house and feed detained migrant children. democrats did not raise any widespread rejections to the proposal back then, but president trump s proposal to do exactly the same thing has been met with howls of outrage, particularly as this new storm heads toward puerto rico. in a statement, senate minority leader chuck schumer saying taking these critical funds from disaster preparedness and recovery efforts threatens lives and weakens the government s availability to help with naturl disasters. they did this to meet the people s priority. officials say the money being transferred from this disaster relief fund is administrative and not money that could go into recovery or preparedness effort efforts. listen to hogan gidley here. they know this money isn t being diverted from anything that can be used for recovery efforts or preparedness efforts. they know that.
along with the emergency that is going on, it requires the agency, the department to reprogram funding. it is a common thing to happen. if you don t have bed space for adults, they will wait in custody for too long, or they get released like their families do, and that would effectively give you an opening order. the department of homeland security notified congress about its plans last month he is a 30 day notification. back is set to end on sunday. they say that they intend to reprogram and transfer $116 million to fund i.c.e. single adult attention beth, and millions of dollars to establish and operate temporary hearing facilities along the southwest border. that s $271 million in all. $155 million coming from fema disaster relief funds. this is a major storm heads
all of our computers were pinpointing baton rouge with the possibility of 15, 20 inches of rain. what happened is, see the jog the storm took. barry is much closer to the texas/louisiana border than it was supposed to be. that has taken the heavy band of rain that was going to be narrow and it shifted it towards lafayette, louisiana. if there s one city i m concerned with and the surrounding areas, it s laugh yechlt you can see the heavy band of rain off the coast and centered over the top of lafayette. that s the area of greatest concern and we have a high risk of flash flooding. doesn t mean we can t have flooding in the baton rouge area. but your totals have definitely come down. as far as where the storm heads, it s becoming a tropical depression later on today and shift to areas of arkansas. it will be completely dead and we won t track it anymore by the time to monday night and tuesday morning. it will have dissipated by then. this takes us to the rainfall
so derek and crew are okay, but that is really feeling the worst of it in apalachicola, and really what that will look like in the coming hours and what people will be waking up to in the destruction and devastation tomorrow morning. gary tuchman is in sopchoppy, florida where the winds are a huge part of this story. it s been making landfall at 155 miles per hour, category four, gary. talk to me about what it s feeling like where you are. reporter: brooke, hello to you. we ve been touring the small little towns on the panhandle to the east of where hurricane michael s eye crossed and this is sopchoppy. it s an indian name. it means river. it feels like a river in sopchoppy, florida today. this is the heaviest we ve had the rains as the storm heads to
dana: back to hurricane florence looking like a monster even from the air. high definition camera from the international space station capture ago close-up view as a category 3 storm heads for the east coast. joining me now is lieutenant commander nicholas morgan flight director and noaa meteorologist. thank you for being here, sir. thank you for having me. dana: tell us from your perspective and observation, i know this is not first hurricane noaa has tracked. what might be dinner about this one. no, we have been doing it for quite a long time. and we have seen storms in similar strengths but every storm is different. and depending on where along the coast line it hits, the affects, the impacts on the coastal areas can really be different from storm to storm. dana: what kind of information can you get from the air that people can t get from other radar type of technology? so, one of the things that we get from the air as opposed to satellite or weather radar is we re able