Welcome to hannity. Tonight recovery efforts continue in parts of north carolina, south carolina, georgia tennessee virginia and florida. We have communities all across appellation. They are completely devastated. The situation tonight is dire, and according to reports on the ground the biden administration have been making it worse and they have been totally tonedeaf for over a week. This has been the worst federal hurricane response in the history of our country. Connect elon musk s been extremely generous and helpful to people in terms of restoring communications, he said fema is not really failing to adequately help people in trouble but they are actively blocking citizens who do try to help. He detailed a claim from a spacex engineer on the ground who s accusing fema of blocking shipments of iran s emergency starlink terminals which donald trump asked him to send and he generously sent. This is soulless. It is unconscionable. It is unforgivable. But in a statement fema frankly out
locations for asylum seekers along the border. house speaker nancy pelosi issued a statement criticizing the moment saying stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable. but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, in humane family incarceration plan is staggering and to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless. julia ainslie broke the story for us. julia, where exactly is this money coming from? reporter: it s a great question. we know there is a portion of fema money that is going toward expanding i.c.e. detention at the border. but then there is an even greater bucket, $155 million specifically from the disaster relief fund under fema, that s been rolled over for several years. a lot of this was first appropriated in 2006, 2007. but it is part of the pot of money fema would pull from now in a disaster. and that is the money they are taking to expand these temporary hearing locations at the border.
permanent roofs as of this point. we keep hearing about all this money fema has been reimbursing. i ll give you san juan. they owe in reimbursements to the municipality of san juan, 7.7 million. a lot of that money the municipality has to put forth. if you re asking for a reimbursement of more than 1 million, it has to go to congress to be approved. my hope is when the president visits fema today, it isn t about what should have been done. it s about what they could have done and they didn t do, and the lessons learned are finally learned by the president so that this doesn t happen again. mayor cruz, quickly, yes or no, do still have confidence in fema? no. not at all. okay. mayor carmen yulen cruz.
something about the dropout rate. but maybe we should tie this to school funding issues, maybe we should tie this into administrator issues and administrative issues. look at the grades before we enforce this maybe. if they have good grades and they re missing some classes, big deal, right? what we re using is blunt instrument here and i think it may be too blunt. i would say guys, we have to leave it there. ok. sorry about that. thanks so much. thank you. oops, remember that money fema handed out after katrina, after hurricane katrina. why they re asking for some of that money back. the bin laden raid sure sounded like a story straight from the movies and soon, it might actually be headed for the big screen. but it might be a disney movie? and a live look at the shuttle endeavour which is ready for launch this morning. we will check in with bill hemmer from cape canaveral after the break.