know, that he used to attack this church. the fbi would naturally send people to a case like this. you can t, you can t draw anything, you know, from that at this point in time unless there is an announcement that the fbi has taken over the investigation. that would be a whole different, a whole different ball game if that happened. but right now it s still very much in response phase, and i think what you re one of the things that you have to remember, when you get 40 or 50 miles outside of a major, major city and you re in a rural location like this, you ve got, you know, you get one or two police officers that respond to this scene, sometimes their backup is 15 or 20 minutes away. so it s hard to tell exactly what happened here, but the fact that the police were able to stop this assault so quickly, i think, is that s going to be a very interesting part of the
how much puerto rico took these warnings to heart? i think the governor did a tremendous job. his leadership was tremendous yesterday. he hit the streets, went door-to-door in many communities telling people to take it very seriously. through his leadership and the warning order network that we have through the national weather service partners, i believe they had people taking heed. bill: think about harvey in texas, irma in florida and the entire state of florida and the caribbean. are you stretched too thin? do you have what you need? so the good thing is that where we are right now is with harvey and irma, the response phase has basically come to an end and we re working with governor abbott as well as scott to help them provide a bridge to recovery and support recovery initiatives. because of that, we have a majority of our search and rescue teams on stand by to
the laura: with the second suspect under arrest in friday s london subway bombings, experts in the attack that injured 29 people is looking like it may be the result of a coordinated plot or the british government in the meantime lowering its terror threat levels from critical to severe. that s burning dana hoffman, former cia officer. thank you for being here today and lending your perspective because it is important. we want to ask you first the lowering of the terror threat from critical to severe tell you? you sound significant but it doesn t mean it s over what this particular case and others. right. i don t think the worries are over at all. we are in the response phase of the counterterrorism operation which is never a place i wanted to find myself when i was serving cia because of and we had failed to collect the intelligence which would ve allowed us to preempt or prevent the attack in the first place. i m sure that scotland yard, british authorities doing all they can on th
that support to the communities, that s happening now. we have the truck loads of relief supplies that are headed this way that are responding, trailers with shelters supplies. one of the things that we know is right now people are in evacuation mode. those evacuation centers are really there to just make sure that people s lives are safe from this weather. so when we look at what comes next and we re in the response phase right now, when we look at recovery, that looks different. and there may be the opportunity where we would need to stand up, a full blown shelter where we he have cots for everyone to sleep and food and that shelter would be a little bit more long-term. so we are prepared to do that. we have resources staged in the a area so they can get where they need to go quickly. what does the red cross need? and how can people help? like i said, thousands of volunteers. all of these opportunities for people that are helping. the other way that people can help is to make a d
going from bottom to top. so it s going to be very difficult to have those areas that are unaffected where folks can come from and work their way to be able to help others, and it s going to take a lot longer to get there meaning folks that have not evacuated could be on their own for at least a couple of days. as soon as that storm clears and that we can find a base that we can operate from or we can find fuel, we will be there. we re going to have to wait to see what that impact is. rest assured, as soon as irma a makes impact, we will come in behind with c-130 aircraft, we ll work work with the state, with governor scott, and start doing those initial assessmentings. but we re going to be in an emerging response phase for days, for days with this response. reporter: the commandant told me earlier this week he ordered all of the coast guard s personnel that was in texas assisting with the harvey relief effort toss get out, head this way to the southeast so that they can be prepar