Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal government learned in terms of response to hurricanes in particular . Guest i think the biggest lesson was that we dont wait until we are asked to start getting ready. To be ana, there seem lot of confusion about the governor having to make requests and what femas role was going to be. Congress, after katrina launched substantial legislation. Governors are going to be is he dealing with this. The federal
As we talked about yesterday, theres a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. Remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. You can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. All of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. Several fires burned together adds we talked about. We had split that into two separate zones. Those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. This is all now being held as one large fire. A lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yesterday about the difference between looking at red line on a map and black line. Black line being an area of the fire perimeter thats been contained. We no longer see a threat before movement of the fire. Youll see we have black line all the way up this east side of the fire and north top of the one piece of the fire. That is great news and really provides a lot more safety f
Right now, we have over 60 fires assigned to this incident alone. From arizona, idaho, new mexico, oregon, and we have 26 out of state resources that are en route from mt. , utah and texas, for a total requested. Another topic is damage inspections. Process to get all the information needed and assess that over the counties. We have over 100,000 structures threatened up and down the state of california. More than 1,000 structures throughout the state have been destroyed. And this is an ongoing process. For our incident here, scu lightning complex, well start off with the operation briefing from the operation chief, tim ernst. Before we talk about the incident, i want to talk about the map. I want to make sure were all understanding the same thing. When we look at the map of the fire, you see a lot on the outside. The black perimeter. What youre looking for is go off to the incident through the oncoming days and weeks of the incident. You want to see more of this black line along the ma
By the way, twitter is among many of the names dragging the markets lower as we head into this final hour of trade. Worries over spiking coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in nearly every state are drenching the bulls right now. As i said, dow jones 267, thats pretty much close to the session lows. Same with the s p and nasdaq. We do have a loss of 117 points on the nasdaq. As covid cases spike, many restaurants have been forced to flip the script along with the burgers, as hot spots close dining rooms that have recently just reopened. How are they doing that . Some just throwing up their hands but not the ceo of one burger chain. Hes here to tell you how hes dealing with moving goal posts that are pretty much moving every five seconds. Look at this. This is really worrisome. Water pouring into new yorks lincoln tunnel. Another example of the nations crumbling infrastructure. President trump has been complaining about this for years and now he is cutting reams of red tape at a reco
Coronavirus response and other priorities for the agency. This senate, environment, and public works hearing is almost 2. 5 hours. Well, good morning. I call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable andrew wheeler, today. Todays hearing is the opportunity to hear about their epas good work and a chance for Committee Members to ask questions. The Environmental Protection agency is tasked with protecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the communities where our family live. During the covid19 pandemic, the agency has worked hard to provide the public with updated information on which disinfectants and cleaning products can be safely used to kill the virus. In addition, the epa has made Grant Funding available to the states and the tribes to help lowincome and minority communities address the coronavirus. Epa has provided thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment to aid emergency and Healt