Discusses the administrations move to hold families indefinitely. Take your we will calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host reports indicate the u. S. Is very close to a deal with the taliban to withdrawal american troops from afghanistan. Ending our 18year military presence there and fulfilling a key 2016 Campaign Promise of president donald trump. Good morning, welcome to washington journal for this wednesday, september 4, 2019. Well start the program asking about that and heres how we are going to separate the lines. If you are an Afghanistan War veteran that line is 2027488000. And for all others, please use 2027488001. Everyone welcome to post your thoughts on facebook, facebook. Com slash cspan and a tweet cspanwj. The news that came out yesterday could be affected by reports of further violence by the taliban. This is an a. P. Report posted online at Washington Times. Com. Afghan government raises new concerns abo
Story got a lot of debate over is not whether we should spend money on Disaster Response, it is who should spend the money. Should it be the federal government or the states taking care of it . The argument is if it is the more is responsible for and more Disaster Response, they will take steps to reduce the potential damage from disasters. Talk aboutrock long stronger building close and better land use. States can do that kind of thing and they can say, we have this area just keeps getting destroyed by hurricanes and we are just not wanted not going to allow development anymore or stronger building codes, so peoples houses do not get destroyed. That is the argument for putting states more in control of Disaster Responses so they can affect the actual cost of disaster recovery, like taking this mitigation and prevention steps. Host there is likely to be a request coming after hurricane after thesome sort hurricane occurs, and i wanted to point out an article in the florida phoenix. The
Security. He is here to talk about disasters. Dorian has been a slow motion case study of a hurricane and government response to that hurricane. Keeping in mind the horrible devastation it has done in the bahamas so far, what are the initial early lessons we are learning of the government response to it . Great problemshe for Emergency Managers in these situations is getting people evacuated. Socalled mandatory evacuations, voluntary evacuations. One of the biggest problems this has been such a slow moving hurricane that it has been on the radar screen for over a week now, and there may be some emergency fatigue, that is to say people have, for example in florida when they thought it was nowg to hit first and it will hit the east coast, people have been sheltered for a week and are getting antsy. Citizenshe response by to the evacuation orders has been very good, but i think the Emergency Managers are starting to worry that just when it is about to hit the us coast, there may be people
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Was reluctant at 1st saying bolivia had the resources to handle the emergency but he has since changed his mind. I welcome the support of the president s of parg white she lay in spain we welcome any cooperation since wednesday we began managing our response the Development Bank of latin america says it will donate about half a 1000000 dollars. In the region of cheeky tonia families including mothers carrying their children evacuate their Village Holding the flame School Spirit their homes they packed a few bags knowing everything may burn to the ground but wherever the fires are moving toward the community this is a risk theyre facing especially children and women who cant run when the fire gets too close. To wildfires have led to protests critics say bolivias government was slow to respond the governments policies they say have contributed to the problem illegal deforestation is on the rise and fires are commonly said by farmers to clear land for cattle and crops just like that of wh