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Aid for harvey and future storms with the higher debt ceiling and it is now heading to the president s desk. worth noting it was not unanimous in the senator house. i ll put a picture up of everybody who voted against it. i appreciate the message from the president. not everybody is always on board with helping everybody in a disaster. i m going to say, i m certainly glad it went through. stand by, thousands of national guard troops have already been deployed to florida. we ll talk about military preparations next. this is what they did. the american heroes springing into action. remember, this is one of the biggest hurricanes florida has ever seen and it is hitting just as fema s funding is about to expire. stay with us. this is a part of this country in need of our help. we ve got to focus on it. every year we take a girl s trip. remember nashville? kimchi bbq. kimchi bbq. amazing honky tonk?? i can t believe you got us tickets. i did. i didn t pay for anything. ....
That are strategically located around the potentially affected areas, and so this is something that i ve been encouraged by in seeing fema s response to harvey and have no reason to believe they won t do it for mare as well. before we go, just there on the screen you saw a guy walking by, someone who decided not to evacuate. how does fema, how does the government manage or plan? it doesn t matter how many warnings or how often florida governor rick scott goes on television, people are going to stay. how does the government prepare for ha kind of rescue? paul? it s a great point. i think there s communication piece to this and i think the mayor mentioned earlier the fact people saw what happened in harvey and that sort of helped people get out of the way. i think there s probably always going to be a small percentage of people that decide to weather the storm. i remember when superstorm sandy was coming, chris christie got on tv and said don t you dare stay, you re going to put fi ....
fema regional director joins us now on the phone from tallahassee, she covers florida, georgia and the carolinas, all of which are under emergencies ahead of hurricane irma. thank you for being with us. brock long says the money won t get in the way. you ve got 30,000 people on the ground in texas. you re spending $9 million an hour. that thing could end up costing $180 billion to recover from. that s just harvey. hurricane season doesn t end until november. this $15 billion relief package that congress has just passed is not enough to deal with a portion of a hurricane. tell me what the situation is financially. good morning, the situation financially is what the the administrator said, money will not get in the way. fema is aggressively preparing to support florida, north carolina, georgia and south carolina. we have teams and resources ....
Out on the ground. that s impressive. thank you and thanks to all of those working with you. the danger you put yourselves in helps the rest of us understand these things and helps us warn people to stay safe and what they should do. lieutenant colonel sean cross, joining us from biloxi, mississippi. can i mention to you, think about a map. you ve got harvey last week. you ve got irma this week. what we haven t mentioned, jose. the earthquake, the 8.1 magnitude earthquake that hit mexico last night and there are now tsunami warnings on mexico s shores. those are scary times. stand by, it looks like miami will be the first major city in florida to be hit by irma. but the entire state, whole thing, irma is set to rake up the whole state, set to get slammed. we ll talk about what to expect in central florida and we ll also hear from the mayor of tampa, a city particularly vulnerable to major hurricanes. tampa, a very flat town. whoooo. ....
You know about the hurricane, harvey last week. these twin incidents have strength themed the president s hand. and actually provided a bit of camaraderie on capitol hill. the likes of which we ve not seen since 9/11. that could pave the way for a lot of things you re probably not expecting. the good news from the scary news next. ....