host: dunk in key largo, florida -- doug in key largo, florida. caller: the last bill that was passed, the covid thing. there was a lot of broad -- everything else. we are reliant on the same senate and house to oversee the spending on this bill. thank you. host: any parallels that can be done with this package. with the obama administration when they passed a package? guest: on the concern about oversight, the house to put up a committee to provide oversight specific to the covid-19 aid. you have also had the biden administration dedicate aspects of his administration to oversee the distribution of covid aid. how that a will be distributed and managed. not only for social programs but for transportation programs. when you compare what we see with the infrastructure bill in the senate, what we saw with the recovery act into the first year of the obama administration. we are noticing, more from the biden standpoint, money that has been proposed to specific policies. again, federal railroad administration, federal transit administration, the federal

tom: right now, might some total knowledge of hurricanes is 1948 key largo.y bogart and lauren bacall stealing the show. rob joins us this morning, our bloomberg meteorologist. rob, there seems to be more hurricanes am i right? rob: you are. the classification for the storms has changed. over the last 30 years, the hurricane center has been naming storms that back in the 80's or 90's would not have been named. that is one reason. lisa: we have seen the storm hit as a category four. this is been a question about testing the levees that were enforced after katrina. what do we know about how well they held up? rob: the testing is going to continue. the problem is not only the storm surge, but the problem in 2005 was not the storm surge. it was the rainfall that occurred with katrina going into lake pontchartrain. lake pontchartrain coming up in height. that caused flooding into the city. that rain is continuing with aita. flash flood warnings in effect for louisiana and much of mississippi. we are going to see that system tested not only today but tomorrow and t

some preps were underway today in key largo as fred passed just west of the florida. he's bringing wind and rain to south florida lived here 44 years, so this was a small one. i'm more worried about the next one. did you guys prepare it all with this one? this one now moves us a few things downstairs, but end up being kind of a nice saturday, huh? yeah, there's nobody on the road. uh, there's everybody left. well fred does regain tropical storm status, the national hurricane center predicts most of florida will be out of its path, though it could make landfall near pensacola. meantime a state of emergency has been declared in the town of hell up. bend, arizona. this is southwest of phoenix. strong monsoon storms swept through the region overnight, causing severe flooding. at least two people have died. the maricopa county sheriff's office says rescuers have saved about 30 people on rooftops surrounded by floodwaters. the american red cross has been called in to help residents impacted by this storm. well, a battle at a tennis court over a tennis court. the question to

we now have key west up to key largo under tropical storm warnings. ft. storm watches. right now it's barely a storm at all. there's not even a lot of rain wit. but we do think it's going to get a little more organized, come over the keys and right along the west coast of florida as we go through saturday night and a landfall around panama city as we go through sunday night. when i say landfall, you think of a big powerful hurricane. this is going to be a big rainmaker. the winds will not cause any issues. one more hot day in the northwest. in the northeast t temperatures stay 95 for d.c., 95 for new york. as we go through the weekend, we'll watch the rain from fred in the southeast. and on sunday, soaking rain and flood threats in areas of the gulf coast. jonathan, the bottom line is it won't be a big huge issue. we could have another storm behind it. we'll talk a lot more about that one next week. that one has a little more potential to be problematic. >> tha's a relief about fred. bill karins, thank you so much. have a great weekend. >>> coming up, as

host: dug in key largo, florida. thanks for joining us. go ahead.aller: i was curious about the last bill that was passed for health care and all that. the covid think. there is hardly any oversight, and there was a lot of broad and everything else. and it seems we rely on the same senate and house to oversee the spending on this bill. thank you. host: any parallels that can be done as far as cashless say for this package, and then what we sow with the obama administration when they passed an infrastructure pack? guest: on the issue of oversight, the house put up a committee to provide oversight specific to covid-19 aid and oversee that. now it will -- you have the biden administration dedicating access to his administration to oversee the distribution of covid aid and how that aid will be distributed and managed not only for social programs but also for transportation programs . and then when you compare what we are seeing with this infrastructure bill in the senate, the savvy what we saw with some recovery act, early into the first year of the oba