We will call the hearing to order today we are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency to discuss the Response Recovery to hurricane harvey, irma and maria and the wildfires spread across california. Thank you for being here to join us. The magnitude of the disaster we are experiencing this year is unprecedented. I want to thank you and the thousands of personnel who deployed and continue to work tirelessly to help the communities and families get back on their feet in the wake of every instance of the devastating events. Congress has passed to emergency supplementals that are providing an additional 26 public and to ensure the ability to respond to the aftermath of disasters. Now its time to shift focus is from response to recovery and while some of these efforts are already underway there is a long road ahead. Please before i get to you i want to introduce the ranking member. Welcome mr. Administrator to your first appearance before the subcommittee. Th
Welcome back to the hilltop, welcome back to smu to dallas hall and also a fun program that is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i wan
Bloody trail of civilians which may amount to war crimes. Srilanka waits on official results from the country election. I have all the day sport including spanish football giant barcelona is 51 as they win their first title in three decades. The worst ever attack on thailand, that is how the countrys Prime Minister described the blast at the shrine in the capitol bangkok which killed at least 20 people. Police have released cctv footage of a man they say could be the bomber and pictured at the scene just minutes before the explosion. And in a moment we will be crossing live to wayne hay in bangkok where the situation remains tense and first lets hear from the Prime Minister. Translator in our country there are individuals or groups of individuals who are seeking to destroy the country. The ongoing attempt of destruction might be politically motivated targeting the economy, tourism or whatever reason and we will work to find the perpetrators and bring justice on networks involved as soo
Is critical but very comfortable. Anny hong is required to be out and about running errands this morning are getting the morning jog and is one to be very comfortable low seven is expected by lunchtime and then will go for high of 74 will get a 4 00 p. M. A very mild and very pleasant was a very short and t shirt for a lot of you sunny conditions today look for western breeze 5 to 10 mi. Per hour. Anny hong low 60s and San Francisco 59 novato and also or 54 our friends and their frill fairfield. Anny hong nothing to extremis seven is in a couple low eighties for our inland spots. Marty gonzales of man who was able to impersonate a Police Officer it was after a row of the to the and bass were stolen from the inside of his car and happen friday morning at the point is a regional shoreline in richmond it is unclear the officer was on all do it when this happened official have not identified the of a sudden roar which agency also was working for investigators say the gun was loaded when it
Most of puerto rico still without power and Communication Systems in the wake of Hurricane Maria. This morning chilling new images of the destruction. Dramatic new rescues and what maria has in store for the entire west coast. Those stories, plus, Marc Zuckerberg caving to congress in the russian investigation. Prince harry and Meghan Markel about to make a debut . And fergie on our plaza, today, friday, september 22nd, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So nice to have you with us on a friday morning. Weve got craig here. And a great concert outside to look forward to. Looking forward to fergie. We have breaking news this morning. Were going to start with hope amid the rubble in mexico city. Earthquake survivors are still being found. We want to get right to nbcs miguel almaguer. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. This is t