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Chris? we go from the need to the response to that need. fema and other federal agencies are now deploying thousands of personnel. they had thousands in place before the storm in puerto rico. joining us now is fema administrator, brock long. you say today is an important day. why? i think today s the most important day when it comes to the response because as the mayor was talking about, we already have a pretty solid presence on the island but we have a long way to go. what we are trying to do is get the seaports open, and we are already utilizing airports to get lifesaving and life sustaining commodities in place, and we have additional teams to come on top of what the good mayor was talking about, and it s all about saving and establishing power for the infrastructure such as hospitals and we are doing life flights, not only out of puerto rico but also the virgin islands out of ....
The campus of lone star state college in the houston area, we ve been tracking the story for a while and they said it happened just after 11:15 a.m. houston time and you can see one of the helicopter, life flights. and four students, four of the 14 were removed by life flight and a couple students refused treatment after a man ran through one of the buildings at least on campus wielding some sort of knife, we believe, some sort of knife. an exact-o knife and police didn t know exactly what kind of weapon it was. and now, we are being told that the defendant, the person who was under arrest right now, was tackled by a student or a group of students. you know what? we re getting an eyewitness on campus now, let s go to her. i don t know the whole story yet. how many people did you see injured? just one. this guy holding his leg, it ....
The quake hit before 1:00 p.m. tuesday local time. 7:00 a.m. p.m. on the east coast. was centered just a few miles from christchurch. it toppled buildings and cracked roads and knocked out phone lines. at least 65 people were killed at that point. thousands were already made homeless. the three main welfare centers are already filling up and about 1,200 people have taken refuge at a horse track there in christchurch. the hospital is operational but only for emergencies, while dozens of life flights have transported the injured to cities just outside the quake zone. gary denver is a reporter for new zealand s news talk zb and joins u.s. on the phone. what is latest from there, gary? reporter: we are at this stage with a death toll of 65 but we expect that to be revised upward to probably after daylight. the search and rescue staff are ....
There will definitely be more information throughout the day. jamie: you did mention the reports from the u.s. officials that fox is in touch with, say that the gunman did shout something at the time of the shooting. any word on what that might have been or what language it may have been in? at this point no. we just know that he shouted something before he started shooting, and then, some form of, some type of security guard returned fire and the gunman was hit, but before he was taken into custody, he did definitely kill representative giffords and four others, including a child, unfortunately. kelly: at peter not to interrupt you, looking at new video as we re speaking there and we saw the helicopters that are usually called life flights, helicopters there, rushing to the scene to expedite the transport of those who are critically injured to the hospital. and now, we re just looking at video of the scoon where it all unfielded and i m told around 10 a.m. tucson time, this is w ....
Stun and flattened puerto rico begins a long path to recovery. today is the most important day when it comes to the response. today is about life saving and establishing emergency power for the infrastructure such as hospitals and we will be doing life flights. let s begin the hour with the breaking news on the so-called travel ban as the white house unveils restrictions on who can and who can t come into the united states. the travel ban was one of the most controversial endeavors of the presidency. that barred people from six majority muslim countries from entering and that expires sunday. with the deadline approaching, the president considering new recontradiction strikzs to make some measures indefinite. the source reported, they may expand the number of countries impacted by the i had bigzs on travel. something he said he wanted last week on twitter. the travel ban should be far larger, tougher and more specific. ....