mr. crawford: but you were down there? ms. gardner: yes, sir. mr. crawford: i guess i am asking you to speculate. i have the concern of fema flood mapping and the -- how urrent they are. i'm whether you can opine to say fema is the best agency to in fact engage in flood mapping? ms. gardner: i will give you my opinion based on my experience but, yes, that would be a lot of speculation. i have not personally looked at the flood maps for that impacted area so that's another piece i am not aware of. i will tell you that fema has played an active role and they engage actively, other partners, such as the national weather service and other partners that deal with flooding on a regular basis. and because they're used to doing that, i don't see a reason to change that process because we've seen it and it's worked in our communities. we do not flood in the city of richardson because of mitigation efforts that we've taken in the past. i have to say i -- not to say we never will. we don't see the same flooding issues and we use those maps. mr. crawford: let me

mr. crawford, what was the spacing between the two trees? >> 14 feet. >> in your opinion, that is acceptable for the root balls of these two tree snz. >> certainly for the root balls, but -- these two trees? >> certainly for the root balls, but the canopies, i think you could expect them to be intertwined during maturity, but with pruning, you could maintain that successfully. >> clerk: okay. thank you. we will now hear from the department. >> good evening. chris buck with san francisco public works bureau of urban forestry and urban forester, and i should be able to stick within the three minutes. we tried to reach a settlement but were unsuccessful. the hearing was february 28, and the applicant was proactive to set a follow up meeting. we met on april 10. i was hoping the applicant would come to that meeting ready to discuss medium sized species, but it was clear from mr. crawford's report that they remained focused planting the columbia variety. i reviewed the additional material and met with our superintendent, carla short, and conducte

ok mr crawford and family stand by to liberate about. our cameras were not allowed inside while the board deliberates on its decision. like all parolees if crawford is granted parole he will serve the remaining part of his sentence outside of the prison walls. in massachusetts fifty nine year old donald perry has been stuck in the system for over thirty years. after pleading guilty to multiple armed robberies perry received a life sentence in one thousand nine hundred three. i remember doing a stent in maximum security segregation almost three years you're locked in a cell twenty four hours or they're. being treated like an animal. i got to the point where i realize that you know doing a total destroy me was important to me is on the other side of things and how do i get to the other side of. eventually perry got to the other side of that fence in two thousand and one and after serving nearly nineteen years of his life sentence perry was granted parole. once on the outside perry turned his life around . he graduated from college and spen

quay, lucas, austin scott of georgia, crawford, mrs. hartzler, rodney davis of illinois, yoho, marshal, david cott of georgia, costa, walls, grisham of eu han new mexico of new mexico. from the committee on education and the work force for considerations of 4204 and 9131 of the house bill and modifications committed to. ms. foxx, mr. allen and ms. adams. from the committee on energy and commerce for substilets a and b 6203, e 6, section 6202, 01, 407, 6409, 6603, 7 605, 8106, 8507. 9119, 9121 and 11101 of the

ok mr crawford and family stand by to liberate about. our cameras were not allowed inside while the board deliberates on its decision. like all parolees if crawford is granted parole he will serve the remaining part of his sentence outside of the prison walls. in massachusetts fifty nine year old donald perry has been stuck in the system for over thirty years. after pleading guilty to multiple armed robberies perry received a life sentence in one thousand nine hundred three. i remember doing a stent in maximum security segregation almost three years you're locked in a cell twenty four hours of this. being treated like an animal. i got to the point where i realize that you know doing a total destroy me was important to me is on the other side of things and how do i get to the other side of. eventually perry got to the other side of that fence in two thousand and one and after serving nearly nineteen years of his life sentence perry was granted parole. once on the outside carrie turned his life around. he graduated from college and spent t

mr. crawford. the chair recognizes mr. defazio for five minutes. >> thanks, mr. chairman. just back to the line of questioning by the subcommittee ranking member i had asked similar questions at an earlier hearing and what we have is a contradiction here. the two contractors claim that fema reviewed the contracts and actually signed off on excluding oversight. and that's been denied by fema and again today and so actually the inspector general is going to try to get to the bottom of this how these rather fishy contracts were entered into. so let's go to some issues we can resolve. mr. byard, ranking member titus and i just recently sent the administrator a letter expressing concern about your personnel, your reservists for emergencies. your own standards say that you should have 10,928 reservists. you had 6,749 on call last year and you still have 2,383 deployed. so that seems to leave with us something around 4,300 reservists. how are you going to deal with this issue this year? >> you know that's a very good question and as we outlined in our after action we faced, you k

in the department of correction we have a person who follows security risk groups gangs and mr crawford runs with this group so he's he still is very very risky so it's less of a sentence here in the morning and a half scary he's getting out of that anyway getting out right you know they don't have licenses or the death penalty they are coming. after spending fourteen months in prison for a crime that the jury determined he did not commit perry is once again in front of the parole board. a month after his parole hearing perry is informed of the board's decision. despite his acquittal for receiving stolen property the parole board revoked parries parole forcing him to resume the life sentence he received for crimes he committed over twenty five years ago no explanation it was just did not feel like i wind up in the alice in wonderland fairy tale like my life went right down the rabbit hole i wind up being thrown back in a mid is a what i had worked so long to try to get away from i mean and i mean isn't is insane. today there are over eight hundred thousand prisoners who have been releas

ok mr crawford and family stand by to liberate about. our cameras were not allowed inside while the board deliberates on its decision. like all parolees if crawford is granted parole he will serve the remaining part of his sentence outside of the prison walls. in massachusetts fifty nine year old donald perry has been stuck in the system for over thirty years. after pleading guilty to multiple armed robberies kerry received a life sentence in one thousand nine hundred three. i remember doing a stent in maximum security segregation almost three years you're locked in a cell twenty four hours of this. being treated like an animal. i got to the point where i realize that you know doing the total was important to me was on the other side of things and how do i get to the other side of. eventually perry got to the other side of that fence in two thousand and one after serving nearly nineteen years of his life sentence perry was granted parole. once on the outside perry turned his life around. he graduated from college and spent the next eleve

in the department of correction we have a person who follows security risk groups gangs and mr crawford runs with this group so he's he still is very very risky so it's less of a sentence here in the morning and a half scary he's getting out of that to anyway getting out right you know they don't have licenses or the death penalty they are coming. after spending fourteen months in prison for a crime that the jury determined he did not commit perry is once again in front of the parole board. a month after his parole hearing perry is informed of the board's decision. despite his acquittal for receiving stolen property the parole board revoked perry's parole forcing him to resume the life sentence he received for crimes he committed over twenty five years ago no explanation it was just didn't feel like i wind up in the alice in wonderland fairy tale like my life went right down the rabbit hole i wanna been thrown back in a mid is a what i had worked so long to try to get away from i mean and i mean isn't is insane. today there are over eight hundred thousand prisoners who have been release

mr. crawford for five minutes. >> are you aware what percentage of homes flooded by hurricane harvey haveod insurance policies? >> i do not know the percentage. i could get that back to the committee. i would hate to guess or estimate. >> i am looking at a washington post report on an analysis of fema data shows only 17% of homeowners, does that sound accurate to you? to judge theant accuracy of the post. what i will say is insurance is the first and best line of defense. if 17% is what they had, i say that would be low. >> are you aware that fema is required to assess the accuracy and need to update a flood map covering an area every five years? >> i can get you information on the national flood insurance program. it is not under my purview. i am under response recovery. i handle stafford act programs. i can get you information and i would be happy to provide anything everything on the national flood insurance program . i do not want to over speak. ofthat said, the line questioning i have is better directed for someone else in your agency. you do not have any issues with flood control or

mr. crawford took his own life, we would like to have spoken with him and found out more information and. that's the result of the excellent work that the crime laboratory was done.'s >> after all these years to be able to go in for the rest. >> it is something we have been working on for a long time. although he was murdered 44 years ago, we have never forgotten about her. there are hundreds of other murders in the county whose cases have never been solved we have never forgotten about them. the cold case eunice and our office was to be able to solve murders. >> let's talk about the other cold cases. at this point seeing that crawford was involved in those cases? >> there is no evidence that we have at this point that ties him to any other cases that we are investigating. we are continuing to investigate many other cold cases. >> the dignity --- get desk dna technology allows many other cases to be solved. >> it seems like there's a principal to this work. how does your office stay head of that curve? >> we are very fortunate to have the support to have our own lab. where one of the few

amendment and modifications committed to conference, messrs, quay, lucas, austin scott of georgia, crawford, mrs. hartzler, rodney davis of illinois, yoho, marshal, david cott of georgia, costa, walls, grisham of eu han new mexico of new mexico. from the committee on education and the work force for considerations of 4204 and 9131 of the house bill and modifications committed to. ms. foxx, mr. allen and ms. adams. from the committee on energy and commerce for substilets a and b 6203, e 6, section 6202, 01, 407, 6409, 6603, 7 605, 8106, 8507. 9119, 9121 and 11101 of the house bill and section 6117, 7412, 206, 6301, 6303, 9111-13, 9106, 12628 of the nd senate amendment and modifications. messers. shimkus kramer and tonko. for consideration of section 12609 of the senate amendment and modifications committed to conference messers. hensarling, duffy and ms. waters of california. from the committee on foreign affairs for consideration of title 3 of the house bill and modifications committed to conference, messers. royce of california, chabot and engel. from the committee on natural resources of consi

crawford for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. beyer, are you aware what percentage of homes flooded by hurricane harvey had flood insurance policies? >> sir, i don't know the percentage. i can get that back to the committee. i would late to guesstimate. >> i'm looking at a washington post report on an analysis of fema data this shows only 17% of homeowners in the eight most affected counties have flood insurance. does that sound accurate to you? >> you know, sir, i don't want to judge the accuracy of the post, but what i will say is insurance is the first and best line of defense. so if 17% is what they had, i would say that would be low in that area. >> let me ask you this. were you aware fema is legally required to assess the accuracy and need to update a flood map recovering the area every five years? >> what i can do is get you information on the national flood insurance program. it's not under my purview. >> it's not? >> no, sir. i'm under response recovery. i handle stafford act programs, but i can definitely get you inform

mr. gaudy, all kinds of times in the previous administration when there were tens of thousands of pages provided that were often not adequate and threats of contempt and i remember excoriating to dr. crawford in getting the information. in your case we have a request going back to october. let me ask you this. are you prepared to promise at this hearing that you will cooperate with document requests to the best of your ability going forward. >> yes, i will do that going forward, yes, sir. >> because we will probably want to know about the state of illinois and if there were other states like that. >> yes, sir. >> i know my home state of virginia was also probed by these -- final point, mr. hatch, i can't resist having been in local government, i really appreciated the point you made in your opening statement about local governments. so much of congress is always at the statewide level. maybe that's because so many of my colleagues come from state legislatures and they forget the implementer is from local governments. i don't know whether new mexico provides its local governments with a lot of assistance, virginia does not. and so we have to finance our machines, we have to finance a lot of