mr. maxwell how that has been working. am in the process or if introduce legislation to reauthorize that i'm interested in you all's experience with data and how it works. mr. womack do you want to go first? >> as i tried to state in my testimony, because of the great system of mutually both in the state of mississippi and with the other states under e, we don't have to rely on federal resources. in fact i have had a conversation with craig fugate and he said that if they had to deploy a federal search-and-rescue teams to tuscaloosa or joplin in my not not have been available for other types of instances. i think it is works tremendously effectively. in mississippi are reimbursement to other states for katrina for e related costs, please fire emergency medical, commodities and equipment cost was $80 million. $80 million for e services and it was tremendously tremendously effective. that is another great success story over the last 10 years since 9/11 is the fact that we have built great capabilities of the state and local

mr. maxwell?> thank you chairman pryor, and distinguished members of the subcommittee for this opportunity to testify today. arkansas has experienced numerous challenges over the past few years including 11 residentially declared disasters since 2008. we continue to share the vision of governor mike beebee which is to coordinate resources, expertise and leadership for mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery while protecting lives, environment and property of the people of arkansas. last week, i had the opportunity to sit down with several of my counterparts with the central u.s. earthquake consortium. and all of those states, arkansas, kentucky, missouri, indiana, tennessee, and alabama had all experienced disasters this spring. and we noticed a common thing that i thought was very important to bring out. outside of commodities and a few other items, none of the states had requested resources from fema and i think that's a big deal. and i think we can attribute that to, one, the empg grant

mr. maxwell and mr. masingill can testify to that. but mr. serino let me ask you a question if i can take a little bit broader view here. i hear stories, read stories in the paper that the disaster relief fund may be running out of money. and i'm curious to know if it's running out of money, what you anticipate for the rest of this fiscal year, and what we are going to do in the event it does run out of money. >> currently the disaster relief fund we have $1.24 billion in currently. we been able to act like it that somewhat stabilized over the last few weeks, few months actually. talking earlier about how we are able to go back and look at the obligating, the number of previous disasters. and by doing that we have been able to keep it somewhat level. is going down a bit obviously with the disasters we've been talking about across the country. and right now we are on pace, we love to win we may or may not get below a billion dollars. i would say, you know, the way we are projecting it is sometime between now and sometime possibly early august

we did do a study with sophie maxwell, and it is on the internet. mr. wigton is here. he is the author of it. we still do not seem to get the will to do that kind of thing, even with the better streets plan. for these boxes, what i am worried about is are they going to be shared with other utilities, or will the other utilities want to do the same thing, so we are going to get some more? when they come in, are they going to turn around and replace what is already there and remove the old ones? or will they just be in addition to the old stuff? my neighborhood looks like a third world country. i think the design -- they are asking for state of the art service, but with a third world installation. we have to be aware this business of making them look good and looking for examples in the city -- a lot of times what we are going to do is copy. that is what we have to -- is copy mistakes. that is what we have to be careful about. we are reviewing regulations for excavation. i think we ought to take a look at what we are providing, and are we state of the art. supervisor wei

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maxwell! piggy: yeah? mom: you're home. piggy: oh,cool, thanks mrs. a.co. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >>> the number of american voters identifying themselves as independents is on the rice. in 2008 and 2010 they've proven they can make or break an election. we're joined by glenn bulger and vaughn. you work at republican opinion strategies the republican firm that helps with the nbc wall street journal poll. no better person to come in here. independent voters, you preach this morning anybody i know, you have this tension with some of the campaign strategists who want to worry about the base and not enough about the middle. explain. >> you look at the last five elections and probably further back than that. when independents break one way heavily then it's a landslide election. 2006 they broke heavily to the democrats, 2008, same thing. 2010 heavily to republicans. elections where they are close, 2000, 2004 -- >> they still go with the winner. >> but when they are close, this means it's going to be a close election nationally as well. nothing

maxwell! gg mom: you're home piggy: oh,cool, thanks mrs. a. anncr: gei.es could save you 15% or more. >>> the tone in washington is toxic right now and negotiations to raise the debt ceiling appear to be going nowhere. could the run up to solving one of the gnaws's biggest problems be any worse. i'm joined by rick lazio and a correspondent for the nation magazine. let me start this here. this whole thing should have been avoided last december when congress and the president negotiated the tax cuts the white house should have included back than raise in the debt ceiling because everyone knew back this we would hit this junction. isn't this gross incompetence on the negotiating side. >> they made a mistake here. they allowed the fiction that this is something to debate over become a reality. the truth is as you know, rick, nobody wants the united states to default. unlike shutting the government down this isn't a real end game. you have to call out the hostage negotiators. >> when congress approved the spending and passed the tax cuts everybody knew these l

maxwell imposed. i am not concerned that seventh straight -- street would create a bad precedent. i'm encouraged by comments made by mr. -- seventh street is single loaded. if you have an elevated freeway, there is no such thing as having an active street on the other side to respond to. the weaving in and out of tracking the corner was -- [unintelligible] having 100 feet of a garage. i think for me that is a responsible and good idea. this is rarely a bikeway. 100 feet of a garage with people honking on seventh on the bike, there will not see it. it is like a green screen. that is how you perceive the nahyan active use. the building does some amazing things. i am looking at responsible models and i will pause for identification, this is one of them. the height is not an exception. the heights was premeditated in how we looked out what was necessary to rezone the eastern neighborhood. with -- with a responsible attitude toward protecting pdr. this is as close as we could get. i appreciate the summary on the institutional proximity. the other institutions which are close by khomeni active users with large numbers of em

maxwell. she may be here later on today. she was fantastic to secure funds. supervisor cohen alluded to the support from other mr. supervisors. it is my pleasure to introduce supervisor scott wiener. [applause] >> thank you and congratulations to everyone on this amazing progress. all the three branch libraries in my district were open before i took office, so i like to live vicariously through my colleagues to help celebrate something so important. in a time when we all get down on our city government for not doing as well as we want them to do, in terms of services, what our government has been able to do with renovating and opening libraries, helping to build communities in the neighborhoods is critical. i am optimistic for third street. this is a big part of moving this entire corridor forward. i also want to reiterate something the mayor said. i have the fortune of working with malia cohen. we sit on a land use committee together. she is a tenacious advocate for district 10. she is doing a great job and i am proud to call for my colleague. congratulations, everyone. [applause] >> thank you. my next introduct

maxwell! piggy: yeah? mom: you're home. piggy: oh,cool, thanks mrs. a.nncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >> osgood: how many times have you been left hanging endlessly on the phone despite recorded assurances that your call is important to us? some frustrated people it seems are beyond counting. our cover story is reported now by martha teichner. >> reporter: at 79 with her heart condition, mona shaw doesn't seem like the violent type. she and her husband don live near manasas virginia and rescue old or disabled dogs. comcast had screwed up their phone service. they just wanted it back. >> we had been down there. we had been to the office and asked to speak to the manager or a superviseor. they put us on a bench out in the hallway, said we'll get him for you. two hours later they walked out and said, oh, he went home. >> reporter: that was a friday in august, 2007. by monday afternoon after a week without a phone, mona shaw was mad. >> and i thought, okay. let's see. a hammer. >> reporter: see the pin on her collar? >> so i walkd in, wal

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maxwell? the man who committed suicide off his yacht because he sort of defrauded his media empire? you know, you have to remember, that is the background. now, mr. murdoch is a very astute player. many say that his move by closing the "news of the world" is bold and brave. >> louise, i will have to interrupt you there for a moment, i'm afraid. woe just got the prime minister, david cameron, just about to address newsmenme mennewsmen. let's listen in. >> families who lost loved ones, sometimes defending our country, that these people could have had their phones hacked into in order to generate stories for a newspaper is simply disgusting. i cannot think what was going through the minds of the people who did this. that they can hack into anyone's phone is disgraceful. but to hack into the phone of millie dowder, a young kirl missing from her parents who was later found to be murdered, is truly despicable. but this scandal is not just about some journalists on one newspaper. it's not even just about the press. it's also about the police, and, yes, it's about how politics works and about politicians, too. i want to be very frank about how, as a cou