$60 billion package. vote content two days from now for $9 billion. which is what theyed need to do immediate relief. fine. which will pass easily in both bodies. get speaker boehner credit for saving $51 billion. at least for now. there will be further appropriations but they may never get close to $60 billion. 20 years ago hurricane andrew hit in 92, severe in florida. went back to look up what the emergency bill to pay for that was. $7 billion. maybe sandy is ten times worse than hurricane andrew. i don t know. someone should take a close look at the money before they throw it out. to your point, give boehner credit. to hear anybody today on both sides of the aisle, they were slamming him. his name was mud on sound bites. how will it turn out? i am pro speaker boehner. he did take my call. they told him christie is on the other line, i m talking to bill kristol.
storms on record and so big it is going to swallow the state from coast-to-coast. now, consider this, it dwarfs what was previously the state s worst storm. hurricane andrew hit in 92. right now, irma is hitting cuba. this is what happened to the r turks and caicos. we have the direct hit that came to barbuda where every building has been damaged or destroyed. that s what the prime minister said. widespread damage. one woman describes the terrifying experience they lived through. the winds, i can t begin to tell you the zinging. that sound. it was just all encompassing. it really became, at one point, a question of whether we would live to see through it.