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CNNW CNN Newsroom August 30, 2011

blamed on hurricane/tropical storm irene. more than three million homes and businesses still don t have power. flood warnings still are in effect in five states from vermont to new jersey. all this brings me to my colleague, mary snow, in patterson, new jersey. mary, what is going on there around you right now? reporter: well, evacuations have been going on for the past 48 hours and they are only intensifying because you just mentioned, there are some rivers that have yet to crest. here in patterson, new jersey, which is about three blocks away from the passaic river, that has not yet crested. we are told it s about seven feet higher than it normally is, and there have been boats going out that were with the state office of emergency management, their search and rescue teams have been going out all morning. we are joined by the mayor of patterson, jeff jones. mr. mayor, thanks for joining us. what is your biggest concern right now? well, the biggest concern right no ....

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41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i ll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we ll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there s talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we re looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? we don t need to be worried at this point in time. although, this may be the nicest tropical storm, i hope, that we ever see ever. you consider what we just showed you, all the pictures in oklahoma, that s really, other than the fire, that s what all of texas looks like. completely tinder ground. if we can get a 40 miles per hour storm over the gulf of mexico and run into louisiana and texas and spr ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110829:18:38:00

That is why we went to immediate needs funding, and we knew going into the end of the fiscal year, we would get close to the point where we would have to look at immediate needs funding at some point, and our goal was to be able to respond to the open disasters and maintain enough reserves for any new disasters until we get into the new fiscal year, but irene was obviously something that we felt it was prudent. we weren t out of money, but we wanted to make sure we had enough money to continue supporting the survivors from the past disasters as well as support irene. and $1.5 billion and you are done? no, we had more money earlier in the year, and the disaster relief fund is something that is an appropriation something that we get and something that because of older disasters we close out and put money back in, but it is we generally look at a down to $1 billion, we want to make sure we can continue supporting the survivors of the ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110829:18:37:00

Been started when we go into the immediate needs funding. and that is to ensure that we have funds to do this response and continue to meet the needs of the survivors of the previous disasters as well as supporting the initial response to hurricane irene. so the criticism from congresswoman blount out of missouri is inaccurate? well, for the individuals we are helping and for the cleanup and the emergency costs, we are continuing that, but for any projects that have not come in for approval, we will not be able to fund those at this point. we will postpone them. they are eligible, but we will not be starting new permanent work such as permanent construction repairing from those storms. and to follow up on the money question. we have had earthquake, the tornados and now this hurricane. is there any risk of a do you have a bottomless pool of money for state assistance or when do you run out? well, that is one of the thing we are working on, and ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110829:18:36:00

Outcome and then things cascaded on top of one another. in six years ago would you say that people were not working as a team? there were a lot of things at the federal level that congress addressed post that made my job easier to work in the team environment. cakara? do you know today about the well, not today. we had gone below $1 billion and 900, but i don t know what the figure is today, but that is why we have implemented the immediate need funding for ex t existing disasters. we went to immediate needs funding and a lot of people thought that they were impacted from the tornados and floods would take the money from them, but the survivors eligible for assistance are still going to to get funds. individual assistance funds were not affected by this or protective measures or debris clearance or any project approved. the only thing that we have postponed is new projects that are permanent work that had not ....

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