Announcer washington journal continues. President mike pence on your screen and now, a live shot of him making his way off the helicopter for the vice president. He will be traveling to the hurricane area with his wife to view the damage from the Tropical Storm down in that area. Members of met by the president s cabinet including the energy secretary, rick perry, who was also there at the airport. Transportation secretary also as well as others. He is making his way down to the area impacted by the hurricane and Tropical Storm harvey. Washington journal this morning, we will be talking about the impact of that with Michael Brown, the former fema director who served from 20032005. He is joining us from denver to talk about Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina. I would like to begin with your reaction to the price tagged that has been put out for Hurricane Harvey. 160 billion, much more money than was spent in response to and recovery for Hurricane Katrina. Michael yes, that number do
Ourl then, more of conversation on this mornings washington journal with Michael Brown. It is because officials have asked him for that. In the Disaster Relief chain of governors, police chiefs, and other local authorities have run the show in recent years. Fema and the military standby to provide every single disaster, whether it is 9 11, whether it was the alfred p morrow bombing whether it wasy, the hurricanes in 2004, or Hurricane Katrina or Tropical Storm harvey, every action begins and ends at the local level. In katrina, i sat down with governor barbour , the conversation would go like this. We are here to help. Tell us what you need. Tell us what you think you can handle. Tell us what you do not think you can handle. The thing you do not think you can handle, that is our job as the federal government, to get you those resources. Back to the point that every disaster begins and ends at the local level. You have to have strong leadership at local and state government. I always ch
And as the environmental policy director for citizen action. Her previous book, the battle over the future of food and farming in america, was originally published in 2012 and has now been released in paperback, unveiled the corporate control of food in the united states. Her latest book, frackopoly, reports on the history of hydraulic fracturing, arguing that the rush to fracking is dangerous to the environment and human health. Environmentalist and author bill mckibbon praises frackopoly as a truly powerful manifesto about one of the greatest environmental fights on our planet today. And the Huffington Post calls it a comprehensive history of fracking in america. Its well written, timely and very important. Were very pleased to bring the conversation to Harvard Bookstore tonight. Please join me in welcoming wenonah hauter. [applause] and thank you to Harvard Bookstore and all of you for coming this evening. So in the mid 1990s, i worked on a Renewable Energy project called powering t
Off with us here on abc. We are glad you are with us. We will get to all of the top stories in just a moment. Lets check in with bill logan, a lot to talk about with rain. I have an update for you [ indiscernible ] the wind is picking up and the rain is getting stronger. Ocean city maryland up to ocean city new jersey and up into new england is going to be a mess thi so long to move from our area and finally get onshore has really scooted up the east coast. We still have some lingering rain here. As a matter fact we are seeing some pretty good storms around tarpon springs. Pretty much from Clearwater Beach up through palm harbor right along the coast any go up us 19 you can see some pretty good cells, hernando beach, brooksville and falsity starting to see some of the rain come down. All of this is moving off to the east. Again it is 10 wheeling through that last little band or feeder band that stretches all the way up to where hermine is now. You can see those bands of rain that come
On the mediterranean island nation of cyprus. That is where an airliner was forced to land after a man highjacked the plane. Welcome to your world this morning most of the 55 passengers on board have been released, but the hijacker and several others are still on board. Flight 181 was en route to cairo, and then diverted to cyprus. The incident is not terrorism related, it is personal. Our correspondent is in greece with the latest. Reporter we heard the egyptian minister not really divulge of information. He said 55 passengers were on board. He said seven people are still in that plane, four of them crew members, the pilot, copilot, stewardess, air marshall. We refused to disclose the identity of the hijacker earlier today. There were reports that the man behind the hijacking is an egyptian national. The egyptian minister refused to confirm if it is him. There are reports circulating that the man could be another. A lot of misinformation. The biggest question that the egyptian authori