they said they had no idea why fema wanted the money back, and sent us to something called the fema recoupment hotline. it's a special hotline set up specifically for people with questions on why fema is taking back aid money. at the time, hurricane rv the way. so we expected to be put on hold. but as time dragged on -- allen's patience, already tested, wore thin. and so did mine. >> this is painful. >> yeah. >> all to get information about why they want all the money back. >> yeah. yeah. the waiting game begins. >> reporter: 2 hours and 9 minutes after allen first called, the elevator music stopped, and the line went dead. allen never even talked to a real person. we weren't giving up. we spent weeks calling, and emailing fema on allen's behalf. so many messages back and forth they filled up my inbox. finally, fema told us, if we sat by the phone on a friday night, they would call. so we waited. again. this time two and a half hours passed before the phone they weren't supposed to have given relief funds to college students through the avenues that allen took. not that he didn't deserve disas

fema did tell us in rare instances the treasury may agree to return a case to fema for additional review. we are working to get alan the additional review and will stay on this case to let you know what happens. wusa9 federal oversight offices said afterward the amount of improper aid handed out was between $600 million and $1.4 billion. fema told congress it has brought those numbers down instead. >>> after an online insult is cheered across the country. >>> the first the jeopardy contestant who is writing up social media. right adam? >> weatherwise, warm for october , going out tonight no problems for high school football but-- with temperatures in the 70s. we can starts dry but will not finish that way. we will have the full forecast coming up. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. narrator: ed gillespie wants to end a woman's right to choose. ed giof a woman'sd put thpersonal decisions,rge not women and their doctors. as governor, ed gillespie says, i would like to see abortion be banned. if ed gillespie would like to see abortion banned,

the big explanation from fema? they weren't supposed to have given relief funds to college students through the avenue that allen took. not that he didn't necessarily deserve disaster aid. he just applied for it the wrong way, and fema didn't catch the mistake. if there was an error made, does fema bear any of the responsibility? >> oh, i think they should bear the entire responsibility, because it's like, they're the ones that gave out the money. >> reporter: fema wouldn't agree to an on-camera interview, only a statement that says fema reviews disaster assistance payments to ensure those payments have been appropriately spent. whether there human or accounting errors, duplicates or other reasons, assistance sometimes goes to individuals who aren't eligible. it gets worse. since fema already transferred the debt and it's now in collection, he can't even appeal the decision any more. and the check garnishments have already begun. >> and for this to be the outcome, it's a slap in the face. it's a slap in the face be

the letter said alan owed fema $12,203. that's the $10,000 the agency gave them plus a 28% penalty assessed by the treasury for having to collect the money. you see, fema said it had been trying to track down alan since 2013 and they sent letters to two addresses and a former employer trying to locate him. alan says he was moving around from place to place changing careers and didn't know that fema wanted its money back until that letter from the treasury showed up earlier this year. government was going to start garnishing his wages and force him to make restitution. >> fema decided the funds they gave me, i was ineligible. i have ptsd, but i'm ineligible. >> alan called fema and treasury and couldn't get anyone to explain why he was ineligible for the relief money so we decided to help him get answers. we started with the only phone number we had. the one on that letter from the department of the treasury. they said they had no idea why fema wanted the money back. and sent us to something called the fema recoupment hotlin

fema decidedallen's payment was not proper although the reasons why were made unclear. meanwhile in2011, congress pass the the disaster assistance fairness act which provided applicants like allen the opportunity to have their debt waived. femasays it contacted everyone who was eligible to file a waiver by mail. but that window closed in september of 2012. and allenmissed it. well, he claims he never heard a word about fema wanting its money back until earlier this year. when a collection letter from the treasury showed up at his current address. . >> you know, like why did you give me this money if you're like oh it's an accident and you don't deserve it. it was sopainful i cried so much. icalled the suicide hotline because i didn't want to live any more. >> in a statement fema told us earlier this year they implemented new internal review guidance to ensure that applicants who may owe a debt to fema are notified in a timely manner. that may help hurricanevictims in texas and florida and puerto rico, but not allen. fema says now that his debt has been transferred to th

fema told us in rare incidences treasury may agree to return a dice fema for additional review. stay on this case and let you know what happens. wusa 9 news. >> what a debacle. after cutrene thaw amount of improper aid fema handed out was $1.4 billion. fema told congress it has brought the numbers since then. >>> time to check win the chief for d.c.'s most accurate forecast. an update on tropical storm nate. >> great tomorrow for high school football. but tropical storm nate, it will get into the open waters of the gulf of mexico and become a hurricane. a category 1 before making land fall. close to new orleans. this is 1230 sunday morning. midnight, sunday. an hour and a half earlier as a category 1. because of that hurricane watch in effect. now after that it then goes to the west of birmingham. east of nashville and west of us which will open the door for severe weather for us. here are the possible impacts. a lot up in the air. but the time frame, monday to tuesday morning for the lion's share of the precipitation and also the possibility of h possible. strong to severe stor

and it had been reviewed also by fema. would you explain fema's involvement in the contract process and how you monitor federal dollars before they are allocated? mr. long: let me be clear. the contract was not a fema contract. prepa entered into the contract in late september. there is no lawyer inside fema that would have agreed to that contract to begin with. let me be clear about that. we raised red flag in saying we're not sure this is a sole source contract or competitive rate. there were many things wrong. there was language that would suggest the government would never audit whitefish, which is there never a lawyer in fema that would agree to that type of language. the bottom line is as i understand, not one dollar has gone towards that contract from fema, and what we are doing is rectifying to make sure that prepa has not requested any funding for that reimbursement effort. we have a lot of work to do when it comes to grant monitoring at all levels of government. it is not just fema, but it is in the state and loc

fema is there for the official -- for the initial response. presidentnkful to the for supporting these petitions, the progress, so we can get resources to kickstart the economy, and of course, the long-term rebuilding process. this is important. on president has been clear stating that no u.s. citizen will be left behind. this is the way we work towards making a better america and puerto rico. >> excuse me. you have areas of puerto rico where, we're literally having -- is getting less and less -- deliver food and supplies by helicopter, because the roads have been wiped out, and bridges have been wiped out. there's no way to get there except by helicopter. those are difficult situations. we are working with the governor and folks on getting that taking care of. we are literally delivering supplies dropped by helicopter. i have to also say,, our military -- i also have to say, our our military, first responders, fema, the job they have done is incredible. we are delivering essential supplies by helicopter. there's no way to get to the area of t

anticipated. >> host: using fema should've had decent pizza place before it? >> guest: or at least get them within day one, two or three. we saw obviously 3200 personnel were there on the ground readye after maria landed. i was happy about that. that was a great first response, but the end source started coming. we realized it was much bigger than anybody anticipated and that's when you send the planes, the ships, the copters, you senl it within a day or two. you don't wait until day seven, eight, nine and beyond. that's the problem is that the trump administration has been slow off the mark and now we are paying for. >> host: federal response to puerto rico, our topic with our guest, darren soto. you can ask them questions. the president heads there today. what kind of information or would you like to see him say and you while he is there? >> guest: first thing if deposit fee is going. very few presidents have gone to puerto rico. president obama went. they have statues of those who went over and there are not thag many. him being there is a positive but we n

a fema -- was on the ground yesterday touring. he landed in california. he got to see the devastation firsthand. now, what's clear and what everyone involved says, the disaster is enormous. they have never seen anything like it before. the three largest fires in napa and sonoma county have killed at least 28 people. they burned down thousands of homes and businesses and burned more than 140,000 acres. the northern california fires are the deadliest in california history coming at a time time when federal disaster relief is already stretched thin. fema has never seen anything like the disaster needs in the last two months from hurricanes and fires. the agency has registered 4 million people who need help in just the last 50 days. >> last 50 days has been unprecedented. fema is providing or has registered in our individual assistance systems almost 4 million americans in the last 50 days. when you look at -- i think if you combined katrina, sandy, rita and wilma, those hurricanes, we have exceeded in the last 50 days all of those combined. >> reporter: now.

his fema director was on here, a fema director doesn't want to have to join in an attack on the major. he wants to be able to say, we're trying to do all we can. yet he's in a bad situation. i think it's a classic trump error. >> megan murphy. of bloomberg. we have seen the president talk about puerto rico's debt several times over the course of the week. it aspears that there's a chance that the relief and rebuilding effort is going to be treated differently than from texas and florida. >> it is. andlet go back to what this is all about. babies need water. people are desperate for their lives. we're talking about debt and petty partisan politics. people may not forget indifference. they don't forget the politicization of these humanitarian crisis situations that we see in puerto rico. that's hat this is about. the president has not shown leadership from the top. we see a scattered response in some of this, in terms of lifting the jones act and getting military support. these people are desperate. they need help. that's what the president should focus on. >> he spent most of last week

military fema workers on the ground indefinitely. what they are there to do is to deal with the immediate crisis, which is what they are doing. you are seeing power being restor restored, you are see being electricity being restored, water is being restored and those first responders, those fema personnel, the u.s. military, are working hand-in-hand to get those services restored and they are continuing to make progress on that. what the president is saying is that the long term recovery once the initial crisis is over is going to be something where the federal government partners and empowers local units of government, state government -- >> that's not what he said. >> that's exactly what he said. there that's what you wanted him to say. >> i'm telling you what the president is saying. or trying to tell me that -- >> i'm reading a tweet from -- >> you read a tweet that said first responder, fema and the military. that is what we are saying. the federal government is there, they will continue to be there will and they will continue t

fema? governor: you responded tom and others have been on the phone with me, essentially every day since the disaster. we understand that there are thatlogistical limitations we have in puerto rico. the ports were not open for a few days and the airport was not at capacity until a day or two. , that even with those obstacles, we have done personnel indod puerto rico and 2000 fema personnel. the response is there. do we need to do a lot more? thinkrse we do and i people over here recognizes there is a lot of work to be done but we have leadership and with everyone here, we are committed to achieving that. >> to put this in context for america, from the virgin islands to california, we have been working in 20 different states, disasters in 20 different states. in the last 50 days, under the administration of the president, we have registered nearly 4 million americans for individual assistance. that is more than katrina, sandy, and rita combined. it has been a tremendous effort. this is bigge

what is fema's process for how immigration status information is handled? >> you know, i'm not sure what the policy is today. i know at one time in california when we had a big tree that froze and crops, we housed immigrant workers at that time and we do not have any problems then. did not have any. >> will you be taking up this issue with them when you work with fema? >> absolutely. >> why did you decide to step in and take charge of rebuild north bay? >> you know, director fema under president clinton for eight years, we had 850 presidential disasters. family or a thousand families lose everything they worked for. and old years as a director of fema, and the private sector, when we responded solely to the disasters, i just want to make a difference. i want to make a difference to help them to help themselves and get their life back together and as soon as possible. that's why i still do this. >> james lee witt, the interim director of rebuild north bay. thank you so much for joining us from little rock, arkansas. >> thank you. have a great weekend. >> you

it will keep fema operate, removing debris and distributing food and water. it also helps puerto rico's government address a looming cash shortfall with. the government running out of money by the first of november, vital services could be suspended. when residents can least afford it. this bill will provide a short-term cost inclusion -- cash infusion for the government to keep going and the way this is structured under the law, these funds will likely not be paid back which is reasonable given the challenges puerto rico faces and some of those challenges have been created by the lack of action of the congress when it comes to medicaid. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one additional minute. ms. velazquez: thank you. let's be clear. there's going to need to be much more assistance in the future. puerto rico will need help rebuilding its energy grid, repairing telecommunications networks, and putting its bridges and roads back together. we cannot forget shoring up the island's medicaid system, something that was critical before maria

of course, fema is there for the initial response. there is some rebuilding to go why we are that is thankful for the president for supporting these petitions to congress so we can get the resources, liquidity to kickstart the economy and the long-term rebuilding process. this is important. the president has been clear on stating that no u.s. citizen will be left behind. we will be working, and this is the way we work towards making a better america and a better puerto rico. pres. trump: excuse me. you have areas in puerto rico where we literally had and still have to, but it is getting less and less, deliver food and supplies by helicopter because the roads have been wiped out and the bridges have been wiped out. there is no way to get there but by helicopter. those are difficult situations, and we are working with the governor and the folks on getting it taken care of. we are literally delivering supplies dropped by helicopter. i also have to say that our military and our first responders and fema and tom -- the job they have done h

you call fema. you're supposed to get a fema representative, and you have to wait and wait and wait. so if that's because fema needs more people on a short-term basis to handle the amount of calls, well, fema, let's get it going. or what happens if you're calling because you've got to have a fema representative come to your house to inspect your house so that you can then get the necessary individual assistance to help you. you're waiting for assistance as to when a housing inspector can come and visit the home. once you get through on the telephone and the last time we checked, the expected wait time to get a housing inspector is 45 days. that's too long for families to wait for an inspector to come because these are floridians that are stuck living in damaged homes, homes that have gotten wet and, therefore, the mold and the mildew has built up. and they don't have anyplace else to go. they don't have any income that they can go down to one of the air-conditioned hotels, and they're still wait bei

i just have such respect for fema and all of the people that got here early. governor, you may want to say something. >> we're grateful for the president, grateful for the efforts that the federal government has embarked. this is a team effort. we have all the way from mayors to fema, the dods, general buchanan is here as well. we couldn't have done this if we didn't have those support. of course, we recognize and the president recognizes we still need to do more. we know we'll do it together, this is a commitment by the president, the first lady being here shows a commitment to being here for the long haul, helping us get the emergency help, helping us get stability and building puerto rico stronger than before. >> first of all, thank you. one of the things you may heard on the mainland that is not happening here. people were on the island before the hurricane, before, during and after maria. so we've been hit by a hurricane cat 5 in less than ten days, one after the other. so it's not by the navy and the coast guard. they are rescuing more than 800 people an

queremos confirmar a las personas afectadas por este desastre que fema, estÁ muy listo y dispuesto aistencia federal. flavio: fema ayuda Únicamente a los ciudadanos y residentes legales o quienes estÁn conectado migratorio regularizado pero tenga mucho cuidado si pide ayuda de fema, cuando tenga familiares que son indocumentados. >> no hemos visto ningÚn caso en texas o la florida, en las islas vÍrgenes. cuando hemos tenido que compartir informaciÓn que hemos recibido de personas afectadas por los desastres. a las agencias del departamento de seguridad nacional que tiene que ver con inmigraciÓn. falvio: fema con esto aclara que aunque no lo ha hecho si existe la posibilidad de que esa agencia comparta informaciÓn con la agencia de inmigraciÓn ice. >> no tiene que recibir asistencia de fe pero si de los otros grupos. falvio: debe acudir Únicamente los departamentos del condado o las agencias locales y es indocumentado. si es indocumentado. >> tenemos un centro de asistencia local en santa rosa donde hay 51 diferentes agencias federales, estatales, locales. tambiÉn organizaciones no lu

you went in to talk to fema and got bad news. >> yeah, i went in to file for business assistance, andut somebody already used my social security number to apply for fema aid. >> and only to have fema tell her somebody else already claimed her benefits. >> yeah, i can't file or anything or receive anything or get any help because somebody else has done this in my name. >> organized criminals have been using stolen identities to make hundreds of thousands of claims for disaster benefits. the benefits intended for real victims, and not just for fires in california but for hurricanes in texas and florida. >> across the country it looks like there has been more than 200,000 fraudulent applications. i don't have an exact number for california, but we know it's a fairly large number. >> fema officials say they realized last month much thousands of disaster applications for hurricane's harvey and irma were bogus. >> it appears to be a fairly sophisticated organization that is matching breached private information against affect the areas. >> and jane of bel air, ted cruz, has no damage from h

we have first responders there. >> fema is seemingly everywhere.f administrator gave this accounting of the last two months. >> the last 50 days have been unprecedented. fema has registered almost 4,000,000 americans in the last 50 days. when you look at -- if you combined katrina, sandy, rita and wilma, we have exceeded that in the last 50 days. >> napa, sonoma, mendocino counties, they fall in line with disasters in florida, texas and puerto rico. >> communities across the country may be left to rebuild, largely on their own. >> when the fire is out, when the feds have gone home in fema is no longer here, the county, the city, the state and the local water district are left to rebuild the infrastructure, to put back in place the foundation so the community can once again put itself together. >> the feds don't pay the bills. >> reporter: wilson walker, kpix 5. >> the best way to apply for benefits is through the website . you can also call the number on your screen. >> the federal government completed its obsolete -- obligations for the 1989 earth

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the man who answered refused to provide his name and answer questions, he referred them to fema and femaorder them. give again, they got a $74 million award from fema. >> how did you find this? >> we have great analysts at bloomberg. we have data analysts who go through federal contracts every day. they scrubbed this stuff coming from the gsa and puts it in a spreadsheet, started looking at it and stuff started looking a little funny. >> i am finding sort of dubious seeming companies getting large contracts is one thing and i expect that we'll learn more about those types of contracts as we see what their response is like and whether little seeming companies have surprising resources to really provide these things they've been contracted for. what i am surprised by now is companies that have negative documented track records from previous similar disasters getting even bigger contracts now. there's no black ball system? >> that's right. fema keeps a long list of vetted contractors that they have to deploy when disasters strike like we've seen in the past month. when you see three hurrica

, well fema, let's get it going. or what happens if you are calling because he's got to have a fema representative come to your house to inspect your house so that you can then get the necessary individualel assistane to help you and you are waiting for assistance as to when a housing inspector can come and visit the home once you get fruithrough it on the telephoned once we checked, the expected wait time to get a housing inspector is 45 days. that's too long for families to wait for an inspector to come because these are floridians that are stuck living in damaged homes that have gotten wet and therefore the mold and mildew has built up and they don't have any income that they can go down to on the air-conditioned hotels and they are still waiting for the inspector to come and inspect their homes so they can get qualified to get the assistance that t in fact they e due under the law. so people can't access certain forms of assistance until the inspection is complete. and i am told fema has increased the number of h

in a moment we will discuss relief efforts with fema administrator brock long. but first let's bring in mike tobin with the situation on the ground in puerto rico. >> wheels down, san juan, this d.c. eight just navigated the traffic. >> very, very busy, a lot of relief flights coming in. >> it carries a 36 tons of aid, water filtration kits, and hygiene kits. america's purse is small, they can use their own transportation and work around the bottleneck stranded at the seaport, unable to reach the people who need it. >> we aren't able to cover the whole island so we work to serve those who might have fallen through the cracks that fema can't cover. >> 86-year-old gladys is one of those people. it soaked insulation on the floor, she has no ability to even start cleaning up. she says everything is destroyed and i don't have a house. going to wait and see if someone will help me. the metal roofing here is pretty similar to the construction of a mobile home and it just didn't stand a chance when that hurricane moved so slowly and so powerfully over puerto rico. the s

he referred questions to fema, which declined to answer them.a $74 million award from fema to 3wibuild housing f hurricane verdicts. >> how did you find this stuff? >> we have great analysts at bloomberg. it's a big company, we have data analysts who go through federal contracts, they scrub this stuff that's coming out of the nsa, we have a great reporter named chris flavelle, we put all the information into a spreadsheet and examined it and it looked a little funny. >> seemingly dubious companies getting large contracts is bothersome. maybe they have resources to really provide these things they have been contracted for. what i am surprised by now, is companies that have negative documented track records from previous similar disasters, getting even bigger contracts now. there's no black ball system? >> that's right. fema keeps a long list of vetted contractors that they have that deploy when disasters strike like we have seen the past month. when you see two hurricanes in the same month, they quickly blow through that and they need to turn to

to support the fema and distribution centers. they will bring helicopters which are needed in all of the disaster circumstances. whatever the mission is, having a lift capability going to a particular point to deliver critical aid and water. medevac to either hospital are sure now that we have this coming is critically important. it will be coordinated. better control, better relationships with fema now that general buchanan is down there with regard to military response. >> windows will not be an easy task. give us the real deal captain. what are the challenges of the military will face there and is there any way to assess how long the preliminary phase of the recovery efforts will take? >> it will be a difficult challenge. obviously as you see the administrator talk about in terms of logistics. it is being able to have the roads clear, the good news is that they have had some airports open i think about eight different airports.the seaports open as well. but it is getting the hub where they go to deliver this and it will be the

ivonne/fema "aqui no hay. no estan aqui.ro de seguro social pero uno de tus ninos tiene numero de seguro social, se registra al ninno. pero se puede registrar como quiera. más de mil 500 personas se han acercado desde que abrieron el fin de semana en el primer piso del edificio de the press democrat en el 427 mendocino ave, en santa rosa.. por razones de privacidad no se nos permitió ingresar pero se nos informo que muchos de los que están en el centro de fema escaparon de los incendios sin nada más que la ropa que llevaban puesta. si este es su caso, acerquese cuanto antes para que le puedan ayudar antes de que expire el plazo. desde la ciudad de snata rosa yo soy lucrecia borchardt, noticiero telemundo 48. -- como una escena apocalptica describen los bomberos sus experiencias en los incendios que arrasan el norte de la baha.... -- estas son imgenes de lo que vivi "bryon reid", de la estacin 11 de santa rosa, quien combati el fuego en esa ciudad, para luego darse cuenta de que l y sus compaÑeros deban luchar tambin por sus

and during that time, before the hurricane, here was fema acting together with a lot of employees. more than 4,000 people were here in the island from the different branches of the military -- hhs, navy, army, fema -- and all the staff working together before the hurricane hit. they were here before, during, after the first hurricane, and they continued to stay on the island, boots on the ground. during maria -- same thing. i think we never got the level of communication between the federal government and the government like never before. and we are in the path of the hurricane, so we are used to receiving hurricanes, but never before a category 5. the amount of devastation is unheard of. but during all this time, we got the federal government by our side, doing the job of the people here, like you in the military, doing all that has been asked. all the questions and requests that the governor did, the president and his cabinet accomplished it and send more people, and has continued to send in more people -- trucks, drivers, and resources. thank you, mr. president, for all you've b

fema was not involved in this election.uestions regarding the election of this contract should be referred to prepa. anany language in any contract between prepa and whitefish that states fema approved the contract is inaccurate. strong words. i will tell you this -- amy: this is part of -- 59 in the whitefish contract says -- on "in the event -- in no event shall prepa upwardommonwealth ago,o, the united ststates or ry auththorized repepresentative he therightht to audit or r review cost and profit elements of the labor rates specified herein. you can read it yourself. that is black-and-white. 68. article penalties, fines, disallowed coststs. contract,ng this prepa towards that fema has reviviewed and approved of this contract. and confirmed that the contract is an acceptable form to qualify for funding from fema and other u.s. government agencies. totally the opposite. amy: in what fema is saying. isthat means that contract no envoy. it contradicts the laws of the united states of america and should be avoided right now -

if they've got violations in the past, why wouldn't they be knocked off fema's list? >> look, we encourage people. we called one of the people on the list. it literally was a man at a house in florida. this is how -- >> what do you mean, systemic -- >> yeah, in florida. so he's got a go daddy website. they got $74 million to build mobile homes. the address is a single family home in longwood, florida. a reporter called him. he didn't want to talk. they have no -- they have five employees. they have revenues of $200,000. so look, maybe they're going to be very good at this job but there's no track record that would indicate that's the case. >> what's the argument for no bid? >> it's getting this amount of money out the door. here's the thing. this is what's really important right now going on. we talk about nfl kneeling. we can talk about soldiers. we want people to dig into people, who this will make a real difference. whether these phone grids get repaired. whether or not there's temporary housing. make the difference. getting access to water. getting access to infra

fema does, the army corps of engineer does. if you can't get something here because the roads are blocked that's something the army corps of engineers can handle. this seems to be a feeling of we are around if you ask us for what you need but you are not asking us. it seems to be a political spitting match that's not useful to the rural residents of puerto ricoo who lost everything they have got. >> ali velshi, nobody needs politics right now. the remaining question is why wasn't it until day eight, day nine that we saw a general sent down to take control. >> or day nine when the ship went out, the comfort. it is not clear why it left that late. we have a former director for disaster assistance for u.s.a. a.i.d. thank for being with us. when i was in puerto rico this is what i gleaned. the feds are saying we are doing our end of the stuff. there needs to be another enon the receiving end and that puerto rico doesn't have the expertise to do that. how do we handle a situation like that? because it may be -- there may be somethin

you went in to talk to fema and got bad news. >> yeah, i went in to file for business assistance, and i found out somebody already used my social security number to apply for fema aid. >> and only to have fema tell her somebody else already claimed her benefits. >> yeah, i can't file or anything or receive anything or get any help because somebody else has done this in my name. >> organized criminals have been using stolen identities to make hundreds of thousands of claims for disaster benefits. the benefits intended for real victims, and not just for fires in california but for hurricanes in texas and florida. >> across the country it looks like there has been more than 200,000 fraudulent applications. i don't have an exact number for california, but we know it's a fairly large number. >> fema officials say they realized last month much thousands of disaster applications for hurricane's harvey and irma were bogus. >> it appears to be a fairly sophisticated organization that is matching breached private information against affect the areas. >> and jane of bel air, ted cruz, has no dam

everywhere we went people say, where is fema? just kept asking us, where is fema? she have not seen any first responders yet. remember, on this island, again, there are hundreds, but let me suggest this to you. there are only 320 fema inspectors that are expected to inspect over -- over half a million homes. how can that be? the help just isn't getting there, and so -- once again, i repeat, but i want to say this, because i think it's important. everybody says, thank you, to the american people. everybody said -- and every leader, every elected leader said, we are receiving more from the american people than the american government, that they elected and they want to say thank you to you, because you're coming through very strong in this time of need. >> apartment quickly, congressman. the other issue, "uss comfort," the hospital ship that could hold roughly 800, military support, 250 beds, almost empty? not a lot of people are on the ship. what is going on with that? >> here's what i believe is going on with that. there just isn't the heart and compassion to under

military and fema can't be in there forever, right? >> he did, first responders -- >> first responders. this country, our country, will stand with those american citizens in puerto rico until the job is done. but the tweet about fema and d.o.d., read military, is exactly accurate. they're not going to be there forever. and the whole point is to start to work yourself out of a job and transition to the rebuilding process. >> kelly went on to deny a series of reports suggesting his efforts to contain the president, as senator bob corker put it, are cut putting kelly's own job in jeopardy. according to the "l.a. times" he and the president have engaged in shouting matches. "vanity fair" reported kelly is miserable in his job, remaining out of a sense of duty to keep trump from making some sort of disastrous decision. none of that is true, kelly said. >> although i read it all the time, pretty consistently, i'm not quitting today. i don't believe, and i just talked to the president, i don't think i'm being fired today. and i am not so frus

and i have to say that now having the fema supplies been brought directly into the municipality has helped a lot. so we have been able to use the fema supplies to help other municipalities that have not received anything. the town of comerio, we're going

look this is the way fema works. they say, well, we only take on tasks that the governor asks us to take on. and the governor's not likely to go to fema to ask them to get thousands and thousands of his constituents off the island. number one, it's a difficult request for any local official to make. captains of industry and leaders on the island want to puerto there are rican workers. but if the same captain, those same captains of industry and political leaders, guess what, i bet you most of them already got their loved ones off the island. number two, we know the governor has to be extremely careful how he asks for anything because we know the president doesn't take criticism very well or even the hint of criticism. the governor doesn't want to get back-balled by the president who might go off on a twitter rant at any moment, but our puerto rican constituents don't vote for governor of puerto rico. they vote for us, for delauro, for crowley, for mcgovern, for espaillat, for marcy kaptur, and they want us to help th

. >>> napa county officials are warning residents about fraudulent fema applications made by identity thieves who are capitalizing on the wildfires. napa county d.a. allison haley says her office received several reports from residents whose personal information was used to file fire rated applications for fema assistance. some of those who filed for help were told someone already applied under their name. others who had not filed were visited by fema affiliated inspectors at their homes responding to an application. officials say fema inspectors will not send inspectors to your home unless you filed an application for assistance and the inspectors will not collect personal identifying information or bank account information at your residence. >>> there is a new high-powered leader of a nonprofit group helping with recovery and rebuilding after the fires. james lee witt has extensive experience in dealing with disasters across the country. >> this is a great effort moving forward to get to where we need to end up. >> reporter: rebuild north bay is a nonprofit coalition of elected offi

was prepared by fema. the good news is that fema, reportedly, had a detailed, long, granular hurricane response plan for a large storm hitting puerto rico. that's fascinating news, because if fema did have a detailed, more than 100-page long granular plan on how to defend puerto rico after getting hit by a major hurricane, it's hard to believe that what fema's actually done in response to this actual hurricane wasn't according to that or any plan. six weeks out electricity or running waters, 6.5 million americans going back to the stone ages for going on two months now. that doesn't seem like anything you would plan to do for a storm of any size. so assuming this did not go according to plan, what was fema's plan for how they were supposed to handle a catastrophe like? propublica has just today discovered that that's a secret. fema initially said, oh, yeah, we'll send you our puerto rico hurricane response plan. they later decided that their hurricane response plan for puerto rico is, quote, potentially se