Disasters don't discriminate but relief efforts do
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Harvey and Irma: two major disasters, one right after the other. We look at where the suffering is worst while federal relief money will be running out almost as soon as it's been spent.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.5 | Disasters don't discriminate. Relief efforts do. |
| 0:15.7 | Hello again, I'm Aranalne, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:18.4 | Congress is spending many billions of dollars to clean up after Harvey and Irma. |
| 0:22.7 | Survivors will be lucky if the money lasts more than a month. That's according to a former head of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
| 0:30.7 | Today, we'll survey the damage in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Florida. We'll find out what federal and local officials can learn from Cuba. |
| 0:39.2 | And we'll hear |
| 0:39.6 | how Houston |
| 0:40.3 | exemplifies the |
| 0:41.5 | disproportionate impacts |
| 0:43.0 | of natural disasters |
| 0:44.1 | on poor |
| 0:45.1 | and minority |
| 0:46.1 | neighborhoods. |
| 0:47.4 | Later on today's |
| 0:48.2 | talking point, |
| 0:48.8 | the existential |
| 0:49.7 | threat of big tech |
| 0:50.7 | in part two |
| 0:51.9 | of my conversation |
| 0:53.1 | with Franklin 4. First, here's the news. |
| 1:00.8 | Check out KCRW's all news channel, News 24, programming from KCRW, NPRW, NPRW, NPR, the BBC, and more, 24 hours a day. |
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