fost foster. they need the help. the county needs the room for the displaced animals and that would be a big help. all right. give it to us. how can people help? where can they go online? l.a.county animals.org. you can specify noah s legacy and the county has two disaster relief centers. we appreciate so much what you re doing. thank you so much. thank you. you can go online to giving tuesday as well. you can learn about how you can contribute your time and efforts to all the needy organizations in the community and make a difference. if you d like to help victims of the wildfires you can donate to the red cross by going to their website.
and now he worry for teverythin. it s hard. it certainly is. joining me now orlando mayor buddy dyer. mayor dyer, already in the last ten years, we saw half a million puerto ricans move out of puerto rico, many, many already to orlando. and now here you are with another influx and it s only getting bigger. what resources do you have available right now to take in these evacuees? i m thinking your hospitals, your schools. well, one of the things we did, we knew we would be a natural recipient of people leaving puerto rico at this point. we have close to half a million puerto ricans that live here in central florida. so a lot of them have family members that are coming to orlando. so one of the things that we have done, the governor of the state has pledged our support in helping any evacuees. he s declared a state of emergency in all 67 counties. and we ve set up three different disaster relief centers.
here. fema is a big joke. this whole victory tour that president obama took a couple of days ago was exaggerated. 2.7 million customers were without power after the storm and now it is less than a million customers, a big improvement but not to the less than million customers who do not have power. neil: fema even closed disaster relief centers in new york because of bad weather. this time, hung up at a center in stalin island infuriating victims who say they are hung out to dry. storm victims are looking to fema for answers but they are not getting answers. we have yet to get a number for the people and that is what the previous question was about, how many people are we talking about you have settled in various housing? i will have to get you that. i don t have that in front of me. my experience is there must be a lot of miscommunication
s down. and people have lived there not thinking there would be any dda. where are the homeless of staten island now? right now the city had disaster relief centers and areas where they put the folks who were homeless. we had temporary housing in areas that were fit for families and fit for people who host their houses and we are trying to work with fema to get these folks permanent housing as they get their lives back. some of them they get them, shortly after the hurricane, i knew that. as soon as i saw what was happening there. the island is so big, there were parts where there was no damage
and people have lived there not thinking there would be danger. where are the homeless of staten island now? right now the city had disaster relief centers and areas where they put the folks who were homeless. we had temporary housing in areas that were fit for families and fit for people who host their houses and we are trying to work with fema to get these folks permanent housing as they get their lives back. some of them they get them, shortly after the hurricane, i knew that. as soon as i saw what was happening there. the island is so big, there were parts where there was no damage at all and those people were driving down to help out unloading stuff.