and since fema grants s.b.a. loans and disaster assistance are reserved for unmet needs, more uninsured homeowners mean more disaster assistance payoffs. we should be incentivizing people to purchase insurance so they have skin in the game and they will be motivated to take proactive mitigation measures, not pricing them out of insurance so they're forced to rely on taxpayer-funded disaster assistance. now there is no question that we need to reform the national flood insurance program in order to put it on the long-term path afford solvency and sustainability. unfortunately, biggert-waters forces changes that are far too fast. it increases rates far too dramatically even mor morpheme - even before fema knows the impact. wreer making dramatic changes in policy which could impact more thank 5.5 million policyholders, have written l effects throughout the house -- ripple effects throughout the economy before we know the extent of these changes or their impact. i have heard from countless new jerseyans, many coming

worked better than fema.the whole process. >> recent edition of forbes magazine, their richest people list, features big philanthropy. so, they're now -- rating billionaires by how much they give. kind of warmed my heart. great, have a competition among absurdly rich people helping others rather than buying jets and yachts. >> there its nothing wrong with people giving money to causes they think are valuable. not every good or service is produce ford profit. some can come from the segment of society. i think it is fine we recognize that as long as we don't think there is something wrong with them pursuing profits because there is not. that makes us better off too. >> there are these tycoons from previous years, vanderbilt, rockefeller, and people vilify them as robber barons say they did some charity work. but they were evil robbers. >> no they transformed the lives of americans in the 19th century. raised our living standards. rockefeller brought oil and made profits in doing it. by the way he probably also

. >> there is fema and then there is the faith based fema. >> if you're waiting for the government youoing to be in for an awful long wait. >> talking about the government response after the tornado in oklahoma in may. now 30 churches banded together to help much more quickly and did a better job in government. this happened with katrina. fema was turning away walmart. people were trying to get water. sending its water to the wrong place. >> you're right. as you know, i am a native of new orleans. there are some things that the province to well. all those kids, wonderful young people who came down, church groups, ey did something much better than government. but they were still an awful lot of things that we needed government. remember how angry folks were. no one said stay away. john: walmart and private charities got there. >> maybe one of the things of the privates can do is be more nimble. if you are talking about rebuilding, i don't think you want the government to take a pass. john: do. let's talk about the war on poverty. lyndon johnson said he would and poverty. here is where t

. >> there is fema and then there is the faith based fema. >> if you're waiting for the government youoing to be in for an awful long wait. >> talking about the government response after the tornado in oklahoma in may. now 30 churches banded together to help much more quickly and did a better job in government. this happened with katrina. fema was turning away walmart. people were trying to get water. sending its water to the wrong place. >> you're right. as you know, i am a native of new orleans. there are some things that the province to well. all those kids, wonderful young people who came down, church groups, they did somethi much better than government. but they were still an awful lot of things that we needed government. remember how angry folks were. no one said stay away. john: walmart and private charities got there. >> maybe one of the things of the privates can do is be more nimble. if you are talking about rebuilding, i don't think you want the government to take a pass. john: i do. let's talk about the war on povey. lyndon johnson said he would and poverty. here is where t

what happened afterward, there was no fema.civil society organizations theanded together and help get people out of the city who lost their homes, brought in new shelter, clothing. judging from what i was hearing fr my work to haggle a lot better than fema of ordering people when they can and cannot go and buts in the process to behalf of. john: a recent edition of forbes magazi, the richest people's list featured philanthropy. so how they are now reading billionaires' by how much they give. a kind of want my heart. let's have a competition. >> there is nothing wrong with people giving money to the causes a thinker valuable. not every good or service will be produced for profit. some of it can come from this segment of society, and it's fine that we recognize that as long as we don't demonize those who aren't doing it and think there's something wrong with them pursuing profit because there is not. that osmanli makes us better o john: there are these tycoons from previous years corneus vanderbilt and john d. rockefeller and peo

you know there is no direct funding from fema to fusion centers, it goes through states, goes through local urban area security issues. and the only thick in theirness -- thing in their justification that they have to provide to fema is they provide centers. other than that it is up to them how they spend that money. there is no consistency as far as that mechanism. >> jim we have the final 15 seconds. give us the final word. >> i'm pretty simple about this stuff. the federal government can stop funding this entirely. the good news is terrorism is pretty well under control in the united states. pinprick attacks may happen, there is no 100% way to prevent them. we should have the ships that sailed after 9/11 back into port. >> that's all, until next time laura and i will see you online. check check >> a car bomb rips through a police headquarters in egypt. the prime minister brands it a terrorist attack. >> you're watching al jazeera america, live from doha. also ahead: the u.n. considers sending thousands more peacekeepers to south sudan to prevent civilians becoming violent. >> easin

camps that obama care is preparing to round us up and put them in fema camps. they play on the most base paranoia of a fringe of people and they get elected and re-elected. >> republicans who flatout deny reality. these people are somewhat unscientific, don't you think? this is "hardball," the place for politics. ? you need a bunch of those to clean this mess. then i'll use a bunch of them. then how is that a bargain? [ sighs ] no, that's too many -- it's not gonna fit! whoa! cascade kitchen and math counselor. here's a solution. one pac of cascade complete cleans tough food better than six pacs of the bargain brand combined. so you can tackle tough messes the first time. that is more like it. how are you with taxes? [ laughs ] [ counselor ] and for even more cleaning power, try cascade platinum. he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not. ♪ he loves me! that's right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands! [ girl ] make dinner pop! >>> we're back with howard fineman, david corn, jonathan capehart, and joan walsh. next we'

somehow fema ignored it. and we're not letting that happen. and so that's why we have to act here. there are three types of people who are in danger. the first are those who know or are about to know they're going to be hit. they have flood insurance already, and their costs are going to go way up. the vast majority, middle class people. the second are those who will be told your insurance won't go up, but when you sell your home it's going to go way up. and any bureaucrat who tells us that doesn't affect the average person, it affects the value of their home immediately. but it also says they can't sell their home. if my area if flood insurance is going to be $8,000, $10,000 or $20,000 a year, who is going to buy the home except at a greatly reduced value? but my colleagues, there is a third group and they don't know who they are. fema is changing flood maps throughout the country, and they will get to your state unless maybe, you know, utah or a state like that doesn't have any flood insurance. i don't know. but the vast majority of our states that either bound the great lakes, t

we're better at coordinating with each other, whether it be fema and hhs on the federal side, all the way down to our nonprofit organizations, and we partner to help provide services when times are needed. we also spend a lot of time planning for a coordinated response to events. so we have improved our capacity to respond as a nation, but also to prepare communities and individuals for the likelihood areas. >> hurricane sandy the biggest natural disaster of 2012, it came at the end of the year, we heard from janna about how people are still suffering. what is the red cross still doing? how involved are you in the northeastern area? >> yeah, we remain committed to the area impacted by sandy not just new york and new jersey but other parts of the country that were impacted by that event. the red provided over $74 million in support to 60 different organizations providing services every day in these communities. everything from food banks to habitat for humanity, save the children and other organizations that are providing care that we don't provide. we feel we have a responsibility to

. >>> fema has denied disaster relief after the rim fire.ost the state about $70 million. and that's in addition to environmental damag estimated at $115 million. fema had previously decided the fire did not justify a declaration of being a major disaster. the rim fire burned more than 400 square miles in and around yosemite national park between august 17th and october 24th. >>> there's word tonight that one of san francisco's most influential chefs julie rogers of zumi cafe has died at the age of 57. she took over the cafe in 1987 is credited with redesigning california dining. rogers friend and business partner gilbert pilgrim said she kept her cooking simple and that they worked well together for seven years. >> a very good ride with a beautiful partnership. we were both very lucky that we had the same affinity in the kitchen. >> food critics all applauded zuni's cook book. roger got sick a little more than a year ago with cancer of the appendix. >>> hear from a bay area waiter who pocketed a large tip from a mysterious diner and why he

. >> out of the 32 schools in the town of moore, only two had fema-approved safe areas. three daughters were not in those buildings. they were at briarwood where their mom works. >> we got to the school and i saw my students and the pre-k teacher, and my substitute were there, rubbing their back and singing songs to them. and i don't know what came over me. but just protection for them. and i told my husband, i said i can't leave. >> i guess it is fight or flight, whatever, you know how they talk about what your reaction was. and i think mine was more flight than maybe fight. >> he kept coming and just going you know, come on, and i just kept going, no, you know, he would be out for a moment, and say come on, and i would go, no. >> she felt that need to protect everybody. >> when he came in and said get out here now, i knew, my stomach kind of dropped at that moment, just the look on his face, the tone of his voice, i knew something was really, really wrong. and when i came around that building and saw it, my heart just dropped. >> you actually saw the twister? >> oh, ye

. >>> fema has denied disaster relief after the rim fire. the governor estimated the fire cost the state about $70 million. and that's in addition to environmental damag estimated at $115 million. fema had previously decided the fire did not justify a declaration of being a major disaster. the rim fire burned more than 400 square miles in and around yosemite national park between august 17th and october 24th. >>> there's word tonight that one of san francisco's most influential chefs julie rogers of zumi cafe has died at the age of 57. she took over the cafe in 1987 is credited with redesigning california dining. rogers friend and business partner gilbert pilgrim said she kept her cooking simple and that they worked well together for seven years. >> a very good ride with a beautiful partnership. we were both very lucky that we had the same affinity in the kitchen. >> food critics all applauded zuni's cook book. roger got sick a little more than a year ago with cancer of the appendix. >>> hear from a bay area waiter who pocketed a large tip f

they can do all kinds of other things, but they can't get the critical fema support. that bias, which i know you don't share needs to be guarded against because that first line of defense is so important. mr. green and i would be in agreement. the more you can help out in that regard, the better. thank you. i'd like to now welcome our second panel began with mr. shawn callahan, chief operating officer for catholic relief services. he's also served as executive vice president for overseas operations and regional director for south asia and catholic relief services. he's the crs regional response to flood, drought, earthquake a mistake on a man-made emergencies in south asia. his time working with the service is coming is to experience a terrorist attack at a sri lankan airport worked closely with mother teresa and the missionaries of charity in calcutta at work on programming in afghanistan during and after the taliban. without objection, his faux resume as well as our next witness will be part of the record. i'd like to introduce mr. chris bluesky, a humanitarian prof

item of the agenda to expend on the department 1, 771, 4216789 the firefighters grant award through fema for 41 defibrillators. due to cuts the department has not been able to replace many of the equipment because the department relies on so many general fund dollars. and this grant is crucial to allows the department to reinvestment to its equipment. in addition this grant will allow us to in -- increase the numbers trained and officer training in conjunction with our regional partners. the total amount of this project is $22.2 million and federal funding as well as the department match of $442, 855. these are already allocated in the department's budget with training allocations. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any questions, colleagues? >> okay. mr. roads, your report. >> on page 44, we propose this requires a match of funds equal to 20 percent or total combined matching funds and that is shown in table two on page 44. on page 45 of our report, we note the department of fire each defibrillator will cost $28,000 which allows for 21 new defibrillators and we recommend that you app

they can't get the critical fema support. that kind of bias which i know you needs to be guarded against because again that first line of defense is so important more you can help out in the regard the better. thank you. >> i would like -- former senator said tuesday that in order to get a buy in from republicans, president obama endorsed adopted health care model first proposed by the heritage foundation. the individual mandate. he spoke at the forum hosted by georgetown university. here is a little of what he said. i had many conversations with him and others over those early stages. i'll never forget as he was contemplating what model he would use, there was a lot of pressure in his party going back to this question about government to say you know what, what we ought to have is a single-payer system. medicare for all. that's what we need. medicare for all. a single-payer system like a lot other industrialized countries especially europe. you know what his answer was? i'm going take the heritage foundation proposal they ca

these are the people that also believed there are fema camps.obama is going to round us up and put them in fema camps. they play on the most base paranoia of a fringe of people and they get elected and re-elected. and there's really no penalty for it. >> last word, howard. they get re-elected. this isn't costing anybody a job. >> these are deep red districts. and the black helicopter theories of the world work there. when they're tweeting them out, most of the country isn't reading what that congressman said. he's reinforcing the base. those people are following him. he's just giving more paranoid theories. it's a paranoid sit-down strike going on. >> constant booster shots that keep them in business. but syringes with an army. >>> up next, republicans who flatout denied reality. this should appeal to everybody possibly watching. these people are somewhat unscientific, don't you think? this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> we're back with david corn, howard fineman, joan walsh, and jonathan capehart. these are the folks who for whateve

camps that obama is rounding us up -- not us, but then, put them in fema camps.the base paranoia of a fringe of people and they get elected and re-elected. there's really no penalty for it. >> the last word, they get re-elected. this isn't costing anybody a job. >> these are deep red districts and the black helicopter theories of the world work there. when they are tweeting them out, most aren't reading what the congressman said, he's reinforcing the base. those people are following him. he's just giving more paranoid theories -- >> i'm still here. i'm still crazy. >> a paranoid sitdown strike going on in politics. >> constant booster shots to keep them in business. but syringes with an army. republicans who flat-out deny reality. should appeal to everybody watching. they are somewhat unscientific. this is hardball, the place for politics. [ female announcer ] when it comes to your smile, all stains are not created equal. a cup of coffee means surface stains. a cup a day for a decade? ♪ deep, set-in stains. crest 3d white whitestrips go beyond where most toothpas

carlin mentioned we have all the information to fema and government's office and all the forms have been completed. that concludes my report. >> thank you. so, if there is no objection, we'll call for public comment. i would like to start with david, please. >> it was a short general managers report. obviously there is very little going won this agency. well done. i had some comments on the budget priorities power and the ssip. let me just go through throws on the budget priorities i look forward as always to our annual workshops. sounds like this year we are not doing anything outside. it part of the regular commission meeting. that's unfortunate but we still have lot of information before hand. i'm hoping that as part of the presentings that there will be a narrative about priorities but also about tradeoffs and what general manager and staff are recommending but also what is not being recommended. so there is kind of like we are choosing to do this or recommending to do this instead of that and at the same time, here is what we are proposing to invest and what we would buy so it's bot

fema opposes it, of the senate has opposed it and refuses to even bring it up for a vote. i can't tell you how disappointed and agreed is wrong i think those who are first and foremost on the relief side being told about fema relief, no investigation of church and state issue, and that kind of bias, and is so important, and more you can help out the better. >> i would like to welcome our second panel beginning with mr. sean callahan executive vice president for overseas operation and regional director for south asia among other roles. he led the regional response to floods, cyclones, man made emergency in south asia, and he has experienced a terrorist attack in a sri lanka airport. worked closely with mother teresa and the missionaries of charity in calcutta and worked on programming in afghanistan during and after the taliban. without objection his full resume and that our next witness will be made part of the record and i would like to introduce mr. chris palusky, a humanitarian professional with 13 years of international relief, development and fund-raising experience.

i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts.red 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." but sided toward the hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray walls all day. they're not nude, they're all clothed, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic, marcus. it's nice you represent minorities, but it's not so nice about women. not so nice about women. >> it's a bit misogynist. i'm going on 11 years, right, and all i dealt with

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. >> the forest service, the bureau of land management, fema, they're the ones that are paying for the bulk of the firefighting costs. so for local governments who permit new developments,they don't have to think of the costs. >> so while the bill for fires like black forest can stretch to the tens of millions of dollars. almost all of it comes from the public purse. >> it's not unusual in some fires for the cost of defending each home to be $400,000 in some fires, up to $600,000 per home. in some instances, you're better off buying the land than paying to defend the homes. >> to actually contain this fire, it's taken elements of the national guard from three states, it's taken more than 1100 emergency personnel, 103 fire engines, there have been helicopters deployed. so far the bill has run to more than five and a half million dollars, and it hasn't even been a week since the fire started. >> with the fire now under control, local residents line the streets, their nightmare finally over. >> you can really feel the appreciation that everybody here has for the fire fighters coming back

we are trying to recover that through fema process and today will be able to talk about that as well. we might also be able, i don't know if we can get that on our insurance. today can address that and that's about 2 contracts with $75,000 each. it was quite a significant effort to make sure the right of way stays clear at this point in time. and the sequestered because the trees were stacking up. >> i just want to go on record as far as salvage logging goes and questions in the community about whether logs should be savage because of the water shed and the decomposition of the erosion issues as we talked about water quality. i think it's important to be tracking that as well. i know there is legislation put forward to pass bye pass some of the feral laws about the water act and the salvage logging. i would urge the puc to tracking those efforts and ensure the water is not compromised moving forward. >> very good comment. we are doing assessment and our folks -- focus was on imminent danger to allow others to get through safely. >> r you saying it should be left there? >> there is a l

they have green lighted assistance for any one who was in a wildfire. 26,000 acres was burned but fema turned down aid. governor brown filed appeal. those estimate exceed $54 million. >>> the teen that shot a fellow student at point-blank range may have held a grudge against the lie -- librarian. the girl was shot in the head and now in credit call -- critical condition. authority say pierson was kicked off the debate team and made a threat. there is a look at your top stories. >>> taking a closer look at the crash of flight 219. >> the pilot said he was concerned about the landing. we'll have a guest go deeper into what that means. >>> we learned a teenage girl who survived the crash but tide -- died after a fire truck rain over -- ran over the girl. >> she was cover in foam when two trucks rain ran over her. they had never taking the training to deal with plane crashes. they are taking the firefighters at the airport to training in texas. >> that's not the only change coming out of the crash. the congressional hearing brought up other issues as well. >> we are having technical diffic

this year and we included prudent, and also recommended by the department of homeland security and fema and it goes to the best practices that the project is enjoying in the process we vowed to engineer many of the key elements and the exterior of the statement from glass to metal and incorporated the design which many people are excited about. and a number of elements saving millions of dollars for the project. next month, we are going to publish the statement and expect to receive an unqualified opinion which is the highest level of confidence that any public agency can receive on the financial records and books and so we continue to do good work on that front. i thank our cfo and her finance team for the good work that they are doing there, we started as you know permanent construction of the station by pouring the foundation at the rail levels and we are joined by the board by our chair person kim and mayor lee and leader pelosi., and so that was an mrirment and we also were awarded the steel contract and this month, we put out to bid, the current loft and skylights and so we are st

splunk, open data is the foundation that we do, we have partnerships that are currently in place with fema and the fac and doing some work right now around trying to make better use of public comment. these are partnerships that we do purely on the back of open data and open data that's made available to the public. and without that, we wouldn't have anything to do, we welcome this and it's an honor for me to be up here speaking about this because i have been working closely with supervisor farrell to make this a reality and on the version of the open data legislation, i'm a previous city employee for many years ago, back in the day that we had to fight departments get information expose today the public, it's refreshing to see a day where we can engage those things and build on that, i think there are a number of different excellent opportunity that is the city can take advantage of there engaging the information and the partner that is are available to them. thank you. >> thank you, mr. marshal. >> hi. i'm persa sang. i'm with community local data and for my work at local data before tha