. >> newsmakers is next with craig fugate. then condoleezza rice at the college of william and mary and madeleine albright attests university. -- at tufts university. >> we are joined by craig fugate , the administrator of the federal emergency management agency. we are joined by seth bornstein and usa today. mr. fugate, i want to start with the deadly flooding in texas and oklahoma. what is fema doing now, and what are you expecting in terms of assistance that will be asked by the federal government in recovering? guest: we have been working with both states. in fact, several states have been impacted. right now, they are still in a response phase. under the governor's leadership local officials, the national guard, they are managing the response. as the president said the other day, our prayers and thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones, but we are prepared to support the recovery if needed. right now, there is very much response. they are still trying to verify and find people who are missing. the role of the fe

welcome administrator fugate and staff members who are here. as a former governor i also recognize how critical fema's activities are when states have emergencies and even more personally having been in a tornado in one point in my past, very personally benefited from the efforts that fema has made to help people who are victims of disasters. i appreciate that your work is critical and understand currently that all 50 states including new hampshire and some tribal areas have an active relationship with fema and understand the costs to rebuild are growing. in 1990s, they were appropriated $3 billion a year for disaster costs and one decade later average costs 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 and tornadoes and wildfires and 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 shooters in public places and unprecedented snow in

. ♪ ♪ >>> this weekend fugate talks about preparations for the approaching hurricane season and otherps taken to better protect communities against tornados and flooding. watch the interview sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> this sunday night at 8:00 eastern, on "first ladies: influence and image," we look into the lives of three first ladies, sarah polk, margaret taylor, and sarah had a strong belief in politics helping her husband, james make political decisions, and margaret taylor was opposed to her husband's nomination for president, and he told people she was praying for his opponent to win. as a teacher, abigail was the first presidential life to have a profession and began efforts to establish the first white house library. sarah polk, margaret taylor, and abigail philmore on first ladies influence and image, examining the public and private lives of those who filled the position of firstly aden influence on presidency from martha washington to michelle obama on c-span3. as a compliment to the series c-span's new book "first ladies: presidential histori

. ♪ ♪ >>> this weekend fugate talks about preparations for the approaching hurricane season and othernities against tornados and flooding. watch the interview sunday at

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i think if you look at craig fugate, the current administrator for fema you with a there are some very good things that happen. so notwithstanding the challenges that i think are well articulated, be careful. i think with some of the leadership we have and with some of the things coming in this new generation i have four kids the oldest one is an air force pilot the bible the right now the war is not over. with some really sharp people coming up through the ranks. with some experience we've learned from making mistakes and we have some experience we bring to the forefront. my secret service friends i came out back friends come a long ago a measure that would say they were damaged so much when abroad the 20th agency friends together. it was a challenge. no question about it. but look that's why we do things like this and say it's going to take courage it's going to take uncommon leadership. my father is a world war ii marine. their generation was faced with some nasty problems. they made a lot of mistakes but that generation is called the greatest generation for a reason to not to get t

fugate: the whole idea was that we started with the question, what can the private sector do doubt theovernment to our job. the better question was, what can we do to get businesses open ? the reality is that we are providing food, water, and other supplies recurs stores are not open. if we can get them open, they have a better system of logistics to meet in need, and we can put efforts in other places. host: joining us is brendan sasso who covers technology. we are talking about the proposal for the fcc for increased access of broadband or the poor. can you tell us about where the drive to bring internet access to low income areas comes from? brendan sasso: it has been a priority of the fcc for a while. the first chairman under the obama administration and now tom wheeler and commissioner clybourn. this has been a big priority. the idea is that the internet has become so essential to our lives, it is a basic communication service, it is how we communicate with loved ones, how people apply for jobs, how kids do their homework. the idea is that the program which had only funded phone se