today will be -- i'd like to welcome administrator fugate, administrator of fee ma. i appreciate very much you being here, also senator shaheen appreciate you being here as well. we're here to discuss the fiscal 2016 budget for your agency. before we get into the substance of your budget i'd like to take a moment and thank you for sending roy wright to fargo several weeks ago. it was very helpful and actually will pertain -- or his visit there pertains to one of the subjects that i will bring us later today, which is talking about how we coordinate flood mapping and flood insurance with communities efforts to build permanent flood protection. he did a very fine job, he was very helpful and i think that's something that can be helpful around the country. the focus for today's hearing is -- at least my focus will be on three areas, effective stewardship of the disaster relief fund fema's efforts to buy town risk before a disaster occurs and measuring preparedness levels of the nation after years of investment. dis ter relief fund or drf is fema's biggest tool in aiding

. >> to pursue that mission, detective fugate explores the sixth street, the epicenter of austin's nightlife and the party scene that brought laura hall and colton pitonyak together. laura hall was infatuated with colton, however he was dating jennifer cave at the time. once colton revealed to her the body was in the bathtub, laura hall may have taken part in the mutilation of the body. as far as stabbing cave in the upper torso, the right side of her face and firing a round into the cranial vault of her head. >> six days later authorities track laura and colton in a hotel room in piedras negras. laura isn't arrested. instead, police advise her family to pick her up and take her home. >> she was still subject to the investigation, but we weren't clear as to her level of involvement. so at that point, she was not a suspect. >> colton was charged with jennifer's murder and brought to a local detention center to be interviewed. >> i'm pretty sure i need to speak with an attorney. this is serious. >> that's absolutely your right to do, okay? >> investigators then drive to laura's parents hom

and welcome fugate. as chairman hovan says as a former governor, i also recognize how important fema's activityies are when states have emergencies and, even more personally, i having been in a tornado unone point in my past. i very personally benefitted from the efforts that fema has made to help people who are victims of disaster. so i appreciate that your work is critical and understand that currently all 50 states, including new hampshire and some tribal areas have an active disaster with fema and understand that the cost to rebuild are growing. in the 1990s fema was appropriated an average of $3 billion a year for disaster costs and yet one decade later, average costs have tripled to over $9.5 billion a year. disaster types are also more varied and complex and the last five years, along with the anticipated floods tornadoes wildfires, hurricanes the nation has had an earthquake on the east coast, a super storm, sandy in the northeast. landslides in the west. a bombing at the boston marathon, active

and welcome, administrator fugate. and your staff members who are here.we appreciate your coming this afternoon. as the chairman says as a former governor i also recognize how critical fema's activities are be when states have emergencies and even more personally, having been in a tornado at one point in my past, i very personally benefited from the efforts that fema has made to help people who are victims of disaster. so i appreciate that your work is critical and understand that currently all 50 states including new hampshire and some tribal areas have an active disaster with fema and understand that the costs to rebuild are growing. in the 1990s fema was appropriated an average of $3 billion a year for disaster costs, and yet one decade later average costs have tripled to over 9.5 billion a year. disaster types are also more varied and complex. in the last five years along with the anticipated floods tornadoes, wildfires hurricanes the nation has had an earthquake on the east coast, a superstorm sandy in the northeast, landslides in the west, a bombing

so it was a shocking for allison fugat to wake up in the middle of the night being raped by her best friend was shocking beyond description. and that changed the way she thought of him. you know during the sentencing hearing where the deciding what his sentence should be the defense attorney kept asking, don't you think beau say good person. don't you think he deserves another chance. you always trusted him. she said well i don't know the person sitting over there. that is not-- the person without raped me is not the person i thought i knew. he has destroyed my faith in humanity. you know, i don't trust anyone any more. >> rose: did you hear that often, that somehow something about their lives had been-- well severely damaged. >> yeah i describe about one victim being sexually assaulted as a teenager turned her into a sort of ghost. the rapist robbed her innocence, turned her into this ghost who was forever trapped in the act of being violated for a decade. i mean that is sort of what it does. to be penetrated by another person in your most private places, is a different kind of trau