In as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, philip gordon. He is a senior fellow at the u. S. Foreign policy here at cfr. For joining the council fill a special assistant to the president and white house coordinator for the middle east, north africa in the gulf region under president obama. He previously served the assistant secretary of state for european affairs. He is responsible for the relations of more than 50 countries in europe and eurasia along with nato, eu, and the organization for security and cooperation in europe. Phil has also had a distinguished scholarly career having written and coauthored numerous books on u. S. Policy and foreign affairs. Today we are here to recognize his newest book, losing the long game, the false promise of regine change in the middle east. Former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers hails it as an examination of u. S. Regime change efforts in the middle east. The journalist robin whit
To be overnight. Timing is key. Today is similar to yesterday, minus the shower threat well see clouds and sun fairly comfortable temperatures looking like a nice day. 49 in quakertown and pottstown. 55 in warminster. 58 in malvern. Center city, 62. A lot of upper 50s and low 60s to the southeast. Woodbine, 60. 58 in dover, 59 in fortescue, browns mill, 53. There were the showers over the delaware bay region they hit around 3 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. Now were seeing a combination of sun and clouds as you can see not much is going on. Today is a nice day. It will be fairly dry im not expecting much in the way of precipitation this afternoon. Its overnight tonight the clouds rain move in. Its pleasant, 67 degrees. Ill track the rain on future tracker 6 and have the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast for memorial day. Take the 6abc app with you this Holiday Weekend. Take a look at Traffic Cameras and Road Conditions and take a look at Storm Tracker 6 live radar right there on your phone
Screen. Sandy should make landfall in southern new jersey; but the impact will be felt for miles and the worst is yet to come. At last check, the storm center was within 50 miles of the city. City. It is forming a powerful super storm like weve never seen before. For the latest lets turn to sue in the weather center. Sue, i understand this storm about to make landfall near atlanta city. Yeah. Going to be real close. We just got the update from the National Hurricane center. Its 0 miles to the south of atlanta city, 30 miles from cape may. So you can do the math. Still moving to the north, northwest at 20 Miles Per Hour. It will be ashore probably between 6 and 6 30 somewhere in south jersey. Maybe the delaware bay gets clipped. An amazing forecast. The big change is that it sped up a little bit more than we thought. Right. Its probably making landfall three hours faster faster. We were thinking right there at it will wear bay. And its still got that incredible recordsetting low pressur
In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is tied to actual disaster damage and is for individuals, governmental entities or certain nonprofits performing governmentlike functions. Fema only spends money on eligible items for eligible applicants, no matter how much money fema receives. Fema mitigation funds must be used on cost and official projects to ensure the federal investment is a wise one. Fema makes every effort to get money in the hands of applicants as fast as possible to enable rapid recovery from disaster impacts. From the sandy
The 114th congress, i stated that my top Emergency Management priority was pursuing life saving and cost reducing disaster legislation and launching a Public Policy debate about the costs of disasters in terms of both the loss of property and human life. We follow that hearing with several round tables to help us understand what disasters cost this country, who pays those costs and whether the problem is Getting Better or worse. Early last year, Ranking Member carson and i introduced the fema format to call for the First Comprehensive assessment of disaster cost and losses in over 20 years. We also wanted to reform several Disaster Assistance programs to make them more efficient. If february, the house passed the fema legislation and we hope the senate will take up hr1471 and pass it soon. The purpose of todays hearing is to discuss what we have learned so far and begin exploring potential solutions, particularly the principals that should be driving those solutions. While there are si