Present, quickly pledged to support these local efforts in order to ensure full recovery. He created the Hurricane Sandy rebuilding task force to maximize cabinet level ordination in support of the work to rebuild this region. Ive been enormously proud to share this effort as we work to achieve two basic goals. One, to get the assistance you all thought so hard to make a reality to communities as quickly as possible, to meet the immediate needs and second to ensure the region rebuild stronger and smarter than before so its better equipped for future storms. Quickly and effectively. As you know, in january, working with all of you in the congress, state leaders fought tirelessly to get 50 billion in funding inlemental order to aid victims of the storm. Its been a priority to get these dollars into communities quickly and responsibly as possible. Thats why we thought it was critical to include several the supplemental that facilitated more efficient spending of these dollars. I want to p
First. Port weve prioritized by income level and those who are the most damaged. That between 55 and 60 of all of these applicants group our First Priority and were focusing on them. Right now were actually have 8,000d we people who are going through insurance verification processes, tier two environmental assessments, and secretary donovans been very to streamlineing those processes to take advantage of the work the done. L government has at the homeowner and building level, the greatest remaining challenge for new yorkers is the affordability of Flood Insurance. Members of this committee is well aware of it. The city commissioned an independent study that shows that only 35 of Property Owners the floodplain who were required to have Flood Insurance it. Ally had premiums could go up for the new fema maps that are going to be o ing out from an average of 430 a year to 5,000 t to 10,000 a year. Encouraged by the legislation working its way through to delay until affordability can be add
About guns. Experts put about 12 factors related to Violent Crime everything or from environment, employment, drugs, density of population. So hypotheticals are tough. Though if we just look at current rates, the gun ownership, civilian gun ownership in this country is the highest its ever been. Almost 50 of households in this country have a gun in the home. So gun ownerships going like this. At the same time, as i said earlier, okay, i depress did i say i guess. Did i Say Something funny . Yeah. You said something blatantly false. False or funny . False. That ill ignore. And gun crime if you look at the fbi numbers have gone down 50 , as i said earlier. So gun ownership is on the rise and has been significantly, its the highest its ever been. Gun crime is at the lowest rates its been in 20 years. So its the opposite of what you asked before if less guns would equal less gun with crime, theres no reason to believe that is the case. All right. So a lot of these things are subject to dis
Get the edge amongst that party electorate, which in a very close election, can be really critical. Susan of the washington examiner, neil of roll call, thank you both for being with us on news makers for this sunday. Its interesting that we as a society have given our information out. We were looking in to cyber and Cyber Security and cyber war. The pentagon had declared cyberspace the environment of people and machines and networks, as a new domain of war. And yet, we realized that maybe one in a thousand people really understood what cyberspace was and the degree and depth of the vulnerabilities. And so what were trying to do in the zero day series is to take pieces of it and explain the fundamentals and the platoon i can idea is that p mr. Speaker atonic idea is everybody from my mom and dad and to people in the congress, everybody can understand and so maybe start the process of coming up with ways to defend cyberspace better. Cyberspace vulnerabilities, monday night at 8 00 p. M.
Thank you. For assistant secretary darcy, obviously long island is so important. People are very concerned about the time its taking for the stabilization projects within study to be started and to know when these emergency stabilization projects will be done. Give a quick update about where we are on that process . To n the fire island correct. We have begun doing some of wasemergency response which part of the rebuilding what was there. Reviewingcurrently the fire island to Montauk Point as i mentioned. But un anrized authorize but unconstructed project. We have to look at that time to make sure its in todays sea and Climate Change lens that were look through and building to the right dimensions. Were committed to doing some expedited review processes for projects. Se thank you very much, senator booker. Well probably have time for another round if theres available questions. I just want to say, again, this you for holding hearing. I have a lot of affection for you even though weve o