that is more than we got from sandy. it is not just that the program expires september 30, after sandy they set of borrowing limit of $30 billion. they may have to actually increase the borrowing limit as well to accommodate the claims from harvey. host: let's go back to the phones. we have marked from new york. good morning. caller: thanks for c-span. i want to say that i survived hurricane sandy. i lost my roof, but the insurance paid for it. homeowners insurance, so i did not use any federal tax dollars. i just wanted to ask the gentleman to comment on the fact that big companies like exxon, verizon, general electric pay zero in taxes while hard-working people like myself pay up to 30% of our salary in taxes. also the immense amount of our tax dollars that go to the pentagon. i don't think there has ever been an auditing of that money or some way to figure out how our money is being wasted there. i will let the gentleman,. thank you. -- gentleman comment. guest: thank you. he hit on some of the greatest hits for taxpa

the day after sandy?gail mero: six-foot-high water in the street. >> john mero: well, the day after, it was like armageddon. >> alfonsi: the meros' house had to be torn down after the storm. their insurance company paid them just $80,000. and now, they're buried in debt after rebuilding their home. >> john mero: i was like, "how can you tell me that you're not going to cover this, that i'm not going to get the full amount of my insurance?" i says... "you got my payments every month." said "it's time for you to pay and here's what you're going to tell me." >> alfonsi: it was two years later that the meros felt a second wave hit them, when the engineer who assessed their home after the storm called them out of the blue. >> john mero: the engineer sent his report in to the insurance company saying that the house was damaged due to flood. the structural damage is caused by the flood. and from what i understand, the insurance company changed it, changed his words, without him knowing. >> alfonsi: this is andre

sandy is the jersey shore's perfect storm.t high tide, amplified by a full moon. >> we're one block in off the beach. and there are literally waves of water rushing down washington avenue, across ocean avenue. you really can't drive on these streets right now. >> two weeks later, brick and britta return home, but nothing can prepare them for what they're about to see. >> it was overwhelming emotionally to just absorb the damage that had been done. the roadway itself had big holes in it and telephone poles down. and then at salty's, all the ice cream cases were all flipped, all the display cases, and the gift shop was just a giant pile of broken glass. >> for the last 15 years, brick and britta have gone without flood insurance. now their luck's run out. they estimate that rebuilding their home, salty's, and their other businesses will run seven figures. they scramble for loans and soon learn there's no quick fix and lots of red tape. >> this is paperwork from just one project. this is one building that we are working on. >> so

culberson, voted against sandy relief. it must be understood that we are all americans, and i will stand to help every american who is in need of help. will the gentlelady yield me 30 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman is not recognized. the gentlelady from new jersey -- new york reserves, and the gentleman from new jersey -- mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i am very pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. engel. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. engel: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. i am for this aid. i'm for this aid 100%. we should help these people. as americans we should help people all over our country. but it really hurts that those of us in new york and new jersey when superstorm sandy came and we were begging for help, we had to wait two months for help and our friends from texas on the re

as i said earlier, the two texas senate republicans voted against relief for superstorm sandy. they have excuses they are giving. but what was called pork for sandy will be in the texas relief effort and it should not be called fork. removinguts, the undocumented aliens from the country, are policies that will of years oface recovery for people affected are the storm. the final point, there are two of the hurricanes gathering force out in the caribbean and gulf of mexico. hurricane irma is coming on the wake-up harvey. ng about thatki being a category 3 hurricane. we are seeing and there are scientific reasons, we are seeing the world where we will have natural disasters like we have never seen before. someone is going to have to combat those natural disasters. it is going to be the united states tax payer. host: you mentioned the public assistance grant program. these are figures released about that very the report found lasted that over the past 20 years, fema has seen a 212% increase in their assistance program, the largest federal disaster assist from 1996 to 2005 when the

sandy: i'd like that.he things that machine learning can do and benefits from, the amount of data out there has increased so dramatically, storing that data has become incredibly cheap and the cost of processing and doing things with it has become incredibly cheap. that's either a good thing or a bad thing. if you don't know how to use those tools, it's a threat for you. if you are able to build the technology and harness it, it's a fantastically powerful thing. there are clearly things that machines have not learned how to do. we have taught them how to read, but they can't read right well. but they can read a lot. earnings transcripts, it we can read all the earnings calls in real-time, but we can't do with machines is come up with massively insightful conclusions. we have frets but not that when looking at reading, which applies to all sorts of other things. the machines haven't worked out how to do that yet. at what what -- vonnie: point do y anticipate machines being able to do those kinds of things?

again, objection to sandy was there was a lot of not sandy stuff in that bill.nd that's what led texas members, including myself to vote against it. i grew up in south texas. i was a young teen in hurricane seal ya, which just wreaked horrible havoc here. i understand the need for assistance in recovering from a disaster wherever it is but i do have a problem using a disaster to fund whatever else might -- >> i hear you about that. and i'm not going to come at you in the time of disstress down there, but reading through the crs report on what the money was there, even ted cruz had to back off the idea it was two thirds pork or not related to sandy. it's just not true. it was almost all disaster related to easterly things happened earlier or within a few years of sandy that still needed to be done or different states that were affected by sandy and it does seem some of you guys took a really hard line and if that happens this time, your people are going to suffer. >> i don't think it's going to happen. this is the problem we have in washington. you put these mega

sandy: los expertos recomiendan que elija bien la organizaciÓn.al, comienza el proceso de recuperaciÓn y las secuelas atraen a estafadores. el bbb, le advierte a la comunidad que tengan precauciÓn con los contratistas que se aparecen en su hogar. >> no debe pagar mÁs de un 20%, y si le piden todo, no estÁ bien. sandy: debido a esto, se recomienda tener un contrato por escrito para protegerse como consumidor. en cuanto a su seguro de propiedad, silva dice que es esencial mantener su seguro al dÍa y saber quÉ posiciÓn contra desastres naturales ofrece. >> la inundaciÓn no se considera un desastre natural y el seguro tiene que tener las dos clÁusulas . sandy: tambiÉn se recomienda notificar rÁpidamente a su agencia de seguros los daÑos. ramÓn: ahora vamos con un adelanto del "contacto deportivo". presentadora: le diremos cÓmo le fue a los dodgers ante los phillies. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ locutor: "contacto deportivo" es presentado por: natalie: hola, le saluda natalie juÁrez. hoy los polleros se --dodgers se enfrentaron a philadelphia. cayeron c

was a cat 1 and for us, i mean sandy was devastating. >> but here's the interesting thing, again, sandy got that superstorm title because sandy was in the process of transforming, of opening up. so sandy had all this stored wind and stored energy with it when it had its category of a hurricane. remember, it's not like these storms just throw one line of wind out. there are pockets of winds in these storms. we even saw this with irma. remember that wind pocket that traveled through northern florida. remember that line of rain and wind that came through jacksonville that kept all of that water from getting out of the river there in jacksonville and caused all of that flooding. all of that storm surge that was still up on the carolina coastli coastline. though we look for the worst impact to be with that eye wall, once that eye wall makes impact and the storm starts to lose its structure, the wind kind of breaks apart in pockets. so it's not unusual to see some area that may be right beside the eye, to the left of the eye might not get as damaged or as strongly damaged as another area that

super storm sandy damaged their homes, and now they claim a contractor took their money and ran. >>> and challenging entrepreneurs to transform one of its most troubled streets. >> announcer: nbc 10 breaking news. >>> we begin with our breaking news out of phoenixville right now. police have swarmed this area on bridge street. this is after one person was shot. happened just before 10:00 tonight. sky 4 10 live over this scene. you see police cars, a fire truck. we know at least one person was injured. so far police have not arrested anyone in this cay. we'll keep you updated. >>> also tonight, nowhere to go. take a look at the thousands of containers just sitting in puerto rico tonight. they are filled with supplies for the victims of hurricane maria but are not getting to those in need. >> tonight rr two very different views of how the relief effort is going. a member of the trump administration said it was, quote, under control. but one puerto rican lawmaker said it was a disaster. >> showing us how one community is making sure they loved ones are getting the help they need. >> rep

so you know he went on to emphasize that victims of hurricane sandy were simply low balled and that's why they had to seek legal help to help them actually get the money that they deserve so then one of the lawyers from the firm also spoke and he's sort of talking about how a lot of people have been asking him well since this is what happened to victims of hurricane sandy what does this mean for victims of hurricanes harvey and irma and this is what he had to say about that and i tell people over and over you need to look at hurricane sandy survivors for the answer to that and here we are five years later and out of our twelve hundred clients in the review nine hundred of them are still waiting for their checks nine hundred people five years later so that's the answer right now. so as you can see there's really not much hope left for fema at all well it's troubling to hear you know we were just talking earlier on the show about scammers taking advantage of these victims but to hear that there are issues with federal programs that's very troubling what is the financial strain been for

by a group called stop and now it was formed in two thousand and thirteen by victims of hurricane sandy which of course affected new jersey and new york and the reason they formed it was because fort lee after the storm they realized they were all having the same problems with thema they claim that they're not getting their money back even though they were paying. insurance for near is prior to the storm heading and they also said that they saw a premium spike after the storm which made their financial struggles after the storm much harder to deal with so they formed today on capitol hill and they were joined by a law group or me law firm that has been helping them sort through victims claims and that firm is actually now represented by michael kudo who's a former trump advisor and during the conference today he started talking about hurricane sandy and then very quickly expressed his concern for victims of hurricanes and. we know for a fact what's going to happen to the families and home owners of her her harvey and her team. while they've gone through a terrible terrible thing in the

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this is florida is the soil is very sandy. i haven't talked about epic flooding, someone may get 15 to 20 inches of rain, it won't be like harvey. this is the current -- i want to get to this. this is the wind field. now the red is all through the keys, the hurricane force, as we go through the night, this will inch its way inland. when you get in the hurricane force winds, that's when the transformers blow, it will -- >> we saw in miami transformers bursting behind our last guest.. where are you? >> well, i'm in miami. we left the beach area. now we're in downtown. first of all, can i say how much i love bill karns? he makes it all so incredibly interesting to watch. when he gets into it, he understands everything and he wants people to hear what he's got to say and understand it. i love his explanations. it's just great tv for me. >> we need his explanations. >> we do. i think people get it when they hear it like that. we're in downtown miami. you can tell it's dry. we've had a lot of those rain bands moving in from the beac

it will have effects but we won't get walloped like sandy. i'll dplant -- demonstrate that later in the broadcast. you can see the commodore barry bridge in the background. mainly clear and patchy fog in locations. some of the fog is rather dense. some locations down to .3 of a mile. warm and humid, that's the weekend call from accuweather. we'll have the latest stats on jos -- hurricane jose. 63 degrees in allentown. 64 in reading. philadelphia, 69. millville, 64. cape may, 69 degrees. in the poconos, 58. reading showing 63. trenton, 66. now, the visibility report some locations doing okay, philadelphia ten miles, no issues there. the airport reporting visibility of ten miles. look what happens when you go to into the urbanized areas. you get into the opened fields of cumberland and atlantic county, 3-point in millville and and -- .3 in millville and atlantic city. we'll have puffy cumulus clouds popping up in some areas, maybe you see a brief passing shower most of us it should be confined to areas north and west of center city, even south

thank you, john, and thank you, sandy. i will just say the argument that we can run nato cost effectively by doing what john and sandy are suggesting strikes me as very curious logic. i don't want nato to be run cost effectively. i want the europeans to do what they promised to do for a long time. the defense of europe is more important to europe than us. it is bizarre to me that a continent that a gdp roughly equal our ours cannot defend ourselves. we're wringing our hands saying how will we defend poland, the baltics? shouldn't this have been thought before you extend to the russian borders? now everyone's wringing their hands and trying to figure out what to do. starting a war in ukraine is not a way to run nato cost effectively. it is to take care of the problems that beset nato. i was against nato from the get go, but having done it -- it seems to me -- we're to obliged to make it work internally rather than using the budapest memorandum as a reason to say, well, that's the way to fix the alliance. that strikes me as

senateid earlier, republicans voted against relief for superstorm sandy. they had excuses. that will be in the texas relief effort and will not be called pork. it shouldn't be called pork. removinguts, undocumented aliens from the , our policies that will they aree face -- policies that will fly in the face of the recovery of people affected by this storm. the final point that needs to be made, there are two other hurricanes gathering force out in the caribbean and the gulf of mexico. that is coming right on the wake of harvey, they are talking about that being a category three hurricane. we are seeing, there are reasons for this scientifically, a world where we are going to have natural disasters like we have never seen before. someone is going to have to combat those disasters. in the last analysis it will be the american taxpayer. host: you mentioned the public assistance program. i want to point to some figures. the report found that over the past 20 years fema has seen a 212% increase in its public assistance grant program. which is the largest source of fromal disaste

>> he's certainly facing a lot of heat for his past votes against relief efforts for sandy. as you point out, constituents are relying on him to help rebuild. >> leland: the texas coalition holds a lot of sway with the republican caucus as well. how long does this republican kumbaya last? just threw harvey relief or do you get the debt ceiling too? >> there'll be changes to some of the dynamics, but they have to get the relief taken care of, they have to show the government can respond to a crisis, they can't afford to have a government shutdown in the middle of all of this. they'll have to get the debt ceiling raised, they'll have to get a continuing resolution on funding, but i don't ask peckham to go more. >> leland: one thing we've been hearing on capitol hill trying to tie this together, the bigger it is, the hardener is to fail. you tie tax relief, harvey, debt ceiling, put it all to one and everybody has a vote for it. >> it's dangerous to politicize the relief efforts for the harvey victims, especially right now and we know how bad it is. if they were to tie too much

thank you john and sandy. theuld just say that argument that we can run nato doing whatively by john and sandy are suggesting is very curious logic. i don't want nato to be run cost-effectively, i want the europeans do what they promised to do for a long time. the defense of europe is more important to europe than us. it is bizarre to me that a continent, if you take a gdp roughly equal to ours cannot find the wherewithal to defend itself. we are now wringing our hands saying, how do we defend the baltic, poland? shouldn't this have been thought about before we extended nato to the russian borders? now everyone is trying to figure out what to do? starting a war in ukraine is not how to run nato cost-effectively. thes against nato from get-go but having done it it seems to me we are obliged to make it work internally rather than using the budapest to say,um as a reason that as a way to fix the alliance. my thanks to the con side for closing statements. gentleman on the pro side, two minutes each. >> let me reci

we don't have anywhere left to cut in the budget, alex, so this could be politicized similar to sandy but that's down the road. >> so big picture then, jay. let's presume funding for hurricane harvey seems to be a pretty easy layup at least initially, but is it naive to think this would be the impetus for by partisanship on things like the debt ceiling and other crucial items? >> absolutely. i think it's hard to imagine a lot of republicans who are very upset not just at the idea of hurricane harvey relief funding, but by the prospect of this month passing a continuing resolution, which will fund -- will also do a fair amount of deficit spending itself in order to beef up pentagon spending at the president's request and also raise the debt ceiling, all without cutting back as heidi as mentioning any kind of cuts that are commensurate in order to balance the budget. this is not what they elected a republican president and republican congress to do. so there's going to be a lot of dissatisfaction. if they have to work with democrats, that's going to aggravate things more. >> may i ask y

and we did see that with the sandy bill. million for the smith seasonian, massive amounts of money for community block grant programs, community development block grant programs. and that may become a problem if congress can't resist the idea of adding unrelated items to this bill. also the debt limit, could be a huge problem if they try and marry the debt limit to a relief bill package. >> is that the danger really more for democrats as a potentially remember super storm sandy and what republicans like crews had to famously done ask rejected that assistance in. >> well, so far the people who were so critical of ted cruz and other people who voted against the sandy package, they've certainly made a lot of noise saying we remember what you did, but they're saying they're probably going to vote for harvey funding. you saw that from peter king, long island republican, very critical of crews, calling him a hit credit but saying i'm going to vote for harvey. more significantly you saw a statement from very early on from minority

. >> certainly makes it challenging and reminiscent of during sandy. local red cross workers are heading south to lend a hand. we were at philadelphia international airport as the executive director of the tricounty chapter boarded a flight for south carolina to organize volunteers. >> one thing that just keeps us going is we're doing good. we're helping the people. we're providing some safety, skurlt, emotional support and helping them get through it. >> other workers from our area are headed to florida. some are already there. >>> taking a live look at philadelphia international, where people are pouring in from florida, they are not taking any chances. our coverage continues with lauren mayk live at the airport. >> these people getting out for good reason. >> reporter: this is a powerful storm, but escaping is it is a little tricky in this case because of the size of the storm and the path, that cone that is going north in florida may not be the answer. so what some people are doing are boarding up their homes, packing up kids and pets and coming he

for example take hurricane sandy meteorologist eric office says removing sandy from the list flipped the result single- handedly. hurricane sandy switches the entire premise on its head. with all of this and more expert speaking out we can now verify this theory is false. female named hurricanes are no more deadly than those with male names evan kozlov wusa9. >> it is worth pointing out male names were not even used until the 70s, the first male storm was bob in 1979. our verify team is always ready to help you separate fact from fiction find us on facebook and twitter and at wusa9.com or email the team. >>> with the possibility of irma hitting florida many are starting to get anxious, mental health experts say people along the coast are more prone to posttraumatic stress disorder. if they suffered a loss in a previous weather-related event, a counselor explained how things can trigger anxiety.>> if you see the storm warnings and all of to worry you're getting upset you need to understand why that is happening. it is a perceived threat not an actual threat. >> if you or someone you k

it is definitely going to be more than sandy.re than -- like i said, the single largest flooding disaster in the united states history. but it is going to take somebody in the insurance business, somebody in the flood recovery business, fema for example, that can go in there and put a number to it. >> sandy was $60 billion and katrina was $120 billion just to give people a point of reference here. let me ask you about your vote, which i'm sure you've discussed before. but i don't want ask about your vote against the superstorm sandy package. i want to ask you about an amendment. in 2013, you voted to tie the spending to an offset to a 1.63% discretionary across the board spending to the $17 billion that was going to the people in new york and new jersey, connecticut and pennsylvania, the people who needed it most. that is the direct aid to the people. not the larger bill. will you support and offset for money going to texans? >> well, here is the thing that we need to do, we need to be cognizant of all of congress spending. we ne

we're back. >> you said hurricane sandy was only a category 1. for us in new york, new jersey that lived through sandy, the damage was remarkable. where i live on a barrier island in new jersey, the entire island was covered bay to ocean. we're talking about a category 3 possibly 4. it was a 4 in some areas of virgin islands which got decimated. as you're looking at the images, there's wind, we've been through this before. get your head around the difference between a category 1 and a category 3. this is no joke. >> the other thing about a storm surge, unlike normal flooding, the storm surge wipes in with force in big volume and comes back out again. you get hit twice. if you have a house, the win owes will get blown out, it will fill up. >> what's amazing about the pink area is how far inland you can expect this storm surge, areas people -- bill was talking about it earlier, my mom lives 10 minutes inland, never would you think if you live that far from the ocean you could get gushes right through your home. >> this coverage continues. we're not

now, sandy could be right. one possibility could be that putin will say, oh, my gosh, the americans are giving arms to ukrainians so i better settle up. certainly, but that's not the only possibility. the other possibility is a scale-up. from what we have seen in the long history of putin's behavior and given the circumstances of the play, i would put my money on the other. i'm not saying sandy is wrong because it's a plausible argument. i'm just saying it's not the only argument and we ought to really think about whether in fact we could take the diplomatic opportunity and blow it out of the water. >> i think that first of all, there's reasons to be skeptical about the proposal itself, but we should be testing putin in the negotiating room. and that's what i suggested in this piece i wrote for the hill the other day. but i think putin definitely is a man who feels he has to negotiate from a position of strength. i think that's the way we should enter into this discussion as well. we don't have to send 15 plane

but you know, ted cruz, he held up our relief for hurricane sandy five years ago here in new york, and continues to basically lie about it saying he opposed the bill because it contains so much pork. that really was not true, the things he thought were pork were things like funding for head start programs but they were programs that were destroyed by hurricane sandy. there were other things like that if he had taken the time to understand the bill he would know they were not pork, so it was as if he didn't care. i was calling oath the hypocrisy for certain republicans like ted cruz, wanting aid for their constituents, but no one else. >> what do you think this aid package will look like when all is said and done for hurricane harvey? >> you know, i think they will get a lot of aid, i don't know if it will be enough or if it will be distributed. i have concerns about that, but when you have a republican congress and republican president and you know republican leadership of texas, i hate to say it but i think that there will be a little bit of partisan favoritism, while at the same time

the key thing to look for is to go back and look at the hurricane sandy relief bill that became really political. it took a long time to get through. conservativesse will want this emergency spending to be as clean, meaning nothing in the bill that they think is not directly related to responding and recovering from hurricane harvey. these things can get really tricky. i think the initial $7.85 billion will go through fairly quickly, in the next week or two. from there we have seen spending fights for the last six or seven years old times a year -- a co uple of times a year. if conservatives insist on offset, the only thing harder to negotiate in washington than offset is an authorization for military force. we have not had one of those since 9/11. there is always a group that likes the thing you want to cut to pay for disaster relief. i think we will see a fight. i don't think we will see a fight over this on the hill in the white house getting involved in the next few weeks, but we are talking as much as $150 billion. $120atrina total came to billion. that was the federal total. we a

culberson, voted against sandy relief. it must be understood that we are all americans, and i will stand to help every american who is in need of help. will the gentlelady yield me 30 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman is not recognized. the gentlelady from new jersey -- new york reserves, and the gentleman from new jersey -- mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i am very pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. engel. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. engel: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. i am for this aid. i'm for this aid 100%. we should help these people. as americans we should help people all over our country. but it really hurts that those of us in new york and new jersey when superstorm sandy came and we were begging for help, we had to wait two months for help and our friends from texas on the re

mary, we have our first accident of the morning, sandy road up by route 100.ing backups yet. just happened. show you here on the map. if you are up here at sandy farm road between route 100 and 174, first and only accident out there, otherwise, we just have construction on the inner loop of the beltway. do have oo live traffic camera lane here. does look like you are going to see crews out there. it's reall down, you can get by other on those side lanes. plus, if you are by route 1, we have construction by the beltway and heading eastbound, by the main toll plaza, you'll see some construction this morning as well. >> thank you, ellen. >>> three new crew members now call the international space station home. spacecraft docked at the space station before 11:00 last night. three existing crew members practiced a few selfies while waiting for the spacecraft's arrival. >>> this year's 12 finalists include the magic 8 ball matchboxcars and my little pony along with similar items like paper airplane will be inducted at the museum in rochester, new york on november 9t

state, the costliest natural disasters in american history had been hurricane katrina and super storm sandy. now a new estimate that says that harvey's damage could cost more than both of those combined. $190 billion is the total coast. now dr. joel meyers says that business leaders and major banks, the federal reserve should factor in the negative impacts this catastrophe will have on business, corporate earnings and employment. that's consistent with president trump's guess that there's never been a natural disaster like hurricane harvey. some businesses won't be able to get back the money they'll be losing the next few months as mold is removed and drywall is replaced. many businesses won't get the money they'll lose. part of the calculation is like gasoline going up because harvey interfered with the normal supply process. then you have the cost of replacing houses and the belongings inside of them. that is something that harvey's victims will have the start doing as soon as they're allowed back. lauren? >> lauren: peter, thank you. harvey hitting as the news of the economy is growing.

thousands of families that color="#ffff00">survived sandy say they were then hit by a second wave of fraud. >> i was like, "how can you tell me that you're not going to cover this? that i'm not going to get the full amount of my insurance?" i says, "you got my payments every month." >> alfonsi: as harvey's survivors face a difficult future, we look back at hurricane sandy, and why so many families didn't get the help they deserved. >> where is the motor, in here? >> here, the motor is here. >> whitaker: he's talking