but this social fabric bears the brunt. absolutely and your neighbors are are your first responders kwl they know who you are and how to reach you is going to determine not only how quickly you recover but whether or not you survive. the library often become as focal point. you know today the lead story of the website when i checked a few minutes ago is a $7.1 million invesment in a library may say why are we still investing in libraries. well, they re a core part off the social einfrastructure and as we think about rebuilding, libraries and other infrastructure could be part of it. we have seen in previous hurricanes, including maria, harvey and sandy where i was
biggest threat from a life-saving standpoint. right now, fema says its focusing on positioning commodities like water and cots and tarps to get to those areas once the storm passes. they also say their fema staff is already communicating with states to make sure that they have an accurate read on what the needs will be so that they can respond appropriately. here is more from fema earlier this morning at their first briefing. take a listen. so this is not going to be a storm that we recover from in days. it will take us a good amount of time to do the full recovery. however, we are focused on those critical missions that we have to perform immediately following the storm. opening the roads, performing life-saving missions in support of our state and local partners. okay, you remember fema was criticized last year over its response it how it handled the three hurricanes, including
a year after devastating disasters and hurricanes maria and harvey and irma and wildfires in california, puerto ricans are still trying to keep the power on, texans and floridians and californias are still rebuilding and now the epa is marking a year since these disasters, by making themselves commemorative coins. cnn s sarah gannon has more. reporter: cnn has learned this is what commemorative coins commissioned by the epa will look like. congratulations to employees on the response to the 2017 hurricanes. including maria and harvey. congratulations and celebration for a response to deadly disasters. thousands are estimated to have died in puerto rico and texas and the response according to environmental and advocacy groups was far from excellent. the epa response to its drinking water disaster is an unmitigated failure and i think
years later, kary stepped aside and then cuomo entered the race for governor and won. it s a position he held for 12 years, winning two more terms by emphasizing lower taxes, balanced budgets, public education and affirmative action. in 1993, he passed up the chance to be appointed to the supreme court, choosing instead to run for a fourth term as governor. it would have been wonderful to be a supreme court justice in many ways. it was more important to me to try to run and win again. i thought i could serve better as governor than a supreme court justice. reporter: cuomo lost the race to george pataki and later said after 12 years, voters were just ready for a change. the con stance in his life were faith and family. cuomo was catholic and married over six decades to love of his life, ma till da. the couple raised five children, including maria, the wife of fashion designer kenneth cole,
he told maria shriver, for some reason he told her. i m curious, was he worried that mildred resurfaced and said i m going to tell your wife or some newspaper article. something had to have happened last january. great point. i m not sure what happened between them. you are right tell maria a while ago. it is very interesting that s how it happen. all i know is that one of the reasons that arnold decided to say it was true because he felt pressure from the media that the story could be out there. i don t know whether anyone had an inkling it was happening. i know talks were happening. i don t know, i get the feeling that no one in arnold s life knew about this, including maria, which is unbelievable you could keep a secret like this for that long. greta: governor schwarzenegger has blown up his marriage, hurt his children beyond ward words and