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Emergency management usepa. epa is the lead federal agency for inland releases of oil and hazardous substances through emergency support function 10 over the national response framework. in addition to request for assistance from our states, tribes and local government, partners, some of the things that epa is currently doing prior to hurricane florence is to determine the status of preparation at chemical, oil, and production facilities that may be in the path of the storm. and to identify any releases and discharges of hazardous substances or oil caused by the storm. the agency has identifie...

Would be investigating the false alarm. today the chairman says based on what they've seen so far, quote, it appears that the government of hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert. the chairman went on to say that moving forward with the investigation will focus on what steps need to be taken to ensure that message like this doesn't happen again and state, local and federal officials have to work together to spot vulnerabilities in these systems. on capitol hill plans were in place to talk about emergency systems. the ...

Winter white house where the president, he's nearby at the trump international golf club which of course he owns. he did golf yesterday, no word on who he may have golfed with. that's where the president was yesterday afternoon when hawaii's false alarm weren't out for 38 minutes about an incoming ballistic missile. amid reports that the white house was scrambling, homeland security secretary nielsen said this on "fox news sunday." when we look at response, we act under the national response framework. we did have what's called a deputies committee exercise in december and we planned to have a...

Up images that money wants to revisit and prompts it superdome and what a mess it was and right now looking at the houston convention center and looking at old images. what happened then that was so disastrous and what is different now. i think the reason things are so apparently going so well now is that lessons were learned in the after math of katrina. there were five major investigations done in the executive branch and in the congress back then. and those lessons have been truly incorporated in to the planning process. and the exercises that are done not while we're in the middle of a tra...

Dealing with harvey? >> excellent communication. you know, the president expedited governor abbott's major disaster declaration within hours yesterday. the bottom line is, is that i've communicated with the president directly less than two hours ago. we've been speaking every day and constant communication between us and the white house and our partners within the department of homeland security and the national response framework. so we've come a long way since katrina. we're leaning forward, ready to support. >> with regard to the military, are you working part and parcel with the military? ...