mr. skinner, mr. jenkins, are the rules an responsibilities clear in your judgment under the 15 that the operational plans is not yet pleaded for? i'm sort of answering my own question, because if it's not completed it's unlikely to be cleared. what's your assessment, mr. skinner, i'll start with you. >> first of all, we haven't done a stud ty to determine the clary of this. they were able to determine the responsibilities are becoming clearer, and this is a direct result, i think, of the result of the confusion we witnessed after hurricane katrina and people have sat down in a room, and started more clearly defining who's on first, who has the operational responsibilities and who is in charge. in that regard, after katrina, we have feel comfortable that the clarity of rules are becoming clear. again, a lot of these things are not complete. so it's -- we're really trying to use a krcrystal ball to predt how it's going to play out in the future. in regard to earthquakes, that administrator fugate refer

mr. skinner, mr. jenkins, are the rules an responsibilities clear in your judgment under the 15 that the operational plans is not yet pleaded for? i'm sort of answering my own question, because if it's not completed it's unlikely to be cleared. what's your assessment, mr. skinner, i'll start with you. >> first of all, we haven't done a stud ty to determine the clary of this. they were able to determine the responsibilities are becoming clearer, and this is a direct result, i think, of the result of the confusion we witnessed after hurricane katrina and people have sat down in a room, and started more clearly defining who's on first, who has the operational responsibilities and who is in charge. in that regard, after katrina, we have feel comfortable that the clarity of rules are becoming clear. again, a lot of these things are not complete. so it's -- we're really trying to use a krcrystal ball to predt how it's going to play out in the future. in regard to earthquakes, that administrator fugate refer

mr. skinner, mr. jenkins, are the rules an responsibilities clear in your judgment under the 15 that the operational plans is not yet pleaded for? i'm sort of answering my own question, because if it's not completed it's unlikely to be cleared. what's your assessment, mr. skinner, i'll start with you. >> first of all, we haven't done a stud ty to determine the clary of this. they were able to determine the responsibilities are becoming clearer, and this is a direct result, i think, of the result of the confusion we witnessed after hurricane katrina and people have sat down in a room, and started more clearly defining who's on first, who has the operational responsibilities and who is in charge. in that regard, after katrina, we have feel comfortable that the clarity of rules are becoming clear. again, a lot of these things are not complete. so it's -- we're really trying to use a krcrystal ball to predt how it's going to play out in the future. in regard to earthquakes, that administrator fugate refer

mr. skinner, mr. jenkins, are the rules an responsibilities clear in your judgment under the 15 that the operational plans is not yet pleaded for? i'm sort of answering my own question, because if it's not completed it's unlikely to be cleared. what's your assessment, mr. skinner, i'll start with you. >> first of all, we haven't done a stud ty to determine the clary of this. they were able to determine the responsibilities are becoming clearer, and this is a direct result, i think, of the result of the confusion we witnessed after hurricane katrina and people have sat down in a room, and started more clearly defining who's on first, who has the operational responsibilities and who is in charge. in that regard, after katrina, we have feel comfortable that the clarity of rules are becoming clear. again, a lot of these things are not complete. so it's -- we're really trying to use a krcrystal ball to predt how it's going to play out in the future. in regard to earthquakes, that administrator fugate refer

mr. skinner has said, that it is worth going after this money. i realize you were not administrator at the time of katrina, but, in fact, there's been a new bro ses that the chief counsel had for recouping improper payments that's been languishing since late 2008. yesterday we received word that fema is going to start implementing the new process, but that's a long gap. that really sends the wrong message. so i guess i'm asking for you to give a commitment to put in those internal controls. i think it's a false choice between providing the money quickly enough and providing it in a way that guards against fraud. in today's world with the technology we have, that's -- it's not an either/or proposition. so i want to encourage you, i'm going to ask you are you going to go after some of these improper payments? >> the answer is yes. particularly those recoupments where we know that we had duplication of benefits and if it was fraud, i think they would agree if i found fraud as soon as we know it, we refer this and those that did this willfully need t

mr. burns, and principal skinner, a regular cast member on saturday night live and many movie credits includethe right stuff, fisher king, truman show, and the mighty wind and others. he's an author, director, mew cigs, playwright, and a record label owner. he's a los angeles native, began acting as a child. it was then he got to know the great mel blank who did voices in his day as well. appeared in the pilot of leave it to beaver that morphed into eddy haskell. [laughter] true story. [applause] there was aplosioned on that. he wrote about the causes and aftermath of the 2005 new orleans flood. on this subject and others, he's a regular contributor to huffington post and made a feature eleventh documentary. i was fortunate enough to meet him last fall at a screening here and that's when we discussed about having him today. other stories told about the hurricane's aftermath via online video were compelling. that are still there on the website at mydamchannel. as some of you know, one of my priorities this year is to use this series to focus on journalism. we did that a week ago, vivian shille

mr. burns, smothers and principal skinner and a regular cast member on saturday night live and many creditsinclude the right stuff, the truman show, spinal tap and the mighty wind among others. he and author, director, a musician, radio host, please write and record label owner. los angeles native who began his acting career during his childhood making appearances on the jack program. it was then he got to know the great mel blanc who did a few voices in his day as well. he appeared on the pilot of leave it to beaver and the role but was essentially morphed into that if eddie haskell. [laughter] [applause] >> true story. a lot of applause on that. very well. for the past few years he's been writing about the causes and aftermath of the 2005 new orleans flood and this subject and others he's a regular contributor to the huffingtonpost.com and also made a feature-length documentary titled the big uneasy. i was fortunate enough to meet him last fall during the screening of the movie at home and that is when we discussed having him here today. before that, some of the stories titled crescent ci