bossert: the president put it on congress. and the window, i'm not sure what the answer is on the military part of daca. i'll get back to you on that. reporter: given -- [indiscernible] -- there are reports that you are reconsidering the flood -- reversing the flood plain regulations. can you talk about whether you are reconsidering that, either putting back those regulations or drafting new regulations that would toughen up the flood regulations since we will be facing those issues? mr. bossert: i won't necessarily accept the premise of the question. it's about smart or not smart and the answer here, we did this morning, the answer is we shouldn't use federal money to rebuild in ways that don't anticipate future flood rick. we need to build stronger and smarter when we use federal dollars. what happened in the president's infrastructure executive order was a rescission of an obama era order that had overreaching scope in construction permitting and we were hoping for infrastructure development. the president did as well. what

bossert: good afternoon. it's a somber day today and i and sarah and others were honored to join the president at the pentagon in a moment of silence on the south lawn as well. in addition i would note that president trump continued a long tradition of presidents since 9/11 to receive a counterterrorism briefing this morning in the oval office from his intelligence community, from his director of national counterterrorism center, from myself and others on the team. the purpose of that is to give the president a sense of the terrorist threat that exists globally and to the homeland and give him a sense of what we're doing about it and make sure he's comfortable with our posture. as i said the other day, we don't have current, active threats against the homeland to our knowledge and that's a good news story for today. let me move into a quick thought. before i do it, though, sarah noted we created the department of homeland security in the wake of 9/11. i would note that the government engaged in a massive reor

bossert: the first point, no.e are trying to make sure we have responsible estimates as opposed to making wild gases now. we will try to get through the response phase and as we transition into recovery figure out the damage, go up for another responsible request. if we got that wrong then we go for another. it's not necessarily wrong but if we estimate and find tules don't meet the estimates then we'll go and rectify. as far as flood insurance, we will see how many claims. they had $6.8 billion available to it. if claims exceed we will ask for the cap to be raised. reporter: i was hoping you could drill down the efforts of evacuating americans in the caribbean. the state department had a task force. they're working round the clock. can you assess those efforts and can you give a message to americans who are right now in dire straits in the caribbean who might be listening to this, what should the expectation be for an evacuation, how soon can the americans get the americans out? mr. bossert: i'm preaching caution

bossert: a little too early. the $7.5 billion that came for fema was a calculated estimate. $6.8 figure that would be at the end of the month. those two together are contemplated only assume -- and we assume assume passage of both. the third request would be based on estimates of information. reporter: what happens to daca recipients currently serving in the military? can you explain why there is a delay and when we can expect an answer? mr. bossert: the president put it on congress. and the window, i'm not sure what the answer is on the military part of daca. i thought we were clear. i will get back to on that. given harvey and the flooding and recovery effort and what may happen with irma, there are reports that you all are reconsidering the flood, reversing the floodplain regulations that the obama administration put in. can you talk about whether you are reconsidering that, either putting back those regulations or drafting new regulations that would toughen the flood regulations since we will be facing those

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joining me tonight from the white house, homeland security advisor tom bossert. tom, thanks for being here. you said today that some of the reports are lagging. has the dynamic changed from what we are hearing? >> thanks for having me. that dynamic never changes. in terms of reporting but the dynamic on the ground always does change. i freaked earlier this morning the number of hospitals that were open. i updated it again this afternoon. as an example, i will brief now. 51 of the 69 hospitals on the island are open. 41 of 48 dialysis centers are open. this is one of the key critical factors. it's something that has changed throughout the day. old reporting are old footage from earlier tends to give a bad impression. it wasn't wrong at the time it was recorded. it's dated. that's the challenge for all of us. >> bret: it is not just democrats who are criticizing a little bit of the effort. here is senator rubio talking about what he is hearing and seeing. >> basically there is no communication, no power, no fuel. no truckers. you've got container sitting at the por

bossert said that if they wanted to do air drops, he could make it as a recommendation. they have to have the authority to command and do what they need to do as well as waiver federal laws as needed. otherwise they won't get to the people. and i still think we need second airborne or whoever the brigade is to be there tomorrow to help with distribution. the 10,000 troops are doing a great job once they get another 5,000 to 10,000 federal troops. but remember, in katrina they had 20,000 federal troops. need a hell of a lot more. and more helicopters. in katrina, i had 200. thank you for allowing me to comment. >> thank you so much. let's go straight to the ground to puerto rico, boris sanchez. we've been telling the stories and you are showing us the cargo containers full of aid and the questions being why haven't they been dispersed. the white house is bringing this up. what is going on? >> reporter: yeah, in the last hour or so, we've seen an uptick in activity here at the port. the 10,000 or so cargo containers that have a been stick at different ports are starting to

i'll be speaking live with him in the next hour with tom bossert. i want to clarify, the shipping containers, and there are thousands of them behind you boras are not necessrily filled with relief aid, but goods that would normally be shipped into puerto rico, right? >> reporter: precisely, forgive me for misspeaking earlier, yeah the vice president of crowley's operations here in puerto rico tells me that they are filled with vital goods that would be in store shelves and on the tables of many puerto ricans but they're being held up as i mentioned earlier, a lack of truckers, a lack of fuel to actually get them to wo where they need to go, wolf. he says it's a matter of semantics. this may not be classified as aid, but it certainly would be helpful for families that are in desperate need of portable water and food. >> boras sanchez on the scene in san juan, thank you so much. >>> outside of the city's desperation is setting in as people are cut off from food, fuel, and medical supplies. i want to go to our senior international correspondent ivan wa

tom bossert and brock long are on the ground today to do a more thorough and deeper assessment of what needs there are. our focus is still continuing to be on the life saving efforts and the immediate disaster response efforts which are still currently under way and those funds have been secured and are available and once we have a greater insight into the full assessment of damage then we'll be able to determine what additional funds are needed but we're still in that fact finding process on that piece of it. >> one follow-up. on jen's question earlier about tax reform. you didn't answer her question about the whether the plan will be announcing we heard from a number of different states, [ inaudible ] corporate tax rate will be set. is the tax plan finalized right now? >> there are certain details that are finalized, the president will be announcing those on wednesday. jordan? >> thank you. what will you -- what would the administration say to people on the island that saying there's not enough time to do this big fact-finding mission, there's isolated areas on the island that don't

about the tax relief plan, i'd like to bring up ne krechlt direc director ga then we'll also have tom bossert up to abls questions speciffte to the hurricane relief efforts.

with that i'd like to bring up tom bossert is discuss pacif specifics, and after i'll be up to take care of the questions. thanks. >> thanks, sarah. thanks to each of you for being here. i can't add too much more to

the challenge is, as you heard from tom bossert, getting supplies to the people and people to the supplies or facilities. >> bret: today you said you think you still have the confidence of president trump. why do you think that? >> i continue to work, we work together on the issue of the hurricanes, global health security, working on -- >> bret: has he talked to you about this? >> he has an ses he has said publicly, he wasn't happy. he expressed that to mean very clearly. >> bret: how so? >> just that way. i won't divulge any personal conversations i've had with the president but he wasn't happy. >> bret: he put a statement out. you say you apologize and you are going to write a check. >> bret: i think the important point, these trips were official business and within budget and approved by the normal processes ever gathered administration has gone through. prior to the trip, not after. we have heard concerns. i have heard the criticisms. in order to make certain people appreciate my respect for the taxpayer is as strong as it can be and always has been in my 40 year career, we think it's

understand from tom bossert there are line crews coming from canada, as far as canada. when this is typical sam, seen big storms you see for days and days on the highways leading into the area, utilities trucks and line, electrical line trucks, tree cutting trucks from days tans places. in full response mode now. sam? >> reporter: absolutely. ali, exactly what you want to hear. what people in south florida want to hear, because today -- remember, ali, when you and i talked a day, two days ago we shed this would be an all-florida storm. this storm, irma, landfall in the keys, in southwest florida, causing flooding now in northeastern florida, and so it is. it's an all-state problem and cleanup. a massive undertaking. people who are even here on miami beach and in miami proper don't have water. don't have power. in a lot of these areas. you can't have an area this big with 80% of the people without power, without having a huge power issue. it wasn't until that briefing, ali, i think i understood how difficult it would be to get the power back on. they have to notify homeo

as i mentioned earlier, both tom bossert and brock long are on the ground today to do a more thorough and deeper assessment of what needs there are. our focus is still continuing to be on the lifesaving efforts and the immediate disaster response efforts which are still currently under way. those funds have been secured and are available, and once we have a greater insight into the full assessment of damage, then we'll be able to determine what additional funds are needed, but we're still kind of in that fact-finding process on that piece of it. >> on jen's question earlier about tax reform, you didn't answer her question whether the plan the president will be announcing wednesday is finalized. we've heard a number of different statements from the president in the last several days about what corporate tax rate will be set. is the tax plan finalized right now? >> there are details that were finalized. the president will announce those on wednesday. >> what would the administration say to people on the island who are saying there's not enough time to do this big fact-finding mission. t

this is something that was echoed of course by homeland security advisor tom bossert. i am trish regan. welcome, everyone, to "the intelligence report." the hurricane irma is heading straight for florida. the death toll is 23 people, 23 people have been killed in the caribbean. thousands of homes have been destroyed. hurricane irma destroying this world famous beachfront airport in st. maarten. low-flying planes, used to buzz over the heads of beachgoers. now that airport, totally, totally destroyed. you're looking at pictures coming in to us. similar sight on the small island of barbuda. irma damaging every building on the island. 60% of the residents there are homeless. back here stateside here in the usa, we're seeing a massive exodus. look at pictures. we may have live pictures we can bring to you of traffic, people trying to get out of florida. it is bumper-to-bumper. it is is a mass exodus, one of the biggest exoduses we have ever seen. jeff flock the evacuation is not mandatory. reporter: some are getting out. some are staying. this is daytona beach providing sa

i just heard tom bossert said and he he wonder what they're. all the water rkt the generators and the rest of the food that is needed across the island. that's the most important thing because we don't have enough manpower, enough resources to send srp. >> we hope that now with general kim there helping out in that area, all the efforts that have been dealing with hospitals, and that's one of the areas that concern me most, that people who are dying in the hospitals because there is a lack of generators, a lack of power can be moved. can we seen treatment? we're talking about people receiving chemo or dia dialysis. those are what we're dealing with along with the five hours in line just to get om gas. >> there was plenty of warning this was going to be bad, this is going to happen. it just seemed as though the air lift decided to go sooner. . our correspondent was saying, with great request on the t people, and they're having meetings in the air-conditioned meeting room but they're not out in the field. they're air-conditioned, they're in comfo

the president asked both tom bossert and brock long to go beyond the ground, come back give us a list of what is needed, that we can turn around quickly. i'm talking about longer term assessment, which simply can't be done today. we want to make sure funding is provided but we also want to make sure that we're actually funding the correct things. deb? >> steve bannon and another former white house official are supporting roy moore in the alabama primary tomorrow. we also know that bannon met with -- who is challenging dean heller. does the president brief, we talked about loyalty friday night. does he believe he owes it to republican senators who voted for a senate health care bill to support them? how does he feel about his own people basically supporting a challenger and as he spoken to them about it? >> as i said many times before due to the political nature of the question i will not weigh in an specific race or involvement in ace race. >> i'm not asking about a race. i'm talking about principle here. the president talked about loyalty friday night? bus he feel on principle if rep

. >> and white house homeland security adviser tom bossert this afternoon pledging to serve the leaders of all states in the path of hurricane irma. >> governor matt, governor row sell low and scott of florida, you're all on our minds, you're our clients. we'll meet the requirements and as americans we'll get through this. >> we'll go straight to al roker who joins us from miami. al, i'm married to a miami native. i know that folks in miami are thinking about hurricane andrew, the other big one and are nervous about the human toll and the damage that this storm could wreak on that state. >> well, nicolle, well they should be. as you mentioned 25 years ago last month, andrew came on shore. that's the one that really is kind of the benchmark and this has that potential. we're not trying to scare people. we just want to give them the facts. because when you think about it, the peninsula of florida is about 150 miles wide. not counting the panhandle. this storm is about 400 miles wide so as it approaches it has the potential to cause massive problems both on the east coast of florida, the w

. >> now try to be respectful of ya'll's time, we have tom bossert that will take hurricane relief efforts. i'll come back after that. >> thanks, sarah. good afternoon. as you know, president trump has put people first and paperwork second. he's had us pull out the stops and pull out as much federal relief into puerto rico and the virgin islands and we've been doing that to meet his objectives the last eight days. i'm here to take questions. i know you heard reporting from sarah. >> and specifically on the jones act, that's been a lot of attention the last 72 hours. critics say the white house should have moved more quickly in waiving the jones act. lawmakers among them. why is that an unfounded complaint? >> okay. it is an unfounded complaint. here's why. the jones act briefly stated is a rule that favors flagged vessels, u.s. flagged vessels. if there are not enough u.s. flagged vessels, the capacity in other words to meet the needs, then we waive the jones act. in this particular case, we had enough capacity of u.s. flagged vessels to take more than or to exceed the requirement and need

. >> bossert said that's about cash on hand.lorida and texas -- you are talking 100, 2$200 plus million in debt, but they had cash on hand. the president was putting a condition axe on how much they will spepbnd to rebuild. there's an aspect of the politics. we know what the politics are on the ground. we know what it is. it's bad. it's not getting better fast enough, period. the politics that we are hearing from bossert, elaine duke, they are being put in a position by somebody -- we will leave that open -- to go out there and say we are doing great. don't let the media frame us as this is not getting done, but the reality is it's not getting done. whether it's about blame or whatever, nobody is getting it done in puerto rico right now. >> maggi is the world expert on donald trump and can speak volumes on this. she talks about the heartbreaking testimony we heard. the question is can his heart be broken? can he display any kind of empathy for other people? that is what has been absent from his rhetoric. it's all about him, alwa

. >> now -- try to be respectful of y'all's time, also we have tom bossert that will come up, talk about hurricane relief efforts and take questions specific to that and i'll come up after that. thanks, guys. >> thanks, sarah. good afternoon. as you know, president trump has put people first and paperwork second. he's had us call out and pull out all the stops and promote as much federal relief into puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands and we can muster and meeting his objectives and heard reporting from sarah. i'll jump right in. peter? >> ask you, first, thanks for being here. specifically on the jones act, focus of a lot of attention in the course of the last 24 to 72 hours thousand, critics say the white house should have moved more quickly. why is that an unfounded complaint? >> it is unfounded, here's why. the jones act briefly stated is a rule that -- favors flagged vessels. u.s. flagged vessels. if there are not enough u.s. flag vessel, the capacity, in other words, to meet the need, we waive the jones act. in this particular case, we had enough capacity of u.s. flagged vessel

here is tom bossert's response to that question. >> it didn't require a three star general eight days ago. >> didn't require a three-star general eight days ago. did they not see the pictures we did. no gas, filling water bottles from an open pipe. sleeping in the airport for days. elaine duke didn't have a better grip on reality or the gravity of the situation when she spoke today. >> i know it is really a good news story, in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane. >> a good news story, in any way to reach people while they aren't getting things and half the population doesn't have water and 90% don't have power. lives are on the line. but it's a good news story. this morning, the president reverses force on the jones act allowing non-american vessels to enter the port. sarah sanders says that wasn't necessary and trump, of course, sided with the shipping industry, appeared to be concerned about their view more than that of puerto ricans. >> we have a lot of shippers and a lot of people and a lot of

bossert saying something really disturbing. he says that it has taken is long -- he, the homeland security adviser -- saying it has taken so long for aid to get to people that there are reports, at least according to one journalist there, of family members burying their relatives on their front lawn. hopefully, the relaxation, the waiver to have so-called jones act which, when it's in effect, taxes ships that are coming in they are not made or related to the usa into u.s. ports, that has been waive for the moment. so we're watching that. but the real headline for this business network, national economic adviser gary cohn says while he cannot guarantee all your taxes will go down, he says he can guarantee the plan he co-created as it stands will not be a tax cut for the wealthy. >> the last thing we want to see is wealthy individuals or wealthy groups or families move their tax rate down from the 35% rate to a 25% rate. we are spending time on that. the tax writers at both the house and the senate are acutely aware of this issue

tom bossert, the homeland security adviser says the emergency responders are rested and recharged andgo after hurricane harvey. one of the big problems though because the federal response right now is really geared towards life-saving and getting people out of harm's way, there's not a lot of gasoline, particularly in the south florida area. they have waived the requirement that only u.s.-flagged ships can carry petro products. many trucks are receiving escorts by police. the window of opportunity to get gasoline in to the area that needs it most is quickly closing. listen here. >> the conditions will dictate that. i don't think there's much more that we can get in. they'll have to stop operations. that's one of my messages here. it's not tough love. it's a message of clarity and honesty. at some point people will be on their own for a period of time. the flooding, the raining and the wind bare down on them and they need to be prepared. >> bossert who has also got ten high marks from harvey and what will happen with jose say people need to be prepared to take care of themselves for a

he gestured home in security chief tom bossert say the government has not yet assessed the damage but accuweather says it's ready to put a number i'm a combined economic cost of both irma and harvey pier that hurricane in texas a week and a half ago on your screen, $290 billion in damages. we could hit that. jeff flock is on what has to be the most exposed area on the western coast of florida in vero beach. just that's a barrier beach with nothing between it and the gulf of mexico. how is it faring? >> here's the thing. you say the storm is in georgia. still in florida. let me tell you this is the storm surge from his coming up at yesterday we saw the pictures of water being out of the base and the passes. now it's headed back in there and you are watching storm surge as we speak come into what is called jobs that. connects treasure island with madero beach which is where we stand and i don't want to get wet. i've been wet for three days and i just got dried out so we are going to get too close to it but this is what this looks like the drives as water back into the path and potential

here is the statement and response from tom bossert.ossert: i secretary was here in the 6 weeks it hit florida. it's prudent to make sure emergency services are there. causality is outside of what i can determine right now. is rising flood water one inch every 10 years and things that would require prudent mitigation measures. what i said from the podium the other day and what president trump remains committed to is making federal dollars are not used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or will not be hardened against the floods we see and that has to do with analysis and changing conditions along eroding shorelines and inland water projects. host: the new york times featuring a story taking a look at the head of the epa, scott pruitt, lisa friedman saying for discussing climate after storms is insensitive they are set to discuss climate change in the middle of the deadly storm. the mayor of miami whose citizens raised to evacuate before hurricane irma, says it not now, when? "this is the time to talk about climate change

yesterday at the white house press briefing sarah huckabee sanders and tom bossert both said that the misunderstanding around puerto rico is because of misinformation. the implication is that somehow the news has been telling a different story than the reality. as i'm talking to you, we're showing you picture of the devastation in puerto rico. we're not making this stuff up. >> right. i mean, actually, the briefing was even the second briefing of the day. i was there yesterday. tom bossert and elaine duke, the acting dhs secretary who is on the ground there in puerto rico today had another briefing. and they pushed back hard -- i mean, it was very defensive in which they said any -- we're very discouraged by some of this media reporting. your reporting is not to any particular person rg but the reporting is old. the the information you have is wrong. and, you know, it's nobody's fault. but clearly they were saying it was our fault. so you saw part two in the white house briefing. i think one of the interesting things is that there have been a lot of questions and they're not really an

tom bossert said returning power to the state is a main priority and the restoration effort will be the largest of its kind in u.s. history. he also warned floridians about returning to their homes too quickly. >> now, though, the message is not to rush re-entry. there are still dangerous conditions downed, electric lines, flood conditions. problems that would be compounded by your re-entry. listen to local officials not only about re-entry. >> and praising efforts throughout the storm and sizz h says his is read to get things on track. >> got to keep everybody safe. get hospitals back open. fuel back here. got to get roads opened. get everybody electricity back and i can't tell you anybody that's not working's my experience is, everybody is working their tail off, and unfortunately everybody has to be patient. it's going to be a lot of work to get it done. >> morgan radford is in jacksonville, florida, where they've been dealing with record flooding in the aftermath of irma. morgan, we talked a few hours ago as the water was just starting to rise again. what are you seeing now? >> repo

tom bossert and elaine duke, the acting dhs secretary who is on the ground there in puerto rico today, had another briefing. and they pushed back hard, i mean, it was very defensive, in which they said, you know, we're very disscourged by some of this media reporting, the reporting is old, the information you have is wrong, and it's nobody's fault. but clearly they were saying it's our fault. you saw part two in the white house briefing. i think one of the interesting things is, there have been a lot of questions, and they're not really answering them. one of the questions that came up this week is, from senator rubio, who said that the pentagon should be in charge and there should be one person in charge, like you mentioned has happened in the past. and they could not answer exactly why they were not doing that. they said, well, the military is in charge of pieces of it but they're not in charge of the whole thing. why is that? they could not answer that question. >> mike, the idea that health care didn't pass and that this tax reform thing may have some struggles, people like us wil

we will also have tom bossert up to answer questions specific to the hurricane relief efforts. --you guys are exit insistent and have other topics to cover, i will come back up. mr. cohn: thank you, sarah. openinging to make remarks, but you covered a few of them. a couple things i will say is that the president has made his goals very clear what he wants to achieve here with tax reform and cutting taxes in the united states. i think you know where we are in the process. the group of six has been working well together. we are now in the hands of congress. we want to go through a normal, regular process in the senate and the house. we are working well with both tax drafting committees. we will continue working well and quickly, and are trying to drive tax reform as quickly as we can. the basic premise behind that, you know. i will not take you through it. weuestion i get asked a lot, do need to make basic assumptions about where we will end up with the brackets. assumptions, ar typical family earning $100,000 with two children that has been --deductor, dr. can expect a text adop

yesterday tom bossert said there was no need for a three star general until now. >> funny thing, i wasondering what was going on because on one side, i'm seeing he's doing so much and then on the other side, i'm not. and then i'm on all these spanish channels live hearing people puerto rico getting on these live two way radios talking about how it is over there. and it doesn't add up. disappoim saddened by it and i'm afraid what will happen. it just seems that if they are trying, i don't think that they are trying hard enough. i think right now we need to put our political things aside and just realize these are real lives. these are real people. people who don't have much money. you know, even have people from here that are there that maybe don't speak the language. i just spoke to a woman yesterday who has a date there that doesn't speak spanish at all. she was there on vacation. and i feel her pain as a mom. so unless she's going to go there -- unless they are going there, the three star general, on to to start picking up debris and opening up the roads to get to other people, i don

finally, i'd like to reiterate the message that tom bossert, the president's homeland security adviser gave yesterday. in case there's anyone watching today in need of assistance, once you have access to a functioning computer, go to www.disasterassistance.gov. if you have access to a working phone, call 800-621-3362. with that, i'll take your questions. >> sarah, you mentioned the supplemental. does the president feel it's helpful to tie the supplemental to the advisory on raising the debt ceiling? do you have the details of the supplemental? >> right now the details are being finalized. we'll have more information shortly. most likely by the end of today. >> what about the issue of tying the vote to the debt ceiling? >> those are being finalized and should have something by the end of the day. >> so what the president said that he would have a decision on daca in the next couple days. can you talk a little bit about what are the factors driving that decision? what is he weighing right now? also, does he think that the program as it is designed now, does he think it's legal? >> i spok

tom bossert also said you have your information wrong. >> you were on the ground. we've spoken to people this morning in the united states who haven't been able to talk to their own family members for now going on ten days. please tell us your first hand account of what's going on there. >> i landed a cargo aircraft into san juan on wednesday filled with medical supplies we were bringing to the people. the mayor of san juan met us there and she was able to help us with distribution. she's on the ground. she had tears in her eyes. she was excited to see someone. you have an airport there. i say to myself, do you remember the air lift we did for berlin? why isn't that air lift happening in san juan? why aren't those planes rolling in and out with supplies? you know, the greatest generation when we landed in normandy, omaha beach, juneau beach. we covered that. you didn't hear all kinds of excuses from general eisenhower or fdr. they weren't concerned the community wasn't ready to accept them in northern france or the weather wasn't good. they did what they could to m

i think elaine duke is doing a great job and tom bossert at the white house did a good job of making sure the president was informed and engaged. and they have put the people in place, but this is going to be a long involvement. the usied will take charge of the caribbean islands that were devastated from this storm, so this is a massive effort to help the president do what his job is, to help the citizens. this is what the government is truly here for, to help, and if they don't do it, shame on the government, but they're getting pretty good grades right now by having the right organization in place and the right attitude. it's keeping that positive attitude of wanting to help the victims that's most important. >> it's really been a reality check for those who come to washington and say, you don't need the government. the fact is, in times like this, you need the government, you need fema. john kelly knows this coming out of the pentagon. the state department is the sort of stand-alone issue which, by the way, the appropriations committee led by republicans unanimously rejected rex

before we heard from the white house press secretary we heard from the homeland security advisor tom bossert. he they might impact the recovery, fort down there. he noted that to get all of the electricity back up in florida, there are 6,000 customers -- 6 million customers in florida without power and it could take weeks which is something we've heard from officials, as well and an interesting note from tom bosser, the two areas of acute concern for the administration are the florida keys and jacksonville, florida, also where we've seen terrible flooding just over the last few hours. i don't think you could pick two points in florida further apart than jacksonville and the florida keys which just shows you the scope of the devastation from hurricane irma. let's go to jacksonville right now if we can. kaylee hartung is in jacksonville and has been covering this flooding and the images that we've seen from this, kaylee, have been astounding. what's it look like now? >> reporter: john, the waters of the st. johns river is still rolling into downtown jacksonville. we are two blocks inland from

tom bossert, thank you very much. very much.you great job, guys. short time ago, president trump's health and human services secretary and former georgia congressman tom price has resigned. after it was revealed that he repeatedly chartered private planes for government travel. asretary price took as many 26va

tom bossert, thank you very much. very much.you great job, guys. a short time ago, president trump's health and human services secretary and former georgia congressman tom price has resigned. after it was revealed that he repeatedly chartered private planes for government travel. asretary price took as many 26 private flights and flew on military airplanes on trips to europe and africa. the estimated cost to taxpayers is more than $1 million according to politico. the president has said he was not happy about the secretaries use of private jets. today, the president visited the national association of manufacturers and washington, d.c. and he talked about tax reform and the federal government's response to hurricane maria and puerto rico. the president is scheduled to visit puerto rico on tuesday. [applause] welcome everyone to the national association of manufacturers and the more than 12 million men and women who make things in america, this is our moment. haveacturers in america never been as enthusiastic and optimistic about their future as the

trump'sresident homeland security advisor tom bossert speaking right now. it is discussing hurricane irma evacuation orders multiplying across florida, including at mar-a-lago estates following forecasts of catastrophic wins and powerful storm surge. let's get to nathan crooks, our reporter who is in downtown miami. great to have you on. thank you for joining us. we were talking in the last hour about the fact that there are so few people remaining where you are. talk through the evacuation procedures, what they are saying. >> they started the mandatory evacuations yesterday. a lot of people have cleared out of the city before then. the people in the required evacuation zones, i think, over 600,000 people. that is a pretty major movement of people. a briefing earlier with authorities, some of the shelters they had set up are sorted to philip, so they are opening more, they will have shelters for almost 100,000 people, which is pretty massive. those are remaining are making sure they are well supplied, we are quickly running out of time to finish all of the

today homeland security adviser tom bossert defended the white house. >> with respect to the distribution of commodities that is the biggest challenge right now but the restoration of power is a also a big challenge and i'll tell you why. energy here is supplying the hospitals that are providing medical and those with medical conditions and had chelation needs and other needs so we are pushing personnel in to augment state and local authorities to push those commodities. >> melanie is here on the politics of getting aid to puerto rico. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> he did a good job of explaining why things are slow there. i want to get your take. do you think that the trump administration's response to puerto rico has been different than it was in texas and in florida. >> well, that's certainly the question and one of the issues here was the jones act. the shipping waiver and that was immediately granted for both florida and texas following those hurricanes and that would ease shipping restrictions so that necessary supplies can more easily and cheaply get to the u.s

since you didn't get tom bossert, you can get a little of his information. he did an op-ed in "the new york times" a couple months ago. i could encourage you to look at the piece. it's a tool we can't afford for our safety to let sunset. i think congress is well focused on it, and we'll look into keep that capability. >> awesome. >> when you ask about going dark, i think that the first message i would want everybody to understand is, strong encryption is good for the nation. there's no black and white about that. we need it for business. we need it for our personal privacy. we need it for, you know, our protections of the national security side as well as the way we interact just as a society. that being said, there's also a really important part for rule of law. and so what we would like to see is responsible corporations consider how they can be responsive to a judicial order. and the government, you know, shouldn't have a place in saying how that's done, but the design considerations up front should consider that, you know, we as a society need to do inve

after a press conference today, president trump's adviser for homeland security tom bossert defendedhe government's response. >> president trump remains completely committed to the response and recovery efforts on puerto rico and will remain so until puerto rico is fully recovered. >> reporter: tonight those military helicopters are being used to distribute food and supplies to cities and towns across the island where people have been waiting for help for nearly five days. anthony? >> mason: david begnaud with the desperate situation in puerto rico. thanks. in our new cbs news poll, only 29% of americans approve of president trump's handling of healthcare. and he has not been able to persuade senate republicans to pass a repeal of obamacare. nancy cordes tells us the latest version is on life support. >> reporter: an eleventh hour hearing on the g.o.p. bill got off to a rocky start. >> don't cut the benefits! >> reporter: disrupted by died filled the halls outside. >> if you can't be in order, then get the heck out of here. >> reporter: inside the bill's authors, bill cassidy and lin

we won't have lawful access to this data as tom bossert said yesterday. they're going to organize themselves into groups. they're going to train people online. we see it happening. that's what manchester was. and they're going to draw new recruits. and if we do not address the terrorist use of the internet we're going to fail in this task and not deal with that problem of persistence. >> thank you. chris? >> thank you. let me echo the notes from before, how privileged i feel to be part of this, to be back in washington with old friends and new friends to talk specifically about terrorism. the idea that as you heard before i grew up on the military side while collaboration and five eyes beyond five is nato is how you do intelligence on the military side, certainly in the ct world, it has to work that way, and intelligence is based on trust and trust is built by connecting together and exchanging ideas. so the fact we could be here, we could look at each of our views of terrorism, i think it just adds to our ability to do a better job, continue to do a good