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Top the go outside. we have it out there. we shifted it out to the front. i get my updates on the fly. it's out front. >> john king in washington. you have been listening to a remarkable briefing for the fire department. detailing the response effort which he said began seconds after gunfire opened up. it began seconds later because engine 11 was responding to a traffic accident returning from a traffic accident that happened on the apparatus. for all the sadness and horror, 58 kill and more than 500 injured, there were many heroes. fewer lives lost and some people will recover faster because ...

Welcome back to hardball. nearly two weeks after hurricane maria pumabled the island of puerto rico, 90% of electricity customers remain without power. look at that. much of the countryside struggling to access food, water and even ash cash. the atm machines are down. and today president trump landed on the island and came face to face with the apocalyptic world that puerto rico has been living with. there he is. in a briefing with local and federal officials, trump told reporters of the high praise his administration was getting, they were getting on their response effort. here he is. >> righ...

Enormous problems right now. >> yeah. i completely agree. wolf, the difference here is to make sure we focus on the people. president trump's been focusing on people and not paperwork and process. what elaine said earlier today was a reflection of her pride and workforce. i think what jennifer gonzalez is saying is the ultimate and good point. the congresswoman is providing great leadership and was here getting to the bottom of the relief effort, meeting with me and the vice president. she's providing the kind of leadership support that she needs to provide and identifying the travesty of an i...

Create a department of homeland security, an office of the director of national intelligence the u.s. northern command which you've seen now marshal resources in expert fashion for this storm, combat and command in the united states of america and cyber command which you've seen recently president trump elevate to a full combat and command. so we've marshalled our resources and we've organized them in a way to confront the threat of terrorism but also to organize ourselves in a way that will allow us to respond to any event from manmade hazard to an unfortunate terrorist attack but also to a h...

Nucle nucleus, the brain of the entire federal response. it's been coordinated in this room. the people here are working 12-hour shifts. they're working seven days on, seven days off. and tonight their primary focus is hurricane irma. again, it's safe to say that this is the brain of the federal response operation. now we have some roughly 200 people in this room. people from various agencies, whether it's epa, it's the department of energy, they're all here coordinating this response effort. they're trying to determine where should the resources be sent, what sort of resources do they need to...