side i mean the sunnis, the rebels. and we re supporting the rebels. some of the wealthy gulf countries are supporting the rebels. and in the middle of all this is jordan and israel. and the worry is that the syrian fighting spreads out into the entire region and to jordan, destabilizes jordan, palestine, the palestinians, the palestinian authority right there. it could be really a regional world war. and jordan is already dealing with a massive number of refugees. that s the key part of all of this is jordan is the lynchpin in all this. jordan has a population of about six million has had 500,000, some people think as many as a million syrian refugees in the last year. that s like the united states having 30 million refugees showing up on our doorstep. jordan s a poor country. it can t feed all these people. it doesn t have water. when i was there in the region they were talking about jordan running out of water, not just water for their crops. two other key players we have to
if you have competent state and local government to handle it, they will be overwhelmed at times especially in staten island and the rockaways i heard more distress over there, and fema running out of water but fema coordinated the aid, they do not provide direct aid. people have a warped understanding and a misunderstanding of what fema actually does. it leads to anger when that is not necessarily the case. bob:. fema has done, it is a coordinated effect, but they have deployed more resources than any other tragedy in history. but you cannot laugh and say, where are they? a lot of people on staten island wonder where they are. they ran out of the water yesterday. they were not going to get water until monday. my point isn t whether fema is doing a good job my point is why was chris christie so in a hurry to get to a podium and pat president obama on the back.
cities in the east yet again. washington can hit 100, all adding to the misery for millions. reporter: the signs are everywhere, from rivers running low to city highrises running out of water. from the cornfields to the kitchen sink. this sizzling summer is taking a toll across america. 80% of the country is unusually dry. this year s drought already the largest natural disaster in u.s. history keeps spreading and heat roars keep falling. in chicago where it hit 101, a transformer overheated on this 29-story building struggling with no a.c. or water and only one running elevator. 10% elderly live here and like 45% people have pets. reporter: in burlington, vermont, where the heat wave brought a 93 degree day, farmers scrambled to