all of them are responsible for the air for the nursing home they have the advice by the national health agency by the agency for health and social affairs and of course in the government we are very eager to make sure that they have the resources they need we help them to buy the p.p. even was possible it was very difficult for all the countries when they needed the same p.p. yet the same time and you know just what clothes people are sorry not people but what countries companies they were holding p.p. within their countries to make sure that they have what they need so we had a lack of people and that was something we tried to help the minister with. at the same time as they were working on the ground so municipalities private owners are responsible with all the possible help financially with people with education and knowledge from them that you know that ok let's move on to cause to search come to the school that is the same thing you could close a school at the local level if you find that. necessary but we have the natural level of the public health they just see advice in the government

senior health officials well of course this has been there an ongoing discussion dialogue very serious talks of course within the government with prime minister but also with our national agency the public health agency which yes you know expert when it comes to. prevent disease there from the 1st of february it was classified they used to cite so since then we have actively and make it possible for for everyone there working with seize control nationally and we. to take all the messages they need to make sure that they can protect. the society and all of the groups it seems that the prime minister himself decided to hand over the responsibility as you say to the scientists to the department of public health and to understand know the state epidemiologist with again the phrase of lagaan pardon my swedish the the light touch george just enough again is was it was at the right thing to do to allow the scientists to have full control or did the prime minister did you as minister for public health have also some responsibility in keeping the reins very tight on the way the government were going to control the public at large i don't think that's a right description really because

to rule an idea but hold your horses after investigating france's clusters of covert that national health agency has made a rather startling discovery apparently it's not the youth and them ask 3 socially packed parties that are the biggest source of contamination here would you believe it it's actually the office of the $147.00 cost is currently under investigation more than a quarter of them can be traced back to the workplace social gatherings and that's all social gatherings and not just parties only account for 13 percent of clusters well just seeing your extended family accounts for almost the same number of clusters with the facts clearly on display what the people in paris make it so it's very easy to point your finger at the youth. but i think it's it's kind of both ways because now that i'm hearing this it's are easy for me to put my finger at the elderly so i don't think it does matter who does it just like that it's happening and we have to be very careful and for me it's really her like if it's us or if it's them i don't know. fact i think they're right it's. also facts are all the

national health agency says the number of new infections increased by 42% over the past seven days, they's health minister says the virus is circulating four times more among people under the age of 40 than it is among people older than 65. officials are struggling to enforce mask regulations. let's bring in cnn's melissa bell who joins us live in paris. anytime we talk about strict coronavirus measures, obviously the missing piece is usually enforcement, so how is france handling this? >> well, really what we have seen over the last couple of weeks, kim, is a number of european countries see rises in the new numbers of coronavirus cases that they had, with authorities really scrambling to try and find legislation, new laws that will help get those numbers back under control. for instance, in france, masks have been mandatory inside shops, in a growing number of french cities they have become mandatory outdoors. this now becomes a question of law and order. the new front line in europe's fight against the covid-19 pandemic, its soldiers no longer healthcare workers in hospitals, but pol

. >> reporter: the nation's health protection agency now says as long as a person doesn't show symptoms testing may not be necessary. health officers however are questioning the guidance saying it is important to identify infections in the small window preceding the onset of symptoms while people are still contagious. >> it seemed entirely bizarre. in that it undercuts our very basic ways we control an infectious disease. >> reporter: this comes amid questions on whether politics has leaked into public health guidance at the national level. dr. anthony fauci expressed his concerns earlier this afternoon about the erin terptation of the new guidelines saying he was undergoing surgery and under general anesthesia at the time the changes were being discussed by the group. county officials say they'll continue to urge anyone who may have been exposed to the virus to get tested as soon as possible. >> failing to test is not going to end this pandemic. failing to test will not make the virus go away. >> reporter: the governor today also saying he disagrees with the cdc. >> we are influenced b

health in england. we need a national public health agency, but it needs to have people there who've really done the jobn government say the release of some of the most controversial taliban prisoners is being delayed because of objections from foreign governments and from within kabul. last weekend, a grand council approved the release of 400 remaining detainees, demanded by the taliban as a pre—condition to the start of peace talks. further doubt was cast of the negotiations process earlier after a recent attack by gunman on a negotiator and prominent afghan women's rights advocate fawzia koofi. the taliban has denied involvment in the attack. donald trump's younger brother robert has died in hospital in new york at the age of 71. the president said he mourned robert's death with a heavy heart, calling him his best friend. robert trump, who once said he backed his older sibling 1,000%, died in hospital in new york. president trump visited him on friday. on twitter, tributes have been paid. president trump's daughter ivanka said "we will always love you and you are in our hearts and prayers". the forme

health in england. we need a national public health agency, but it needs to have people there who've really done the jobere has been an increase in the number of confirmed new cases recently. as this graph shows the uk has averaged just over 1,000 new cases per day over the past week, although this comes in the context of increased testing. meanwhile — the trend in the number of daily deaths in the uk has slowed down. in the same 2a hour period a further 5 people with the virus died — taking the total number of deaths to 41,366. these figures were counted using the governments new methodology to record coronavirus deaths. donald trump's younger brother robert has died in hospital in new york at the age of 71. the president said he mourned robert's death with a heavy heart, calling him his best friend. robert trump, who once said he backed his older sibling 1000%, died in hospital in new york. president trump visited him on friday. on twitter, tributes have been paid— president trump's daughter ivanka said "we will always love you and you are in our hearts and prayers". the former mayor of new york rudi

. >> reporter: the nation's health protection agency now says that as long as a person doesn't show symptomshen testing may not be necessary. health officers, however, are questioning the guidance saying that it's important to identify infections in the small window preceding the onset of symptoms while people are still contagious. >> it seemed entirely bizarre in that it undercuts our very basic tenets of how we control an infectious disease. >> reporter: this comes amid questions whether politics has leaked into science. white house coronavirus task force member dr. anthony fauci expressed his concerns earlier this afternoon about the interpretation of these new guidelines saying he was undergoing surgery and under general anesthesia at the time these changes were being discussed by the group. county officials say they will continue to urge anyone who may have been exposed to get tested as soon as possible. >> failing to test is not going to end this pandemic. failing to test will not make the virus go away. >> reporter: the governor saying he disagrees with the cdc. >> influenced by those

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effects of access to health care on this pandemic, quoting you here, the cdc an agency i called home for 13 years uniquely equipped to provide sound, science-based guidance for our nation during this public health agency but if millions can't follow the advice or have their basic medical needs met we'll all continue to pay the price for this pandemic and for however longer we tolerate this broken and unjess system. tell us how we're seeing the holes in the u.s. health care system exposed in the midst of this pandemic. >> covid makes it clear. i saw it clearly before this, because i work as a pediatrician in a community clinic, and i know that patients without insurance don't get the same care, the same quality of care or the timeliness of care, so here in covid, at the start of this, there were 28 million people in america without health insurance, and the recommendation from cdc were if you think you had covid symptoms to call your doctor, don't go to the er, where you could pick up covid. if you didn't have health insurance, who are you going to call? what were you going to do? you were going to show up, show up late and likely going to show up in communities where t

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meanwhile, the government's announced that it's setting up a new health agency to focus on infectious diseases. the nationalver the role from public health england — which has been criticised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. protecting the public from health emergencies and helping people live healthier lifestyles, that was the role of public health england but now it is being carved up. it was involved in the official response to covid—19 and things did not all go according to plan and now a chunk of its work will be combined with the test and trace network to form a new group to tackle the virus. we will have a new national institute for health protection whose sole mission is to respond to the pandemic and spot for future risks and future pandemics and bring all that together under one roof. phe was involved in a controversial move to suspend virus testing. on march the 11th nhs england with phe announced plans to boost testing from 2000 per day to 10,000 but the next day the government said that community testing and chasing was to be halted with capacity

it comes as the government announced it's setting up a new health agency to focus on infectious diseases. the nationall take over the role from public health england — which has been criticised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. our health editor hugh pym reports. protecting the public from health emergencies and helping people live healthier lifestyles, but was the role of public health england but 110w role of public health england but now it is being carved up. it was involved in the official response to covid—19 and things did not alter according to plan and now a chunk of its work will be combined with the test and trace network to form a new group to tackle the virus. we will have a new national institute for protection who sell mission is to respond to the pandemic and spot for future risks and future pandemics and bring all that together under one roof. peachey was involved in a controversial move to suspend virus testing. much the 11th nhs england with ph ea announced plans to boost testing from 2000 per day to 10,000 but the next day the government said that community testing and

it is attacked from multiple fronts start with an informed nation regulatory agencies that placed public welfare above special interests health care and pharmaceutical industries government by providing each an oath to help the sick and to do no harm. the battle continues. pleasure to have this opportunity to speak with you all about the opioid addiction epidemic i'm going to just jump right in i'll start off by saying i have no financial relationship with pharmaceutical companies and i think you'll understand if you hear my talk why no pharmaceutical companies that want to relationship with me. i'm going to start off by saying something very obvious or something that should be obvious but unfortunately is not obvious when we talk about drugs like oxy co don't which isn't oxycontin or hydrocodone which is invited and we're talking about drugs that come from opium to to make oxycodone and hydrocodone you start with opium and the effects that hydrocodone and oxy code don't produce in the brain are indistinguishable from the effects produced by heroin if you give an experienced heroin user oxy called onan heroin to administer. l

sources of authority but the central government managed to coordinate its public health agency successfully, steering the national response while exercising a light touch that allowed for some local experimentation, and the quick rollout of testing by private companies and labs. the chancellor angela merkel acted as the national guide, presenting the public with clear scientific requirement, the rate of spread, and was crucial to keep that number under one. the result is that germany today has 110 deaths per million people compared with america's 470 deaths per million people. trump actually handle says the bully pulpit aspect of the white house effectively. i don't like the ideas he puts forward often, but he does so in an innovative way, using all the tools of social media on to amplify his voice and get out his message. unfortunately, during the pandemic, he used this platform to promote unproven treatments, discourage mask wearing and stoke anti-lockdown sentiment. still trump seems to think public relations is the essence of his job. as covid-19 hit, he made bold announcements about convenient testing at wal

. >> reporter: the general manager says his agency saying it's critical not just to their health but the overall economic health of the nation. >> we need congress to act now. there's an urgent need. at its core, the economy cannot and it will not recover without transit. >> reporter: transit agencies say many have been running albeit at a reduced capacity through the pandemic to get essential workers to and from their jobs. nadler said he's urging his counterparts on both sides of the aisle to come up with $32 billion. >> that's the minimum we need. the mass transit cannot survive without at least that kind of money. i anticipate we'll probably need more money. >> senator chuck schumer from new york says at this point the two sides are, quote, far a part. no word if it will include the $32 billion for transit. christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> four people have been indicted for stealing at least 27 guns from a hayward gun store in may. the weapons were stolen from richardson tactical. one of the suspects is also charged with being in possession of a stolen gun. another is charged with being a felon in possession of a g

the agency is saying it's critical not just to their health, but the overall economic health of the nations to act now. there is an urgent need. you know, at its core, the economy cannot, and it will not recover without transit. >> reporter: transit agencies point out many of them have been running, albeit at a reduced capacity through the pandemic to get essential workers to and from their jobs. congressman jerry nadler from new york was on the call with transit agencies and said he's urging his counterparts on both sides of the aisle to come up with $32 billion. >> it's the minimum we need. we are being very conservative, but the fact is the mass transit cannot survive without at least that kind of money. i anticipate that as the pandemic goes further, it's not cured very quickly, we'll probably need more money. >> reporter: senator chuck newmar from new york is one of the senators working to hammer out the next relief package. he says at this point the two sides are, quote, for apart. no word when the next relief package will be delivered or if it will include a $32 billion for transit.

health e experts have known all along a national testing plan was absololutely y required. butt any understandiding is tha this jerod kushner team did not realally work with the publicc health agencies far as i can tell f from my repoporting, his plan, which we obtained, never trickledown to the agencies andnd the decisionmakers withihin h.h.s.s and other entities.s. now,w, of course, the white hou has come outut and denied this and denied d our report.. but, you know, as one participant said to us, we were working in a bubble. you know, we were i in a bubble they were in a bubble. and the bubbles never overlapped. juan: w what about thisis whole issusue of kicicking the testin responsibility down n to the states and y you quote a docto saying the diagnostic teststing industry is, a quote, loososely constructed web and covid-19 is in essssence a stage 5 hurriric how is this loosely c connected web gogoing to be able to deal with the current crisis that we have? katherine: that's a great question. the answer is it's not. you know, as someoeone describe it to me, it's like the early 20th century and the power grids, right? in every city y and location ha its own power grid and you cou

health of the nation. >> we need congress to act now. there is an urgent need. at its conot recover without transit. >> transit agenciesoint out that many have been running at a reduced capacity through the pandemic to get essential workers to and from their jobs. one congressman was on that call and said he is urging his counterparts on both sides of the aisle to come up with $32 billion. >> it is the money we need. we are being conservative. they cannot survive without at least that kind of money. i anticipate that as the pandemic goes further, we probably will need more money. >> senator chuck schumer is working on hammering out that next relief package. he says the two sides are far delivered or if it will include that $32 billion for transit. ktvu fox2 news . >>> uber and lyft are being sued by the state of california accused of breaking the gig worker law. ride share driver should be treated as employees with benefits. they demand a court order to enforce the court law. uber and lyft say that over 90% of their drivers will be laid off if they are forced to they held rallies demanding that they obey the law. drive

agency. now the f.d.a. one did to announce the road out of this procedure widely a couple of weeks ago but the national institutes of health and doctor and he found she and others said no wait a 2nd don't do this we don't have the data to back this up just yet in the intervening weeks that all that's happened is donald trump and his associates in the administration have ramped up their attacks against the f.d.a. even suggesting that there is a couple of deep state operatives in the f.d.a. who are preventing the testing and approval of treatments and and vaccines in order to scupper doldrum selection trojans the new data has come to my bed but that sort of you know there's a tax on it increasing and now we have today's announcement but there is a proper scientific debate to be had about this but on the one hand you could say look this is an emergency ploughs was been shown to be effective in the policy vote so. it can be safe as long as you as old as you and your technique is the blood supplies very carefully on the other hand there's also a 1000 others of august we don't know what effect house was having because we haven't

nation's health. including responding to emergencies, such as pandemics. but now the government has decided to abolish it, effectively accusing it of mishandling the coronavirus crisis. in its place, a new agencyst chance of beating this virus, and of spotting and tackling other external health threats now and in the future, we need to bring together the science and the scale into one coherent whole. so today i am announcing that we are forming a new organisation, the national institute for health protection. the government criticism of public health england includes claims it failed to ramp up testing capacity quickly enough. at that time, the decisions were being made by government, not pha. this sparking accusations that government has tried to shift the blame for m ista kes tried to shift the blame for mistakes made early on in the coronavirus crisis. most people working in public health in the uk believe very strongly that what is happening to public health england is scapegoating by ministers for m ista kes is scapegoating by ministers for mistakes which probably were not the responsibility of public health england but of government itself. and i think one of the things we should be real

crucially this will be a national agency working closely with public health directors and their teamswho gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she died has had his manslaughter conviction overturned at the court of appeal. louella fletcher—michie, the daughter of holby city actor john michie, died after taking the hallucinogenic class a drug 2—cp at the bestival music festival in september 2017. ceon broughton was sentenced to eight and a half years. the court of appeal was told that louella's death occurred not as a result of criminal negligence, but was instead a tragic accident. ican i can confirm that an additional a9 positive cases were confirmed yesterday, representing 1% of people who were tested yesterday, taking the total number of cases to 19,a07. a full health board breakdown will be available later but my provisional information suggests that seven of those a9 new cases are in the grampian health board area, 12 are in greater glasgow and clyde, six in lanarkshire, 16 in tayside. we are dealing with known clusters in each of these health board areas andi

health of the nation. >> we need congress to act now there's a need. and that's additional cleaning that has to be done during the pandemic. >>> another agency is on boarda sales tax on the ballot to help save the cash. the transportation agency approved what is an 8% sales tax increase on the november ballot to help found caltran. they would generate an estimated $108 million for caltran. the transit agency says it's in financial crisis because of a steep ridership decline with the pandemic. it still needs approval from the transit officials and county supervisors in three cities. >>> the accountability board and the director position and it requires the rental units to rental with the board and limit the rent control exceptions to certain adu's. another one establishes a 50 sent charge. other measures include an increase on the users and gas and electricity. an increase on the property taxes to pay for the fire fighting and then the wild service and then allowing them to continue to spend the funds from the taxes and then a measure that includes resending the cities 40-mile raid use for firefighters. now, this election is going to be entirely vote by

agency health department has tremendous expertise. we combine that to create our test and trace core, which is now the largest in the nation and is helpingeep our infection level down to 1%. that's what i reported to new yorkers this morning. 1% infection level based on the tens of thousands of tests we're doing every day in new york city. we have had the lowest number of cases per day since the first half of march. a lot is working. and having that test and trace capacity is part of what is working. it's been a group effort of all parts of government coming together. and that's what actually works, wolf. >> according to the "new york times," dr. barbot added this. what she said, our experts are world-renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance, and response work. the city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response, not in the background. so, what do you say to that? because these accusations she's leveling are she's especially critical according to the "new york times" of what you didn't do early on that resulted in a large number of deaths in new york city. >> now, wolf, what you have there in that le

nation's health. including responding to emergencies, such as pandemics. but now the government has decided to abolish it, effectively accusing it of mishandling the coronavirus crisis. in its place, a new agencynd of spotting and tackling other external health threats now and in the future, we need to bring together the science and the scale into one coherent whole. so today i am announcing that we are forming a new organisation, the national institute for health protection. the government criticism of public health england, or phe, includes claims it failed to ramp up testing capacity quickly enough. but, at that time, the decisions were being made by government, not phe. this sparking accusations that government has tried to shift the blame for mistakes made early on in the coronavirus crisis. most people working in public health in the uk believe very strongly that what is happening to public health england is scapegoating by ministers for mistakes which probably were not the responsibility of public health england but of government itself. and i think one of the things we should be really concerned about is if this leads to more central government control over our public health institutio

nation's economic health. >> we need congress to act now. there is an urgent need, at its core, the economy cannot and will not recover without transit . >> the transit agencyy are losing revenue because of lower ridership, the operating costs are going up, with the extra cleaning that has to be done during the pandemic. another agency is also supporting the sales tax measure on the ballot in order to help save caltrain. san francisco municipal transportation agency's approved a deal that would put a 1/8 cent sales tax hike on the november ballot in order to pay for caltrain. the tax would generate $108 million a year for caltrain, caltrain says they are in a financial crisis because of a steep drop in ridership during the pandemic. the tax measure still has to be approved by transit officials and county supervisors in three different counties. >>> state lawmakers are asking the court system to keep eviction bans in place in california, for now. the judicial council that oversees the court system could lift the ban on evictions as soon as next friday. the la times says that some lawmakers want the judicial council to resume eviction proceedings next month.

health of the nation. >> we need congress to act now. there is an urgent need. at its core, the economy cannot, and it will not recover, without transit. >> the transit agency saysg revenue because of reduced ridership and the operation costs are increasing with the additional cleaning that has to be done during the pandemic. >>> another agency is on board to put a tax measure on the ballot to save cash-strapped caltrain agencies, the san francisco transportation agency approved a deal that would put an eight cent sales tax increase on the november ballot, to fund caltrain. it would generate $108 million annually for caltrain and the transit agency says it is in a financial crisis because of a steep ridership decline during the pandemic, and the tax measure needs approval from officials and county supervisors in three counties. >>> alameda county has a program to pay county employees who test positive for covid-19, to stay home. it targets people who test positive, but cannot get unemployment stimulus money are sick leave. the patients would be able to receive a stipend to help themselves isolated. it is modeled after a program in san francisco based on two week

so here's what the national association of city and county health officials said. it caused confusion and undermined the credibility of the agencyic alike. it put them in a position to say we won't be following the cdc guidelines. you have this confusion. who do i believe and trust? do i trust my county health director, my mayor? do i trust the cdc saying this is not necessary right now? there are some people thinking that political pressure on the cdc from higher officials in the trump administration saying let's do less testing closer to the election so that we will have fewer positive cases reported. doesn't moean they're not out there. >> i think you mentioned the key word is trust. this is a time dealing with 180,000 deaths months into a pandemic and this trust really needs to be built up between government, public health and citizens and i think we are seeing an erosion of that trust with the sudden decisions, whether it's hospital data or who we test. it doesn't build trust and we need that trust going into if and when we have a vaccine and making sure people trust that the vaccine is safe, that it works and so -- can't b

nation's covid-19 death toll now above 183,000. that continues to rise by about a thousand americans every day. lately we've had days of mixed messages from the administration and our public health agenciessteven hahn the head of the fda is walking back comments on the benefits of convelescent plasma. he touted its effectiveness during a press conference last weekend. dr. hahn now says he could have done a better job explaining the data. yesterday the "new york times" reported that the fda ousted its top spokeswoman apparently to help shore up the agency's credibility. also this week the cdc announced you do not necessarily need a covid-19 test if you are exposed to coronavirus unless you are showing symptoms. then dr. robert redfield the cdc's director walked that back. his revision? if you have had close contact with someone with a confirmed or probable covid-19 infection, you may consider getting tested. as for the messaging on a vaccine the president repeated his claim that one may be ready to year during his acceptance speech. >> like those brave americans before us we are meeting this challenge. we are delivering life saving therapies and we'll produce a vaccine before the end of t

teachers and national education association, school superintendents association they're all going together and issuing a statement on july 10. and to me, for this operative. public health agencies must make recommendations based on evidence, not politics. we should leave it to the experts to tell us when the time is best to open up school buildings and listen to educators and administrators to say how we do it. i represent a congressional district that is about half and half what we might call rural and urban so even the urban part of our district will be looked upon as being rural as some of my friends here on this panel from new york and california, so maybe i just do have a rural district. all i want to say is different in rural america. then it is in urban america. so i don't know that we can up here, with a one-size-fits-all. we should delegate to the professional were in attendance and the principles of the schools to determine how best to reopen schools. we want them to be on them with all the resources they need to do that. so this whole notion of just telling people to go back to school, that is one thing . give principles that are superintendents of states, them the r

health organization, and i ask you, mr. secretary, what implications does this, this losing of ground within u.n. bodies and agencies have on advancing u.s. national security interests and other foreign policy priorities that we might have in the u.n. system. >> it's very significant, and it is at least a 15-year-long slide that has taken place and growth of the chinese communist party's influence on these organizations. we have done a couple things to turn this around. we had real success at the world international property organization. the chinese thought they had the fast track to that. it wasn't an american candidate, but a candidate we believe has an understanding of intellectual property in the same way freedom loving democracies do, and we crushed them. and it was an amazing diplomatic effort. we built coalitions with the indians, the brits, the australians, and build it across the world. we were asking for about $20 million in this budget to take the team we built there and make it a permanent team focused on these major elections for these 15 institutions and then there's another set that are slightly different but still very important.

health care, and water. he agency recognizes a mix and median and long-term aance -- ssistance is needed. and government capacity building. in venezuela we are using development assistance to support the government and national assembly with technical training, staffing support, equipment and communication efforts. usaid's support bolster's the interim government's ability to interact with the constituents despite the increase from oppression from the regime. our commitment to democracy and the rule of law is central to our engagement in the hemisphere. in addition to the guido administration and assembly, usaid strongly supports those who defend human rights and serve as civil society watchdogs. we have been critical to investigate and documenting rampant exruppings, flagrant electoral fraud, and wide ranging human rights abuses. with our support independent outlets are better able to operate so they can share with vice president pence quailian through communications. usaid is also helping democratic forcers plan for the day the maduro regime gives away to freedom and authentic change can take place . when change occurs, funding through our bilateral agreement will position us to be ready to expand our work

nation's economic health. >> we need congress to act now. there is an urgent need. at its core, the economy cannot and will not recover without transit. >> public transit agencies sayey are losing revenue there operating costs keep going up with a the extra cleaning that has to be done during the pandemic. >>> caltrain is supporting a sales tax measure on the ballot to help save caltrain. the san francisco mta approved the deal that would put an $0.08 sales tax height. that tax would generate about $108 million sit agency says it financial crisis because of a big drop in ridership during the pandemic. that tax measure needs the approval of transit officials and county supervisors in three counties. >>> people in north carolina are working to clear the damage done by a tornado that was spawned by tropical storm isias. it is also blamed for seven other deaths . millions of people along the east coast remain without power this morning. fema is studying the damage to see of the region is eligible for federal aid. >>> a lot of people back east, many of them were able to escape the real damage and scary stuff, but a lot of people are still without power. >>> and steve, i