our series on the weather begins with a look at disaster relief unpreparedness with michael greenberger, head of the university of maryland's homeland security center. ♪ host: president barack obama top labor pick, alan krueger, rounding out his economic team ahead of next week's speech. good morning, everyone. alan krueger, former treasury department official and princeton economist. joining others on the obama economic team. your calls, e-mails, tweets on the obama economic team this morning. this morning in "the washington post," they say this -- host: if you look at his resume, here is what it says. host: yesterday in the rose garden, president obama introduced his pick. here is what he has to say. >> he is one of the nation's leading economists. for more than two decades he developed policies inside and outside of government. in the first two years of this administration as we dealt with a complex crisis that threatened a second depression, his counsel as chief economist at the treasury department proved invaluable. host: the white house yesterday put out this statement by the pres

you are on the air with michael greenberger. caller: thank you for taking my comment.on paul was talking about fema the other day, you know, the great things that they have done in new orleans, how they are in a bit of financial trouble. could you elaborate on this? he was talking about how each individual should take responsibility. caller: that is eight -- guest: that is a very good question. congressman paul called into question the response with these emergencies. governor perry, who is now the front-runner for the gop nomination stated a template role that i have no big but -- no objection to. in fact, is the mantra of emergency response. states and local need to take the first initiative, but you need the government to back these people up. besides the funding that the government provides, fema was all over the place. 18 incident response teams all over the east coast helping locals deal with this hurricane. they found food, water, other medical supplies that were short in the state and locals and backed them up with it. many state and local emergency operation c

the keystone pipeline and our series on the the weather with a look at disaster relief with michael greenberger. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. several live events to tell you about today on c-span including president obama's speech to the american legion's national convention in minneapolis at noon eastern. just after that, at 1:00 p.m., labor secretary hilda solis will be at the national press club for interviews on jobs and the economy and then the atlantic council for training on afghan security forces. >> see what political reporters are saying and track the latest campaign contributions with c-span's website for campaign 2012. easy to use and helps you navigate the political landscape. candidate bios and the latest polling data and links to c-span media partners in the caucus states all at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> on "road to the white house" this week, we spoke to republican presidential candidate jon huntsman, the former governor of utah. this is a little more than an hour. >> when did you first think about running for president? >> as we were

our series on the weather begins with a look at disaster relief and preparedness with michael greenberger, head of the university of maryland's homeland security center. washington journal" live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> what more video of the candidates. see what political reporters are saying and track the latest campaign contributions would c- span's website for campaign 2012. easy to use, it helps you navigate the political landscape with candidate bios and the latest polling data, plus links to c-span media partners in the early primary and caucus states. all at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> not a forum on implications of the libyan rebellion brought -- hosted by the atlantic council. this is a little more than an hour. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> midmorning, welcome everyone. i am the executive vice president here at the atlantic council. thank you for joining us for this timely events entitled "to the shores of tripoli." >> gaddafi has not been captured and fighting will continue in the w

michael greenberger, thank you for helping us kick in that -- kickoff of the week. thank you for watching. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> president obama this morning departing from the white house on his way to minneapolis, minnesota, where he will deliver remarks at the american legion convention. is expected to talk about his plans to help veterans of iraq and afghanistan find jobs and employme -- unemployment among the veterans is almost double the national average. we will have coverage at noon eastern. at 1:00 eastern, labor secretary hilda solis speaks at the national press club in washington. she will speak about unemployment rates and job creation, plan next week -- as president obama plans to unveil his jobs plan next week. a little later, the atlantic council has a discussion on the challenges facing the u.s. military in training afghanistan's security forces as a u.s. and international troops draw down levels. with the unveiling of a memorial honoring martin luther king

greenberg is outside. she is my field and constituent outreach supervisor. greg -- to my right, a deputy press secretary and also in charge of my website. michael nelson is my case work supervisor and by a scheduler. michael is very important if you have a particular issue we need to address. amy lopez is one of might and turns. she is a student at the university of pennsylvania. she is here with us and you have to really applaud for amy because she is working for free. [applause] daniel ortiz is our translator. let me introduce to use some of the folks over here from los angeles to police department. lapd has always been gracious to attend these forums that i do. if you have a question that relates to public safety, i am a member of congress and died deal -- and i deal with federal issues. if you have a question about safety in your neighborhood, drug dealing going on, i would not answer it as well as someone from the lapd. let me introduce to you the folks that are here. sergeant? we have our senior lead officer chong.far right, james joh sometimes we have representatives from some of the other elected offices. if you ask a question that rela