concern is medical and veterinary. the challenge we have in the long term are individuals who suffer from these suffer from not being able to get the medical care they need when the sun comes out. so trying to make certain that we ve got pharmacies staffed, make sure the dialysis units are up, making sure folks are getting electricity to their homes so oxygen consequence trar consequence trar concentraters are up. we ve got four medical federal stations, two that are up and running. and two the way and we ve got another four or five that are stationed depending on what folks need. thank you very much. thank you, tom. linda? well, sba has its disaster relief office in the dallas-ft.
linda? well, spa has its main disaster relief office in the dallas-ft. worth area. 900 people there permanently. 600 people in the surge. they re already coming in. i actually did get a note on the plane from corpus that we have made the first home loan approval from this disaster. so i was glad that we re already up and running. we will be making home loans, business loans. we ll be making loans for those folks who have lost income, and also the opportunity to replace plant, property and equipment and inventories. so we re up, ready to go. thank you very much. and ben carson from hud. well, thank you, mr. president. thank you for your leadership, and mrs. hersly, also. compassion permeates everything that s been done. it s been great working with everybody. and governor, one of the people i admire the most. thank you for what you ve been
matt rinaldi, who is a republican from the dallas-ft. worth area. he said in a statement that representative ramone area meira, one of the other lawmakers physically assaulted me and that other democrats were held back by colleagues. during that exchange, poncho, the man you just heard from, told me that he would get me on the way to my car. he later approached me and reiterated that i had to leave at some point or he would get me. i made it clear that if he f he attempted to get me, i would shoot him in self-defense. so, in response to that statement, poncho called that rinaldi a liar. so, things incredibly heated yesterday on the last day of the legislature here in texas. john and poppy? it s pretty remarkable, lawmakers representing the american people, and it dissolves into this. ed lavandera, thank you for the reporting. it is important to note this is not the first time we ve seen a political grudge match escalate. in just the last week, a soon-to-be congressman body slamme
18 million more people at risk from kansas city down to the dallas-ft. worth area. we continue a very active week of severe storms. by far, today is the most dangerous. how about the heat pumping up the east coast. yesterday was hot. today it will be even hotter. 97 in tampa, should break your record. richmond near record highs at 92. up and down the i-95 corridor, boston, new york, philly, d.c. all expecting a high temperature today of 93 degrees which would break the record in central park. logan airport should break their record high. close in philly, d.c. probably a little shorted of that. we crash back towards spring this weekend. boston in the 60s, d.c. dropping into the 70s. today is the peak of our heat wave, our mini may heat wave. how about this? colorado, idaho, montana, this is what it looks like in bozeman, montana. denver, you re under a winter storm watch. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back.
this afternoon, 9 million people at risk. today s bullseye is going the center over iowa for des moines, aims, quad cities, eventually towards green bay and milwaukee. the tornado threat the greatest over iowa. tomorrow we do it all over again. this is going to be a classic outbreak, moderate risk already. this is going to be kansas, oklahoma and texas, including the dallas-ft. worth area, 26 million people at risk. this looks like one of our more serious tornado days where not only we get tornadoes, but the very strong tornadoes out there. the last thing, our mini heat wave begins in our nation s capital. 93 today and tomorrow new york city jumps into the 90s including our friends in boston. mika, the story today is the dangerous tornadoes yesterday and we ll do it again the next two afternoons. bill, thank you. still ahead on morning joe, congressman adam schiff and jim himes and senator angus king will be our guests.