Mr. Nixon the question i would like to start with is, i think there are common misperceptions about femas role in Emergency Management and dealing with Natural Disasters. What is femas role and what is the state and local First Responders role . Brick is out for us, please. Mr. Long femas mission is incredibly complex. It is a lot more than just the response, which is often covered on tv when big events occur. We have a huge obligation to provide billions of dollars worth of predisaster grants, mitigation funding. We run continuity of Government Programs to make sure the executive branch works on its worst day. As well as we are in a position to be providing billions of dollars to help america overcome the last two hurricane seasons and wildfire seasons. The best way to describe what we do the best response and recovery is when it is locally executed, state managed and federally supported. Fema is not designed to be a First Responder, nor should it be. It is my job to coordinate the fe
Sarah ferris, reporting for politico. We can find her articles at politic. Com. Tweets sarah n. Ferris. Thanks so much. Thank you. On newsmakers this week is the administrator of fema, brock long. Emergency a career in Response Management at the state, federal level and in the private sector. Sworn in in june of 2017 and has had quite a year with category 5 with two hurricanes. One of the biggest wildfire years in history and a category 7 earthquake in alaska. So lots of calls for your folks action. To glad to be here this morning. Let me introduce the two reporters. Ron nixon covers homeland times. Y for the new york and this is the Homeland Security and immigration reporter. Thanks for doing this. The question id like to start theres someink common misperceptions about femas role in Emergency Management and dealing with Natural Disasters. Could you lay that out . Whats femas role and whats and local First Responders role . Break those down for us, please. Mission iss incredibly compl
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