infrastructure going in. that s what we re working on right there as well as building a commonwealth and a municipal capability and emergency management that did not exist before the storm. understood. but when you say that those four legs all have to operate well, do you think that the federal government did all it could in maria? i m asking because we haven t gotten to you since the death toll went up. as you know it s 46 times what the government said originally. there were 2,975 people killed in puerto rico as a result of maria and so is there anything that fema and the federal government could have done better? that s a great question. you know, look, we threw as much as we could towards puerto rico as possible within fema. if you look at the numbers like not only the response dollars that went in, the amount of staff that was put into puerto rico from this agency and across the federal government was higher than any other of the disasters we ve worked last year. you know, we
you will apply this week? proper emergency response and recovery takes the whole community and emergency management is like a chair with four legs, i have said this many times. the four legs represent, first, one leg is the federal government, the second leg is state and local governments, the third leg is going to be the private sector nongovernmental organizations and the fourth sector is the citizen. if all four legs of that chair are present going into the response and recovery then the disaster goes really well, like we saw in harvey and irma. when any one of those legs is missing, the disaster doesn t go nearly as well as we would like it to and that s what we saw in maria. what we re having to do is make sure that, one, we re getting ready to pump 50 you know, possibly $50 billion of fema tax paying dollars into puerto rico. so never before has there been a better opportunity for puerto rico and the commonwealth to become more disaster resilient and economically viable. what
storm, particularly get out of the areas that are vulnerable to coastal storm surge inundation and get into a facility that can withstand the winds, why he. understood. you will be briefing president trump this morning, what are you going to tell him? i spoke to him yesterday and will update him again this afternoon as well. secretary nielsen and i will be updating him later this afternoon. bottom line is how we re pre-positioned, if there s any any issues that we need to help our state partners overcome. proper disaster response is one that s locally executed, state managed and federal supported. what we do and i ve spoken to all three governs from south carolina to virginia as well yesterday to make sure we understand their response and recovery goals and how best to support the efforts that are under way. pre-position thing obviously we ve learned is so vital. i don t have to tell you how bad last year was in terms of hurricanes, harvey in houston, irma in the florida keys a
director who brought his crew on to live train track illegally and one of the young camera assistants was killed and he s still part of the director s guild. i think there needs to be a hard look at all of this. by the way, with harvey in particular, we ve heard he s at the meadows in rehab. but this is beyond a sexual obsession. this is you know, he s 65 years old. a zebra can t wash off its stripes. oddly enough, ryan, when we see the camera footage of weinstein speaking leaving his house, his daughter s home on wednesday, he s saying he s not doing okay and hoping for a second chance. hollywood loves a redemption story and to see people come back, but is hollywood really a place for someone liking this accused of what is this open investigation of accusations of harassment and all the way down the line to angations of rape a
if we put harvey in, we put daca in. we pass the debt ceiling and it s done. i actually haven t thought of that before, but i would be for it. and i would be for putting it on the floor alone. because i believe it will pass. we have a majority of the american people in every poll saying they would support it. in california, it s extraordinarily important. you have over 50 ceos of big corporations that have written and said these daca workers are good workers. we want them, they re going to contribute to the economy. was daca legal? daca was executive order. legal is what is the law of passage of something. you know, there are ten attorneys general prepared to sue. i don t want to get into that. the point is, daca is here. and we ve got 800,000 young