washington, is senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the center for american progress, daniel weissning us today. and as someone who has studied events like these, what is your recommendation as we as a country and a political community and a policy-making class try to wrap their heads around this. what should we be doing that we aren't doing now? >> first of all and most important, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of oklahoma. who have suffered this unimaginable disaster. and it's good that president obama has directed all resources of the federal government to help them. these sorts of natural disasters are becoming more frequent, as one of your earlier guests talked about. we believe that there are things that we can do to help mitigate some of the damages. and fema has estimated that for every dollar we spend on making communities more resilient to natural disasters, we can reduce economic damages by $4. so in other words, we save $4 in lower damages for every $1 invested in community resilience. something that's not really happening right now. >> daniel, let's talk