threshold. it s about $37 million before they can qualify for fema money. it s obvious they re going to equal fwi for that, but apparently not everyone is calling the 311 number. we want to let folks know that s something they should do, ashleigh. all right. dan simon, as i m watching your shot, i m also getting information, in my ear, i think the city of dallas public information officer, might be available to speak with us. can you hear me? yes, i can. so, i m watching these pictures live. it is the first time i ve seen them. we ve put them up, broadcasting them on cnn right now of what s happening in garland, texas, with the back sort of the backed up traffic at an underpass that s completely dell lunged. is this as a result of the flash flood warnings i was hearing about earlier this morning? this is happening in dallas and this is at route 12 and i-30 and it is, as you can see, an
got three more years left of him and i wish he was gone tomorrow and out of office because he has lied. too many promises. we re showing your home, which is still discheffed and not even remotely near abilitiable. i m curious in your case, diane narks where are you living now and what s your story? well, it was not just me. it was business that we opened that got 100% affected ask and we lost everything and my before s home is still off its foundation, untouched, for men oreasons we just mentioned. when it came to bringing the business back to life, we did it 100% on our open. there was no government help. there was no fema money. it s small business owners we can t afford to take loans. i had to say senator grimm came through with grantses to businesses businesses and we really appreciate their help. there s nothing that has come through for small businesses in the form of grants without
reporter: good day to you. obviously you know these parts pretty well. you know how strong these people. are they re pretty used to living with tornadoes. not so much dealing with this kind of storm damage. the governor assigning this emergency declaration bill into law that will free up about $45 million to flow into places like moore and other communities. just remember on sunday, the day before all of this around the shawnee area, there was a tornado, a killer tornado there that killed two people. so money will be flowing in there as well. fema money is starting to flow. about $1.5 million distributed. some 3,100 people have already registered and fema was out in some of the neighborhoods to meet with some people to try to make this a little easier process for them to get into the system to start to get that emergency aid going. the insurance commissioner, this is something that i m not sure it has gotten around town just yet. today says that anybody who had insurance that was clo
today. what s your take on that? unfortunately the school were built in the 1960s. they were older schools in the area. we have replaced many of the schools, the new schools are being built with safe rooms and that s a good thing to do. we certainly want to encourage. that it is a discussion that we need to have and we will have over the summer once we get past this initial recovery stage and get this community back on its feet. we have put $57 million into safe rooms in our state. personal homes and communities, schools themselves. through fema money. through also state money. and that has gone a long way to help put more safe room in. no call or the force all school in oklahoma to install these safe rooms. right now we re in the recovery stage. we want to have that discussion. i think it is wise to do that. the decision of having a safe room is up to the local community who works through school boards who pass bond issues to build schools. reporter: how would you
we ll go inside. i would like you to meet the woman who has made all of this possible. donna, you have for 80 days now, volunteered, spent every day making this tent city possible. what would happen if it wasn t here? these people would have in way of eating. they would freeze. they have no, they actually call this their comfort zone, kind of a place to get away from every day of seeing no walls and dealing with the mold and the cold. reporter: you provide heat. you provide three meals a day and you provide hope? yes. reporter: how much longer do you think this facility will be needed? it looks like it will be a long process. i mean these people aren t getting insurance, fema money to rebuild. and it s a shame that is taking so long. reporter: thanks so much for speaking with us. as bad as it is now, bill, there is a report that it will not only stay cold the next 48 hours, there is word snow is on the way.