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The people in the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico and the other caribbean islands affected are in the middle of acute life-sustaining response operations and what we are seeing in florida, south carolina, and georgia are the final stages of preparation for the beginning of her response operation. we are seeing all three play out for us at the same time. it requires us to juggle some of our thinking but it doesn't require us to juggle our resources. we had an opportunity to rest and refit our forces and harvey and move them out and reposition them. right now we are employing them to save li...

Governor edwards are involved in the early stages of what will be a long recovery effort. the people in the u.s. virgin islands, puerto rico and the other caribbean islands affected by harvey already are in the middle of acute life-sta sta ds operations and stages of preparation for the beginning of a response operation. so, we're seeing all three play out for us at the same time. it requires us to juggle some of our thinking, but it doesn't require us to juggle our resources, so to be clear, the response operations have ceased, life-saving and life-sustaining in harvey and we had an opportuni...

Rain is just -- it's just cutting. it's horizontal, and sometimes it comes in vertical and does circles. a big concern, of course, tornadoes, as this storm progresses, and flooding. flooding, flooding, flooding, is what everyone here has been worried about. back to you. >> i would love it if you stood on the hard side of something at least, because you're right. the wind is changing and you mentioned tornadoes. it's sort of hard to believe for people who don't live in hurricane-proned areas, that you can have tornadoes inside of a hurricane or alongside hurricanes, and the forces of those can ...

Candidates a month ago. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says not to worry, though. >> we are in great shape having general kelly sitting next to the president throughout this process. and probably no better chief of staff for the president during the hurricane season, and the president has been briefed and will continue to be updated as the storm progresses, and certainly something he's very aware of. >> let's hope so. >> yeah. there are two big concerns people have rightfully. one is the staffing issue. we just don't have a government filled with people. it's not even people being comp...

Some of his social media staff was there as well, all ready to respond to the aftermath of hurricane harvey. here's how sarah huckabee sanders put it yesterday. >> we are in great shape having general kelly sitting next to the president throughout this process and probably know better chief of staff than the president -- for the president and the president has been briefed and will continue to be updated as the storm progresses. >> the fema director tweeted out just a short time ago at fema saying we are monitoring hurricane harvey closely, we are working around the clock to prepare and suppor...