Brianna Sacks
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So the Texas floods occurred on the July 4th weekend, and Richardson, I learned, was out of town.
He was on vacation with his sons, and there's nothing wrong with being on vacation with your family on a holiday weekend.
The issue was that people within his agency could not get a hold of him as this disaster was unfolding.
Officials within FEMA who were in contact with some of the Texas emergency management officials told me that they were requesting imagery and that they needed some resources that they did not get for 48 hours.
And in a disaster, we know that they need to be moving immediately.
She is very adamant that the agency needs a significant reshaping.
So we're waiting to see what that looks like.
There was a review council that was commissioned a bit ago by Trump and Nome is overseeing it.
And they're supposed to deliver a report pretty soon with recommendations about what FEMA should look like.