county. dan, if you could just explain the situation with the shelters in collier county. how many people, if you know, are already in shelters or is there still room at some shelters? there is still room, anderson, in a couple of our shelters right now. the flow to the shelters has really come down to a trickle, and that s not something we have expected throughout the day. so we have about 17,000 people in shelters, about 300 in special needs shelter and we do have some space at several locations. a lot of these shelters came open as sort of ad hoc, very quickly. the community our collier county district schools went above and beyond to open additional locations. and then obviously a lot of people got there right at the same time as our staff did, but the community came together. the district schools, the county government employees and our response agencies and everybody
get out of their homes tonight they would be spending the night inside their homes at some point. one of the guys who volunteered here, ed lavandera. dan buck. you re a lifeguard down in galveston. yes, sir. you were making your way through there today. yes, sir, we had four units going through on jet skis. we were given addresses by response agencies. we would go check on them and make sure everyone was out of the houses. e we would bring them to dry land and meet up with a boat to take them to safety. you were getting specific addresses. that s been interesting because on social media and other channels people were concerned about i have my aunt or uncle. what did you find when you got to the addresses? a lot of people had left already, but we were using social media was a tool, which we are using to collect
and he wanted to talk to local officials in the affected area to find out what they were thinking and he wanted to communicate with them directly. i have to tell you, he s called multiple times a day just into this state, just to find out what s going on in new york. fema, his response agency, has been fantastic. the whole cabinet has really been deployed. so i think he s done this very well. i worked in the clinton administration. i was the hud secretary. hud is one of response agencies. i know what the federal government traditionally does. they re doing an outstanding job in my opinion. what s the top of the priority state for this state in terms of recovery and repair? we have two different types of situation if you will. the situation you re talking about is basically in manhattan. then you have it out of manhattan within the downstate metropolitan area situation. in manhattan, manhattan, as you know, has that elaborate
joining us now is the governor of new york state, andrew cuomo. governor cuomo, thank you very much for taking the time to join us tonight. i know it s a sacrifice for you. no, it s my pleasure to be with you. i understand you just got off the phone with president obama. can i ask what you two are discussing and how the coordination is going? i ll give you three guesses, rachel. he wanted an update on the storm and he wanted to talk to local officials in the affected area to find out what they were thinking and he wanted to communicate with them directly. i have to tell you, he s called multiple times a day just into this state, just to find out what s going on in new york. fema, his response agency, has been fantastic. the whole cabinet has really been deployed. so i think he s done this very well. i worked in the clinton administration. i was the hud secretary. hud is one of response agencies. i know what the federal government traditionally does. they re doing an outstanding j
is the new normal. joining us now is the governor of new york state, andrew cuomo. governor cuomo, thank you very much for taking the time to join us tonight. i know it s a sacrifice for you. no, it s my pleasure to be with you. i understand you just got off the phone with president obama. can i ask what you two are discussing and how the coordination is going? i ll give you three guesses, rachel. he wanted an update on the storm and he wanted to talk to local officials in the affected area to find out what they were thinking and he wanted to communicate with them directly. i have to tell you, he s called multiple times a day just into this state, just to find out what s going on in new york. fema, his response agency, has been fantastic. the whole cabinet has really been deployed. so i think he s done this very well. i worked in the clinton administration. i was the hud secretary. hud is one of response agencies. i know what the federal government traditionally does. they re doi