and safely shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent spread. These are challenges Emergency Managers are facing day in and day out, especially with Hurricane Season having nine named storms since june. I all indications, there will be more. We are joined by a number of folks to talk about these two distinct crises. First, w
We will not take viewers to the bipartisan seminar webinar underway with the impact on Hurricane Evacuation and sheltering. The former fema administrator will begin in just a moment. Oversee, federal funding. Our goal is to harness their collective expertise to inform the instruction around disaster programs. Recent hurricane has been a lot of tension on how do you safely evacuate and shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent further covid spread . These are challenges Emergency Managers are facing day in and day out, especially with Hurricane Season having nine named storms since june. I all indications, there will be more. We are joined by a number of these twoalk about distinct crises. First, we are going to be joined by a democrat from the Virgin Islands. She helped sphere the islands recovery from Hurricane Maria and irma in 2017. She served on the transportation infrastructure committee, where she pushes Critical Infrastructure in the Virgin
Is a nice pattern that is not changing anytime soon. Overall what you see is what you get. And we are just carrying from one day and the next. 1 degree at the most changing from day today. Is hot on the inland. Most locations are near average to a little below. 53 in oakland and larimore. Theres a pretty good breeze out to travis. That is picked up in the last hour or so. Overall look for temperatures to be very similar between the low and the high. When becomes more of a dominant feature. There have been a few things going through here. Were going to look at a few of these things here. Lets go to the Richmond Bridge to san rafael. There is some slowing at the bay bridge toll plaza on the way into San Francisco lets go back to the headlines. We wait for that News Conference in San Francisco by firefighters. Lets bring you uptodate on the developments from the scene of this massive five alarm fire yesterday morning. Alyssa harrington is here now with its details. Bring us uptodate. Fire
Joining us on the communicators is andrew marantz. He is a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, techno utopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. Andrew absolutely, thank you for having me. If i understand it correctly, the book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Andrew yes, so around 2014, 2015, i was writing for the new yorker. And you know, its a magazine that allows people to kind of roam and be generalists and sort of go wherever they find interesting stories. And something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society, in terms of our information streams. It wasnt really political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information break down and people no longer know whats true or whats
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