need to assure people that we are going to act. and just quickly here what do you think of the politics here. again, unfortunately these mass casualty situations have been, if not common, they have been a regular occurrence over the last couple of decades, i remember after sandy hook 2012, there was a push back then for background checks. it failed in the senate. there was talk, polling certainly suggested the public was all on board with background checks. there was talk that there would be ramifications at the ballot box for anybody against that. there weren t, nobody who stopped in 2013 was defeated in 2014. do you think the politics have changed at all since then? i do. you have mike turner, the congressperson who was affected by dayton who has come out in an assault weapons ban, the governor of ohio, mike dewine who has come out for some gun violence laws. i think the politics are changing. unfortunately they re changing often in communities that have faced these mass shooting
modern history. knocked over power lines, flooded homes, sunday afternoon. forecasters say it will move toward florida late monday. we have new details about the mass shooting in texas that left 7 dead and 22 oers injurth injured. the incident did not appear to be an act of dmomestic or international terror. the incident happened after police turned over the suspect in a traffic stop. he drove off shooting multiple people before stealing a usps van. sunday they confirmed he used an ar style rifle until the attack. now back to kasie dc. welcome back, we continue to keep a close eye on hurricane dorian tonight. when it hit great abaco island earlier today. maximum sustained winds were 185 miles per hour, gusts at 220. that tied the atlantic landfall
moving storm but they should not keep waiting for an update on the forecast to see if it s making its turn because if it doesn t, they re going to run out of time, and it will be too late. you are as familiar as anybody could be with how fema runs, how fema operates. a little bit has been made of the fact that fema right now has an acting director. there are a lot of acting folks in the trump administration. does that make a difference in a moment like this, acting vs fully appoint sed. no, during government transitions between presidents, we appoint a person to act as the acting administer has all the authority under the law as the confirmed, senate confirmed administrator, so there s no lack of authority. and in a response, this is really not an issue. i know a lot of the folks are