Administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency, thek long, here to discuss Response Recovery to hurricanes maria, as wellnd as the wildfires that spread across california. Congress has passed two emergency supplemental, which have provided an additional 46 billion to ensure femas ability to respond to the aftermath of such disasters. While some of these efforts are already underway, there is still a very long road ahead. We look forward to hearing from you on how this third supplemental request will enable the communities to start down the path, the long path of longterm recovery. , i long, before i get to you want to introduce my ranking member, who is a good friend. Chairman and mr. Good morning, mr. Administrator and welcome to your first appearance before the subcommittee. I wish it were not prompted by the administrator, would prompt the third supplemental funding request in the last few months. But we are nevertheless a good to spend a some time with you to get your per
Outlines the Disaster Relief funding request. He testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee. We will call this hearing to order. We are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency, mr. Brock long, here to discuss the Response Recovery to hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria, as well as the wildfires that spread across california. Thank you very much for being here and joining us. I want to thank you and the thousands of fema personnel who have deployed and continue to work tirelessly to help communities and families get back on their feet in the wake of devastating events. Congress has passed two y supplementals which have provided an additional 46 billion to ensure femas ability to respond to the aftermath of such disasters. While some of these efforts are already underway, there is still a very long road ahead. Today, we look forward to hearing from you on how this third supplemental request will enable the communities to start down the path, the
Coming down in some locations. Well take a look at when you can expect the cooler trend to stick around. Thats all in a couple minutes. Thanks. Developing first at 4 00 a local man featured on the popular mtv show catfish is accused of making terror threats against metro. Now he is in a d. C. Jail facing some serious charges. And wentdy . Better known as kid cole. He appeared on catfish last year posing as a rapper to allegedly scam a fan online. Metro transit officers arrested him this morning and he is accused of making threats against stations buses, trains for the past five months. All of those threats turned out to be false but some had some big impacts. January he called 911 calling people from france saying he planted bombs around the potomac metro station. The station had to be shut down and was swept for bombs. Two days later, police say he called again, threatening to take hostages on a metrobus. Kill them if he wasnt paid a 15 million ransom. And according to police in his m