administration is the appointment of craig fugate as fema administrator. he cut the red tape and the money has finally started flowing and now this. so were it not for the fact fema suddenly discovered they have $1 million to tide them through friday and this is all going to go away and nothing to see her, i think people would be kind of looking we of course have moved on to other disasters. especially this year s disasters and media coverage and all that. but the aftermath of katrina is by no means complete nor has the disaster relief effort been complete. oh, god, no. a lot of the fema money was for infrastructure, uh-oh, there s that terrible word, that was destroyed by the flood. the sewers, the water systems. really disastrously effected. fema money was mainly going to relieve that. that has just really started at this point. where do you see the president going in his re-election campaign? you saw the thing about the
administration is the appointment of craig fugate as fema administrator. he cut the red tape and the money has finally started flowing and now this. so were it not for the fact fema suddenly discovered they have $1 million to tide them through friday and this is all going to go away and nothing to see her, i think people would be kind of looking we of course have moved on to other disasters. especially this year s disasters and media coverage and all that. but the aftermath of katrina is by no means complete nor has the disaster relief effort been complete. oh, god, no. a lot of the fema money was for infrastructure, uh-oh, there s that terrible word, that was destroyed by the flood. the sewers, the water systems. really disastrously effected. fema money was mainly going to relieve that. that has just really started at this point. where do you see the president going in his re-election campaign? you saw the thing about the
get off i-35 now because you won t be able to see this tornado. and this thing just keeps growing and growing. it s just pulling everything in. reporter: left behind, a path of destruction. and homes flattened right down to their concrete slabs. that s their house. it s just gone. wait a little bit until you quit seeing ambulances. a frantic search for survivors. emergency workers quickly found a mother and two of her three children. we suspect they were in the bathtub. this morning, the 15-month-old child died while the search continued for the missing 3-year-old. in arkansas, three were killed. and another tornado whipped through central kansas. the violent storm uprooted and blew an enormous tree over on to a van killing the two people inside. just amazing images. our thanks to weather channel s jim cantore for that report. controversy over funding the disaster relief effort in joplin, missouri, has not died down. democrats in the house and senate criticized house re
our thanks to weather channel s jim cantore for that report. controversy over funding the disaster relief effort in joplin, missouri, has not died down. democrats in the house and senate criticized house republican leader eric cantor for insisting that any federal aid to joplin be offset with spending cuts. let s bring in democratic congresswoman barbara lee representing california s ninth district. congresswoman, good evening. nice to have you on. good evening. i m glad to be with you, thomas. you were on the house appropriations committee have which approved the money for joplin after making cuts yesterday. how did the committee decide what to cut and i also want to get your opinion about how you feel about that process. first, let me just say that my thoughts and prayers go out to the families and the victims in the communities who have just been really traumatized by these terrible, terrible natural disasters and it is just such a horrible time. and as a member of the appro
help. people donating gieds goods people wanting to know what they can do to try to rebuild lives up. what kind of obstacles are you trying to work around? any time you have a disaster of this size like i mentioned, we have so many counties, so many people in need. we are still having to take this process one step at a time. with that, that is a challenge. oftentimes you have a disaster you may have one county, maybe two counties or you may have the northern half or southern half of the state, but with this particular one, we have such a widespread array of disaster relief effort to take place or undergo. that is a challenge making sure that we take our process one step at a time. we are asking people to be patient with us. we are working 24 hours a day trying to do everything we can to assist as many people as we can. we look at these pictures and it just breaks our heart for the