That protect life and property as they prepare for potential landfall for tropical storm karen or of tropical storm karen. this morning, fema reactivated the hurricane liaison team embedded with the national hurricane center in miami. the president directed his team to ensure that federal resources and personnel needed to support state and local preparation efforts are available and on the job. the president directed his team to keep him appraised as to weather conditions change. he urged residents in potentially affected areas to follow instructs of local response and law enforcement officials. julie? thank you. there s been a lot of focus over the last day or two on the debt ceiling both in the presidential remarks, the treasury phone call today. is that a sign that the white house now sees this government shut down lasting to a point where it runs into the debt
Checked for radiation on their way out and stuff like that. but so far, that hasn t happened. it s preparatory. the officials are trying to maintain a balance between not saying that everything s okay and not panicking people at the same time. so, this is a very, very tenuous situation. it s still not going to be under control, if it is, for several more days. yeah. and real quick, bob, we heard about the preparation efforts to pass out these iodine pills yesterday. do you know if that has been done, if it is necessary to be done? reporter: well, it s necessary to be done. i don t know how much of it has been given out, but iodine pills are necessary because one of the things that s released from a nuclear reactor is the radiation that causes thyroid cancer. and people are very susceptible to that, and it s one of the things that you combat is by taking potassium iodine, which fills up your thyroid with iodine so you get much less of
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