when i came to fema, i asked why fema did housing. hud has housing in their name.ng to get people into something immediately. we work hand in hand. with the tennessee floods a couple of years ago, we were looking at houses lost. a lot of people were being displaced. our great partners from hud got in there immediately with us. we were able to move people from one section 8 housing to another. they never had to go into fema housing. they did not have to move from place to place or program to program. we are able to move them into what would be their permanent homes. moving forward by that and focusing on what needs to be done as we're looking at a housing and challenges as we move forward. next we have infrastructure systems. i am not sure if anyone was able to join us from the corps of engineers. great. it is great to see you. çwe know the corps of engineers goes around the world building things and looking at roads systems, utility systems. it is not just the corps of engineers. it is looking at things we need to reconstruct. how will we do that? how do you wante

fema can take credit where credit is due.he last several years we have been expanding especially in catastrophic planning with our partners from the greater bay area in catastrophic earthquake response plans we developed in 2008 and 2009 -- excuseç me, 2010. i wanted to set the stage about what we're here today to keep in the back of our minds. the type of event we're talking about could literally provide çdamages inñr theç scope ofç e kinds of implications. 1000 bridges totally destroyedç networks disrupted or dysfunctional for two yearsç, maritime prison for weeks or months. çthe transport of 41 key intersection of highways, taking those 335,000 cars, making it almost impossible for them to move aroundñr, then the restoration of water facilities for millions of people in the area, up to 60 days to try to get back online. then the recovery of the refineries and economic redevelopment and slowing of moving 50 million tons of debris you get the picture. this is why we're here. this is why the city of san francisco has fo

nancy ward who is our region nine fema director. we have cal e.m.a. here, mike dayton and his staff. chief greg sir and they brought their whole command staff. we have many nert scroll teers. nert was a group that came about from 9/11 i mean -- shows where my mind is. from loma prieta. we have a lot prepared for you and i want to welcome our two chiefs up. joanne, would you like to start with a few words and then chief greg sir after that? >> thank you, anne, for the kind introductions. it was amazing 22 years ago this city in the bay area region experienced the loma prieta earthquake. i was not yet in the fire department. it was about five months before i joined and like anne alluded to, if anyone lived here, they remember where they were. >> i was at a high school when it happened and all of us remember the frightening moments and the aftermath of loma prieta. and it's always fitting when we celebrate an anniversary to take a minute not only to commemorate that but to next on the importance of how the community needs to step up an

for years we gave the impressions that -- i'll speak for fema. we're going to be there. we're going to help. we're not going to be there right away. we'll be there as quickly as we can. and initially, the true heroes in response, as we saw in tusk louisa and saw in newark, new jersey, recently. saw in upstate new york and vermont are the first responders. the police officers, the paramedics, the e.m.t.'s and nurses and doctors and neighbors helping neighbors. talked to a woman in tennessee last year during the floods in nashville, and it was this home that was completely flooded. actually it was a week later, and it was being mucked out or cleaned out by again, lutherans and another, i forget the other name of the other faith-based group. there were two groups cleaning up her front home and she's sitting out this 86-year-old woman saying all these nice people are helping me clean out literally what's left of their home and she said i wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for my neighbor that broke my front window out and pulled me out and saved her life. he was a nice youn

it is part of the fema called to citizens to address the forces of nature ...g fugate who is the administrator he was appointed by president obama 2005 a native of gainesville fla. he knows something about disasters ... he dealt with the four hurricane's heading florida 2004 ... and in the 2005 hurricane season in florida with dennis and katrina and wilma ... >>in 1998 we had a tornado killed 42 people in central florida we seem to get lots of weather in florida ... >>i remember that strong well middle of the night near orlando ... >>lots of times these hit the middle of the night and it's hard to warn people ... >>your message to administrator craig fugate is clear ... we need to get warnings out to people more accurately ... we are getting improved technology to forecast one week ahead of time but people are still dying in these horrendous numbers ... you and the national weather service are teaming up during whether prepared this week in an effort to call people to get more involved and think out safety planning ... >>do this now. people need to really under

he has gone to fema. that's an important effort that fema has undertaken. something that the deputy administrator was talking about. i think the state should bring somebody in there as well. [laughter] yeah, right. i have toe say here in the state we are lucky to have the california resiliencey law and peter who has done a lot of incredible work with the private sector. so once again, so many good ideas, so many things have happened here. just remarkable. state of the art. now, the work that you have to do, we have some questions. my colleague prepared some questions. we don't have a lot of time. we have one mike there in the center, and we had way too many questions. we have 15 minutes or so. but i think maybe the best question to ask, jim, is the last one that we had which is like looking back at the last two-plus decades since loma prieta, you know, what concerns us collectively as a group, you know, most about our current response and recovery capacity and what do we think our greatest stride has been the time as regional community to engage bay area co

it is a fema approved program that we will have training on. and i think we have six to be tested, just to make sure that there is the right kind of device that we want to use in the field and that they are viable for these sectors. we did not want to go out and buy 150 computers and then find out that they cannot use them at all. so, they will be testing those soon. >> commissioner? >> that is great. i just wanted to ask about acknowledging receipt of the request. did we send out any automatic information back to the customers, just as we had the request? it would take us that long to process. and do we tell them when to expect the report to be ready? >> we do not tell them when to expect it, it is dependent on the number of requests that, in. right now, we are working on trying to shorten the time frame that it takes to get a 3r report. we are going to have to do something to acknowledge the request and in some of the other cases, because the credit card companies have changed their policies, we needed to make sure that we had something that

not saying there isn't a role for fema and homeland security. but when you take responsibility for yourself, you bring a certain energy and commitment and knowledge to that. that somebody else can't. so in this case, the pilot that flies that plane and that airline, they care about that airline. they care about that pilot and they are going to give at degree of commitment that nobody else really can. because they have a sense of ownership. and exercising that sense of ownership is a very important part of being a free and open society. going with that there is an element of responsibility. when you're owning infrastructure or doing things in the public space and performing a public good, there is a sense that you have an obligation not to just defend your own hereth and home but defending other people. so you have a responsibility to exercise the right to defend yourself with a degree of due diligence. and what you see on the federal flight deck officer program is you really see a quintessential example of doing that exactly right. you have peop

so we have a really good core of people that know how to do fema cost recovery being built in the city. the controller's office will do that, a deeper one also during the month of may. and depending how good it is, then we can make some improvements and invite other departments after that. so just to make you aware those are happening. if you have somebody that needs introduction to cost recovery training, again, we've probably been in touch with them already, but let us know if there's somebody who looks like that. >> thank you, peg. other announcements? >> maybe just a reminder about the [inaudible] >>

last a question or fema response. i think that retaining air lift capacity in local and state national guards was critical in the statement of vermont represented by the real chairman of this committee as well as my state in the past, whether hurricanes or flooding or other issues. i wondered if you have any comment about how the proceed's funding might affect the ability of state national guards to play a role in disaster response? >> senator, let me get back to you on that, because, are you asking about how our requests with respect to reforming the grants overall would affect first responders? are you asking specific to the national guard? >> i think this is more a national guard capacity within the branch issue. so i may have asked a question that's not directly in your -- >> i think that's probably more appropriately addressed to the department of defense. but i will say our entire work with fema has been to, being a team with local and state responders as opposed to the feds being in charge, and i think that tea

you hear fema talking about community-based recovery. you see the fire and police people with all the training. you know, none of this existed back then. so a lot of things have changed. technology. i mean, think about it. here we are, we go to an event and everybody says, turn your cell phone on to silent. then we do that. then we do our email and everything. you know, they gave me a cell phone in 1989 when they gave me the orange vest that said incident commander. and by the way, at that time probably two weeks before the earthquake i wouldn't have known an incident commander from commander cody in the lost planet airman. that's a reference if you're a certain age. but in any case, they gave me the cell phone. remember what a cell phone was like in 1989? it was a sear's die-hard battery. you have to carry this around, charlie. i was like, oh, yeah. ok. it was pretty cool. i tried it a couple times. after about a day of that my shoulders were hurting and everything. i said, this is a repetitive stress injury waiting to happen. so i kind

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>> this is from the port security grant program that is a former fema grant program that this is the fourth iteration. there were three projects that were submitted and accepted and funded. waiting for approval from the city, but the first project was a vessel amounted infrared system at $320,000 that provides all-weather -- ranging gyrostabilizers thermal imager that allows us to provide a high resolution infrared images of the maritime environment in both in daylight and in low light conditions. it is not a night-vision camera, but we can pick up heat signatures of the their vessels or suspects or victims and the water. this will aid us in homeland's security. this is a number of different systems for use on our vessels out there in the maritime environments. the sentences the police department is a leader in preventative nuclear detection in the maritime environment. we have systems that will greatly increase our capabilities of all of our vessels hall of the gamma and neutron detection systems, backpacked non-insistence so we can detect a list of sources of radiation. we can tell

jack hayes, director of noas national weather service and greg, director of fema. >>> should mentionap, our weather ap now, and you can sign up for alerts as well. so that for your smart phone or your ipad or what have you, tablet you can get that too. >> more information the better. >> yep. >> all right holly morris at charles herbert flowers high school in spring dale maryland this morning. >> they are having a two day encore performance of their music production, soul train to mo town this weekend holly good morning. >> okay, tony, ask and you shall receive. i've got, two tickets for friday s two tickets for saturday, which night do you want. >> i will take saturday. >> all right. they have yours. >> thank you. >> and we will talk about my processing fee later. let me tell you, these are going fast, and this is actually an encore production, they have done two weekends already but they have been so successful people wanted more and they are getting it and that makes someone really happy, if you happen to be sanding to me right now, -- standing next to me right now the principal of

fema is not going to do that for you. and that was just a spontaneous effort. now it has expanded around the world. this came out of burning man, this wild, crazy party. >> let us start over here with a question. >> i would like to ask a question about dpw. the people that build infrastructure. i want to know why they do not get workers' comp when they are injured. >> of course they do. who told you they did not? >> my friends who work for dpw. they did not have insurance. >> we have workers' comp. i assure you, they are wrong. once in awhile, an employer will claim workers, for something that did not happen on the job. there have been a couple of incidents like that. there could have been discontent over that. of course we have workers caught. ask them again. when did they work for dpw? >> one of them just tweeted me the question. >> my name is anne marie. i represent in north of market community benefit district, the tenderloin. we are very excited to have your company coming in. just talking about the burning man twist, that is an interesting phrase. this ma

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have the revenue and all bets are off if we have an earthquake and have a major emergency because fema only pays for overtime and we would have to help with the growth and rebound in the community. we had a situation where we had one day two years ago in terms of being able to cover our expenses. we want to make sure as we go along that we have sufficient funds to do the work that is prepaid and we don't end up cutting into other revenues. >> is that a figure of $12 million? it is about $18 million. >> as the value of new construction impact you in any way? >> many of the fees we get are based on valuation. to the extent devaluation goes up, the fis also go up. there is a correlation if the higher valuation, the more complex a project is, the more we have to do in terms of plan review. the more we would have to do in terms of the inspection. yes, we get more revenues for the higher valuations. >> if your valuation of 2011 was lower, that impacts your overall outlook? >> yes. >> at what point do you see a trend in all of this? that is a good question. >> our fees are not based on valuat

i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts.es going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his cell. >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. most of them come out of "xxl" magazine. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray walls all day. they're not nude, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic, marcus. very artistic. it's nice you represent minorities, but it's not so nice about women. >> it's a bit misogynist. i'm going on 11 years, right, and all i deal with is men, so t

the last question on fema response, i think they're retaining airlift capacity in local national guardand state national guards was critical in the state of vermont represented by the chairman of this committee as well as my state that passed when the hurricanes and flooding and other issues. i wondered if you had he had in a comment about the how the presence funding request might affect the ability of state national guard to play an active supportive role in disaster response? >> senator, let me get back to you on that, because are you asking about how our request with respect reforming the grants over all would affect first responders? are you asking specific to the national guard? >> i think this is more of a national guard capacity within the branch issues so i may have asked a question that is not directly in your -- >> i think that is more properly addressed to the department of defense, but i will say our entire work with fema has been to be in a team with local and state responders as opposed to the feds being in charge and i think teamwork approach has been well received and

the flood study being done by the government agency fema. fema is preparing new maps and it will include some properties not currently included in the flood hazard areas. low-lying sections in both ross and mill valley could be affected. marin county will mail letters to residents about the situation. >>> 6:10 now. maybe jack frost hasn't arrived but feels like he is making reservations out there to come in and bother us. >> in the north bay temperatures in the upper 30s this morning. and tomorrow morning, i think, it will be even colder around the bay area. right now 49 in san jose. mid 40s, oakland and san francisco. that's chilly. right near the water. drop into the mid 40s in april. don't see that too often. little cold outside. at least the winds are starting to back off and had gusty conditions and front one overnight that did bring us some rain. mainly some light rain that came down late in the yesterday and you can see how things are starting to dry out around the bay area. however, we have the cool air that's rushing in and for the

siberian beer there are only five and left in the world feared other good news, we brought in a new fema lauder to meet with our mail. they are going through a slow introduction process, like any other couple. have to work things out. staff is slowly introducing them. she is excited to meet trent, trent, not excited to be hurt. we are participating in earth day this weekend as well. and much cheaper talks, solar presentations, the cafe will be offering low food mile specials for lunch, and we will be introducing our global tap water changing station. this is a partnership with the puc on their drink tap initiative to forgo usage of's and bottles at the zoo. we think the puc for that. lastly on attendance, march 10 was impacted by rain. as you missed a march projection by 9000 visitors, 16% pure thankfully, april is off to a good start with visitor attendance over budget by 8000 visitors for the first 15 days. with that, we continue to stay ahead of you to the projections by 10%. that concludes my report. commissioner buell: thank you very much. >> is there any public comment on this item

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some of the proms moved to areas where they have fema shelters to keep kids where it's safe. the air force base has moved 15 fuelling tankers. by the way, once the storms go down, these tornadoes are worse. you can't see them. people go to sleep and they don't get the warnings. there's a 2 1/2 times higher of being killed by a tornado at night than the daytime. >>> further south in the capital of oklahoma, warning sirens have been sounding since before dawn today. meteorologist eric fisher is on the ground tonight in oklahoma city. eric what's the story there? >> well, lester, we're awaiting the storms, but by far, the most active weather in oklahoma? the northwestern part of the state. we can show you incredible video from moments ago. a large cone-shaped tornado on the ground, unbelievable sight here. at one point there were two separate funnels on the ground and a fire has also broken out at the base of that storm as something wases toed by the storm. the smoke is being sucked into the updraft. meanwhile, they're still picking up in norman, oklahoma. unfortunately ten inju

host: we recently had a segment looking at fema.oked at the funding, you can find that on our archives at c-span.org. ruth is up next. caller: i disagree with the previous caller that the programming is not balanced. you guys cover a lot of different points of view. hear guest has neglected to mention -- your guest has neglected to mention the influence of unions on politics. all those groups, not only contribute large sums of money to their favorite political candidate, there almost consistently democrats, they are pulling money from their members. my particular experience coming to oregon, i have no choice. i got a statement from the union saying that over $500 that came from me when to democratic candidates. that is not a democratic process either. the unions are parts of the problem. guest: i agree with the caller. i was speaking about tax and special interest. i do not exempt unions at all. this is not a republican problem and democrats are innocent. the power of the unions, and if you look at the expenditures in 2010, there wa

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we've got ice bath did. >> fema. >> did you hear that? brought in air conditioning. >> they are bringing in air conditioning, sit around and drink cape coders afterwards. no joke if you were part of that and the other extreme, in chisolm, minnesota, they had a foot of snow. >> i was amazed april 16th we could get this much snow. it was kind of crazy. >> i like school, but it's nice to finally, have a knowsnow day. >> in april >> i'll take a snow day in april. absolutely. it would have been nice. yeah. so lots, lots going on today. pulitzer prize hand the out yesterday, one to our good friends at huffington post and one to our friends at politico he. >> it is tuesday tuesdays with faiz, faiz shaqshakir. and fred wertheimer will be in studio with us we need it more after romney announcing the bill yon dollar campaign today. >> first. >> this is the full court press. >> on this tuesday, the headlights making news big break drive-thru for good morning america, the early nielsen ratings for last week's morning show revealed it topped nbc's tod

today it appears it is part of fema. it's a group of university and research centers that take part in antiterror training programs. the red flag, the $48.5 million is more than the president requested in the budget for the program. what does congress know that the president doesn't? $5.8 million for the east west center in hawaii devoted to improving relations along pacific nations. according to citizens against government race the east west center has received ten earmarks worth $104 million since 1997. the state department has tried to kill this organization for years but the center is head quartered in propriations chairman's state so it lives. oink, oink. there you have it. pork barrel spending alive and well. >>> one senator has made a career out of trying to fight it. senator comes outfront. thought i had a real pig, huh? thanks very much for being with us. let me start off with this question. should we be celebrating the 80% drop that citizens against government waste is talking about in terms of overall spending