on fema, we had a very active first couple of weeks with more than $1.7 billion going from fema to the states to support the vaccination. some of these sites were already started and we helped with technical assistance and resources to bring them to a higher level. other sites are set up that will be run by the federal government with the help of fema, potentially military personnel, doctors and nurses, etc. we are making a lot of progress and we want to exceed the president's goal of having 100 vaccine sites up and running by the end of his first month in office. we are also utilizing mobile vaccination units to make sure we are reaching hard-to-reach communities, again with equity being first and foremost as a foundational principle of our vaccination program. i think that brings us to the end. i want to thank everybody and really appreciate the interest, and we are doing everything we can to effectively vaccinate individuals across the country. we really do need congress to act and pass the american rescue plan to help us expedite our efforts and make them >> president biden signed

officials from the arizona health department, national guard, and fema were on hand to answer questions and discuss the day-to-day operations. mr. zients: good afternoon, mr. president and madam vice president. on your second day in office, you announced a comprehensive national strategy to fight the pandemic. importantly, you called for a whole-of-government approach. central to that strategy, you directed your team to activate the full resources of the federal government to get more shots in arms. we immediately got to work. first, to increase vaccine supply. second, to get more vaccinators in the field. and third, to create more places where americans can get vaccinated. we're putting equity front and center, partnering with states to increase vaccinations in the hardest-hit and hard-to- reach communities. we're building new community vaccination centers from the ground up in stadiums, community centers, parking lots, and mobile units in states ranging from california, to ohio, to new york. and we've expedited financial support to increase capacity at existing community vaccination c

going from fema to the states to support vaccination.e of these sites were already started, and we've helped with technical assistance and resources to bring them to a higher level. there are other sites being set up that will be run by the federal government with the help of fema, potentially military personnel, doctors and nurses, et cetera, so we're making a lot of progress. we will meet and likey will exceed the president's goal of having 100 community vaccination sites up and running by the end of his first month in office and at the same time we're also using mobile vaccination units in order to make sure we're reaching hard communities february with equities being first and foremost as a foundation of our vaccination program. so, i think that brings us to the end. i want to thank everybody and really appreciate the -- the interest, and we're doing everything we can to effectively vaccinate individuals across the country. we really do need congress to act and pass the american rescue plan to help us expedite our efforts and make th

just yesterday, fema helped with operations. these funds can help support new committed to vaccination centers like this one. here is look at the site you will see today. there's a great team on the ground that will walk you through it so allow me to introduce you to the director of the arizona department of health services. dr. christ: good afternoon, and we are so honored to have you here at state farm stadium in glendale, arizona. i want to take you into the command tent, where we manage the day-to-day operations of the state's only 24/7 state-operated vaccination site. so come on in. so, state farm stadium is the first 24/7 vaccination site in arizona. we have a dashboard that we monitor all of our data that we look at. and so we are averaging between 8,000 and 9,000 vaccines per day; that currently is both first and second doses. it's about 350 to 400 vaccines per hour. and like was said, we've vaccinated almost 170,000 times out here at state farm stadium. this one site is responsible for over 18 -- over 18% of all of the

salesses: we are working closely with fema, in support of fema. as we work through this together, we will make a determination as we get closer to september whether the continuing efforts of the national guard are necessary. if that is the case, we would be supporting 100% reimbursement going forward. rep. leger: event the department is responsible for supporting efforts. can those response abilities be taken over by large companies like amazon who are experienced in a delivery? how do we get this out? is it the national guard or should we look to the private sector, like amazon? mr. salesses: if we are talking about distribution for manufacturers, that is being done now to the state level, and they are maximizing commercial capability to do that. is that helpful? rep. langevin: take it from what the national guard is doing versus what the private sector has been doing. mr. salesses: once the vaccine has arrived at a distribution point within the state, the state, state officials take over . as far as making sure the right resources at that distri

i have extensive experience working with the federal government including fema, fema had the headquarters long time at the presidio. i was involved in some of the projects. what i see here is that we do not have an emergency management commander. there is something going on the masconie with no blueprint. how can our city hour home committee do due diligence when we don't have a blueprint working. we made glaring mistakes at fema. they leased out hotel rooms. i will not go into details. then you have a meeting like this we the people should be told the truth. they should be accountability and transparency. you may show an excel spreadsheet but we at home can't read the numbers. how are we going to really participate in san francisco we are very astute apstellar people. in order to participate we need transparency and accountability. i know the controller very well, ben, but i am saying for the people at home to really understand what is really happening with the sros and the hotel spaces, we haven't got a needs assessment report on how that has benefited san francisco. we have a populatio

fema is working with the army corps of engineers. the defense department has made this available to hospitals, nursing homes, to keep the lights on and speed power restoration along the way. the local military bases are helping with fuel and blankets all across the state and i especially want to thank service members. when we have a problem we can always call on the military, no matter what. the best in the world. i know millions of texans have been impacted by the destruction of the water system. the environmental protection agency has drinking water labs in houston, san antonio to test the water so you get the boil water advisories lifted and safe ranking water through those faucets again. let me say this. we are not here today as democrats or republicans. we are here today as americans. the american -- there's a responsibility to all of the people we serve. when a crisis hits a state, it's not a republican or democrat who is hurting. as our fellow americans who are hurting. it's our job to look out for one another, leave nobody be

this is in addition to the more than 125,000 blankets of fema has also made available to storm victims of children and family don't go to sleep cold. fema, working with the defense logistics agency and the army corps of engineers from the defense department department has made generators and diesel fuel available to hospitals and nursing homes and other critical facilities keep the lights on and speed power restoration on its way. many local military bases are helping efforts to bring water, fuel, and blankets all across the state. i especially want to thank the service members for helping fellow americans in their time of need for do we have a problem, we always call on the military domestic or foreign no matter what. they're the best in the world. i know millions of texans have been impacted by the destruction of committee water systems as a result of the power outages. the environmental protection agency has deployed a mobile drinking water labs in houston, san antonio, fort worth, to test water so we can get boil water advisories lifted and get safe drinking water flowing through t

he is the acting administrator of fema in the united states. mr. fenton, i really appreciate you taking time to help us understand what's going on right now. thanks for taking the time to be here. >> well, thank you for having me on, rachel. >> first, let me know if you need to set me straight, if i've said anything that's wrong here or that's out of date or if my reporting has misconstrued anything. second of all, i'd like to hear in your words what the scale of the fema response is right now. >> well, thank you. what's happened is, a weather event started late last week that caused significant impacts to the roadways, and then this last weekend, it started with cold weather and another event that has continued to last. and having single-digit temperatures along the texas area in most of the state, including most of the southern plains and now moving up to the eastern seaboard. so, there's a number of states affected in addition to texas, but texas one of the worst because it's so far south. when you look at the building codes down there, it's rea

i have extensive experience working with the federal government including fema, fema had the headquarters for a long time at the presidio. i was involved in some of the projects. what i see here is that we do not have an emergency management commander. there is something going on the masconie with no blueprint. how can our city hour home committee do due diligence when we don't have a blueprint working. we made glaring mistakes at fema. they leased out hotel rooms. i will not go into details. then you have a meeting like this we the people should be told the truth. they should be accountability and transparency. you may show an excel spreadsheet but we at home can't read the numbers. how are we going to really participate in san francisco we are very astute apstellar people. in order to participate we need transparency and accountability. i know the controller very well, ben, but i am saying for the people at home to really understand what is really happening with the sros and the hotel spaces, we haven't got a needs assessment report on how that has benefited san francisco. we have a pop

this is in addition to the more than 125,000 blankets fema has also made available to the storm victim so the children and families do not go to sleep cold. fema working with defenseless agency in the army corps of engineers and the defense department is made generators and diesel fuel available to the hospitals and nursing homes and other critical facilities to keep the lights on. and speed the power restoration along the way. local military bases are having efforts for water and food and fuel and blankets all across the state. and i especially want to thank the service members for helping your fellow americans in this time of need when we have a problem, we always call on the military, and or foreign no matter what. they are the best in the world. i know millions of texans have been affected by this destruction of community water systems resulting in power outages. the environmental protection agency has deployed mobile drinking water labs in houston san antonio fort worth to test the water so that we can get boiled water advisories lifted and get saved drinking water pouring through

the other interesting aspect of the flood we should talk about is fema.ema exist in 1972, but our floods that occurred in rapid city, and a couple months later there was flooding in johnstown, pennsylvania from hurricane agnes, and a couple months after that was three mile island. those three tragedies were put together into a case study and presented, and that is what formed fema. especially the military response out here for our rapid city floods, so the air force and national guard working together, responding, rescuing people and recovering bodies, and doing what they were doing best. that prompted the military response we see for natural disasters today. the flood of 1972, it changed the way rapid city looked, and it changed the way people think about rapid city. now, you know, we get these visitors and tourists who go and say, rapid city is gorgeous, you have all this green space, it is beautiful, but they don't understand why. so putting the flood exhibit in this museum is something very important, because it tells the reason why. it tells why we h

some of the categories you said started off not fema -- >> it has to be smoking. they are reimbursable. that person who has asthma without smoking that we put in april, they're not getting reimbursed. >> supervisor haney: got it. what percentage -- what would you anticipate percentage of people you think not being reimbursed? >> do you have that janice? i don't know the data off the top of my head. >> i don't have the data off the top of my head. i believe that the controller's office and budget folks has been using maybe about 80% or 90% off our debt. it has been incorporated into some of the budget projections. >> supervisor haney: i think we definitely need to -- it's not going to slow up this process. this committee definitely needs to know. it was one of the questions i had for the controller and the b.l.a. they have left the category blank in terms of general fund reimbursement for 2021. originally it was 3.5. i think that might have been 2021-2022. they have not given us projection of what this potentially might be in terms of the impact of the general fund

that's up to fema, and it's unclear yet where those troops will be helping out. each team of 220 will have nurses, vaccinators, command and control, as well as clinical staff, general staff, and others to build up what are intended to be these mass vaccination sites. now, 1,100 troops is still far short of the full fema request for 10,000 troops. but at this point even fema has acknowledged that buildup to those sorts of numbers that could deliver up to 450,000 vaccinations a day would be incremental. so this, it appears, is just the beginning. one of the key questions here, how much vaccine supply is there and is there enough to put out so many troops. and that is a key question we'll be asking as this process moves forward. how long will each of these vaccination teams remain in place? that will be a discussion between fema and the department of defense before they can wrap up at one site and perhaps move to another site where they're also needed. oren liebermann, cnn, at the pentagon. >>> and today marks one month since the insurrection on capitol hill and nea

going from fema t the states to support vaccination.ome of these sites were already started and we helped with technical assistance and resources to bring them to a higher level. there are other sites being set up that will be run by the federal government with the help of fema, potentially military personnel, doctors and nurses. so we're making a lot of progress. we will meet and likely exceed the president's goal of having 100 community vaccination sites up and running by the end of his fist first month in office. we're also utilizing mobile vaccination units to make sure we're reaching hard to reach communities with equity being first and foremost as a foundational principle of our vaccination program. so, i think that brings us to the end. i want to thank everybody and really appreciate the interest and we're doing everything we can to effectively vaccinate individuals across the country. we do need congress to act and pass the american rescue plan to help us expedite our efforts and make them more effective and efficient. thank you

. >>> fema is getting ready to open mass vaccination sites in two california cities. abc7 news reporter is part of the team and spoke to fema officials about the choice of oakland and what they have planned. >> reporter: in the war against covid-19, fema is deploying active duty service members this month. >> we are going to draw on a variety of agencies to bring vaccination staff, medical personnel, and support staff. >> reporter: the plan is to open the first mass vaccination site in the oakland colosseum. and the second site on the campus of california state university in los angeles. why oakland? >> several factors were determined. a large eligible population, also looking at the communities that needed vaccine. >> reporter: fema officials confirm the goal is to vaccinate 6,000 people seven days a week. and these doses will come from the federal government. now 2.6 miles from the colosseum, one of the hot spots in oakland, fruitdale district. >> you can drive in, walk in. freeman high school opens next week. >> reporter: normalizing covid-19 testing helped reduce

we have an hour covid bill, $50 billion for fema.he president has responded to the calls for disaster assistance, he did that on sunday morning. now fema will take a measure of what the needs are. we want to be sure to have the funds. there are other needs that my colleagues from texas have told us about, the needs that relate to nutrition, again, the fact that some people were hopeful of getting their vaccine. their vaccination, they are not able to do it. they want immediate assistance from fema to replenish texas water supply and help texas obtain safe and drinkable water. immediate assistance from fema to respond to texas for emergency assistance to direct payments and home repair assistance. and sba to aid small businesses, and pressed for implementing snap food, and allowing temporary responsibility in snap eligibility. authorization of emergency funds for low energy assistance -- low income energy assistance programs, and it goes on and on. assistance and delivery storage and distribution of the covid vaccination, to name a fe

liz spoke to fema officials about oakland and what they have planned. >> fema is deploying its active duty service members this >> fema's plan is to open the first mass vaccination site in the open coliseum and the second site on the campus of california state university in los angeles. >> why oakland? >> several factors were important in determining oakland. one, a large eligible population and also looking at the communities that needed vaccine. >> officials confirmed their goal is to vaccinate 6,000 people seven days a week and these doses will come from the federal government. now 2.6 miles from the coliseum, it's one of the covid-19 hot spots in oakland. you can drive in or walk in. freeman high school opens up next week. >> a council member says normalizing covid-19 testing helped reduce vaccine hesitancy among latinos and blacks. >> our neighborhood is willing and ready by the emails i get, by the phone calls and by people showing up to the testing site. >> representative barbara lee believes vice president harris pushed for oakland to be one of the sites. >> i know vice presid

or download our fema app. or phone our number. 1-800-621-3862, which stands for fema. >> some good information for people this morning. you mentioned the water, we saw c-17s delivering palettes of water in galveston and corpus christi. talk to us more about what you guys are doing on the ground, and where, and a lot of people are wondering, are more shipments expected? >> yes, so president biden issued the major disaster declaration on thursday evening and has urged us to not only coordinate all of the federal agencies' resources to bring anything to bear and help those impacted. we're flying water in, we are bringing assistance through fema that will help people who have had damage to their pipes, especially if they're uninsured, or if they have premiums after the insurance covers -- the gaps, fema can help with those gaps. in addition to that, sba, small business association will help with small interest loans to individuals or companies in the area. and as we have seen not only affected individuals' homes b

fema put this on. this is 200 folks from fema around the country. funding and the materials and the health department brought the vaccines. i spoke to governor who was here touring the event. >> talk about the impact of fema here. >> not to this degree. fema's help is huge. it's symbolic. it's the partnership between the federal government and state government working together. they don't have to wait in line a long time. we learned a lot. we learned how it doesn't work so well. having fema, our federal partners here is a big deal. >> reporter: the manpower exists. you can see them. >> ten minute s not bad start to finish. thank you so much. appreciate that. >>> coming up, it's a tale of isolation and survival. a film painfully pertinent amid the pandemic. aisle speak with one of the stars of the movie "land," next. . they have more freshness ingredients compared to bargain liquid detergent. they have 3 super powered ingredients that fight stink oxi boost febreze odor remover and concentrated detergent. try gain flings and smell the difference. i ma

luz pena is part of our vaccine team and spoke to fema officials about the choice of oakland and what they have planned. >> reporter: in the war against covid-19 fema is deploying its active duty service members this month. >> we are going to draw on a variety of agencies to bring vaccination staff, medical personnel, and then support staff. >> reporter: fema's plan is to open the first mass vaccination site in the oakland coliseum. and the second site on the campus of california state university in los angeles. why oakland. >> several factors were important in determining oakland. one a large eligible population. and also looking at the communities that needed vaccine. >> reporter: fema officials confirm the goal is to vaccinate 6,000 people seven days a week. and the dose also come from the federal government. now 2.6 miles from the comes yum is one of the covid-19 hot spots in oakland. the fruit veil district. >> february 16th, the columns number opens up. drive in or walk in. fremont high school. >> this council member says that normalizing covid-19 testing helped reduce hesitancy

fema is a coordinating agency. the president has tapped fema to come in and coordinate the different agencies particular to the vaccine site. in particular, they're using the department of defense. nurses and doctors. army corps of engineers, health and human services, and so fema is there to coordinate, but they've also spread the responsibility as to who's doing what, for instance, fema will handle security. ambulances and emergency medical technicians, equipment supplies, vaccines, medical supplies, and i t the state's requested to handle security in partnership with federal government. a site location i t systems and i t training and the department of defense will handle vaccinators vaccine prepares medical screeners, nurses pharmacy, etcetera, so it is a great partnership going on across all levels of government. it certainly is and as you. indicated there each level of government kind of has their own roll their own responsibility. talk a little bit mark about why california was chosen for this first in the n

as of today fema has provided more than $1.7 billion to 27 states, localities, tribes and territories. this funding covers critical steps to the vaccination process including transportation and storage equipment supplies needed to administer vaccines and safety equipment like ppe and masks. second, we are deploying personnel to provide technicalui assistance to support vaccination sitesk nationwide to provide additional staff from the federal government. fema has already assigned over 600 staff for this effort including experts in logistics, ign registration with over 350 of the staff deployed directly to the vaccination site across the country. the federal government is supporting thousands of national guard members for providing support to sites in 39 states including 800 trained vaccinated. and cdc is providing on the ground technical assistance in jurisdictions across the0 country. and third were building new community vaccination centers acrosshe the country the department of defense will dedicate substantial personnel and resources to help manage many of the new sites. the profi

luz pena is part of our vaccine team and spoke to fema officials about the choice of oakland and what they have planned. >> reporter: in the war against covid-19 fema is deploying its active duty service members this month. >> we are going to draw on a variety of agencies to bring vaccination staff, medical personnel, and then support staff. >> reporter: fema's plan is to open the first mass vaccination site in the oakland coliseum. and the second site on the campus of california state university in los angeles. why oakland. >> several factors were important in determining oakland. one a large eligible population. and also looking at the communities that needed vaccine. >> reporter: fema officials confirm the goal is to vaccinate 6,000 people seven days a week. and the dose also come from the federal government. now 2.6 miles from the comes yum is one of the covid-19 hot spots in oakland. the fruit veil district. >> february 16th, the columns number opens up. drive in or walk in. fremont high school. >> this council member says that normalizing covid-19 testing helped reduce hesitancy

some of the categories you said started off not fema -- >> it has to be smoking.hey are reimbursable. that person who has asthma without smoking that we put in april, they're not getting reimbursed. >> supervisor haney: got it. what percentage -- what would you anticipate percentage of people you think not being reimbursed? >> do you have that janice? i don't know the data off the top of my head. >> i don't have the data off the top of my head. i believe that the controller's office and budget folks has been using maybe about 80% or 90% off our debt. it has been incorporated into some of the budget projections. >> supervisor haney: i think we definitely need to -- it's not going to slow up this process. this committee definitely needs to know. it was one of the questions i had for the controller and the b.l.a. they have left the category blank in terms of general fund reimbursement for 2021. originally it was 3.5. i think that might have been 2021-2022. they have not given us projection of what this potentially might be in terms of the impact of the general fund.

of troops 1110 active duty service members to support five fema vaccination centers. a team of 222 personnel will support each one of these mega sites. fema has asked the pentagon to deploy a total of 10,000 service members from all branches to help deliver vaccines faster at the 100 locations once open governor newsome said, the oakland site will be able to deliver about 6000 doses a day. the military it's critical role in supporting sites. help vaccinate thousands of people per day and ensure that every american who wants a vaccine will receive one former fema presidential appointee, mark tamayo says this marks a historic ramp up in the federal response to a disaster. we've probably used anywhere from 6 to 12,000 department of defense folks, you know the worst hurricanes in our history. now we're talking up the 10 2025 of them unprecedented. the pentagon says the first group of troops will arrive in california over the next 10 days with more vaccine missions to come. greg lee ktvu, fox two news will soon weigh in on when and how schools across the country can safely

fema has already assigned over 600 staff to this effort, including experts in logistics, i.t. and registration. with over 350 of these staff deployed directly to the vaccination sites across the country. the federal government is now supporting thousands of national guard members who are providing support to sites in 39 states, including 800 trained vaccinators. and cdc is providing on-the-ground technical assistance in jurisdictions across the country. and third, we are building new community vaccination centers across the country. the department of defense will dedicate substantial personnel and resources to help manage many of these new sites. the profile of these communicate vaccination sites will vary by community need. you'll see big sites in stadiums, sites in school gyms, pop-up sites in parking lots and other locations. we are working with state and local health departments to meet the communities they serve where they are, in places they know with people they trust. and we'll encourage all vaccination centers to collaborate with community-based organizations and othe

the program was first launched in april of last year with the help of fema. the program has been able to keep going until 2340u. it's kept some restaurants from closing. in san mateo county alone, the program supports 630 local restaurants. >>> just a pretty day yesterday. and, again today, although cold this morning. >> certainly. we're looking at numbers up in the 30s in the north bay, liz. right now, we're downtown where numbers are in the mid 40s going into the mid 60s today. so, yes, well above average, even some numbers near 70. a look at the week ahead, next. >>> also ahead, p&g is revealing details of its wildfire safety program. and a detour nearlily turned into disaster. how ready to take your immune support to the next level? nature's bounty is here for you. the number one herbal supplement brand has everything you need to help keep your immune system strong. immune support comes naturally with nature's bounty. >>> p&g has released its plan on how it will try to prevent wildfires this year. me created a model to calculate the risk of my power lines

new fema mass vaccination sites opening. still questions about vaccine supply. and tonight, the shifting timeline. dr. anthony fauci on how long before most americans will have access to a vaccine. and why did this appear to shift by another month? and the warning about covid variants in this country and what could still be coming. dr. jha is here tonight. >>> president biden making his first official trip outside washington tonight, traveling to wisconsin, hoping the country will turn the page after the impeachment trial and turn back to his covid relief plan, including $1,400 relief checks for most americans. >>> tonight, the first lawsuit filed against former president tru trump, rudy giuliani, the proud boys and oath keepers, conspiring thin the leadup to t january 6th riot. >>> and inside notre dame. we were the first to take you in after that historic fire. tonight, nearly toe years later, what our james longman found there today. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on this tuesday night. and as we come on the air tonight, the emergenc

we're pushing fema. strategy, which they have been implementing. we saw a big change with the new president in the last administration, every state was pretty much left to do whatever they could. they were left on their own. that is not the way you deal with a natural emergency. fema needs coordination across the country. the biden administration has been focused on that. and particularly making sure that there is visibility as to when vaccines are going to be able. in fact, i had the opportunity to bring this up directly with president biden at the white house in a meeting we had recently. i can tell you he was focused on that completely and understand you can't just drop vaccines off on a friday and say this is what you're going to get for the next week. that's what we saw with the trump administration. he understands you have to tell folks this is what you're going to get not just next week but the week after and the week after, over the next three weeks. that's the process moving forward. you are see

it comes as fema sets up a major new vaccination site today amid growing criticism from governors. why they say the biden administration is not communicating enough. >>> new overnight, word that americans have been injured in a rocket attack inside iraq. what we're learning this morning. >>> plus, the republican congressman now facing a very public and dramatic rebuke from his own family after voting to impeach donald trump. >>> caught on camera, a cow breaks into this hospital and goes rampaging through the halls. >>> and later, forget above and beyond. the nba player going above and below. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. we begin with a weather emergency at this hour. more than a dozen states are on alert. >>> here's a look at the radar. much of the south is experiencing record cold but areas of north carolina and georgia have also seen tornado activity and parts of the northeast are seeing freezing rain and ice this morning. >> new video shows the power outages around houston. millions of people across texas spent the night without electricity. >> we are also getting new vid

i have extensive experience working with the federal government including fema, fema had the headquartersfor a long time at the presidio. i was involved in some of the projects. what i see here is that we do not have an emergency management commander. there is something going on the masconie with no blueprint. how can our city hour home committee do due diligence when we don't have a blueprint working. we made glaring mistakes at fema. they leased out hotel rooms. i will not go into details. then you have a meeting like this we the people should be told the truth. they should be accountability and transparency. you may show an excel spreadsheet but we at home can't read the numbers. how are we going to really participate in san francisco we are very astute apstellar people. in order to participate we need transparency and accountability. i know the controller very well, ben, but i am saying for the people at home to really understand what is really happening with the sros and the hotel spaces, we haven't got a needs assessment report on how that has benefited san francisco. we have a popu

of troops 1110 active duty service members to support five fema vaccination centers. a team of 222 personnel will support each one of these mega sites. fema has asked the pentagon to deploy a total of 10,000 service members from all branches to help deliver vaccines faster at the 100 locations once open governor newsome said, the oakland site will be able to deliver about 6000 doses a day. the military it's critical role in supporting sites. help vaccinate thousands of people per day and ensure that every american who wants a vaccine will receive one former fema presidential appointee, mark tamayo says this marks a historic ramp up in the federal response to a disaster. we've probably used anywhere from 6 to 12,000 department of defense folks, you know the worst hurricanes in our history. now we're talking up to 10 2025 of them unprecedented, the pentagon says the first group of troops will arrive in california over the next 10 days with more vaccine missions to come. greg lee ktvu fox two news, while progress is being made on the vaccine front, officials say more nee

of troops 1110 active duty service members to support five fema vaccination centers. a team of 222 personnel will support each one of these mega sites. fema has asked the pentagon to deploy a total of 10,000 service members from all branches to help deliver vaccines faster at the 100 locations once open governor newsome said, the oakland site will be able to deliver about 6000 doses a day. the military it's critical role in supporting sites. help vaccinate thousands of people per day and ensure that every american who wants a vaccine will receive one former fema presidential appointee, mark tamayo says this marks a historic ramp up in the federal response to a disaster. we've probably used anywhere from 6 to 12,000 department of defense folks, you know the worst hurricanes in our history. now we're talking up the 10 2025 of them unprecedented, the pentagon says the first group of troops will arrive in california over the next 10 days, with more vaccine missions to come. greg lee ktvu, fox two news. the cdc is preparing to release new guidance on safely reopening schoo

water, immediate assistance from fema to direct payment and home repair systems, immediate assistance from fema and fda to aid small businesses, request to implement disaster supplemental nutrition, snacks, food, and allow temporary response ability and snap eligibility. appropriations for low income -- for those of you who are our new , and assistance program, it goes on and on. in any event, assistance and the storage and distribution of the code vaccination to name a few -- of the covid vaccination to name a few of the immediate needs that people have. everybody has their personal experience. my daughter's home has no water, pipes have broken because of the cold and they can handle it, but a lot of people cannot. it is a question of needing water, food, and energy and vaccines and the rest. we really have to be on top of that and hope that there would be some preparation for the future. this was in many ways predictable in a long range of whether -- weather -- that is a longer-range of discussion, but giving people an earlier alert as to what their concerns would be. i believe that

this is happening because fema is here. it does feel like the cavalry has arrived. 200 members from fema have come from across the country to be here. they also brought the funding with them and the ability the create an event like this. folks say this certainly could have happened without fema. but fema played an incredibly important roll. here's what the governor told me earlier today. >> this is a really really really big deal. it is a big deal because it's an incredible partnership between the federal government and the state government. and that helps us out a lot. >> what we wanted to dodd here was provide the relief for state so it could get after the other vaccinations. >> reporter: now, something officials having telling me is that the manpower exists here. there are 200 members of fema, 100 members of the delaware emergency management agency and they say they could be vaccinating two and a half times more than the number of people they currently are, that 18,000, they just simply don't have the supply. >> don't ha

fema is a core knitting body. i would send you to them for any other update on that. -- coordinating body, i would send you to them for any other update on that. i will have to follow-up with you on that particular question. sometimes, people don't give something up. sometimes they do something good. i will see if i can get more information. >> [indiscernible] sec. psaki: i have not spoken with the president about that. i know he has a great deal of respect for senator reid. he was any credibly important partner during the obama biden administration. in terms of the wii naming of airports, i believe that is up to congress to determine that. i know that -- in terms of renaming of airports, i believe that is up to congress to determine that. i know that the president was a big fan of harry reid. i am not sure if we will release a statement from the president, he has spoken to rush limbaugh during his illness. his condolences go out to the family and the friends of rush limbaugh who have lost him today. i don't know

you successfully provided the states with 100 percent fema reimbursement two-year executive action that makes an enormous difference on the ground and finally, after years of lobbying you proposed $350 billion of direct unrestricted aid for states and localities and we sincerely thank you and stand ready to help you pass the american rescue plan and please just tell us how we can help. we also stand ready to help you pass a national infrastructure bill real federal infrastructure investment has been promised many times before by at least five former administrations. some have said we have airports that look like they are in a third world country. and they are right. we believe you can get it done and now is the time to do it because the nation needs you. we stand ready is your partner's, shovels poised to hit the ground. governors, let's give well arm welcome to the 46th president of the united states. president joseph biden. >> thank you andrew. we not only have you next year at this time for a governors conference but whatever food you want you can all order individually. all kidding

i know fema is on the ground there. have you been talking with ercot that run the grid, with folks from fema, the government, and governor abbott? >> i talked with the ceo, the head of ercot. and look, what he will say to you is that the system that we have in the state of texas, ercot, our texas grid, is designed for the summer heat, it's not necessarily designed for winter storms. and then, as it relates to this -- what happened in the last four, five days, there was simply not enough adequate generation, supply available to meet demand. and the supply that they had reserved, so to speak, when some of the facilities came offline, then it made things even worse. and let me quickly speak to those who are trying to say that oh, the wind turbines froze, and you shouldn't be looking at renewables. that's a false -- that's a false line being put forth. because the plants that came off line were natural gas plants, coal-fired plants, nuclear plants came offline. wind turbines froze. so it was a combination. but when it comes

fortunately, the national guard has been mobilized, fema's been

these contain fema sites that went operation emergency. we used our teachers in the organization utilizing these pop-up sites. we also have 200,000 doses next month for our educators as well, starting with 7,000 set aside for educators. we've been prioritizing. educators are doing that. 37 counties have previously been prioritizing the administration of vaccinations to their teachers, including long beach, and a perfect example, 41 other counties in addition to the work being done in that city. nonetheless, we recognize our responsibility to do more, not only cross tiers, getting our teachers, but focusing on fire markers. we were focusing on farm workers and pop-up sites in partnership with ranchers and with farm managers. we're also doing the same in central valley, in moderna and pfi pfizer. ment. efficiency, a focus on delivering, not on a platitude but a promise we're going to do better. we put out a dashboard a few weeks ago that aggregated about a week ago, that aggregated our capacity in terms of what we have delivered to our adver

fema is a coordinating body. i send you to them for any other update on that. >> a quick question, the president received ashes for ash wednesday, what, if anything, is he giving up for length? >> i will have to follow up with you on that question. sometimes people don't give something up, sometimes they do something good. i will see if i can get more information -- >> i have a question for someone outside of the room. there is a bill to remove the las vegas airport, any idea if the president would support that. >> i have not spoken with him about that. i know he has a great deal of respect for senator reed. in terms of the renaming of airports i think that is up to congress to do that. he is of course a big harry reid fan. >> will the president release a statement on rush limbaugh. >> i know the news just came out in just the last hour. i'm not sure if we will release a statement. he has speaken to his sickness and illness at the time. certainly his condolences go out to the family and friends of rush limbaugh w