of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions. and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity. peter doocy with the latest live from the white house. hi, peter. aboard air force one, the press secretary karine jean-pierre cleaned up after the vice president. we re committed to quickly getting resources to all communities impacted, period. we also know that some people particularly in lower income communities have a hard time accessing that help. the vice president s suggestion that race factors in to relief came into friday. saturday, given a chance to add that context herself, she didn t. vice president, can you talked about what you meant bitty by equity for hurricane relief? fema is not responding helping one group over another. i commit to you right here that all floridians will get the help that is available to them through our programs. on his way
frustrated. it s 100 and some degrees heat index outside, and i can understand people getting worked up about this sort of thing. more on politics in a moment. i want to start with a street level view of what has to be considered an emergency. justin bruno heads up the office of emergency management. he is kind enough to step outside and tell us what he has been up today. thank you for making the time and braving the heat. is your city in emergency mode right now? we absolutely are. we have temperatures we have never seen before. heat indexes will be 105 to 115, which are record numbers. the power grid is significant, and you mentioned that in your earlier comments. we do expect to see more power demand than ever before in new york city. we have activated our emergency operation center, a situation room. we have agencies present, and one thing we do here is we are always in close touch with power edison, which is you on power provider, and we have them in all the time, an