Congresss role in funding fema and other support. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted the event. I am so excited to bring you this event today. We have an amazing several panels of speakers. Project thatture buildars said we need to the loss ofreduce property and life and bring down the cost of a Natural Disaster response. Hit, we convened a task force of former state and federal officials who oversee Disaster Recovery and have had to secure overseas and federal funding. Many of the programs are being withd as never before covid. As we saw with the recent hurricane, there has been a lot of attention about how you safely evacuate and safely shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent spread. These are challenges Emergency Managers are facing day in and day out, especially with Hurricane Season having nine named storms since june. I all indications, there will be more. We are joined by a number of folks to talk about these two distinct crises. First, w
We will not take viewers to the bipartisan seminar webinar underway with the impact on Hurricane Evacuation and sheltering. The former fema administrator will begin in just a moment. Oversee, federal funding. Our goal is to harness their collective expertise to inform the instruction around disaster programs. Recent hurricane has been a lot of tension on how do you safely evacuate and shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent further covid spread . These are challenges Emergency Managers are facing day in and day out, especially with Hurricane Season having nine named storms since june. I all indications, there will be more. We are joined by a number of these twoalk about distinct crises. First, we are going to be joined by a democrat from the Virgin Islands. She helped sphere the islands recovery from Hurricane Maria and irma in 2017. She served on the transportation infrastructure committee, where she pushes Critical Infrastructure in the Virgin
And the report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and Intelligence Committee wednesday july 17th, 9 00 a. M. Eastern. He will testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org on listen with the cspan free radio app. Two household and security subcommittees held a joint hearing how fema contracts are awarded and managed. They want to know about a 30 Million Contract after Hurricane Maria was awarded to a new company and tarps were never delivered. They heard from fema, Government Accountability office and Homeland Security Department Inspector general office. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on fema contracting, reviewing Le
Really good afternoon, everyone. Right. Apologies for the delay. We had the administrator was actually briefing the president in the oval office. So we wanted to make sure that she was ready to go and the president got the briefing that he needed before we came out. So apologies for a late start in the briefing. So in a minute, you will hear directly from the fema administrator on how the Biden Harris Administration has mobilized a robust whole of government response effort to support immediate and long term rescue and Recovery Efforts in maui. Hawaii. First, as the president said yesterday, we are praying for those who lost so much who lost loved ones, their community, their businesses, their households. We are also incredibly thankful to the First Responders and also the the very brave firefighters who are on the front lines who are dealing with this response and recovery effort. Early today, we announced that the president and the first lady who will be traveling to hawaii on monday
Criswell briefed reporters on Recovery Efforts and Emergency Response operations in maui. She talked about an upcoming visit by President Biden. She said the president , fema and the federal family will be there to support the people of hawaii as long as we are needed. First as the president said yesterday, we are praying for those who lost so much, lost loved ones, their community, their businesses, their households. We are incredibly thankful to the First Responders and be very brief firefighters who are on the frontline are dealing with a response and recovery effort. We announced the president and this lady will be traveling to why you on monday to meet with First Responders, survivors and federal, state and local officials. Since the onset of the horrific fires in maui, dozens of federal departments and agencies have been working with state and local partners on the ground to assess and provide resources and personnel support response on the ground. Last thursday, within hours of