Tulsi Gabbard: “FEMA Region 9 director [said] that in all of his decades of…”

“I saw the same thing on Kauai with the recent flooding and landslides and torrential rains that they have gone through and that they are still working to recover from. We heard From FEMA Region 9 director [said] that in all of his decades of service with FEMA going through disasters in places like Houston and all around the country, he has never in his entire career seen any community come together so quickly and so strongly as our communities do here in Hawaii. to help one another. And so for him, for those who are not from this place, who don't grow up here, it was a true lesson in the spirit of aloha.” (01:59–02:21)

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