WASHINGTON - In recent days, Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been pushing for faster FEMA assistance to St. Louis tornado-struck areas, along with legislation to hold AI companies accountable for chatbots.

On Tuesday, Hawley sent a latter to FEMA acting director David Richardson over reported delays in the distribution of federal aid following the May 16 St. Louis tornado. He requested specifics such on the monetary assistance, services and recovery efforts, giving FEMA a deadline of Oct. 6 to respond.

"They really need to get on with this. This is just dragging on forever," said Hawley in a one-on-one interview with FOX 2 on Wednesday. "FEMA is just consistently a problem I have to say, We've seen this when we've had flooding in Missouri. We've seen it with other tornadoes. we're see

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