what do you make of this plan pho pull fema dollars and just as we go into hurricane season? tragic from the human perspective of it, but it's also just mind-boggling in terms of policy. let's remember, chris, that during hurricane maria, we saw the lives of over 3,000 people being lost. we saw 1.5 million people on the island of puerto rico lose power, and it took 11 months for that to be completely restored. so we're seeing an island that was completely battered from every dimension on this, and it's weak in terms of even though the power has been put back in place, the infrastructure necessary for a long-term solution is not there yet. so those dollars that fema would provide for another storm, hopefully it's not a category 4 or 5, but if it is, have just been pulled out from under the rug of puerto rico, going to detention facilities. if you really want to curb the issue of immigration, that's talk about the push factors from the countries of origin, and there are smarter ways to deal with the issue of immigration, namely through a more comprehensive immigration reform. m

fema is there. tremendous work is going on. many, many gas trucks are coming in, bringing gas from louisiana and all over. we don't know about evacuation. we will leave it up locally right now. we are going to see where it's coming in. we don't know where exactly it's going to be coming and how far it's coming. i'm going to camp david. we have a lot of experts with us. we have a lot of the fema people coming up, but we are very importantly coming back. on sunday at 12:30, we have a meeting at fema headquarters. that will be about the time that we will know where everything is going. a lot of decisions will be made. that'll be a little less than a day before it hits. so we will see what happens. among other things, the stock market doing well, the economy doing great, the economy is amazing, actually. worldwide we are number one by far. we are getting close. getting close to a new record soon. and whatever you want to ask, go ahead. that i can't tell you but we are speaking to china. >> reporter: [indistinct question] >> >> well

when the president returns to washington he says he will go to fema's quote as, fema is setting up a staging center at maxwell air force base in alabama. 70 truckloads are heading to maxwell and millions of liters of water being sent into the hurricane zone. fema has plenty of money but democrats say the agency has been weakened by the president in the middle of hurricane season. beto o'rourke said in a tweet tonight this week with storms on the horizon, donald trump has removed money from fema to ice, prioritize locking children in cages over helping communities recover from hurricanes. another concern, when this hurricane hits there will be no senate confirms fema administrator to oversee relief efforts, donald trump is not worried about it. >> gives you great flexibility. i'm okay with the word acting but when i like people i make them permanent but i can leave acting for a long time. >> in addition to enacting fema administrator there's an acting homeland security secretary so there are a lot of new people in charge of disaster relief efforts and dorian is going to be there first

he also addressed reports on fema's funding. >> good morning. i want to thank ken graham, national hurricane center for showing us around and giving us his insight. as you know, i recently issued executive order 19, 189, regarding hurricane dorian. declared a state of emergency in 26 counties in the state of florida. be likely adding to that in light of some of the additional forecast paired that is -- additional forecast paired one of the additional thing the state allows us to do is to get more fuel into the gas stations. we have heard report of field shortages already in places like brevard county. this order allows more fuel to come. it allows us to mobilize the national guard. -- with aking with track like this, it is uncertain where to deploy them. the national guard is going to be on deck. i spoke president trump yesterday. he assured me the president -- the federal government will be with us every step of the way, supporting us in every way they can. i spoke with the acting fema director. he assured me they are going to be working closel

he the person who says everyone actually listen to the florida governor, listen to fema, do what theyay if you need to get out, get out?e is reiterating that message or is he getting distracted by other things? i think you do want to see in time liblings this some level of consistency from the president. if it i a cegory 4 and it is direct hit on florida that can be major devastationon e are parts of florida, it's not the sam parts, that are still recovering from l'st ye storms. i think what you want to see is fema and everyone else has the resources they need and are dina what's what we're hoping for. robert: that's what people are looking for. what about inside the administration where you have many acting officials? will the president pay a political cost for havavg so many? >> i would think not unless a catast tphe happens and government is seen as failing to respond. as far as the atmosphere, it shows how much trump has changed the way we percethe presidency. in coprentional times you would expect a president of either party to be seen as a unifying force, a reassuring force. hig

with fema saying the entire state is at risk. there will be life-threatening storm surges, days of heavy rain and even inland cities like orlando could see hurricane-force winds. residents have unearthed a stockpile of week's worth of food and supplies. but in many places there are empty shelves already and florida's governor acknowledging statewide gas shortages. our correspondents and analysts and guests will have full coverage of the breakingtories and our crews are deployed around florida as dorian churns toward florida growing and more menacing. we're in sebastian, florida, what is the latest? >> reporter: the critical to-do list is short. it is fill up and load up and board up. the next step is get out. but that is proving more difficult than many expected. >> tonight all of florida is under the state of emergency and the clock is ticking. >> biggest concern about this storm is the uncertainty of where it is going and the intensity of which it is coming in. >> reporter: hurricane dorian expected to barrel head first into th

appreciate it. >>> fema is gearing up to tackle hurricane dorian, a fema official told cnn it's goingbe a big storm, we're prepared for a big response. i'm quoting him. and since dorian had minimal impact on puerto rico, fema is shifting staff from the island to florida. let's bring in cnn aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh. what are fema's plans to prepare for hurricane dorian? >> well, fred, you know all eyes are going to be on this acting fema director and how he leads the agency through all of this, peter gainer. he took over, as you know, after brock long resigned in february. but federal officials, they say that they are bracing for this big storm and it will warrant a big response and it will have a multi-billion price tag. fema is saying if this truly does hit florida as a category four, it's going to be into the billions of dollars. as far as damage goes, they say they expect damage both along the coast, as well as inland, and fema is saying that the storm will wreak havoc a infrastructure, power lines, as well as roadways. and of course the additiona

from fema and reprogramming it toward immigration.nope you that we're in the middle of hurricane season, does tham pack does that impact fema's ability? >> fema said it shouldn't impact their long-term efforts across the u.s. and puerto rico that have been impacted by hurricanes in the last year or so, but it does raise questions about how thin they may be stretched because of the money that they're diverting. it certainly is something that house democrats are going to look into as well as the movement of the pentagon funds, because typically they're used to being able to oversee where money is being diverted. congress controls the purse. and so this is a debate that they've had with the administration for quite some time, when the border adrian leaf bill passed before they left for their august recess, they wanted some restrictions in there so that way they could control where money was actually being sent, and they've been having this battle with the white house about it. so we can expect more from them. >> essentially fema is sayin

but this time fema officials say they're ready. >> fema took a very aggressive stance for dorian. it is the first system of the year and we understand that the island is still very fragile. >> repity'nfcture fear fithd gti a fen whatwa chances scrambling to stock up on supplies. >> just to have enough water and canned food. >> reporter: and ahead of the storm president trump taking to twitter writing, congress approved $92 billion for puerto rico this year, an all-time record of its kind for anywhere but puerto rico's resident commissioner says the funds trump is referring to is not readily available and that it's a sum estimated to be delivered over ten years. and this morning, fema says they have emergency personnel positioned all over the island. the warehouses are full and more ground. meanwhile, janai and kenneth, puerto rico's governor says she's in close communication with the white house. >> mona, thank you. we will continue watching that. at the same time people who live in florida are also cloly watching dorian so let's get a closer look at where the storm is headed. >>

i was able to speak with the acting director of fema this morning. we do not anticipate that being a problem. we look forward to submitting that to the white house and the president's approval on that. i have been in contact with the president of florida state, john thrasher. there is a football game scheduled for saturday night against boise state in jacksonville. given jacksonville's location and the uncertainty of the storm, they have looked for ways to accommodate that. i think they are going to go forward with the game. they are not going to do it in jacksonville. they're going to do it in tallahassee. they're going to have or details for everybody interested in that going forward. the message right now is all floridians need to monitor hurricane dorian and make the necessary preparations. this is a track that has a significant amount of uncertainty. i was talking with ken -- you can make a case for places like miami and the keys began party. you can make a case for it to be more than florida. the key is to have your plan and make those preparat

, taking money away from fema, for border projects. especially the timing. you know, going right into the hurricane season. and fugate had some really fascinating insight about who should actually worry about that money going away. here's what he said. >> to me, it will not affect the response to this hurricane. a bigger problem will be other disasters that if fema starts running low on money responding of this hurricane, they may have to stop work on older disasters until congress is able to refund that account. >> until congress can refund that account. look, you might say, victoria, oh, of course congress would replenish fema funds. well, i do think a lot of people thought they'd take care of 9/11 victims, too, but we saw how protracted that was, right? >> i mean, regrettably, we've become so hyperpartisan in this era and congress has become so deadlocked that pretty much everything is a tug-of-war and anything that before would not be considered contentious is considered contentious now. so the issue of fema funding is one of these

we have a lot of experts with us. .e have a lot of fema people a sunday at 12:30 we have meeting at fema headquarters. that will be about the time that we will know where everything is going. a lot of decisions will be made. a little bit less than a day before it hits. we will see what happens. the stock market is doing well. the economy is doing great. the economy is amazing, worldwide we are number one by far. we will be very close to a new record. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: that i cannot tell you but we are speaking to china. i can't tell you whether or not it will be president xi. reporter: [indiscernible] i understandmp: twitter accounts have been hacked. hope they are not hacking my account. if they do, they will not learn too much more than what i put out. i think she said some things. she called me and was very upset. she was very down. she said she was drinking a little bit. she was with reporters. everything she sd was f the record. couple things about my children. she is a very good person. always felt she did a good job. in all fairness, it was off the record.

shawna: the's a lot, especially with regard to taking away money from fema.he timing is everything. timing could not have been worse. this president has already been accused repeatedly of neglecting puerto rico. the storm was at's puerto ri doorstep when this announcement came o, c,ldn't be worse timing. the optics not important to him. this is notust about a campaign promise or even an administration promise. this was a a slogan of his rallies, it was a catchphrase chanted back to him by his supporters. for his bas this is one the things they carry signs that say build the wallame l repeat that mexico is going to pay for the wall. it was a defininin feature of te rallies and now we're going into 2020 and we don't see a wall in the way he promised his people. this is something for the president where, cre hell or high water he wants the wall. >> if he economy takes a downturn that'll be the only thing he has to run on heants to build the wall as a backstop for if the economy isn't what it is right now. robert: we've heard he's consideringardons, he's denied i

we have fema, we have first responders. here. tremendous things i have to tell you georgia is very much in this past. we are working with our great governor of georgia. we have our top people there. and it's really, really been amazing. i have to say we've done a great job in puerto rico. we were totally ready in puerto rico. but erto rico we get lucky well.lly very the new governor was on top of things and we had a really great relationship with puerto rico. fortunately we didn't use what we had but we're set in puerto rico and in great shape. >> are you having evacuations at the time? president trump: we're thinking florida evacuation but it's a little too soon. people are getting ready and may have be evacuated. we'll probably make that determination on sunday. >> mr. president, the polish government demands reparations from germany for the second world war. president trump: i think it's going to be between poland and germany and get along with them both. >> are you concerned you don't have a female administrator or defined ho

it matters, and particularly for fema, because the main role of fema is to support local and state entities and surge resources at the time it's needed the most, in particular a hurricane. without that funding they're not going to be able to have the personnel to guide those resources, nor are they going to have the money just from where we know it's being taken from to assist the states and localities after the hurricane hits in terms of rehabilitation and resiliency building. it's a nightmare from the perspective of entering the hurricane season and it's just idiotic because, of course, we know that the real threat is not, you know, the wall and the border but is actually climate change and what we're likely to see this weekend. >> yeah. ryan, the president thought this morning would be an appropriate time to insult and disparage puerto rico. here's what he tweeted. he said fema and all others are ready and will do a great job. when they do, let them know it and give them a big thank you, not like last time, that includes from the incompetent mayor of san juan. puerto rico is one of the m

>>choir says fema needs to get moving the federal fiscal year ends september 30th and then after that of course we start the new appropriation process. fema finally seems ready to open the checkbook it is warning local communities to start preparing applications saying in a notice time is of the essence be prepared for an accelerated application process in washington, i'm anna warning key. president trump has has reportedly on multiple occasions expressed interest a new and unusual real estate purchase sources say the white house counsel's office has looked into the possibility. >>buying greenland from the danish government. the president's interest in buying greenland was first reported by the wall street journal according to the journal he's raised the issue during meetings and dinners with varying degrees of seriousness questioning aides about the possibility and the advantages of purchasing that autonomous danish territory it home to the us militaries northernmost 750 miles above the arctic circle in a statement issued today, the government said quote greenland is not for sale tha

i talked to them both and fema and dhs says that's not true. it does not go in effect when chuck schumer says it will. there's money left in the base account to preposition any supplies needed between now and the end of the year, september 30th. there's also a second account in the disaster relief fund called the majors account that is the account that funds disaster recovery and fema told me that in that account, there's currently $27 billion. shep? >> shepard: john roberts live. thank you. the president made border security a main stay of his message dating back to the campaign with build that wall and mexico will pay for it. the last promise is long gone. despite the president's claims to the contraircontrary, there' wall. existing barriers have been replaced. same span. the total of repaired barrier is about 60 miles along that 2,000 mile border. in some cases with a new wall system as customs and border protections calls it, new tech and new lighting, but not in new areas. the pentagon approved another 20 miles of wall for arizona and cali

trump tweeting, fema and all others are ready and will do a great job. when they do, let them know it and give them a big thank you, not like last year, that includes from the incompetent mayor of san juan. later adding, puerto rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. their political system is broken and their politicians are either incompetent, or corrupt. congress approved billions of dollars last time, more than any place else has ever gotten. and it is sent to crooked politicians. no good. and by the way, i'm the best thing that's ever happened to puerto rico. the president once again, alluding to the false claim that puerto rico received $92 billion in disaster relief following hurricane maria in 2017. in reality, congress allocated about $40 billion in aid, with the island only receiving a fraction of that. >> i have taken better care of puerto rico than any man ever. >> reporter: and now, the trump administration is slashing $155 million in fema disaster relief funding, according to documents newly obtained by cnn, rerouting $271 million w

fema is in pretty good shape generally.atnema has become a really effective agency. what i am worried about in florida, there is many hazardous waste sites. there are two nuclear power plants, over 150 other power plants, some places where the electrical grid might be more unstable. there are hospitals, 89 hospitals in the state of florida. are those prepared? are they ready to evacuate. people in prisons and nursing homes. so the reality of preparing effectively is very complicated. >> you brought up fema. i wanted to get your thoughts on this because the department of homeland security is diverting $271 million for the border, 155 million will actually come from fema's disaster relief fund. that announcement drew a lot of criticism. how do you evaluate that? does that effect fema's response when you have $155 million diverted away from its disaster relief efforts? >> i think the actual dollars that fema does have available are sufficient right now. this movement from one agency within homeland security to another agency w

i had fema dispatched and search and rescue team. wondering if you could speak to what fema might be prepared to do to help. >> reached out to our acting ministry on these issues this morning. he noted the search and rescue team very concerned that please let me acknowledge the loss of life. fema will be there but we will respond in support of your state and local authorities to address any damage from the storm. >> great. i look forward to working with you on that. we are in the midst of a major flood event in the state of missouri. missourians are tough. we are going to need federal assistance to help rebuild communities in those farms and towns i look forward to working with you on that as well. let me ask you about another major problem in my state which is the epidemic of drugs only into the state. i noticed in your written testimony the word illegal drugs only appear once which i was surprised by let me give you a chance to elaborate here. the drugs come across the southern border are making their way to cities across the count

i am going to camp david, we have experts with us and fema people. 12:30 we have a meeting at fema headquarters, and that will be about the time we will know where everything is going. a lot of decisions will be made. we will see what happens. the stock market is doing well the economy is doing great, the economy is amazing. worldwide, number one by far. the stock market is up again, close to a new record. reporter: [indiscernible] >> i cannot tell you but we are speaking to china. i do not know if it will be president xi. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: i understand twitter account have then hacked . -- have been hacked. hack my account, they will not learn more than than what i put out. it cannot be too bad. reporter: [indiscernible] >> i think she said some things, she called me and was upset. she was down. she said she was drinking a little bit and with reporters. everything she said was off the record, that does not cover for her. she mentioned things about my children, but she is a good person, and i felt she did a good job. record, and the press brakes that all the time becaus

what else is fema doing to get ready?ou talk to fema, they say they are ready, all eyes are going to be on the man you just showed that sound bite from. peter gayner, he took over after rock long resigned in february. this will be gayner's first hurricane as head of the agency. in fema's own words, they are bracing for a very big storm that warrants a big response. now, the agency says if this is a category 4 storm, fema says it's going to cost in the billions of dollars, the damage will be both on the coast as well as inland. fema says the storm will wreak havoc on infrastructure, power lines. additional concern are the elderly who live in the state of florida. many of them not always mobile. getting them out will also be an issue. anna? >> renee marsh, thank you for that update. a lot of questions for the medical team at ayden ver jail. video shows them standing by doing nothing to help as a woman gives birth. alone in her cell. coming in only to take the baby away. what's behind such a lack of compassion? we'll discuss

it is why fema has tried to work even more closely with the government here. there are about 500 fema employees on the island ready to go before dorian's effects were even felt here. and of course, the granting of the emergency declaration would have allowed them to be deployed very quickly. on one last kouchbl concern was in regards to the power grid wolf people's lights still stay on? here in the east coast, we have seen that. but power authority officials said that hush maria made them just a little bit stronger on that front. trying to rebuild as much infrastructure as possible. including installing a generator that they say would have been able to power the island if things got really bad on that front. so we'll continue to monitor that. the storms are moving, what seems like away from the eastern portion of this island. and while again, people were preparing for the worst, they were hoping for the best. wolf? >> all right. we'll stay in close touch with you. thank you very much. let's go to the cnn severe weather central. our meteorologist allison has th

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already fema is setting up a staging center in south carolina and an incident response center at the air force base in alabama. 70 truck loads of relief supplies are heading to maxwell and millions of liters of water are being sent into the hurricane zone. fema says it's ready and has plenty of money but democrats say the agency has been weakened by the president. right in the middle of hurricane season. 2020 contender beta o'roark with storms on the horizon, president moved $150 million from fema to ice. another concern, when this hurricane hits there will be no senate confirmed administrator to oversee the relief efforts. today president trump said he's not worry about it. president trump: it gives you great flexibility that you don't have with permanents so i'm with the word acting. i can leave it as acting for a long period of time. >> there is also an acting homeland security secretary so there are a lot of new people in charge of these disaster relief efforts and shannon, dorian will be their first big test. >> shannon: it continues to grow. >> it really does. >> shannon: thank

where i'm going directly to fema. i think senator rubio and senator scott and i don't think the governor should be there. i think he wants to be in florida, governor desantis. he's doing a fantastic job, by the way. doing a fantastic job. reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> you know i haven't even thought about it until the question was just broached a little while ago. yeah. it would look like mar-a-lago is dead center. but look, mar-a-lago can handle itself. that's a very powerful place. the thing i'm worried about is the state of florida. because this hurricane is looking like it's -- this could be a record-setting hurricane. now, maybe things change. we're hoping for one element that might happen and that's that it makes a right turn and goes up north just prior to our equal to hitting shore. that would be great. but that's a pretty small percentage at this point. reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> say it? what? reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> so we're bringing them down to about 8,600 in afghanistan. we're really a police force mor

>> so peter gainer is currently the administrator at fema. that's probably a name most of your viewers ever heard of before. he replaced brock long last year. this will be his first hurricane season. by all accounts he's one of those longtime government emergency response managers who has done this before and who is, by all accounts, someone who is seen as quite competent in this role. that said, he's an acting official. we have from the top down, if you look at the org chart at the department of homeland security, it's really unprecedented, the head secretary hasn't even been nominated, heads of cdp, heads of uscis, the heads of almost every agency under the dhs umbrella are people who have not been confirmed, people who are in those positions temporarily. you also have a president who approached the department of homeland security, which is just a very large organization, through a very specific lens, mostly thinking of it as an immigration agency. paid a lot of attention to the parts of dhs that have been responsible for working on wall co

he says fema and all others are ready and will do a great job. when they do, let them know it and give them a big thank you, not like last time. that includes from the incompetent mayor of san juan. and the president appears to be tweeting at the mayor of san juan, who has been critical of the president in the past, because just last night she was on cnn criticizing the president once again. let's listen in. >> his behavior, his lack of understanding, it is ludicrous. 3,000 puerto ricans did not open their eyes this morning because this racist man did not have it within him to do his job. so get out of the way, president trump, and let the people that can do the job get the job done. >> reporter: now the president decided to go even fufrther thi morning in a later tweet. he tweeted puerto rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. he once again touted this notion that congress approved billions of dollars to puerto rico when it was hit by hurricane maria. the president has repeatedly insisted that puerto rico receive $92 billion in funds. i

a fema spokeswoman says they'll still have enough money. but acknowledge the challenge of responding to dorian on top of what she called the complex recovery effort from earlier storms. this is a time when the american people would have ever reason to expect the president to standby them. puerto rico is american people. standby them and be a leader. this president is consumed by his feuds with anybody he views as an enemy. he's rattled by warning signs on the economy. and scrambling to come up with something, anything he can, to point to as a campaign promise fulfilled with 2020 on the horizon. so he doubles. triples down on the main campaign promise. the border wall. tweeting that it is his words going up very fast. despite total obstruction by democrats in congress and elsewhere. that is not true. the fact is again, facts first, customs and border patrol told cnn precisely zero, zero. zero miles of border barriers have been built where none existed before. they have only replaced about 60 miles of barrier. which is not at all what the pre

so recognizing that we've worked with fema to get fuel from out of state, so fema and jerod have worked with mississippi, alabama, and georgia to waive their service and truck weights so we can facilitate fuel coming in from out of state. that is happening as we speak. in terms of nursing homes, obviously an issue in the past, the agency for health care administration is making site visits or calls to all facilities where the state does not have updated info about generators. we now have a website through the agency of health care administration where you can go in each county and see who's got the generators, who doesn't. and so we think it's statewide, about what, 120 that we don't have the information for. so there's going to be site checks. there's going to be phone calls to make sure that they have a plan to deal with folks that are in their care and then once the storm passes, there will be spot checks with the department of health to see where there may be needs after the storm and who has lost power. the website for the generator is fl-generator.com. we've been putting that out

we have a lot of the fema people that are coming up.re really very importantly coming back and on sunday at 12:30 we have a meeting at fema headquarters and that will be about the time that we'll know where everything's going. a lot of decisions will be made. that will be a little bit less than a day before it hits. so we'll see what happens. on other things, the stock market is doing well. the economy is doing great. the economy is amazing actually. worldwide we're the number one by far. stock market's up again and we're getting close. we'll be very close to a new record soon. and whatever you want to ask, go ahead. i can't tell you, but we are speaking to china. [ inaudible question ] >> well, i understand -- shouldn't be too bad. well, i guess she said some things. she called me. she was very upset. she was very down. and she said she was drinking a little bit. and she was with reporters and everything she said was off the record. that still doesn't really -- she mentioned a couple things about my children, but she's a very, you know

jeff, thanks to you and thanks to everything that the men and women of fema are doing. appreciate it very much. >> thank you very much. >> when it comes to big storms, a lot of people talk about the strength of hurricane andrew 27 years ago. meteorologists are seeing some similarities between that storm and dorian. take a look here. here is what the storm did, andrew, back then after it crossed the bahamas. the hurricane hit southern florida as a category 5 storm, it had winds of 165 miles per hour, that is 270 kilometers per hour. the storm killed 26 people and it caused some $26 billion in damage, destroying more than 25,000 homes. >>> another story we're following this day, at least ten teenagers were hurt when gunfire broke out at a high school football game. this happened in mobile, alabama. five victims are said to be in critical but nonlife threatening condition. police say one person suffered a seizure and another was injured while trying to get away. two people have been detained and are being questioned by police there. >>> we're following events in hong kong.

and chuck assumer saying, the trump administration's plan to divert money away from fema is backwardsnd cruel. and former vice president 2020 candidate joe biden tweeted out, president trump is taking millions from fema disaster relief in the midst of hurricane season to further fuel a crisis at the border. it makes about as much sense as nuking hurricanes. >> the president is politicizing that storm. posting on will it ever end? congress approved $92 billion for puerto rico an all-time record for anywhere. a record that the president continues to cite for puerto rico is not accurate. congress has not aloe indicated $92 million, but $42.7 billion and actually made it to the island. >> and president trump has reportedly told administration officials that he will pardon them if they have to break any laws to get a border wall built before the in connection election. and trump has directed aides to fast track billions of dollars worth of construction contracts, aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules. trump has promised to complete 500 miles of fencing by novemb

he's described that camp david as a control center where he'll have fema officials and other expertsis side. but what he will not have at his side are senate confirmed officials at the heads of the two -- the agency and the department most responsible for disaster relief. the president does not currently have a set confirmed fema administrator, and that is since february when the previous administrator, brock long, resigned. the head of the department of homeland security is acting secretary kevin mclean, and that storms from kirstjen nielsen's resignation in february. now while the president has nominated a head of fema that the senate has not yet acted on, he has not yet nominated a new secretary of homeland security. and the president just yesterday asked about this situation once again reiterating that he likes the word "acting," he likes the flexibility that acting officials do, indeed, afford him. the president is monitoring this hurricane, and with that he suggested that the hurricane is going to be hitting dead center a couple of days ago. it wasn't entirely clear what the pr

and it appears that at least fema is striving to learn from their mistakes.vident the president has learned nothing. >> well, mayor -- mayor, listen, i appreciate your words. our viewers do as well. we're thinking about you there. we're glad so far that you missed a direct hit. please keep us informed and let us know if there is any other damage if you hear about someplace needing some help there. mayor carmen yulin cruz. >> thank you very much for the opportunity. >> absolutely. you be safe. >>> 2020 candidates weighing in on the administration's plan to shift millions of dollars from disaster relief, and one of them joins me next. julian castro is here. [happy birthday music] ♪ ♪ don't get mad, put those years to work with e*trade. at t-mobile, what can you get when you a buy a samsung galaxy note 10? you get unlimited data while on a network that goes further than ever before. use as much as you want. when you want. a netflix subscription on us. stream all your favorite movies and shows. and for a limited time. buy any samsung galaxy note 10 and get one sa

>>choir says fema needs to get moving the federal fiscal year ends september 30th and then after thate we start the new appropriation process. fema finally seems ready to open the checkbook it is warning local communities to start preparing applications saying in a notice time is of the essence be prepared for an accelerated application process in washington, i'm in a warning key. >>a 12 year-old girl was behind the wheel of a car when she crashed and killed a man and his dog. it happened saturday in houston the man was walking his dog at the time of the crash. witnesses say they saw officers give the child a field sobriety test. >>so they did it just a hair over there to walk in the line everything steps to be i know for i would never allow my children behind the wheel of a car, especially at that age. >>well neighbors say the young girl is back home with their family, there's no word this morning on any charges that may be filed against her. and take a look at the moment, the 2 men rescued a young woman who fell into the water this is in the virgin islands. the girl was in a wheelch

jillian: -- heather: slamming the trumpet ministration for moving fema funds to the border but there are reports that president obama did the same thing. if we can pull that up as you talk about it donald trump in 2019 moving $155 million, in 2014 way more moved by obama, 267.6. what about this? >> exactly right, glad you brought that up. i was going to read you a quote from the white house where the administration is blaming congress for not doing anything and having to die for it money from fema to the border. this is a continual issue where congress is not doing anything. democrats are the ones creating the crisis on the border but they blame the president for using disaster relief funds to solve the problem. the democrats own this and the president i believe will wrap it around their neck and tell the american people this is a problem democrats need to solve. heather: you said what the obama administration said. is a statement from fema, the transfer fund to support the border emergency will leave remaining balance of $447 million, this will be sufficient to support operational n

you can download the fema app. they'll give you a lot of information about what you should be ready for and the shelters, evacuation orders, things like that. i would take this very seriously. look, we always hope for the best, but think about it. if you waits and this thing turns due west, are you going to have time to get to a shelter? are you going to have time to evacuate? are you going to have time to get to the store? it's going to be a very difficult time then. as it comes along up close to florida, so i think we all have to take this very seriously. >> who are you most concerned about? >> well, i mean, look, we've got a lot of new residents, about 400,000 people move to florida a year. we've got a lot of tourists that come down. i tell people is follow the news. follow the news, follow evacuation orders. the local sheriffs take this very seriously. when they say you should evacuate, evacuate. when the governor says you should have seven days of water, seven days of food, you ought to do it. so don't -- so j

it's coming out of the coffers of fema.will have $471 million ready for disaster relief instead of the $664 million they had set aside for this year for this hurricane season. >> you cover that department better than anybody. there's been a lot of high level firings and resignations from the homeland of department of security and the dehumanizing border policies. a few have said, enough. any indication from your reporting anyone had any pause about stripping funds from disaster relief? >> yeah. that's interesting. i can't pinpoint who it was, someone i think, a dhs senior official had some pause about this. this a document i've been waiting on a long time. there were rumors about this, the fact this transfer was happening. they notified congress in july. we thought it would be easier to get out. there seemed to be some pause and they went past the 30 day mark before they had to make this public. maybe someone did have some pause at dhs. ultimately what we've seen time and time again, no one at dhs in a policy position wants

money from the fema disaster relief fund. so $400 million total is what the obama administration redirect but there was no criticism of obama but trump is getting wailed on. >> they just don't like him. personalities and politics are being played out and it's on the backs of the safety of this country. i heard tonight my county and i heard it talking to other sheriffs. what i do say, i applaud that the president sees the need to secure our country. >> to the politics. reports coming in that the trump administration barring, won't allow democrat staffers from elijah cummings oversight committee from visiting the border facilities because they had rude and destructive behavior, refusing to follow instructions. your take on that story, border fight with elijah cummings staffers. >> they came down to the border, they saw the facilities. let me applaud our cbp officers who are doing the best they can with limited resources. then to have folks come down from congress and see them and walk away and say they are not doing this, they

is fema better prepared today than two years ago? >> absolutely. if you look around just at this warehouse, and now we have five where we used to have one. there's probably 10 times the commodities on the island that were here pre-maria. we spent the last two years learning some lessons and making sure we're much better prepared. id dickerson: david, nick russo says those warehouses are full, but you said there are lots of roads that are blocked. so how do they get the goods to the people where they need them? >> reporter: well, they're using the roads that are available, thn, taking resources from that main supply center in san juan and putting them in satellite centers around the island. speaking of satellites, john, ellir maria, the ability to communicate had collapsed, right. un fema is giving satellite fones to all 78 mayors on the island. thservice on those satellite landfall here and they still haven't done it. fema hopes to get it done tonight to get one of those phones in the hands of every mayor by tomorrow morning. >> dickerson: the cloc

fema officials say that is not not the case. the money comes from an account dedicated to prepositioning supplies ahead of the hurricane and that there's plenty of money in that account to last until the end of the fiscal year. another account that actually deals with recovery is flush with cash and has a balance of $27 billion. should make a correction. it was 405 million, not billion dollars that were reprogrammed in the obama administration. >> bret: thank you. no changes to children born on u.s. soil at overseas embassies, also happening today. military members overseas qualifying as u.s. citizens. there was question about that, a change in administration policy. >> this is a new policy change that came out from citizenshipiy members or u.s. government emplee residence in the u.s. if that means that parents would have to apply for citizenship. you can imagine a lot of alarm bells went off on this policy was announced. if the u.s. eis director ken cuccinelli with a statement saying this only affects children who were born out

on the campaign trail 2020 democrats are blasting the administration's reprogramming of fema funds to support border operations. he was before and tweeting this. i'm particularly concerned trump is pulling millions of dollars from fema to dt more immigrants and moment the administration is inhumane immigration policies. accrual, dangerous move at the height of hurricane season. the administration defending the transfer as routine and needed for lacking bed space. jillian: thank you very much. rob: the president taking part of us space command, responsible for planning and carrying out space missions and providing missile warnings as well. space command is seen as a precursor to the space for skamania military branch which would need approval from congress. jillian: do you have the right to remain stunning? women are going crazy over this california cop going viral on facebook for his good looks. several women commenting on the police department's recruitment poster trying to catch the attention of officer jake waste. whoever does their marketing deserves a raise. i have never broken t

they're pulling from all over dhs, cyber security, tsa, fema.n they are dipping into specifically fema's disaster relief fund to fund 155 million for temporary court hearing locations along the border and that is precisely for the immigrants that you just talked about sent back to mexico to wait for their asylum hearing. usually when you have to pull on emergency funding and notify congress and not go through the usual routes, you'll know this better than anyone, you have to show it's because you're protecting the united states, that there could be damage to property or national security risk. this is actually because of a policy that this administration put in place, that is why they are dipping into this 155 million. so again, they get in this place where it's really hard to justify, and you can read through these documents where they have to justify each line, and they say well, absent any catastrophic events. what is the fema relief fund for, except for catastrophic events? >> to take money from cyber security and tsa, seems to me that those

is fema ready for the response? >> reporter: they say that they are, jim. and of course all eyes are going to be on the acting fema director as he leads the agency through all of this. as you know, he took over after rock long resigned in february. but federal officials say they are bracing for a big storm that warrants a big response with a multi-billion dollar price tag. and the warning was very clear. he wants people to pay attention. take a listen to the acting fema director this morning. >> this is going to be a long duration, major storm. again, i think wherever it makes landfall it has a potential to go up the 95 corridor, florida into georgia, rain, flooding, debris. it's going to be a large-impact storm. don't dismiss, just because you don't live on the coast, just because you don't live in west palm, you have to believe that it's going to impact you. and again, the clock is ticking. >> reporter: so on storm cost, jim, if this is a category four, fema says that it's going to be in the billions of dollars. the damage will be both to the coasts and t

so recognizing that, we've worked with fema to get fuel from out-of-state. so fema and jared have worked with mississippi, alabama and georgia to waive their service and truck rates so we can facilitate fuel coming in from out-of-state. that is happening as we speak. tin urms of these nursing homes that's been an issue in the past. making site visits or calls to all facilities where the state does not have updated info about generators. as you know we now have a website through the agency where you can see who's got the generators, who doesn't, and so we think statewide about 120 that we don't have the information for. so there's going to be site checks. there's going to be phone calls to make sure that they have a plan to deal with folks that are in their care. and then once the storm passes, there'll be spot checks done in conjunction with the department of health to see where there may be needs after the storm and see wo has lost power. the website for the generator is just fl generator.com. and we encourage everyone to take a look at that. today at my di

fema officials say that's not correct. it doesn't do what senator schumer says it should do. that comes from money prepositioned to pay for supplies ahead of the hurricane. another account that actually fund recovery is flush with cash with a balance of $27 billion. lou: that's flush. the trump administration tonight taking a step ending birthright citizenship. new guidance has been released restricting automatic u.s. citizenship for children born on american soil. edward lawrence in washington night with the story. >> the new rules posted online by it immigration and citizenship services without fanfare. they talk about residency and how to establish residency. it outlines how children born to citizens outside the united states are not automatically considered the citizens. temporary visits tr to the united states -- to the united states do not establish residency. a citizen born in the united states generally meets the citizenship requirement as long as he or she can prove that the mother was not transiting through the united states. those parents would have to apply for ci

how is fema advising folks? >> so evacuations throughout the potential area impact are things that local and state officials will advise people on. that's why it's so important for folks to be paying attention to the warnings, downloading the fema app. you can put your zip code in, get alerts for where you live and the local and state officials have your best interests in mind. most importantly, they know what the forecast means for their local community and they're in the best position to advise people on how to protect themselves and their families. >> we always hear back and forth from fema has to deal with a lot and always pressed on its budget and all of this. funds that were allocated are reallocated elsewhere. are you financially ready? >> fema's disaster relief find is in a good position to support the recoveries and response mission for dorian. we were able to deploy to puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands to meet the needs that could very merged there and thankfully didn't. we won't be shy of puttin

i think the real question from the federal perspective for fema and other agencies that are assisting here is going to be this huge drop-off in personnel that they've had. there have been a couple of thousand personnel missing from fema for the last couple of months or so. they've had difficulty restocking the agency. that's a potential problem. they are definitely operating in thin numbers. and of course one of the issues with any disaster, and i think the politics often gets separated from the reality, is they are responding to a disaster, and disasters are by their very nature unpredictable. you know, we're looking at a state, maybe multiple states that could get pummelled by essentially an act of god, and we hope and pray that it does as little damage as possible. in they are responding to that, and as a result of that, it's just a matter of the best job that they can do to do that. >> david jolly, you have been through this before as an elected official, hurricane season in florida. over the next few days we'll see the trajectory of this storm, obviously some encouraging signs to