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[inaudible conversations] thank you all for being here in the Senate Committee on health education, labor and pensions. We will come to order. This morning we will be considering the nomination of doctor Monica Bertagnolli to serve as the National Institutes of health director. Let me begin by welcoming doctor bertagnolli to the committee. We look forward to hearing from you and we thank you for being here today. I see you brought along a fellow from wyoming and we welcome senator barrasso as well. The nih with a budget of more than 47 billion is the largest funder of medical research in the w...

Announcer washington journal continues. President mike pence on your screen and now, a live shot of him making his way off the helicopter for the vice president. He will be traveling to the hurricane area with his wife to view the damage from the Tropical Storm down in that area. Members of met by the president s cabinet including the energy secretary, rick perry, who was also there at the airport. Transportation secretary also as well as others. He is making his way down to the area impacted by the hurricane and Tropical Storm harvey. Washington journal this morning, we will be talking about ...

Ourl then, more of conversation on this mornings washington journal with Michael Brown. It is because officials have asked him for that. In the Disaster Relief chain of governors, police chiefs, and other local authorities have run the show in recent years. Fema and the military standby to provide every single disaster, whether it is 9 11, whether it was the alfred p morrow bombing whether it wasy, the hurricanes in 2004, or Hurricane Katrina or Tropical Storm harvey, every action begins and ends at the local level. In katrina, i sat down with governor barbour , the conversation would go like ...

Puerto rico dont even have power. Irma has winds at 100 85a185 Miles Per Hour. It will continue to be that fast as it heads towards florida. One concern throughout the morning are the winds. The storm surge will go to the lower levels. We know homes and streets will be flooded. People think about the high rises and you are safe. When you have 185 mile winds, your windows crack. Right. I have friends that are just leaving. They live there and they are evacuating. They just self evacuated. There will come a time when it will be too late to evacuate. I also have concern for the people in houston....

Where it points it right now. This is the big concern. Very andrewesque. This whole tip of florida, its lowlying stuff. Its extremely lowlying. And well inland, too. Were looking at storm surges over 10 feet. It would be a bigger storm surge except the storm is moving rapidly and that right front quadrant is out of the strike zone or looks like it will be. If you look at all the various model solutions, everybody is saying, yes, something similar to this. Im hoping and most forecasters are hoping that as we get towards miami, that those blue lines to the right become that becomes the path. Tha...