up, there are now five states issuing emergency declarations from florida to virginia. the next move is critical. for dorian and you, that s the message from fema. joined by fema administrator james joseph. good to have you back on the show. thank you, shannon. shannon: let s talk about this. something i want to hear from the prime minister of the bahamas as we see horrible images coming in from there. we know the death toll continues to rise. here s what he said. many have heed our warning. many have remained behind. still they are appeals to me. i can only to say to them that i hope that this is not the last time they will hear my word. shannon: how worried are you for folks in the states on the southeastern coast with them heeding the warnings they are hearing when there is still
evacuated statewide along with 88 nursing homes and because the bands of the storm are intermittent in the area has not been hit too hard just yet, people were actually coming out to the water to take in the sites. a few folks we saw surfing just before sundown. that said, the houses here are boarded up. shops have been close, many of them for days, and everyone keeping an eye on the track of the storm and waiting, ready and prepared to move to higher ground shut that time come. in the meantime, we are just taking in the sites here and it is really jaw-dropping to see just how quickly conditions have eroded. shannon. shannon: thank you. slow moving dorian up making a turn north and was told considerable uncertainty with where she may end up. there are now five states issuing emergency declarations from florida to virginia. the next move is critical for dorian and for you. that s the message from fema. we re joined now by james
i have seen other tornado and disasters. but this one is pretty big. reporter: search and rescue operations will continue again today. we want to go through everyone one or two times to make sure there are no survivors trapped under the wreckage and still alive. and they want to confirm fatalities. there is more than a million americans from florida to virginia who lost power and electricity at the house. today that s down to 400,000 with no juice. arthel: that s some good news. just watching your pictures. it s devastating for us. i can t even imagine how it is for those home eveners. reporter: it s heartbreaking. eric: deputy attorney general rod rosen type io rod rosenss
the highest density of military in the world is from florida to virginia where the norfolk naval station is. there is nothing that compares to it in the united states and nothing that compares to it in the world. there are lots of re inforcements there and mattis did the right thing. put everybody on notice saying look, we ll go out there, we have the storm to deal with ourselves. we have our own families. despite that we have tens of thousands of troops in these states that can tangibly assist. there is lots of capacity there. if it s needed beyond what s already taken place they re sitting there ready to go. bill: very impressive answer. what do you think you learned from andrew and fran when you were working out of fort bragg and some equipment came in from overnight and we ll get air drops later today for food and water at the airport. what did you learn in your experience, general? andrew was a major recovery operation and it is understandable local leaders, when they try to a
things are going bad and we have to eat. we ll stick it out. nowhere else to go. bill: how do you reflect on the last week of your life now? i ve been through hurricanes before. i lived in florida for many years. this was a nasty one. i hadn t seen it you couldn t see five feet off the balcony it was so fast and so blurry, so watery. bill: how are the dogs? the dog is fine. she is tired of going up and down the flights. bill: i don t blame her. best to you. you have a lot of patience. do well. back to new york. $40 trillion is quite a bit of money. the taxes that you talked about raising to pay for this to pay for your agenda only count for two. currently we pay much of these costs go into the private