president s high priority and something he wanted to do himself. we expect to get more and more specifics as the day unfolds. craig? kelly o donnell there for us from the white house, thank you. tremendously big. as the washington post puts it, the president reaches for super latives in the face of calamity. i have the reporter that wrote the piece about the response to this looming storm standing by. also, are we ready? are we really ready? fema laying out the plan to deal with florence that the experts call a storm of a lifetime. we ll keep an eye on the carolina coast. a live look at nags head, north carolina. right there. we re also going to go to south carolina, as well. south carolina bracing for this storm. i ll talk to a former governor coming up in a few minutes. this is msnbc. george woke up in pain.
people took offense to that scene, robert. you know, alex, i don t even know where to begin. first of all, just the tone of that e-mail in terms of the crowds and the roears and the cheers, that s number one. number two, we re talking about the president of the united states defending himself against throwing towels out like he s some king and throwing out money to the paupers. let s just go back to normalcy. you would think he d talk about how he saw the devastation, how he s doubling down on fema, how he s working with the governor and talking about rebuilding puerto rico. you would think he would talk about how we get more resources into that island and he would also remind every single american that these are our fellow americans and we have to do everything that we can to help them. here we are responding to paper towels. yeah. go figure. so adrienne is it possible that he was just feeding off the
going to die. this is not the time for that. and if the president actually cared about it, he would step on the golf course that he is going to be on this weekend and actually fully put pressure down on fema, department of homeland security, as well as dod to make sure that all the assets are necessary and on the island to stabilize the island. this is getting bad. people are running out of insulin. there s no running water on many parts of the island. there are still isolated villages. this is an island that is only two hours away from most of the mainland united states. these are 3.5 million american citizens that we have abandoned. we should be ashamed of ourselves. this is absolutely not acceptable. it is pretty staggering that you re looking at nine days after a storm, which you had days of lead time to realize could be catastrophic. you re finally getting a sat phone to a mayor. i mean it sort of defies belief here. when you hear i had better go on. i had better suppo
florida, with the private sector. we are bringing in commodities to the shelters right now. we want people to register to assistance on fema and disaster assistance. we want to know where you are, what s going on with your family. we want to provide you with assistance. we have a variety of assistance that we can provide you from rental assistance, repair for your house. we have sheltering assistance which is basically taking you out of that particular shelter and putting new a hotel. so we have a strategy that is comprehensive and designated specifically for the family. so we want to have everyone go to the web and. martha: register that s the first step. and register. martha: have you 94,000 people in shelters. as you point out, they are going need hotels and temporary housing to go to after that. tito hernandez, thank you very much. thanks for being here tonight, sir. thank you for having us. martha: you bet. good luck to you.
at disaster assistance.gov. disaster assistance.gov. register, get in line. we have already had hundreds of thousands of people register with fema. and already begin to get reimbursement. so this is happening very fast. brian: governor can i ask you one quick question. if you are a homeowner and want to get started on fixing your home and getting it, can you do that without messing up any type of insurance claims? well, you got to be careful because there are complications if you start taking down parts of your house and removing parts of your property, it may reduce your claims. know. this there are claims adjustors who are waiting for the floodwaters to recede and get in there as quickly as possible. they will adjust those claims so they will be able to evaluate how much the homeowners are entitled to receive. pete: governor, the president was there yesterday. we saw the vice president there literally pug out branches, getting his hands