I just had the zoom meeting with all these surfers and, you know, conserver people and local leaders and they all want to volunteer. we re doing whatever we can. people all want to help and local leaders, they are working really hard but i want to say thank you to the coast guard that they are really working hard around the clock, you know, to contain the spill. so we are working really hard right now. well, thank you so much congresswoman michelle steel. appreciate your time. thank you. turning now to breaking news from central, fl florida. a short time ago we heard from the family of the 19-year-old orange county woman whose been missing nearly ten days and police believe a body found this weekend is her. the family attorney is placing the blame on the apartment complex where she lived, worked and was last seen september 24th.
Guard el chapo. more on the breaking news that the president is considering a national emergency and that the money to build a wall might be money that was originally earmarked to rebuild disaster areas. barbara starr joins us from the pentagon with that. so, this is new to me. what are you learning about this whole notion that money for disaster areas could go to the wall? reporter: i think it s new to everybody tonight, anderson. what we are hearing from administration officials is indeed they are looking at unspent disaster recovery funds from floods and some of the bad storms and hurricanes that we ve had, places like puerto rico, texas, fl florida, california. looking at some of the money that was earmarked for disaster relief to specifically help the people that need the help the most and see if they can legally take that money, shift it over to their plan to build this wall. it s a bit of uncharted territory. the president would have to declare that national emergency first.
And the bills are being taken care of. this evening, though, they ve got empty pay stubs and growing troubles. many are furloughed. some are working without pay. coast guard officers, tsa screeners, air traffic controllers, u.s. marshals guarding drug lord el chapo, border agents. yes, border agents. day 20 of the government shutdown over border wall funding, and some of the men and women president trump met today on his visit to mcallen, texas, are on the job but not getting paid. now back home, he is reportedly getting closer to declaring a national emergency to get the wall built. and according to new cnn reporting, the administration is examining the idea of funding the wall with disaster relief money. you heard that right. the trump administration is examining, actively examining the notion of using unspent money earmarked for disaster reconstruction in puerto rico, texas, california, florida and elsewhere. keeping them honest, that idea is a long way away from president trump s r
i m in washington. i m ready, willing, and able. i m in the white house. i m ready to go. they can come over right now. they could have come over any time. i spent christmas in the white house. i pent new year s eve now in the white house, and you know, i m here. i m ready to go. it s very important. a lot of people are looking to get their paycheck. and so i m ready to go any time they want. no, we are not giving up. we have to have border security, and the wall is a big part of border security. the biggest part. you see there, really digging in on the wall, not coming off that. this is day 11 of this partial government shutdown. it s been five days since we laid eyes on the president. as you heard him talk about, he dpid cancel his plans to go to fl florida for both christmas and new year s, but twitter has been his main mode of communication. typically, you would see him, he would be talking to reporters, pushing out the information he wanted to in the shutdown in person, but re
Ana navarro. dan is a former adviser to the priz. ana is a good friend of marco rubio but a good friend to jeb bush and a big time floridian. donald trump is leading jeb bush, the form ee eer governor flo, fl florida, in a poll right now. do you think it s a good idea for jeb to be punching back at donald trump? i think it s great. i almost want to get up and dance. hallelujah. you know, it s finally happened. look, trump is running against 16 other people but the way he s focused on jeb, you would think he s only runs against jeb bush. if you want to make it a hand-to-hand combat between bush and trump, i couldn t think of a more stark choice for voters to