dr. robert , and i want to begin with dr. robert bullarde house we visited just after he had evacuated and come back. he is a distinguished professor at texas southern university and on the steering committee of the coalition for environment, equity, and resilience. "invisiblenclude houston: the black experience in boom and bust." welcome back to the show, dr. bullard. what is the state of the communities and how disparate has the response been in cleanup? dr. bullard: houston is a big city and it has very diverse communities and there were extreme inequality when it comes to environmental protection and land-use and problems related to land and air quality. exacerbated and made those inequalities and and beties come alive more apparent in terms of the larger community. what we have seen is that many communities are bouncing back, have come back, and those resources are able to get back quicker. it should be no surprise or it's not rocket science to understand that disasters exacerbate inequality. those communities that struggle before the