to evacuate the areas and don t drive through flooded areas. craig fugat. thank you so much. knows about what he speaks. be sure to stay with us for the latest on hurricane dorian coming up this hour as well. coming up also, irish exit. vice president pence defending his decision to stay at a trump golf resource more than an hour s flight away from his meetings in dublin. you re watching andrea mitchell reports, stay with us on msnbc. l reports, stay with us on msnbc. big dreams start with small steps. .but dedication can get you there. easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. chase. make more of what s yours®. on a scale of one to five?
administration had redirected from fema, $155 million, that has been sent to the southern border? tell me how this does this come into your world at all? well, so fema s disaster relief fund is the primary source of funding that we use to support disaster operations. the fund, itself, is in a fairly strong position with more than $25 billion in balances. and right now there is nothing holding us back from prepositioning the resources that we think the states and local officials may need if dorian does indeed have significant impacts. dorian has left parts of the bahamas in absolute devastation. what sort of recovery do you think is needed and what will be fema s part? well, our hearts definitely go out to the bahamians, the imagery coming out of there is pretty devastating. our friends in the united states coast guard have deployed resources and we ve seen reporting that they re
it s been a non-stop process ever since the conditions allowed them to move in starting yesterday. you mentioned dorian being a slow moving storm. while they re doing this rescue operation it s dropping feet of ra rain. roo right now the prime minister, we re told, is flying over abaco island to witness the devastation to try to come up with a plan that will be a month if not year-long process of recovery here. i can hear one of the helicopters about to take off right now. this is going to be very much a busy place here in nassau, bahamas, ground zero of the recovery effort. thank you so much. al roker as well, and gabe gutierrez, thanks to all. craig fugat joins me now
here. so a big concern with rip currents as this moves closer. you can see the waves getting just a little bit rougher today. but they know this could be the area that actually gets the closest brush, if not a landfall from dorian. and so they are preparing. as you see, you know, people out here getting the last bit of sun. right now there s a mandatory evacuation order for tourists here along the outer banks. at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, that becomes mandatory for residents. and so if you go off the beach a little bit you do see people making those preparations, boarding up some of these homes. you can see how close some of them are to the beach here. and so there is concern as we go through today and tomorrow and then later on in the weekend. here s the biggest concern, these are very thin barrier islands. and so officials are warning that if the storm comes ashore, if it causes a storm surge, this is narrow. there s one road on and off the
we will not respond after hits of 50 miles per hour. we evaluate it at the time but generally 50 is the limit for us as far experienced flooding during matthew or irma in the last few years, they really should the governor has asked. and most everybody else who welcome back to vels stays in town ought to hunker down and baton down the hatches and be ready. velshi & ruhle. joining us from jensen beach, nasa has been tracking dorian s florida, which is starting to path. as the category 2 storm gets closer to the florida coast, the feel the effects of dorian is flight facilities at the kennedy nbc news correspondent gabe space center are buckling down. staff at the center are gutierrez. reporter: stephanie and ali, preparing to ride out the storm the winds are starting to pick up here. as it moves closer bringing with we are getting pelted by sand it those damaging right now. over the past couple hours we ve 110-mile-an-hour winds. joining us now, public also seen these rain