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bad? if the president, trying to get on the front end of this as well. he put out a tweet today saying i ve put out an emergency disaster declaration to provide hawaii with our teams, closely closely tell people from fema have come in so far to help coordinate if necessary. the good news, we are getting bits and pieces of it from a local forecasters here. every 5 minutes or so, updating it. the storm is so big, the wind is helping. they don t believe that the wind will be a big issue as well. the hope that the probability of high winds are getting lower and lower. but the rain total still is a worry for every single island along this chain. again, the big island in one place has got 16 inches of rain. we are not sure if we are going to get that here in maui, or the others, but there is potential for that, neil. we are all prepared for it and see what the rain brings. neil: adam in hawaii.
give me your evaluation of how the white house and fema have responded to harvey and how they have supported your state and others in the preparations for irma. i think they have done well. i think the president has had the right balance just in terms of his going without creating any kind of distractions from the you know, from the recovery efforts. fema has done its job. fema has gotten under craig fugates leadership who was our emergency response director i think has built up really good capabilities. ultimately though this is a bottom up process. you have to have the city of houston and other cities and the city of miami and the county here in the states have to be well resourced, well trained and coordinate and then washington looks pretty good. if the city isn t working well or the county and the state s not working well, no amount of activities by washington s going
to flee. my colleagues at fema have provided a fire grid to provide additional resources. and police gave an update on the attack at ohio state university. the suspect may have been inspired by isis, the fbi says. he may have been inspired by anwar al awlaki or isis or isil. it s too soon to draw any type of conclusions. isis has claimed responsibility for this attack but u.s. officials say there s no established contact between the suspects and terror groups. three of the injured are still hospitalized during that incident. joining me is pete williams and stephanie gosk.
41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i ll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we ll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there s talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we re looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? we don t need to be worried at this point in time. although, this may be the nicest tropical storm, i hope, that we ever see ever. you consider what we just showed you, all the pictures in oklahoma, that s really, other than the fire, that s what all of texas looks like. completely tinder ground. if we can get a 40 miles per hour storm over the gulf of mexico and run into louisiana and texas and spread ra