Now federal officials on the administrations response to Hurricane Ian. This is about half an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Im the associate administrator for the office of response and recovery at fema. Thank you for joining us here today. And for your continued attention to florida as well as South Carolina and all the people impacted by Hurricane Ian. I also want to thank the dedicated leaders standing up with me here today. The partnerships across the federal family enable our Effective Response to this disaster and ensures floridians and south carolinians get the help they need during these unimaginably difficult times. Our hearts are with floridians as they endeavor on this long and difficult recovery. And our resolve has never been stronger. Together we will rebuild from this tragedy and we will be there until the work is done. This morning administrator chriswell traveled to florida to meet with Governor Desantis to survey the damage and assess what other assistance may be ne
Exclusively. Why do so many people keep investing in hedge funds. They have lousy returns that way underperform the s p 500. Coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone, im larry kudlow. And this is the kudlow report. President obama gathered in st. Peters today for addressing the worlds financial situation. In a working dinner this evening, it was disagreement over how to handle serious use of chemical weapons that dominated the agenda. Nbcs chuck todd joins us now with the latest. Good evening, chuck. Reporter good evening, larry. Or i should say good morning, the first day and night of the g20 summit is over. President obama only a few minutes ago left the dinner with the 20 World Leaders. A dinner that lasted until nearly 2 00 in the morning here in russia. The topic of the dinner was supposed to be all things syria. And what the white house was telling me was that wey wanted president to lay out his case and put as many World Leaders to his side. He
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I served might not think it has a problem or may not think it needs a solution or wants to or does not want to internationalize a solution. We are an organization based on membership. There is a sovereignty reality we have to accept as a member statebased organization. What do you try to do . You try to find mediators intermediaries that have legitimacy on their own. You might send out somebody who you knew was close to certain government leaders from another country who could talk quietly behind closed doors without a big deal. Graduatere is a u. N. Resident coordinator on the ground that could target an entry point. You always have to be looking at this. One of the reasons i want to make sure we have brought a financial backing for broad financial backing for mediation tools is so people can say if this many countries of this many persuasions are behind using the mediation tools, it must not be a western imperialist agenda, and we have no agenda other than trying to address a conflic
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