so when i became director of fema, i set up all fema 10 regions and then washington where they would collect all the information across the united states, and we would have it in his read file at 7:30 in the morning. well, we were at a cabinet meeting, and this is before he elevated me to cabinet level. we were in a cabinet meeting, and i was one of those staff people that set against the wall. and right at the end the cabinet meeting, he said, you know, why don't all of you send information in to james lee because he's sending me in a report every morning at 7730 and he'll collect it and send it in to me. after the meeting, i said, are you trying to get me killed? and he said, well, the reason did i that, now i know they'll send it. well, thank you. so we had a lot of fun, put we saw a lot of devastation during the eight years we responded to 360 federal disaster declarations, everything from earthquakes to wildfires to hurricanes and tornadoes and things that was just unbelievable when you saw them. the devastation and the pain and the anguish that people were going through, and it

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we have some assistance from fema, but in the end, there will be a gap. >> brown: several miles away, came across this amazing scene showing the impact of the flood on country and rock music. a warehouse of instruments and equipment, mold, rather than melodies, were in the air. a broken piano, a bin of damaged guitars, including some jintage les pauls. everything in various states of disrepair and some serious repair work ongoing. we watched murph blanka as he labored to bring a hammond d-3 organ back to life. and ed beeber doing the same for guitars and other string instruments. beeb ewaunka, and all these instruments used to be housed at sound check, an enormous facility just off the rirch that offered nashville musician a place to practice their music and store instruments. sound check owner ben jumper. >> it was really, really bad, and a lot of great musicians, famous and nonfamous, work ing, everyday musician, work out of here, and it was devastating, the instrument loss here. i've literally 1,000-plus guitars thrown in dumpsters--. >> brown: troen thrown in the dump sterz? >> th

when will fema get involved? guest: i don't know.e could see some action here with this 20 billion and how they're going to disburse it. i sure hope they don't do like they did in katrina and brought someone in to run the road home program and that was a mistake. so i hope they set this system uptor disbursele, existing distuitions inside the government, which is fema being one of them. small business administration being one, and existing banks. this is not rocket science. we ought not go out and try to create somethings that so complicated that it further fruss traits the people from the time they apply to the time they get checks. we have an unemployment system that passed checks out to our folks when they need them. i hope we go go out and create something new that eats up the money that tries to create something new. host: what do you see as fema's initial response to this and their overall responsibility in this situation? guest: well in this case i know they've been working in support to a limited degree, but they actually res

everybody from health and human service to labor to fema. they need to come and start moving into these parishes and these counties and create a central integrated place, a one stop center to take care of these people, because this is going to go on for years. but we need to do it before hurricane season. the idea of a hricane with a surge could really make a difference. host: general, we need to get this last call in from georgia on our line for republicans. steve, go ahead. caller: president obama or the admiral and giving them your ideas. and would you consider being theiaison for bp? guest: i will help in any way i can and right now i'm helping by trying to give some analysis by what i'm seeing and hearing on the ground as well a to give ideas. i'm not much about looking back and parsing blame. at this point i think people looking for solutions, and every good idea needs to be considered and enacted upon, and meet with the governors and give them what they need to protect e shoreline. but we need the military mobilized and get them to pr

fema recorded the the town was 100% destroyed. what i was not prepared for was the evidence that people were moving back to the area despite the fact that it had been cordoned off. people were in their front yards, living in tents, under tarps, going about their daily lives in spite of the this area has extraordinary rrsilience. i witnessed it personally. sadly that resilience is being tested again to the maaimum. today we will hear about the global impact of oil spills, impact's that are tremendous on the people in the parish and throughout the gulf coast. it is both helpful and important to listen to those most affected and also, mr. chairman with you i offer my condolences to natalie and courtly, will be speaking with us. they both lost husbands on the deep water horizon. i look forward your testimony. we would look to hear about tte impact of those who make a living as fishermen in the vienna, immediate hardship bbing brought to the people that rely on thhs industry. the federal government is looking to close large tracts in t

i do not know what fema has. i know they support the volunteer organizations, but i am not sure how much. >> please wait for the microphone. >> mr. witt, do you and the people you work with see that there seems to be any greater number of extreme weather events creating disasters, or does it just seemed normal? >> there is. look at what happened yesterday. 32 tornadoes in minnesota, was it? we are having more events and they are more devastating than we have seen in the past. and it would be interesting if one of the institute's would basically, through climate change or whatever, would track this and report this in a way that people have a better understanding of what is happening in what areas of the country, as well as around the world. the worldwatch institute puts at a book every year called the state of the world. there usually is a chapter in that book on what is happening. you look back from the eight years we were there and today. the events are much more frequent. usually, they are more devastating than

these lapses meant that fema was not able to write new policy rerks new expiring policies or increase coverage limits. this also means that each day, 1,400 home buyers who wanted to purchase homes located in floodplains are untable close on their homes. given the current crisis in the housinn market this instability in the flood insurance program is hampering the market's recovery and must be addressed. this bill will extend the current program through september 30, 2010, to address the immediate issue of individuals being able to close on their homes. . soon i will be able to support ms. waters in bringing comprehensive flood insurance reform to the floor. this bill passed out of the financial services committee on a simple voice vote in april. ms. waters' bill would restore stability to the program by re-authorizing it for five years and would address the impact of new flood maps by delaying the mandatory purchase requirement for five years and phasing in actuarial rates for another five years. ms. waters' bill also makes other imppovements to the program by phasing in actuarial rat

when will fema get involved? guest: i don't know.we could see some action here with this 20 billion and how they're going to disburse it. i sure hope they don't do like they did in katrina and brought someone in to run the road home program and that was a mistake. so i hope they set this system uptor disbursele, existing distuitions iide the government, which is fema being one of them. small business administration being one, and existing banks. this is not rocket science. we ought not go out and try to create somethings that so complicated that it further fruss traits the people from the time they apply to the time they get checks. we have a unemployment system that passed checks out to our folks when they need them. i hope we go go out and create something new that eats u the money that tries to eate something new. host: what do you see as fema's initial response to this and their overall responsibility in this situation? guest: well in this case i know theye been working in support to a limited degree, but they actually respond on

in reference to fema. i recall during katrina we kept hearing about fema. i have not heard anybody mentioned fema and what they are go

fema by the way is a federal agency that deals with the aftermath of the disaster. i know that fema is actively involved now, but would not have or so.nvolved in the first day host: baltimore, an independent caller. caller: i want to thank the senator for taking calls. this is a great format for average americans to speak to members of congress and other politicians. this oil spill -- and lived in maryland, but it affects me every day and i think about it all the time. my question, how much time do you think it will take, once the fix the spill to clean the gulf, and what you think will happen as far as the minerals management service? minerals management? -- where? guest: we talked about that a little earlier. i think it is quite clear there is some responsibility there with the minerals management -- years there with a lack of responsibility. frankly, if someone had known how to stop it, by no would have been done. all the best minds of the world of them brought to bear, yet the gusher continues. i think the issue will be with us for years. we will have to be cons

so we saw when an industry %% lacky's pointed to -- appointed tt head fema, we saw what happened with katrina. you did a good job, broonie, is what came of that. we see when the minerals management agency is littered with industry people, we see that a lot of this -- the approvals oo drilling and the lack of preparation for contingency plans for emergencies was nonexistent because our friends on the other side said, we don't need any government, we don't need any regulation of the oil industry, we don't need any regulation of -- we could just put anybody in the fema. and we saw what happened. but really the most significant event has been what happened on wall street. when we completely ignored deregulated wall street. we said, let business police themselves, ignoring decades an% decades and decades of history where we know when unchecked businesses get greedy. it is human nature to get greedy. it is human nature not to be connected to what happens three or four moves down the line with the decision that you're making today and so wall street was deregulated, warnings were ignored and

tracy waring from fema, we brought her over in and she is coordinating that force. we are delving into this week. >> you said when the second arrives, it will be able to contain about 20,000 barrels. >> produce about 20,000 barrels. >> when you look at the model, it will be expected to the 25,000. >> we still have not established what the flow rate is. >> it could end up being higher than 25,000? >> if that is the case, we will be dealing with the residual oil until we get a larger platform. >> increase the number -- >> the flow rate -- going through the larger flow rate and honing in of what we might have seen in terms of increased capacity after the ship comes. >> we are not trying to lowball or highball it. it is what it is. correct, it isn't as stated to be replaced by larger production in several weeks -- it is anticipated to be replaced by a large platform. either tony hayward or bob utley -- sometimes they are in different places. but i would say daily or multiplied during the day. >> have you brought up the claims issue? >> yes. >> what has been their respon

and, of course, fema, who coordinates with states to do response to events like hurricanes, is well prepared to deal with oil because that often happens during hurricanes, oil from fuel tanks, whatever, being spilled. >> ifill: obviously, we'll be watching for that next. jane lubchenco of noaa thank you very much. >> thanks, gwen. >> lehrer: the fall-out from longtime industries and many lifldhoods on the gulf coast is mounting. tonight, newshour correspondent spencer michael reports on how this is playing out in a small town on the louisiana coast. >> reporter: to get to point a la hache you have to cross the mississippi river on a ferryboat. the economy of this predominantly african american enclave depends on boats that harvest oysters from the coastal waters. because of fears that oil will soon hit the area , the government opened the season early , and these lucky fishermen came back with a huge load. most of the deck hands, like edwardo mendez, come from mexico. so these have just been caught. they're oysters, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: what about the oil? is there any oil in the oys

government -- the department of homeland security, hss, fema, etc. were all present and working around the clock. one of the things i think is not widely understood about the way economic assistance works is that for the most part we do not provide funds directly to a government. we will sign an agreement with a government that lays out a mechanism by which the funds are provided for a contract or a grant, or a cooperative agreement or whatever. normally, our agents -- the partners will work with could be the ngo , the private sector. they have accountability systems we approve in advance. we know, because it is our job to make sure, that they have the accountability systems in place to be able to well manage the money. so we more or less know where it all goes. if it was not that way, there would be no constituency for doing economic assistance. we simply our responsibility -- we simply are responsible for+ accounting for american taxpayer money. it is other people's money. we understand that and take that responsibility very seriously. what has bee

i never received much from fema. i did not know. the government's issues -- i could see it and you had sold a long period they are not living it. i invite anyone to spend a weekend rc. i have workers quitting because they cannot keep up because of the stress. we have people that are being hired on by bp or whoever working for bp, they are not getting paid. my husband has been working for four weeks now. he is not gotten a paycheck yet. our bills are piling up on our kitchen table. they want to see what it is like? let them come work in the kitchen. let them see what real life is about. ok, another cheeseburrer and a cheeseburger. bring it on. watch the latest

we are requesting that fema be proactive in identifying potential response issues, like preapproval for 100% cost for debris removal. few jurisdictions in our nation have experienced the level of disasters brought upon our state in the last five years. louisiana continues to recover from hurricanes katrina and rita and gustav and ike. governor jindal nor our parishes will not entirely entrust the care of louisiana, coast lines and matches and state and local governments will continue to be forward leaning and aggressive to protect the interests of our state and citizens. the bottom line is this. because of the resilience, fortitude and battle experiences of these people, pouisiana will recover from yet another catastrophic disaster. this is vital not only for our state and the gulf, but for our nation. the challenge is assuring that our parishes, louisiana and the other gulf coast states are full partners in identifying what works best and that plans that have been identified are flexible scaleable and responsible. and that bp is recentive and forward-leaning in doing everything that is

>> i ammdoing a story tonight that i wanted to debunk these fema camps.if you trust our government, it's fine. if you have any kind of audio] [no6 c16 c13 >> he said he hopes he fails. we hope that -- he said that a lot. i hope every progressiie across america today, i hope those comments sink in because the right wing does want our president to fail. anything is that theseus%- characters on the eetreme right will stop at nothing to destroy this administration, to destroy a progressive policy agenda from being enacted. this is what i call the total war concept of politics being waged by the right and we have to be aware of it and ready to fight back against it. we have a fantastic panel of experts to talk about what is going on. i would like to introduce a brooklyn based free-lance journalists who has written for an array of friend and non -- print and non-print publications. his new book is a fantastic one called "common sense -- glenn beck and the triumph of ignorance. it has just been released. he has a long history of incendiary comments from his radi

this week i talked to the fema administrator. we are informing each other of the respective operations.+ we do have fed depression that has been informed in the southeast and caribbean. how will we respond to a hurricane will be dictated by which production capacity we have on scene. by the end of next week, we would anticipate having preproduction out there on the well site. of the production capabilities, one of hem as part of the platform itself. there could be couplings for the vertical riser packages. we would need to disconnect and recovered to a safe harbor and return of around 10 days to accomplish that. you'd have to start doing that between three and seven days in advance of the hurricane. we are discussing that with bp and the folks that are down a unified command in new orleans for the -- new orleans. if we notice a hurricane coming, we would know between three and seven days in advance of that to redeploy the equipment. >> what kind of storm would becoming your way for you to do that? can you give us more specifics?

i never received very much from fema. and i don't know. the government ears are just like i could silt and chew heads all day long when they'll just look at me like i'm crazy, because they don't live it. they're not living it, and i invite any one of them to come spend a week in our shoes. i have workers that are quitting because they can't keep up right now because of the stress. we have people that are being hired on by whoever is working for b.p. or what have you, we're not getting paid. my husband has been working for over four weeks now, he has not gotten a paycheck yet. you know, our bills are piling up on our kitchen table. you know, they want to see what it's like, let them come see. let them work with me in this kitchen. let them see what real life's about. >> hamburger and a cheeseburger. bring it on. >> watch the latest briefings, congressional hearings and other videos like the one you just saw online at c-span.org. >> let me say to the american people, this is a change in personnel, but it is not a change in policy. general pe

these threats preclude federal agencies, including the b.i.a., fema, and h.u.d. from providing assistance due to the location within a flood-prone area. this clearly is an unacceptable situation for the tribe. in response, the hoh tribe has come up with its own plan on how to solve this problem. and i support it strongly. the tribe has purchased several parcels of land a short distance and upland from the current reservation that would be acceptable for housing, infrastructure, and other tribal projects. more importantly, this newly acquired land is away from the flood plain in the tsunami zone. the state of washington's department of natural resources also has given the tribe a parcel of land in the same area. to add to the newly acquired property, this legislation would transfer to the tribe a 37 acre parcel of land currently part of olympic national park. this small parcel would make all of these lands contiguous to the existing reservation. in addition, the main road for the tribe runs through this parcel currently owned by the national park service. the trib

it seems like to me fema is in charge of all of this. because the resslts are always delay, delay, delay, but let's punish deep water drilling. the federal judge's rules will be upheld, the federal government needs to get with the program, understand there's a sebs -- sense of urgency, find ouu what caused this problem, noo let it happen again, and clean up the mess and move on down the road. meanwhile follow a law, don't destroy the jocx in the gulf coast and the federal -- jobs in the gulf coast and the federal government needs to get out of the way and allow to us drill safely offshore and provide the energy needs of this country and also provide good working jobs for americans. otherwise these jobs will lead the country, go to brazil and indonesia and never return. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. poe: and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: ms. woolsey of california. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? >> unanimous consent to claim her time. the speaker

. >> some people say the fema people think there is a threat of lightning strikes. what does that tell you? >> we have to stop when we have enough lightning. the weather does not always allow us to operate in small boats safely. we have made floating hotels closer to the marshy area. we are always going to have to deal with weather. that is a huge factor in in-situ burning or mechanical skimming. sometimes the sea state will not allow it. we are in hurricane season. until the relief well is done and the well is capped, we are going to be at some risk of exposure to heavier whether, even not a hurricane, that could force us to stop certain operations. we are working with british petroleum on a series of alternatives that might make the operation more survivable in heavier weather, including bringing in larger platforms for the production of the oil that is brought up to the containment devices that could stay on station in longer and heavier weather. we need to face the possibility that a certain storm condition would force us to stop the containment recovery operati

after katrina did george bush jump right on that where he was out there making a speech about that and fema was already on the way -- i believe it was less than a week or a few days. i knew it was a lot shorter than 55 days. to just come out and say, whose ass i am going to get, i think that is appalling and i think we need to stop just listening to whatever person on tv says, point to this person, he is evil, point to that person. host: "the wall street journal" have a big article this morning you might be interested in specifically following up on anthony's comments on the+ government response. the headline -- slipped restart -- slippery start. hobbled by confusion and disagreements among federal, state, and local officials. we are going to go back to your calls on the $20 billion bp said aside funds for the gulf, but also happening in washington is the continuing house and senate conference committee on financial reform legislation. phil mattingly from bloomberg business week has been covering this. what of the big issues ahead of the negotiators today? guest: the big issues today are re

i never received very much from fema. i did not know. the government issues are like i could sit and chu had all day long and people will look alike i am crazy. they are not living it. i invite anyone to come spend the weekend in our shoes. i've got employees that cannot keep up right now because of the stress. we have people hired on by bp or whoever working for bp or what have you, we're not getting paid. my husband has been working for over four weeks now. he is not gotten a paycheck that. our bills are piling up on the kitchen table. they want to see what is like? let me -- let them come work with me in the kitchen. a cheeseburger and a cheeseburger. bring in on. for it -- bring it on. >> next, a searing helene on the oil spill's impact on the local economy defense secretary robert gates testifies on capitol hill about the defense budget. and later, members of the armed services -- senate armed services committee questioned david petreaus about afghanistan. on tomorrows "washington journal," a look at the war in afghanistan with cong

host: that is the first time i have heard fema mentioned during this oil spill. very interesting question. that's it for "the washington journal" today. book tv on the weekend, remember that, on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction books. lots of good stuff coming up. you can go to book tv.org to find out the schedule. and "washington journal" will be here 7:00 a.m. saturday and sunday. right now we will take you to a panel. this is on afghanistan. it is being held at george washington university. there homeland security policy institute. a member of afghan parliament and chairman of the afghan parliament economic committee will be speaking shortly. here is the start of this panel on afghanistan. . >> we have had ambassadors representing their countries in the united states to talk about the challenges their countries are facing domestically and regionally. we are delighted today and we have competition. the united states is playing slovenia and the world cup this morning right now. admittedly, if i were not here, i would be glued to the tv like my friends. there were

and i talked to the fema administrator. we are informing each other of our respective operations. of course, they're very good with hurricane preps this time of year and we have a low depression that's been formed in the southeast caribbean. how we respond to a hurricane will be dictated by which productton capacity we have on scene. as you know, this is evolving and will continue to evolve over the next two to three weeks. by the end of next week, let's say, we will anticipate having three production vessels out there over the well site. the discovery enterprise, the q-4,000 and the he licks of the production capabilities, one of those is fixed hard to the platform itself and that is the discovery enterprise. and the other is vertical riier packages. we would need in total to disconnect, recover to a saae harbor and return probably around 10 days to accomplish that. start doing that anywhere between three to seven days in advance of the hurricane. those procedures are being finalized right now. we are discussing that with b.p. and the folks at the unified command in new orleans.

. >> some people say the fema people think there is a threat of lightning strikes. what does that tell you? >> we have to stop when we have enough lightning. the weather does not always allow us to operate in small boats safely. we have made floating hotels closer to the marshy area. we are always going to have to deal with weather. that is a huge factor in in- situ burning or mechanical skimming. sometimes the sea state will not allow it. we are in hurricann season. until the relief well is done and the well is capped, we are going to be at some risk of exposure to heavier whether, even not a hurricane, that could force us to stop certain operations. we are working with british petroleum on a series of alternatives that might make the operation more survivable in heavier weather, including bringing in larger platforms for the production of the oil that is brought up to the containment devices that could stay on station in longer and heavier weather. we need to face the possibility that a certain storm condition would force us to stop the containment recovery operat

i never received a penny or very much from fema. i do not know. with the government issues, i could sit and to heads all day long, because they do not live it. i invite any one of them to spend a week in our shoes. i have workers that -- they are quitting because they cannot keep up because of the stress. we have people that are being hired by bp, or whoever is working for bp, and are not getting paid. my husband has been working for over four weeks and he has not been paid. they want to see what it is like? let them come work with me in this kitchen. >> a cheeseburger? bring it on. >> up next, a summit hearing looks into the oil spill's impact on the local economy. president obama meets with bp executives on the white house and an update on the government's response to the oil spilled from today's white house briefing. on tomorrow's "washington journal", a look at the war in afghanistan with congressman joe wilson. we will speak with congresswoman kathy castor about the gulf oil spill and david michaels on protecting the safety of those working i

an official is set up by fema that works directly with the national incident commander to ensure that this process is moving along as expeditiously as it needs to. we have got problems with as the admiral has said, major claims being paid and different things along the route. wehen we catch shrimp, we freeze them and their process. there processor may not be seeing a lessening in the output based on what they had, previous to this, obviously, a large portion of the gulf as close to commercial fishing, more sure of is not coming in. the back end of the process is ending. if you look at the business, the output would not necessarily look different. those are things we're asking bp to work through. >> the best example -- the president and i were meeting with local leaders and had lunch with them. a marina operator having 10% of the boats tied at the marina that it would normally have this time of year and the associated support for that. food and local businesses being used for meals and the kind of stuff. that is very complex. we have got to get to the bottom of this and make sure these

reason i brought that up is that, i want this say up front that we have a great partnership with dhs, fema, and the coast guard in planning for hurricanes. ww also what happened during katrina. part of the issue is that we are used to responding to stafford time disasters where the response is from the bottom up. as opposed to the top down, and that has been a frustration. also when you put plans together, we know that everything is not always been to go as planned. we need to be able to change plans at a moment's notice, and that is not what we are seeing with this disaster. that is why i brought that up about the stafford act. unemployment -- disaster unemployment insurance is something we were not able to activate in this disaster as well as crisis counseling. there is goinn to need to be a lot of that, as well as other assistance. our concern is that if the system could be more flexible, we would see a better result. what you have seen since 9/11, since katrina, we have seen emergency management in ball. this act goes back to 1990. there has never been a catastrophic oil spill like >>

has fema been called in or has this been called a disaster? guest: not that i have heard. but, again, it's a little bit outside of my expertise. so i can't give you a real good answer on that. host: do you have a followup question? caller: yes. i was just quite astonished on this other news program that that hasn't happened yet. host: well, there's certainly people down there who are suffering in terms of economic loss because of their businesses, not having customers or they're not being able to fish. you know, being suddenly unemployed and so forth. it turns out it's really hard to deal with those problems. i'll give you an example. in alaska, where you had fishermen who suddenly couldn't fish, the way fishing industry works is that the captain sells the fish and then he shares a share of his catch with the crew members. well, a lot of captains got paid as if they had been fishing that summer when they couldn't fish. but then they hadn't hired any crew members. so they had no one to share the crew member shares with. and all the those folks who normally would have worked

mayor of louisiana there -- new orleans and took him a couple of days before they got going and our fema didn't respond very well, federal response was a bit weak in terms of the magnitude of the disaster. and yet by comparison, what we're dealing with here in the gulf is it took 50 days for the president to call ahead of b.p. he had the power, if i'm not mistaken, he had the power to basically declare that a national emergency and get a team of people, fusion cell, get the top resources in america, pulled that together, process the different questions, sorted through the conflicting claims and started to put this thing together, put together a series of we're going to do this and this and this and that doesn't work, this is the backup plan. instead of 50 days, he calls the head of b.p. and just wants to reem the guy out. b.p. did a terrible job. but after the crisis started, it was the administration's problem to deal with, i didn't see fixing the problem. am i mistaken? i'm an outsider looking in. i'm up in missouri and we don't have too much coastline. mr. scalise: you and i have spok

i never received anything from fema. when it comes to the government, i could chew heads all day long. they are not living it. i invite any one of them to come spend a week in our shoes. i have workers who are quitting because they cannot keep up right now because of the stress. there are people being hired on by bp. we are not getting paid. my husband has been working for them for four weeks. he has not gonna pitch again. our bills are piling up. if they want to see what it is like, let them come work for this kitchen. let us see what real life is about -- let them see what real life is about. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> coming up, president obama speaks about the financial regulations bill. we will gettanalysss of the bill from a bloomberg news reporter. >> before heading to canada for the g-8 summit, president obama took a moment to speak about the financial regulations bill. negotiators worked through the night to craft a compromi

there's an official through fema that tworks with the national incident commander to insure this process is moving along as quickly as it needs to. we have got problems with as the admiral said major claims being paid and -- different -- different things along the route. a processor said, we -- we catch the shrimp and then freeze it. while the processor may not be seeing a lessoning in the output based on what they had caught previously, obviously because -- because a huge portion of the gulf is closed to commercial fishing, more shrimp is not come in. that back end of that process is ending, while if you just simi looked at the business, the sheer output would not necessarily look different. so those are things that we're asking b.p. to work through. it is something that the president -- >> the best example. the president and i met with local leaders and had lunch with them as a marine operator. having maybe 10% of the boats tied up than normal this time of year and all of the associated support for that. the food and local businesses being used for meals and that kind of stuff. that's