we had bob massey on the show earlier this morning to wrap ous heads around the insurance d questions and calling fema to try to get assistance. there are so many pieces to this story, griff, as you know being there. so many of the people that i'm sure you've talked to didn't have insurance, are now having to rely on calling fema to get some sort of a small loan which will have to be paid back of course. it's a short-term loan but there's other huge problems which is that where are young going to find contractors to actually rebuild these homes? they were already a shortage before the storm even hit. they were already they didn't have enough contractors to even stand up to the demand for housing that was growing in that area as it was.e. there's no place for these contractors to sleep. where are they going to come from? is the federal government going to bust in contractors from some government agency to help rebuild homes? >> reporter: that's right if ire can just add to that do you not know when it will come from just yet. we're far. we're still in some places in a rescue and evacua

we had bob massey on the show earlier this morning to wrap our heads around the insurance questions and to didn't have insurance, are now having to rely on calling fema to get some sort of a small loan which will have to be paid back of course. it's a short-term loan but there's other huge problems which is that where are you going to find contractors to actually rebuild these homes? they were already a shortage before the storm even hit. they were already they didn't have enough contractors to even stand up to the demand for housing that was growing in that area as it was. there's no place for these contractors to sleep. where are they going to come from? is the federal government going to bust in contractors from some government agency to help rebuild homes? >> reporter: that's right if i can just add to that do you not know when it will come from just yet. we're far. we're still in some places in a rescue and evacuation mode not a recovery mode and these people in this neighborhood have no mailboxes. look at that mailbox. you can't come get your mail. you have to file a claim and fil