Fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. Last october brown scored a 156 Million Contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of 5. 10 each. She subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate caterer in atlanta with 11 employees. Did you really think that 11 people were going to do millions of meals . She told me she was experienced with this work and as time got on as time went on that she would be able to hire additional people to scale up. Reporter only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. Fema terminated her contract due to late delivery. Fema should have understood reporter fema picked brown after vetting her, even though she had no experience working largescale disasters. Brown has had five previous government contracts terminated for not delivering required food and her inability to ship products. Ive had challenges in that area, particularly because im so young and being a woman in this world, in the Food Industry
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Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. Trump Administration Efforts to further isolate north korea may be working. China is urging its outcast neighbor to make a smart decisi decision and stop conducting missile launches and nuclear tests. The scolding follows the the passage of a u. N. Security Council Resolution imposing tough new sanctions on the regime. They could cost the country a billion dollars in lost trade. Errol barnett has the the latest. President trump says he is working during his stay at his golf club in bedminister but took time to greet wedding guests at his resort. Twitter the president described new u. N. Sanctions on north korea as the largest ever to punish the country. The sanctions are in response to its testing of two Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles last month. Analysts believe they were capable of reaching u. S. Soil. And could be used to carry a nuclear weapon. The north korean threat has not left us. I