it all came down on fema. why do you think that?> i think the primary responsibility to respond to this event was fema. but as you pointed out and i appreciate you championing the coast guard. it's probably one of the most underappreciated, underresourced multitask organizations in the federal government. they did come to the rescue. again, there was another blame to go around. we will never be able to go to -- kind of undermind the confidence of the people generally in the federal government. think frankly in the state and local government, there's culp ability there. but i think the most important thing in the aftermath of such a tragedy is there were lesson learned. fema did make significant changes afterwards and i believe if it ever happened again -- this is almost biblical in proportion. we did have a plan on the shelf that said if there's something that overwhelmed the capability of fema and the state and local governments to deal with it, you can go to this plan. well, they went to it after the incident happened rather than

i believe fema be assigned homeland security is a perfect example of that.i'd be appear before a subcommittee of staffers that spe in opposition to the proposed organization. all i los but what is your opinion about the homeland secuty and what they have done? >> guest: first all you've got to compare the integration efforts that we did after 9/11 with intelligence and homeland security. we didn't take the wisdom of the cold water nichols act. because the servicers didn't like goldwater nichols when they ard about the feared it wa going to create a separate bureaucracy to run them and what happened instead the genius of the act was to say no, we are going to draw from the organizations. they will man the joint force so if i am a marine or soldier is a joint tour and requirement so there will be qualy but i go back to my service. in that organization where component parts. i had an army air force navy, rine corps, special operations component so what happens is the joint structure said all of the organizations are going to be reesented and ha ownerip and part

the command we had and so you spend a tr from fema and came back and fema have a component part and the coast guard had a component part so the structure that brought you together wasn't a separate and distinctrocrit extractor. say the same thing for the intelligence world. we have agencies that don't talk each other so they created another one. my good friend denney blair is a super guif anybody can bring it togetherill but creating a separate proxy just compounds the problem and doesn't solve it. so i think it is be participatory sense of ownership since of representation. >> host: we have to reflect on blair is a secretary. and i years ago when i was in fema was asked to sit on the committee and look at the 16 intelligence community's to see some kind of togetherness. they didn't even talk to each other. chapter nine mentioned technology and sed in today's world. yoal acknowledged the yell d network, computer networking is essential for today's boss. but how important is it for you or any commander to see the body language of that commander in a very important juncture in battle? >>

brian showed you the coast guard plane loaded with fema aid. the president said fema and the coast guard are working together on the ground trying to get though those who need it. >> we stand ready to help our friends in neighboring samoa and throughout the region and will continue to monitor the situation closely as we keep the many people who were touched by the tragedy in our thoughts and in our prayers. >> a bit of good news if there is any out of this. there was some warning for the say mow ans that -- samoans. running water appears to have been restored in most places at this point, brian. >>> a new gun battle is shaping up in the u.s. supreme court. remember last year the justices struck down d.c.'s gun ban as unconstitutional. the issue now, does the d.c. ruling trump gun laws in other states. craig boswell takes a look at the debate. >> reporter: a fight over a gun ban in chicago is heading to the nation's highest court. >> laws like that in chicago have never kept criminals from being armed. >> reporter: the supreme court will hear a

craig fugate is the director of fema. craig, good to see you today.t is the priority right now in terms of the operations happening on american samoa. >> i talked with the governor yesterday and his team. first priority is life safety, rescue operations, supporting them medically for the impact of the eye land and life sustaining, getting enough supplies in there to continue to provide them essential resources. >> we read a letter from the sister of the representative from american samoa to the united states legislature and she was saying the hospital was so innoneone -- inundated with victims they had to move caskets into the chapel. do they have what they need on the island? there is aircraft in the air, coast guard c-130 has already arrived bringing with them some of the first team members, including a federal coordinating officer, who has been designated bait president to coordinate the federal response. additional supplies and resources are currently in the air or loaded up based upon the request from the governor's team. again, we are not waitin

the fema's done, did a good job in the month of the storm, but when they start dealing with citizens,y frustrating process and many of our citizens are still waiting for help from fema. >> julie: wow. >> and we are, too, the city is, too, but my concern-- the city will make it, my concern is for the citizens, we've got about 3000 citizens still trying to get back here on the island and back into their homes, a way to go. >> julie: let's talk more about the citizens you speak of. 75% of people's homes were damaged 75%. what percentage will be rebuilding do you estimate? >> ray don't know, i would say we're maybe halfway back, we've had a lot of volunteers from all offer the country, church groups, who actually doing the work, the hammer, the nail shall the painting, for many of our citizens. i can't, i really don't know the exact percentage, i could just tell that you every day a little more gets done and a few more people get moved back into their houses. >> julie: and something disturbing, the citizens of galveston as you know, had their lives literally turned upside down one year ag

there is a great deal of skepticism that the same government that runs fema is going going to somehow bring efficiency to our doctor's offices and there is a great deal of skepticism that the same government that runs the i.r.s. is going to bring compassion and understanding to our insurance companies. mr. akin: that's the thing i find hard, the amount of faith that's required when you take a look at the performance of government agencies to turn our physical bodies over to those government agencies to take care ever us. it's kind of a hard thing to swallow. as you say the compassion of the i.r.s., the efficiency of the post office, fema we have seen that legendary. we have other ones. you got the department of energy. do you know why the department of energy was created? to make sure that we weren't dependent on foreign oil. aren't you glad we got all those employees making sure we are not dependent on foreign oil? then you got the c.i.a., the cloak and dagger stuff. that would be great, but they are the ones that gave us a report in gulf war one that the iraqis were 10 years away fr

greta: well what about fema? >> we had seen that many agencies such as fema did not measure up. it was temporary. they created a katrina czar that could look across agencies and try to solve problems, and then when that need went away, that tsar went away. greta: for an emergency? these are emergencies? >> no, we still have a drug czar, which we have had for decades. again, it is not just senator feingold. it is senator byrd from west virginia. he has complained for a long time about how that is usurping senate authority. so it is a concern, and i think the reason is getting so much attention now is that there are so many of them. we now have by our count at fox news 32 of them, so it is sort of reaching critical mass, so we have had czars in the past. i do not know that we have had this many. i think they may end up providing a minimum of information to satisfy their critics, but i do not think that the white house will subjected their 32 czars to the level of scrutiny that it submit supreme court appointees and agency directors and others to. greta: i get to make these decisio

. >>> still ahead, the verdict on the safety of fema trailers. >>> next in >>> well, we have been waiting to find out what was going to happen. >> well, we knew it was inevitable. it finally happened tonight. it was in dramatic fashion. the nationals hit the century mark, yet again. the first franchise to lose 100 games in consecutive seasons since the san diego padres in 1973 and '74. we're at nationals park. check out george washington. thomas jefferson goes on for the win. what a race that was. top of the first. martin. we have to find something exciting here. crushes it to deep left center. it's a home run of the three-run variety. he's thinking why did i throw that. dodgers put a four on the board in the first. two on, two out. he delivers with a base. gonzalez trots home. it's tied at six. nats down six. willie gets out. he's out by a mile. probably shouldn't have sent him. you know, what do you have to lose when you are losing your 100th game of the season. 7-6 is the final. the nationals fall to the dodgers. we know there's a change at the redskins park. we don't know exactly what

it claims they were made to fill fema contracts.hey were not defendas in the trial because of a two year statute limitations. >>> kanye west stealing the spotlight over over the outburst at the vm a's. >>> must, how safe is your cell phone. congress is stepping in to the radiation debate. the latests on the dangers that your favorite text toy could be packing.  >>> i am going to let you finish but beyonce had one of the best videos of all time. one of the best videos of all time. >> did you see it? it is the talk of the entertainment world today. kanye west's outburst. >> makes me uncomfortable to watch it. >> i was horrified when i saw it. >>> the rapper stormed the stage at the video awards as taylor swift was accepting her award for best female video. the biggest names were on hand for the video music awards. the show kicked off with tributes to michael jackson. his presence very real and his mikic very much alive ♪ [ music ] ♪ & thriller ♪ >> reporter: all of that tenderness quickly evaporated thanks to ka

fema has deployed teams already deep in crisis mode with limited electricity and phone service. michelle guillen, wjz news. >>> critical infrastructure is released about some of our area bridges. recent inspections found problems with two heavily traveled bridges, kelly -- >> reporter: our media partner the baltimore sun is reporting that its recent inspections that revealed two major bridges in our area need major work. concerns about the bay bridge infrastructure have grown after a fatal crash killed a bus driver last year. now the route 40 bridge and interstate 95 bridge both going over the river have their own problems. >> i think infrastructure in general. they will ago act on it as quickly as possible. >> the problem isn't here on the road, it's underneath. that's where the maryland transportation authority found advanced deterioration, but they say the road is safe for now. >> it makes me nervous driving over it i guess. you worry about your safety, it's a long bridge, especially in a weighted tractor trailer. >> reporter: engineering and construction would not be complet

. >> reporter: fema teams fanned out, assessing damage and taking claim, something residents said was days overdue. >> you have to wait until nature does its job to allow our people to get in safely. >> reporter: in some cases there's not much left after mother nature. homes are unliverrable. some schools unusable. floodwaters nearly reached the roof of clarksdale elementary. >> clarksdale is a great school. i just wish it were still here. >> the region is expecting another severe round that could result in several more inches of rain. >> looking at those pictures, you can't believe it, water up to the rooftop. >> that's incredible, the devastation. we'll have some wet weather around here tomorrow evening. nothing on that scale but wind at 20 miles an hour, windy, rainy. get your weekend fun tonight and early tomorrow. we might squeak the game in, but late saturday night. >> we'll squeak it in anyway. let's take a look at what we're seeing. boy, what a beautiful fall day we had today. temperatures hovering in the low 70s, almost no humiditied a light east breeze. a couple of showers i

they sang "katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade, congress, bush and fema, people acrossgether have come to rebuild us and we join them hand in hand." >>> with us now is the president of mediamatters.org, eric burns. good evening, eric. >> good evening, david. >> so explain to me, why is indoctrination when kids sing about president obama but it's patriotism when kids sing about president bush and fema? >> well, david, it's not indoctrination to anybody except karl rove, josh bolden, roger ailes, the rest of the bush administration in exile over at fox news because they're trying to push a political agenda. and they're trying to destroy this administration, and they'll use any means necessary to do it. and to just give you a little example of this, james o'keefe, who is one of the author of one of the suspect a.c.o.r.n. videos that there have been a lot of questions surrounding told chris wallace recently on fox news that he was employing tactics that would, quote, destroy his preliminary enemies. that's what this is about. there's nothing abnormal about kids talking and

now some congressmen are calling for fema to recall a grant awarded earlier this month. >> we would use the profits. >> reporter: a clip keeps coming back to haunt the group called acorn. some say it should be the final straw. >> the taxpayers deserve to know what's going on with this organization. they are under investigation in 15 states for voter fraud. >> reporter: he says this film proves acorn doesn't deserve federal funding. he says the senate's 83-87 vote of pulling funds from the group is not enough. >> this should be the beginning of deleting all federal funding for acorn. >> reporter: but congressman jim moran disagreets. >> i would provide oversight. >> he says yes the workers were wrong, indefensive, but this is a bad apple story. >> you're going to find a bad ap until every organization, even some up on capitol hill. >> reporter: speaking at an event for a different group that promotes affordable housing, he as acorn's efforts to help the powerless should not be forgoten. >> we need agencies that are willing to be aggressive and find shelter, even if it is homeless shelter

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they have asked for federal money from fema. it would go a long way.rian. >> lee cowan in san bernardino county. thanks. back here to this fire, the so-called station fire, on our flight from new york the captain of american airlines directed everyone to the windows on the right side. the flames were burning above the skyline of los angeles. so close to this huge population center. the fight is a huge effort. this is the command post for ground operations. another huge component comes from the air. the air operation is being run from an old airport that dates back to the dawn of a hollywood age. it's not far from here where today, we talk to the men who get in the choppers and are now involved in the fight. >> looks good. >> ethan is a helicopter pilot. when fires break out, he's among those overhead. sometimes dropping water, other times directing the drop. this is very close to the city of l.a. >> you have been doing something called forward air control. we associate that with wartime. in a war, forward air controllers go ahead of pilots and in some

security under bill clinton, they were anything to do it under george bush, they didn't do it, then fema, katrina, the iraq war. how much of a price does barack obama pay for the suspicions that government can get anything right? >> well, ironically, it's the republicans who are making that case today. when after eight years of george bush, that is what barack obama inherited. i think, look, this whole debate is driven by two things right now. the fact that the republicans do not want to help pass this -- pass health care because they fear another social security or medicare bearing popular program that people will view as a success. the democrats on the hill remembering the clinton health care bill where they went for everything and got nothing and then walked away with no health care reformat all for the $37 million at the time and now 47 million americans who don't have health care. that's what's driving what the president is trying to get done and that's why when you talk about the public option and whether he's going to keep it in or not, that is sitting at the crux of all of this a

and fema deploying teams to provide support and assess the damage. on the phone from american samoa, we have -- i will not be able to pronounce the last name, but it's a native name in samoa that i cannot pronounce. i apologize. the representative of a nonvoting delegate to the house of representatives. alex, welcome to the program. give us your sense of the damage and the state of the response right now. >> where i am from, i am from the village ofly owny, and the damage you hear in the village and i believe it's through the whole territory. it's tremendous. very bad. in our village, lots of homes have been swept inward. and the cars have been just washed on the inner part of the village. we have been searching for some missing people. we were able to find some of them, and we are still searching. in the nighttime we call it off and then again we start. there have been help from the government. so we have to use manpower. we are using manpower to try and rescue and try to get to those in the families and those homes have been destroyed. >> what is y

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. >> fema, federal emergency management association is working closely with emergency responders on the ground and coastguard is helping to provide immediate help to those in need. >> but the death toll is well past 100 and it could climb higher and many people are missing. >>> still to come when 9news now returns. write being checks at the grocery store could soon be going the way of green stamps. find out why your next trip to the grocery store could be simply cash or credit. >>> texting and driving are dangerous. you'll see how this little device here can help you. >>> and topper? >> i have a coat on. it is going to be rather chilly tonight. a pretty nice day despite the clouds and sprinkles. managed to make it to 70. low was 56. average of 74 and 56. record high. still can get pretty hot. 91 the record low. 38. we will come back and talk about what happens to the weekend. stay tuned. >>> 9news now is sponsored in part by car max. the way car buying should be. what kind of person writes a thesis calling working women "detrimental to the family..." then lies about his opponent to cove

you know, fema has set a track record of coming in and helping people that didn't have coverage for adisaster. i'm hoping that -- they did it for other states, they ought to do it for our state. >> reporter: he hopes they come with money, and soon. steve osunsami, abc news, lawrenceville, georgia. >>> overseas, in the densely populated region of eastern australia today, these were the sights and sounds. high winds brought red grit from the outback in if worst dust storm to hit sydney in 70 years. it turned day into a red night. breathing was difficult. people had to wear masks outdoors. the famed sydney opera house, you could barely see it across the harbor, where commuter ferry service was forced to a halt. >>> and still ahead on "world news," diplomats and dirty tricks the sex tape causing an international incident. brian ross investigates. >>> and an amazing finding on the moon. our nearest neighbor with a lot more water than we ever knew. i had chronic muscle pain all over. and i was so tender o the touch-- but i didn't know why. my doctor diagnosed it a fibromyalgia. and then he

fema and the coast guard flew in supplies overnight. new zealand and australia are sending in aide.oans in southern california are helping and hurting. >> my husband lost his brother-in-law along with eight children. >> reporter: a story all too familiar in the samoan islands. president obama has declared american samoa a disaster area which means the relief will continue pouring in. katie? >> couric: bill whitaker. bill, thanks very much. that wall of water, by the way, was traveling at the speed of a jumbo jet when it hit the samoas. john blackstone looks tonight at the science of tsunamis. >> reporter: their destructive power is undeniable, but scientists say much about tsunamis remains mysterious. each new one is an opportunity to learn more. testimony sea floor ridess, pushes the water up. >> pushes the water up and create this is big instabilityl. >> reporter: yesterday, 120 miles south of samoa where two sections of the earth's crust-- the australian plate and the pacific plate-- meet, the pacific plate began moving. it buckled and cracked creating an earthquake that shook th

what did we expect the role of fema to be? for anyone? >> from a state per sective, we are following the national system we've all agreed to which is the national response framework which is emergency support function, emergency support function number eight, public and medical, we're going through hhs and hhs is then going to fema. as i go through my state emergency management agency. i'm not a federal employee. fema has done as an agency some very good things in the last couple of years. we hope that this continued blueprint -- improvement is there in worng with us. >> hi, this question is for mr. al bridge. -- aldridge. you said that you thought the economic impact would be manageable if there are no significant changes. i guess there's different definitis of manageable. it seems to me that it would be because sars which was so big is only limited to a couple of considerates. this is worldwide. it seems it would be much bigger than happened with sars? >> yeah, sars that's a good question. this is what i meant. sars was a very short eve

you can find many left-wing blogs saying even michelle malkin is criticing michael braun t fema, a lot of dhs nepotism, which i investited and covered and uncovered myself, and also you can take a look at my files tsee, even most recently all of the work i have then criticizing the porkocrats in alaska,on young and ted stevens. think that, i think that my critics suffer from a moral equivalency wh they can't take a look at the book that i have written and tir immediate response is, where were you, without informing themselves abt where exactly i was. bush is not in office anymore. bara obama is and that is why i wrote the book. >> host: let me ask you specifically about a couple of the photographs inside the book. the former governor of illinois, the mayor of chicago and president obama. >> guest: i thought it was very important to set the stage for the atmosphere, the culture, the political mhine that barack obama crew out of and there is a section in the book specifically on the episode invoing barack obama, valerie jarek and thesenior white house adviser and the consigliere from chi

you can find many left wing blogs saying even michelle malkin's criticizing michael brown at fema, a lot of dhs nepotism which i investigated and coverednd uncovered myself. and also, you know, you can take a look at my files and see even most recently all of the work that i've done criticizing the porkacrats in alaska, don young and ted stephens. i think my critics suffer from a moral equivalency when they can't take a look at the book i've written and their immediate response is where were you without informing themselves where exactly i was. guess what? bush is not in office anymore, barack obama is, and that's why i wrote the book. >> host: let me ask you specificly about a couple of the photographs, first this with the former governor of illinois, the mayor of chicago, and president obama. >> guest: yeah. i think it was important to set the stage for the atmosphere, the culture, the political machine that barack obama grew out of, and there is a section in the book specifically on the episode involving barack obama, valerie jarrett, his senior white house adviser and con ciglyie

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i do not know what she is modeling that after, fema or amtrak, i do not know.here are some people who are not going to get as good of care as others, and that is the case. some kid is not going to be flown to the mayo clinic like a corporate executive is. secondly, states like california and florida that have high populations of illegal immigrants, some working, some not, have completely different cost structures that a state like wyoming. so a one size fits all national health-care plan is simply not going to work. finally, if you look at the number of doctors that are out there, neil, and you look at the number of additional people you are trying to cover, that is not going to work either. neil: you are say whatever inadequacies we have in our current system will be magnified under this one? >> it will, because what the public option would do, neil, is it would drive away competition. it would not help competition. the public option would be funded by taxpayer dollars, and they would have all of the taxpayer dollars to do what they want, and there would be po

. >>> and fema is working closely with american responders on the ground. >> some flies are already arriving. but it could be days before they are distributed. water has cut off many remote areas. and each rescue crews are having a tough time, getting in to search for survivors. in new york, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >>> why did one earthquake cause a tsunami while another did not? meteorologist bernadette woods is in to explain. >>> both were still devastating stories. the biggest between the two was the depth of the earthquake. for the indonesian one, it was much lower below the ground. as it started to form a tsunami, that dampened out very quickly. while this one was much closer to the surface. much shallower. it built a bigger tsunami wave out of it. unfortunately, still some damage from both of them. but once again, just want to remind you, how the tsunami forms. it displaces the ground, forcing that water to go anywhere. -- somewhere. it builds up into a wave. the one in somowa was closer to the surface. went one mile inland, causing all of those problems. also, our current

. >> and fema, the federal emergency management agency is working closely with emergency responders on the ground. and the coast guard is helping to provide immediate help to those in need. >> reporter: some supplies are already arriving. but it could be days before they are distributed. water has cut off many remote areas. and even rescue crews are having a tough time getting in, to search for survivors. in new york, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> and now, meteorologist bernadette woods is live in the first warning weather center, with more on that killer tsunami. bernadette? >> well, we had both big earthquakes am but one produced a tsunami. and the other did not very much. and the main reason there was a difference was this. it was the depth of the earthquake. the samoan earthquake happened much closer to the surface of the water and the land. and it created a big wave that pushed about a mile inland, whereas the indonesian earthquake was about 50 miles underground. so as it started to build that wave tdampenned -- it dampened out very quickly and did not really form. also,

. >> fema teams assess damage and take claims. something residents and elected officials say was days overdue. >> i think we were expecting faster action on behalf of the federal government. >> we have to allow our people to get in their safety. >> there is not much left after mother nature. homes are on lovable. some schools and unusable. floodwaters nearly reached the roof of the elementary school. >>s a great school, i wish it was still here. >> they expect another round of evere weather this weekend. >>> coming up, thousands of muslims marched on capitol hill. what they're doing, and why it made some people upset. >> the atm fees have been hitting businesses using the firefighters tools hit again. >> and some new details about a briberybribe ( clicking ) ( laughs, click ) when you hear a click, ( clicking ) you know it's closed and secure. that's why hefty food bags click closed. hefty! hefty! hefty! so you know you've helped lock in freshness and lock out air... to help prevent freezer burn. be sure it's secure with hefty foo

. >> it can take 6 months to a year to get certified and pass the fema certification. >> reporter: and years of service? >> around -- we look at replacing them between 8-10 years. so are you ready to go? >> reporter: i'm ready to be rescued. >> all right. go find her. >> reporter: there you go. hey, hey all right. when do i let go. >> you don't let go. >> reporter: he's very strong. you can let go now. >> good boy. he wants to play. come on, bud. good dog. >> reporter: that is a little unnerving. but if you were someone who had been trapped, you would be happy to hear that. >> and we want a dog that has high drive and a dog that tells us there is something in there. but not that he just wants to play with you some more. thank you sergeant and for the work you do each and every day. we have a link to fire and ems. and they're always looking for a few good men and women, and dogs. >> that scared me, holly. thank you. >>> gwen will have a final check on the weather when we come back. >>> plus the answer to today's trivia question is up next. fox 5 morning news continues after the break. 

. >> and fema, the emergency medical management agency is working closely with american responders on the ground. and the coast guard is helping to provide immediate help to those in need. >> reporter: some are already arriving. but it could be days before it is distributed. water has been cut off to many areas. and each coast guard crews are having a tough time searching for survivors. in new york, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> why did one earthquake cause a tsunami while the other didn't? meteorologist bernadette woods is live in the first warning weather center to explain. bern? >> well, there is one major difference between the two earthquakes and one from ind neseia in 2004. and it was the depth of the earthquake. for the samoa one, it was a shallow earthquake, closer to the surface. whereas the indonesian one was about 50 miles below the surface. so it didn't spawn that large wave that we saw back in 2004 or that we saw in the samoan islands. so that was the difference we saw. obviously, damage is still being reported. we will continue to update this as we move o. you c

fema. >> i don't like the way it is looking. >> where are the people that can help. help all of these people out here displaced now that can not get in their homes. >> others search for friends. >> it was up to his belt. >> one manwards through the water looking for his dog. >> well, again, some homes are in the dark tonight. bge crews are here to restore power. but no word on when that might be. for the moment, homes are dark, and wet. we're live in dundalk, keith daniels, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> all right, keith. the watermain break had wide raging affects that went flooded communities. 800 homes were without power at one point. bge cutoff service during the break. and officials say power will be restored in the next few hours, if possible. the break affected water pressure throughout the entire system. >> mont bellow plant, started to lose water right away. to be able restore that quickly. we know we're starting to lose water at bayview hospital. johns hopkins bayview. we were able to isolate that right away and get them back online. as quickly as possible. >> th

washington down to t regional level and bring in all of the agencies, the big groups, coast guard commnts fema make all of the regional offices in one @lace we had eight regional offices one of them was new orleans. i asked her to take a look at that. excuse me. i am a big chaion of the coast guard. i think the united states coast guard is the most undervalue underfunded multitask organization of the federagovernment and i strongly urge this congress or somebody and the secretary to champion ed. you get a lot of a service that they don't get enough money. i recommend that. i talk about better use of betrics and america i think we should have a purposeful debate and discussion as to whether or not we want to have a national id card to combat terrorism, crime and identity theft, fraud against the government. a world that is interconnected, think to yourself whether the relationships that you have where your identity is not imrtant? line purchase, boeing three screening, theres a long long list. yet we als know and i saw it as the homeland security secretary, i have seen some of forged docents th

. >> fema, federal emergency management agency, is working closely on the ground and the coastguard is supplying those with need. >> reporter: some supplies are arriving but it could be days before it is distributed. water has been cut off in many areas and even rescue crews are having a tough time getting into to search for survivors. >> it struck along the fault line that triggered the christmas 2004 massive tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people. >>> fire destroying a house. flames breaking out in the middle of the night. investigators believe that fire started in a gas line in the basement. they also say it appears that the house was vacant and that no one was trapped inside. damage is estimated at $300,000. >>> police in warrenton, virginia, are looking for suspects accused of stealing walts from grocery store shoppers. after taking the wallet, police say they go immediately to another store so they can spend cash and use the credit cards. >>> a u.s. capital police officer is paying the praise of what was apparently one wild night. 34-year-old thomas mcman. investigators say

to aid in the response i've declared this a major disaster to speed the deployment of resources and fema, the federal emergency management agency is working with emergency responders on the ground and the coast guard is helping to provide immediate help to those in need. we also stand ready to help our friends in neighboring samoa and throughout the region and we'll continue to monitor the situation closely as we keep the many people who have been touched by this tragedy in our thoughts and in our prayers. now, today, i'm here to talk about our nation's commitment to research. i want to thank dr. collins and his team for showing me and kathleen some of the extraordinary groundbreaking research being done at the national institutes of health. the work you do is not easy. it takes a great deal of patience and persistence, but it holds incredible promise for the health of our people and for the future of our nation and our world. and that is why i'm here today. for decades, the nih has been at the forefront of medical invention and innovation, helping to save countless lives and relieve unt

here to tell us all about it is fema administrator craig. good morning. >> good morning. >> tell us about this campaign. why are you guys doing it? >> we know that disasters sometimes occur without warning, and after september 11th, and then particularly with the hurricanes of '05, we learned too often as a nation we didn't get ready. ready.gov is the place to go to get your disaster plans. we're using september to remind everybody that it's time now to get your disaster plan before disaster strikes. >> what does that mean to be ready? >> well, you know, let's take a couple incidents we know happened like the red line crash in the district. we don't know when the next disaster will strike. being ready mean you talked about the steps you would take if you are at work f the kids are at school or day care. if something happens when you are not home. also if you are home. if something happens unexpectedly, what's the plan? where are you going to go? who are you going to call? going to ready.gov will help you start that process to get your family

general zinni discusses his book with retired lieutenan general julius bectgn, former head of fema and former superintendent of the washington, d., public school system. general becton who served with the army in world war ii and the u.s. wars i kor and vietnam wrote about his lifen the recently published book "becton: autobiography of a soldier and public servant." >> host: general zinni, welcome to c-span. >> guest: and you. >> host: give me a sigficant contribution to histo and more important to our profession of soldiering. just for the record, i think they should make it clear, sort of truth in lending, we grew up within 5 miles of each other, a place called bryn mawr. i just found out we were all sport at the same hospital, bryn mawr. where both graduates of the same college and i think throughout you will find that a lot of other things in common and what we believe in leadership, what i believe. i also believe i read that you were serving on some night different corporate oards. i didn't quite make that many. i only have five. but i'm delighted to have been asked to produce but

. >>> a federal jury has ruled against a new orleans family who claimed their fema trailer was too dangerous to live in. the family lost their home in hurricane katrina and lived in the trailer like this for 19 months. they claim high levels of formaldehyde in the trailer aggravated their 12-year-old son's asthma and put him at a higher risk of cancer. the case is one of several that may help decide if hundreds of other cases will go to court. >>> a major takedown for local and federal authorities. they busted what they are calling the biggest mortgage fraud operation in fairfax county history. these four people and 16 others were arrested today in a scheme that involved real estate agents, mortgage brokers and 35 houses valued at more than $20 million. karen gray houston has the details tonight. >> reporter: this newly built house on hickory hill road is way over scale for the neighborhood. no one was home when we stopped by. someone who arrivals across the street says three years ago it was the same size as others on the block. law enforcement says that's how the scheme worked. >> some sma

fema has set a track record of coming in for didn't have a soon.teve osunsami, abc news. >> what should they do i'm sure is the question being asked. >> the showers and thunderstorms role through virginia and the caroline's rain with most of my arrests. >> a high 74 in chicago, 87 in ball more and 7 in seattle. >> time for a story that's every girl's best friend. the legendary hope diamond is getting a makeover. the world's largest blue diamond was unveiled without its neck lace setting for the first time in the heaven study p. it will be set in a new kiem but so far it's been worth, it's an inch thick lonned about a half an inch thick. imagine how about that would be setting on a finger. >> and it a billion years old, i think. la ledge will it down. >> brow to you by consumer felt lynn. >> i'm here to tell you about a different. why should we have to pay for waters we're not used. consumer cellular is different. their rates start as low as $10 a month and no long-term quiet is >> now here are some highlights from the speech. >> i come before you h

. >> this morning, the coast guard set out to take fema members to american samoa. the team includes debris and housing experts and disaster relief specialists. we'll watch both of those developing stories this morning for you here on hln. now to other news for you. >>> chicago police are looking for three more suspects in the beating death of a 16-year-old boy and $6,000 in reward money is on the table at the moment. investigators asked the secret service to enhance this amateur video you see here of the fight that killed darien albert. they may charge people who participated in this fight, even if they did not come into contact with albert. >> the culture of no snitch is unacceptable. on thursday, an innocent young man with a promising future lost his life. he lost it to senseless violence. yet few have come forward. we must do better. >> so far four teens are charged with first degree murder. the mothers of the two of them spoke out in their defense yesterday. >> i say that to them. that's not my baby. >> they had to defend themselves. the young man that lost his

a combined effect between the state and the federal government, not resolving the amount of money fema would pay to rebuild that hospital. time has passed. the economy has changed. we think the federal government and the people that i talked to in the state, the federal government should take this on and help the state of louisiana rebuild that into a world class medical center for the poor people in the gulf coast region. >> has the president done enough, in your view? >> i think the president and secretary in a poll l napolitan along with the recovery formation to get through the bureaucracy of releasing that federal money but there's a lot of federal money setting there that has not been obligated because they're arguing over rules. the thing with the charity hospital, it's been kicked down the road again to a foreign arbitrator to resolve. the federal government could easily solve that problem. >> thank you, lieutenant russell honore for joining us here in "the situation room." >> thank you. >>> in the mountains above los angeles, danger closing in. >> you can see the flames on the

who survived hurricane katrina went to the white house and sang a song praising president bush and femaou can believe it. now, i didn't hear the righties complaining about indoctrinating children back them. liz cheney's only goal, her only goal, is to take down president obama. she'll say anything. she'll try anything to make that happen. as usual, it puts her in the zone. it's all "psycho talk." >>> coming up, the fight for the public option, well, i told you earlier, this thing's going to come down to nancy pelosi, tom harkin, chris dodd in a room with max baucus. i like those odds. >>> plus, righties on the hill are upset about this guy's call on health care plan. i've got your back, buddy. that story coming up next on "the ed show" plus a debate. um bill-- why is dick butkus here? i hired him to speak. a lot of fortune 500 companies use him. but-- i'm your only employee. we're gonna start using fedex to ship globally-- that means billions of potential customers. we're gonna be huge. good morning! you know business is a lot like football... i just don't understand... i'm sorry dick b

akin: the postal service, fema. mr. shadegg: we did cash for clunkers and flat failed at that, miserably. so the track record of government doing these things isn't good. mr. akin: let's stay on that subject a little more. some people talked about the compassion of the i.r.s. you want the compassion of the i.r.s. in the health care system or the efficient soif the postal service. mr. shadegg: or the efficiency of cash for clunkers. mr. akin: no one has made a big deal about this, in gulf war one, the c.i.a. said, the iraqis are within a year and a half of build agnew clear device. they're 10 or 15 years away, we get in there, they're a year and a half away. we go to gulf war two, nay -- they say they're a year and a half away from building it, they're nowhere near it. you want to trust your body to these guys. let's talk about the efficient soif the energy department. do you know why the department of energy was created? >> to ensure energy independence. mr. akin: to ensure energy independence. ever since they were crea

. >> to me, just looking at the way the government managed the clunkers program and managed fema andatrina and all those things, i just -- i don't want to turn my health care over to a government agency and try to get my round peg in a square hole, and if it doesn't fit i'm caught in bureaucratic red tape. with the co-op system i know the people that i can call and they're going to take care of me because i'm an owner versus just a number. >> we'll be here again next sunday and every sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern for the first and last word in sunday talk. if you missed any part of our program, tune in 8:00 p.m. eastern, we'll showcase today's best "state of of the union." until then, i'm john king, live at the minnesota state fair, we want to thank everybody at the fair for their help and cooperation.