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In this Sept. 8, 2018 photo, Alma Morales Rosario poses for a portrait between the beams of her home being rebuilt after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria one year ago in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico.
As Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas, the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were focused on important matters: whether people were showing up to meetings and who was telling whom about a visit with first responders. The Washington Post reported that the simmering feud between DHS head Kristjen Nielsen and FEMA's Brock Long flared up as Florence made landfall late last week and dumped record rain over the weekend.
A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been suspended without pay related to a Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigation into whether FEMA Administrator Brock Long used government vehicles for personal reasons, according to an administration official. John Veatch was suspended last Friday as the agency was responding to Hurricane Florence, according to Politico , which first reported the suspension.
A Maryland man is accused of stealing hurricane victim's identities as part what the Secret Service describes as an $8 million effort to scam a Federal Emergency Management Agency program. News outlets reported Tuesday that 30-year-old Tare Stanley Okirika is accused of registering unique pre-paid debit cards under stolen identities.
A federal probe into whether the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, improperly used his government car to commute from Washington to his home in North Carolina has been referred to prosecutors for possible criminal charges, according to a person familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: FEMA Administrator Brock Long listens as U.S. President Donald Trump holds an Oval Office meeting on preparations for hurricane Florence at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 11, 2018.
Joey Scott Stanfield Sr., left, Michael Denikos, top, and Angie Ramirez, bottom, remove plywood from the Marine Layers building on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 in downtown Charleston.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is delaying a test of a new national alert that was scheduled for this week due to the impact of Hurricane Florence on the East Coast. The test will now take place on Oct. 3 at 2:18 p.m. EDT.
Deeper flooding looms in the days ahead from rivers in the Carolinas swollen by Storm Florence, as the death toll following the storm rose to 23 people. The slow-moving storm, a hurricane when it hit the North Carolina coast, has dumped up to 91cm of rain on the state since Thursday, displacing thousands.
The test of the emergency alert system, scheduled to be sent by President Trump on September 20, has been delayed to October 3. The alert is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's system to warn the public in cases of emergency, such as dangerous weather, and missing children. It will be sent to the majority of cell phones in the US with the header "Presidential Alert" and the message, "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System.
As part of Chicago's National Preparedness Month activities, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications is reminding the residents about a critical test intended to ensure public safety officials have the methods and systems in place to deliver urgent alerts and warnings to the public in times of an emergency or disaster. On the afternoon of Thursday, September 20, 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission , will conduct a nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert and Emergency Alert System .
Officials in the US plan to airlift food and water to a city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes threatened by swollen rivers. The spreading disaster claimed additional lives Sunday, with at least 17 people confirmed dead, and the nation's top emergency official said other states were in the path this week.
Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long questioned the relevance of studies on the number of hurricane deaths in Puerto Rico, which President Donald Trump criticized earlier this week. Appearing on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday, Long told host Chuck Todd the findings from several academic studies regarding the death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria were "all over the place" after Trump disputed the storm had resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths.
The Trump administration's disaster relief chief said Sunday that "the numbers are all over the place" from studies on the death toll in Puerto Rico from last year's Hurricane Maria, keeping the issue in focus after President Donald Trump questioned the widely accepted count. "There's just too much blame going around," said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Brock Long, and "we need to be focused on what is Puerto Rico going to look like tomorrow."
President Donald Trump's assertion that the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria was "an incredible, unsung success" fell flat in Puerto Rico, where islanders are still struggling to recover from the devastating storm a year later. "I was indignant," said Gloria Rosado, a 62-year-old college professor who watched the president's news conference on TV late Tuesday from San Juan and was still fuming the next day.
The head of the government's disaster relief agency says he has no intention of stepping aside, especially during Florence, despite being under investigation by a federal watchdog. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long says, "I'm here to serve my country every day.
While several different Puerto Rican death studies' numbers are "all over the place" and "it's hard to tell what's accurate and what's not," FEMA Administrator Brock Long said the island's dilapidated infrastructure was to blame, not the hurricane emergency response or President Donald Trump, as Democratic island leaders claim. "There's a lot of issues with numbers being all over the place," Long told "Fox News Sunday."
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