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Storms, floods, and fires are ever more extreme.

And yet, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is fighting for its life.

I've never been a big fan of FEMA.

FEMA's a disaster.

FEMA's a dirty way.

People are waking up in droves to the FEMA camps.

Can the agency survive the stories that have been told about it?

And can we survive without FEMA?

American Emergency, the Movement to Kill FEMA, is a brand new series from WNYCs on the media.

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How much are higher gas prices affecting the economy?

From Marketplace, I'm Nancy Marshall Genser in Washington.

It's been an especially busy week for the economy. There was the

decision to keep interest trade steady from the Federal Reserve. We got the first reading on

economic growth for the U.S. economy at the beginning of this year, and the war in the Middle East

continues to rattle the oil market. For more, let's turn to Gus Foshachet. He's chief economist at the PNC Financial Services

Group. Good morning. Good morning, Nancy. So the straight of Hormuz is still essentially shut down.

And there are reports that President Trump is being briefed on the next round of possible military

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