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Ed Case: “Flooding, estimated damage at about a billion plus and…”

Featuring: Ed Case, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 1st Congressional District

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@RepEdCase in Appropriations-Homeland Urging Full FEMA Funding for Disaster Relief

Published | Video Starts at 00:35

You guys did a really good job there and are still doing that job. We have obviously in Hawaii suffered some major disaster flooding in the last month with our Kona Lo storms. Flooding, estimated damage at about a billion plus and counting. Appreciate very much the approval of the emergency disaster declaration. Your FEMA people were on the ground during that disaster and immediately after that. (00:35–00:40)

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Asserts that the estimated damage from flooding in Hawaii is over a billion dollars.

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