dr. cory herbert and lisa myers, thanks to all three of you. today marks exactly one year since superstorm known as sandy made landfall along the east coast. this is my home. this is where i lived. and it s not gotten any better. how far have we come and how far do we still need to go to rebound on the east coast? plus, america s allies outraged over the reach of the nsa. but does the benefit of listening in outweigh the risk of alienating friends overseas? i ll dig into both sides of those topics with new york congressman peter king. he joins me coming up next. that leads to today s big question for you. nsa under fire. should the u.s. be spying on its allies overseas? weigh in with your thoughts on twitter and facebook. [ male announcer ] at humana, understanding what makes you different is what makes us different. we take the time to get to know you and your unique health needs. then we help create a personalized healthcare experience that works for you.
special girl, so like i said, the jersey shore s back in business. the work s not over, though. seven months ago i promises you that your country would have your back. i told you we would not quit until the job was done and i meant it. i meant it. craig fugate, the head of fema, he couldn t be here today. i want to thank him and his team for their ongoing work. fema was here before sandy made landfall. they re still here today pop working with the governor s team and task force i set up to support families and communities who still need help. since the storm hit, we ve provided billions of dollars to families and state and local governments across the region, and more is on the way. and even as my team is helping communities recover from the last hurricane season, they re starting to prepare for the next hurricane season, which starts this saturday, because if there s one thing that we ve learned last year it s that when a storm hits, we ve got to be
them for their ongoing work. fema was here before sandy made landfall, they re still here today. john is still looking for them. he live on stat ten island. what did you milwaukee of this is? what tide you make of this? as i reported to you, fema s response was nowhere near satisfactory as far as our community was concerned. they came down early stage, with clipboards and a lot of looking around but there wasn t a lot of action and it really fell down to volunteer community grassroots organizations to give that initial response that the community needed. so, i don t feel great about all this backslapping on fema, especially seven months later when i know what is going on, on the ground in staten island and we re still not getting sufficient response. they re arguing it took them a while to get their sea legs but fema has been making up for
the special girl. so like i said, the jersey shore is back in business. the work is not over, though. seven months ago, i promised you that your country would have your back, i told you we would not quit until the job was done. and i meant it. craig fugate. fema was here before sandy made landfall. they re still here today, they re working with the governor s team and with the task force i set up to support families and communities who still need help. since the storm hit. we ve provided billions of dollars to families and state and local governments across the region and more is on the way. even as my team is helping people recover from the last hurricane season. they re helping people prepare
the big easy was not spared this year. hurricane isaac making landfall near new orleans on the eve of the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. isaac made landfall as a category 1 hurricane. the slow-moving storm drenched low-lying coastal areas. here is one of the hardest hit areas, plaqueminess parish. it then moved inland innun ditting communities in inundating communities in arkansas. an eerie site over phoenix as a dust storm blows in. winds gusting up to 40 miles an hour and bringing dust and sand from the desert. 2012 also saw the birth of a superstorm. a devastating hurricane that collided with a powerful cold system from canada that slammed the northeast. sandy made landfall in south jersey in late october flooding beach communities, submerging highways and washing iconic boardwalks into the ocean. new york city s downtown