it wasn't fema. fema didn't come around until 1979. , that's who was present. so there is a long tradition of defense support to civil authority. but as the role of the military in the united states and the threats to the united states confronts increasingly expand, as the scale of the military increasingly grows, we have a fascinating tension because who is there? well, sometimes the military is there. we have people in garrison, we have people on base. ut more and more we have bases abroad. but who has the capacity? many people believe it is the d.o.d. so the question becomes, what is it that d.o.d. has available in terms of capability and capacity? what authorities can fema and other departments and agencies bring to the table to make use of that capability and capacity? and how do we form partnerships so we can leverage those authorities, capabilities, capacities in the way that make the most sense both operationly and economically? because from a cost perspective -- and i say with my brother here to the right of me, from a cost perspective there is probabl

if you want fema to acquire a parcel of its contaminated fema won't touch it for liability reasons that you buy buy another parcel that's what's important. these are things we can change. we are grateful for looking at these issues because i think the strength of delaware shows it do to repair that revenge and worth that. thank you. >> we got a lot in in six minutes and 50 seconds. >> i apologize i always talk quick. >> i was watching the body language of the co- panelists. doctor kirshen was nodding his head a lot but may be agreed with one or two things you said. we will find out. thanks so much. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman and senator johnson for giving me the opportunity to talk in front of this committee. i do agree very enthusiastically with everything secretary o'mara is proposing, and i hope to take some of his ideas back with me to new hampshire. supportive of my colleague of new hampshire and other institutions, i conducted several studies on long-term economic consequences of new england cities going back to bite first of all extreme amounts of precipitation and second

it destroyed 300 homes and fema did not step in. so far as of today, we are being told only about 59 residential homes red-tagged here. >> all right. good information there. all right, julie, thank you. >>> coming up, advice to napa from a city that's been there. >> just heartbreaking to sort of see them going through what we went through 25 years ago. >> loma prieta destroyed downtown santa cruz. now the city reflects on its road to rebuilding. and the warning to napa to prepare for the long haul. >> cars crushed after the quake four days later drivers still without their wheels. why no one is going near this collapsed carport. >> and forget the wine train. how the quake has created an unexpected tourist attraction. ,, ,,,,,,,, hey can you fix this? you bet! that's our new interactive speaker wall. 'sup? thinks it's a speak-ing wall. this can even dim your lights. your 3-d--printed girlfriend will love that. real mature. there you go. a laser drone for cats. i wish i had lasers. i don't. pew pew pew... the new radioshack is finally

here's how it works with fema. although there's a state emergency declaration, the governor made that, it doesn't mean anything to fema. fema has to hear from the president, and it's up to the president alone, so when does the president make the decision? whenever the president wants to make a decision, so it could happen any time soon. we do know fema arrived yesterday. some of their advisers are working with their state. they are looking at what they are going to advise the president to do but then it's up to the president. >> right. >> and then if he does it, if the president does do a national disaster, then what you're look at is there are grants up to $32,000 or low cost loans. >> okay. now another twitter user tweeted the people's homes who caught fire, will fire and insurance cover? >> yes, it will. works in the state of california and maybe everywhere but here is how it works for sure. anything that's shakes, that's the problem of earthquake insurance. if there's a fire after that shaking, then your normal

is this emergency management, is it fema is it the government? in other words are you trying to sell this to individuals or is this supposed to be a system where when homes are destroyed, this is ready to be deployed? >> well, the buildings that we've been working for putting together for the office of emergency management in new york city would be purchased by the government. and they -- the government would either prepurchase or arrange for quick construction of these, so that they're prepared. it's been a new york city initiative, although the fema has been involved in it as well but it might serve other cities. so we'll see how all this unfolds. this is really a new initiative i think for all of us. >> where are you in the potential manufacturing process? >> we've made our first prototype. the first prototype is in brooklyn next to the office of emergency management headquarters. we have people living in it trying it out right now and we've tested the concept, built the buildings, took about a day to build them. and you know we were solving p

from fema but luckyly she didn't go too far we get to work with her still we're worked with cal we say that john doe i didn't talks to my staff on 0 daily basis if issues ranging from reimbursements to the rim fire occupying we've worked closely with cal o s and mark has been in his position since 2012 was appoint by governor jerry brown and serves as the homeland security advisors he comes with us with thirty plus years in the field and responded to so many disasters in california i'm he can't remember but we have this critically close work are, manship here's mark (clapping.) i may have caused some disasters in all those years too anyway mr. mayor and all of you thank you very much for taking advantage to deal with this very, very important topic and ann said drug she meant drought she mentioned rim fire california is, you know, truly as the governor said a nation state 38 million i difference people complicated and managing in a crisis like drought this is statewide incorporating all 58 counties and the impacts from that drought to all 18 sectors infrastructure and transportation an

what we see, what fema documents is often iron. concrete iron and which takes 3000 degrees of temperature. where does that come from? it can only come from thermite used by the military to cut through steel. the evidence is therefore thermite. patented cutter charges are in fact made with consolidated thermite. all that would be left is molten iron. that is what is found in the basements of the twin towers. it was not included in the comprising 1000 pages of lies. host: next call, eric in california. caller: i would just like to say that i really enjoy c-span. there have been a lot of callers about this issue. i would like to thank c-span for allowing this to come up. congratulations to all of the people calling to bring it forward. host: we move on to germany . caller: hello. , there were many eyewitnesses on the morning of 9/11. indeed, it was one of the biggest crime scenes in history. i know you are not only just in contact with architects and engineers but also with lawyers. would it be possible to consider including testimony

. >> and taking you to hawaii to show you where another hurricane is moving in and fema is keeping watch on the storm from here, in the bay area. >> a volunteer effort is more than just a playground project. abc 7 helps make a dream come true for one east bay neighborhood. >> brown is the new green at the state capitol tonight. officials are letting the grass die out. why hasn't the uc system followed this example? >> six months ago the governor declared a drought, calling on everyone to do their part. cutting back water by 20%. but this far down the line with no rain in sight, it looks like cal is not doing it's part to conserve. abc7 news is live at uc berkeley to explain. laura? >> well, hi, dan. this is just one example of the lawns we've found here. quite a contrast to what we have seen in other state institutions. still, officials told us when it comes to grass, don't let appearances fool you. it's part of what makes the uc berkeley campus special. the acres and acres of lush trees. in the drought, when brown is the new green, it seems lawns are too healthy. >> we've cut back 50% o

is fema going to step in, bring in cash, housing for people?i'm sure there's a lot of people out of jobs, out of money. >> that's an excellent question. i'm sure a lot of people of thinking that. any help for renter snz. >> there's absolutely going to be help here with the social service agencies that are local. it's been declared a state emergency already. we don't know yet whether it will be the federal emergency that would bring in fema money and grants, but there will be resources locally to help displaced renters. there will be relatively short term. >> okay, now, right now, tomorrow's the big day because that's when they set up the relief center, correct? >> yes, well actually, wednesday is when the long-term recovery centers -- >> wednesday. >> wednesday is when the long-term recovery center is scheduled to open, and we should know within a few days whether there will be a federal declaration. again, i wouldn't wait around for that. >> i'm going to let you keep talking. thank you very much. thank you for your question. amy, thank you ver

and so the $51 million will just be for the property damage related to the fema claim and not the fire management assistance and so there is a much larger bigger number for the multicounty effect and just for the public sector. >> so the taxpayers have to pay close to $70 million. >> and taxpayers have the right. you are right. >> the taxpayers have a bigger bill. >> and $3.5 million in the insurance cost and what is the total amount of the claims that we have submitted. >> we are submitting against the entire $35 million and so we are going and looking at every single dollar that we can recover. >> and we have just been told that the alleged perpetrater has been arrested and indicted and ready for federal court. >> it will mark the one year anniversary. >> do you know when he is going to court? >> i don't know that. >> thank you. >> you bet. summary of next steps, restoration work, 75 percent complete on work, emergency work debris removal, 64 percent completed on the construction for the permanent work projects where we are timely filing all insurance paperwork and we have to do that

fema is built to do that. it's built to handle that and the residents and the businesses and the blishl there. >> one thing about fema there it went through a spleet remake if you will. renovation if you were following hurricane treen na there. >> it's better. it's not just katrina. we felt it came on the heels of katrina at loma prieta. that we started making fema think differently. they never dealt with condos before. they dealt with mobile homes, but if you have a condo tha damaged fema was going, i don't understand how to deal with it. now there's a separate program for cone doe and shared cotts. differently programs for your unit and the entire building as a whole. the limits are hire to account for inflation. it's not perfect but it does work better. >> you need to be persistent. based on what we've seen, is it a legitimate request at this snoint>> absolutely. when i heard i was hearing about the courthouse and library. those are classic public bulledings eligible for public stance for the federal govern

because i work on emergency preparedness issues that there are platforms where red cross and where fema and others monitor twitter feeds and facebook. are you in a position, either working with google, pallentier, facebook, where you are monitoring twitter feeds and facebook, maybe in geographic areas to try to find out what's going on in some communities? >> we don't monitor but we do have links. and both through the -- all the companies that you mention, they actually partner with us, provide access to their software applications, and more importantly their audiences in the case of google, and facebook. so we have an active dialogue through all those social media applications. we don't monitor them per se. we encourage an active engagement, though. >> are you familiar, though, with what i'm talking about that fema and red cross actually monitor for maybe public health outbreaks or after emergencies, cries for help and so forth? >> sure. we actually partner with fema because as you know congress has designated the national center as a national relocation center for when children go mis

if we don't get a grant from the government or something like that fema or whoever will provide that. it'll have to come out of their pocket. >> reporter: at city hall before napa can aplay for federal aid they need to have an estimate of damage. >> we're going to properties quickly and doing an assessment and moving on to the next property. >> and they hope to have the entire city canvassed by tonight. it is a big job and they are trying to do it as quickly as they can. reporting live from napa. mark matthews nbc bay area news. >>> a lot of men and women hard at work in the area. we mentioned the inspectors assessing the damage. here is what we know so far. napa county was the hardest hit. 90 homes and about 50 city buildings have been red tagged. it means they're too dangerous to enter. more than 100 build have been yellow tagged which means people can enter to get their personal belongings. however, repairs are needed. seven buildings have been red tagged and 30 yellow tagged. the numbers could increase as the inspections continue. >> bricks tumbled down on him crushing and pinning

half of the people in the room are fema workers. the rest represent other entities including the army corps of engineers, the coast guard. they're communicating with the troops on the ground. >> they're prepositioning items, insuring transportation is lined up should we need to fly generators from the distribution center, as an example. >> crews are assessing the damage from the ground and the air. iselle hit the big island the hardest. >> there's a lot of water coming from the mountain because there's a lot of rain up there now. so the rivers are running pretty strong. >> many bay area residents who were in hawaii vacationing left before iselle even reached the island. at least those lucky enough to get a flight out. >> starting to get a little stormy. you could really feel the winds. you could kind of hear the people at the airport getting stressed out. the parents were like, let's get out of here. >> as for julio, it's now yearing away from the island. at this point, the worst appears to be over. >> you heard that another hurrica

fema says we are not going to offer any aid. we can't give you any money.is a chance in the napa earthquake situation could say no aid at all? >> it's how well you prepare your disaster declaration. i don't know the desks of washington but i could guess and gather that insurance paid for a lot of it. and if the different differential between the insurance costs and what the homeowners bear is of a certain magnitude, the federal government is less likely to say you need us to kick in. local and state help can come in. with earthquakes, when earthquakes kick in you have to repair things to the new building standards and that costs a lot of money. that takes a lot more time to put together. that's the kind of thing where the state -- where the local agency has to be really smart by putting in their application because that's where the numbers get big and that's where the federal aid is very important. >> and it also sounds like it's going to take a lot of pushing and prodding from the delegation, the congressional delegation in california, which is huge, to co

. >> fema's center is up and running. workers have been glued to computers and monitors displaying images of hawaii. half of the people are fema workers the rest representing other entities, including army core, department of energy. all are communicating on the ground to deploy help as needed. >> this state and counties will get aerial assets in the air and will get people out on the ground. >> despite damage, residents are relieved, hurricane julio is now bearing the worst. the resident says the ground is well saturated. >> there is a lot of rain up there now. >> the big island got the worst right now, farmers there are out navigating roads and assessing damage to crops. in honolulu tourists are on the streets and surfers back in the ocean. and hurricane julio making its approach. spencer christian is live tonight with an oakland project. >> okay. let's take a look at tropical conditions in hawaii now here is our satellite radar. you can see tropical storm iselle now centered 120 miles south of honolulu. moving west rap

we are the individuals responsible for auditing fema.hey, in any given year, have about $10 billion of grants, managing about 100 billion dollars overall, with 100 sub local municipality is to national disasters. states tothe administer them. but frankly the states have varying levels of motivation to appropriately administer those grants. so, we audit these. we wouldone past, simply audit them after the -- whatevert it the the construction was. you build the hospital. we audited the hospital five years later. you say, you improperly said this money, fema go recover that money. functionally a very difficult thing to do. starting last year -- i would like to take credit for it, but i can't -- starting last year we started a mobile -- a more proactive way of looking at these audits. only a third of our audits have been traditional audits, after the money is spent. two thirds are more proactive. they come in three flavors. one is we send people to be disasters site itself. grab your boots, grab your raincoat. you're going to washington to o

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it is my hope we don't need fema and we go back in. i am not going to give anyone a false hope that we'll be back to normal by morning. i don't think we'll ever be back to normal. >> algae blooms during the summer are fed by phosphorus and runoff >>> bodies, including those of children were strewn across the grown in gaza and israeli strip. this happened while people were waiting in line for food. >>> in the bay area there is a rally starting at center plaza, down market street and ends at justin herman plaza >>> get ready to dig deeper in your pockets. starting tomorrow parking rates will rise to a dollar an hour. meters outside the busy downtown area where stay at 25- cents an hour >>> yesterday oakland's a's game first 10,000 fans received t-shirts. he was traded on thursday to the boston red soxs. a's decided to go ahead with the promotion to recognize the all-star outfielders accomplishments. that is a look at your morning headlines. >> looks like we'll have collector's items. >>> new information this morning on who will pay the b

. >> they're working to get fema, get the money here.ll see what happens, it's just going to be a long process. >> with a third of the homes and businesses damaged by water, warren mayor says the federal government must come through. >> if not, there's going to be just a looming hume crisis and disaster of immense proportion. >> i'm hoping they can help us, because this is a financial catastrophe for not only myself, but our community. >> the federal emergency management agency is evaluating the devastation, but no word yet on whether help is on the way. >> expected to submit a report to fema sometime this week and we could learn any day now if federal aid is headed this way. >> what is the city and the state doing to make sure this doesn't happen again? well, there hasn't been eight action taken as of yet. i can tell you, there's been serious talk about upgrading the regions sewer system. >> bisi onile-ere live for us in huntington woods, measure today. it is a mess out there. >> south korea is testing its responsibility to potential te