after a tornado, parkersburg did not cease to exist.ur recovery began the moment the storm passed. today, the high school, city hall, a majority of other buildings destroyed in the storm have been rebuilt. >> it is amazing to see the resiliency, the determination -- that was inspiring to see the community really come together. >> there is still a cloud hanging over my community. we still struggle with the federal government, fema. >> we are 2.5 years removed from that disaster and we're still working on fame of. >> in the 1990's, fema was a model government agency. as hurricane katrina showed, cronyism, under-funding and lack of leadership turned the match into the most ridiculed agency and the government. >> how does the federal government affect my life? it is most evident in the way that fema and disaster relief in parkersburg. >> there are parts of fema that are good and parts that you are not crazy about. it is a love/hate relationship. >> in natural disasters, the man has not functioned so well. -- the man has not functioned so we

but we the people of parkersburg create our success. >> theme has a parkersburg tremendously. it also greater challenges that threaten parkersburg and the progress we have made. reversal and lack of funding jeopardized my school and education of our youth. without renewed aid, the federal government, my life, my community may face continued devastation after the storm. >> go to studentcam.org to watch all the winning videos and continue the conversation about today's documentary at our facebook and twitter pages. >> you get another chance to see the studentcam documentary and the interview with the creator, matthew wicks tonight here on c-span2 starting at 71 7:15 fut. we're bringing you live coverage of a discussion about the future of public broadcasting. attendees are in the middle, actually nearing the end of about a 10 minute break. the next then we'll look at innovations to connect commuters. you hear from executives from national public radio and pbs among others. it is hosted by the journalism school at the university of missouri. live coverage from the national press

the city was leled much like parkersburg was, and fema acted responsibly as they did in parkersburg. now one of the problems is as projects develop and evolve and come to completion, there's always disagreements and discussions about the finer points. and i understand that fema has some ongoing issues with parkersburg. but i'm sure there can be an immediate resolution. i don't know the particulars in this case. the residents of parkersburg wants a quick resolution. host: how does fema determine who is going to help and how? >> well, it's individual and public assistance. i think the video matthew did mainly focuses on public assistance. public buildings. public infrastructure. and sometimes federal agencies in my opinion overstep their bounds in trying to enforce a particular edict or rules or regulations that may be important elsewhere in the country. maybe not in the plain state of iowa. and the additional thing i think that is always a problem is you have staff over the. you make agreements. there's promises made and a fema representative says yes, we can do this and no, we can't

the city was leled much like parkersburg was, and fema acted responsibly as they did in parkersburg. one of the problems is as projects develop and evolve and come to completion, there's always disagreements and discussions about the finer points. and i understand that fema has some ongoing issues with parkersburg. but i'm sure there can be an immediate resolution. i don't know the particulars in this case. the residents of parkersburg wants a quick resolution. host: how does fema determine who is going to help and how? >> well, it's individual and public assistance. i think the video matthew did mainly focuses on public assistance. public buildings. public infrastructure. and sometimes federal agencies in my opinion overstep their bounds in trying to enforce a particular edict or rules or regulations that may be important elsewhere in the country. maybe not in the plain state of iowa. and the additional thing i think that is always a problem is you have staff over the. you make agreements. there's promises made and a fema representative says yes, we can do this and no, we can't do t

the city was leled much like parkersburg was, and fema acted responsibly as they did in parkersburg. now one of the problems is as projects develop and evolve and come to completion, there's always disagreements and discussions about the finer points. and i understand that fema has some ongoing issues with parkersburg. but i'm sure there can be an immediate resolution. i don't know the particulars in this case. the residents of parkersburg wants a quick resolution. host: how does fema determine who is going to help and how? >> well, it's individual and public assistance. i think the video matthew did mainly focuses on public assistance. public buildings. public infrastructure. and sometimes federal agencies in my opinion overstep their bounds in trying to enforce a particular edict or rules or regulations that may be important elsewhere in the country. maybe not in the plain state of iowa. and the additional thing i think that is always a problem is you have staff over the. you make agreements. there's promises made and a fema representative says yes, we can do this and no, we can't

but even after an ef-5 tornado, parkersburg did not cease to exist. today, the high school, city hall, and a majority of other buildings destroyed in the storm have been rebuilt. >> it was amazing to see the resiliency, the determination. that was really inspiring to see the community really come together. >> there is still a cloud hanging over my community. parkersburg's still struggles with the federal government, fema, and others. >> we are still working with fema. >> in the 1990's, fema was a model government agency, but as hurricane katrina show, cronyism, underfunded, and lack of leadership turned a steaming into the most ridiculed agency in the government. -- turned fema into the most ridiculed agency and the government. >> disaster relief and parkersburg. >> i have had people say it is a love-hate relationship. >> there have been sometimes with some natural disasters that fema has not functioned so well. i think in the last five years, they have kind of gotten their act together and have done a better job. >> in several areas, safina handled t

to parkersburg for stepping up and helping their neighbors. host: tomorrow we will be joined by the 2011 student cam grand prize winner to discuss the top i can -- the topic of compromise in the government. you can lean more at c-span student cam.org. in just a few minutes we're going to bring you campaign 2012 coverage. and today we're going to be showing you live coverage of a radio show in des moines, aye aye. -- from des moines, iowa. and our campaignal coverage of campaign 2012 will continue. we will cover shows from iowa. on wednesday at 1:00 p.m., the exchange out of iowa city. and then on thursday at 3:00 p.m. eastern time, the jim fisher show out of davenport, iowa live on c-span for campaign 2012. before we go here, i want to take a couple more phone calls if we can as we're waiting for this radio show to get under way. can you hear me? ] host: yes. caller: i had watched a program with jesse ventura. in this documentary he indicated there were several fema camps set up around the u.s. they snuck into one camp and there were over 125,