and none of them breached, and even the levee systems paid for with state and local funding in la foucheld have been different storm altogether if the levee systems failed. having said that, the damage is catastrophic, but it is primarily wind-driven, and we know that there were some areas that received tremendous rainfall as well, but we will be dealing with the damage for quite a while. you mentioned the power outage, and this is trit cal for us. it is a million homes and businesses that are out, and my best guess is that you are getting closer to 2 million people without electricity right now, and of course, we are trying to prioritize the restoration so that our hospitals come back up first, because while they are all on generator power, generators typically, you know, fail after some period of time, and so we want to get them back up first, and in the meantime, we have the corps of engineers on the ground identifying additional generators to bring to the hospital locations so that should we have a failure before power is restored, we will switch them over, and work extremely hard on

on the trumpet, jon lampley, louis fouchÉ. on the congas, negah santos. on the drums, joe saylor.stephen: now folks, as i mentioned in the monologue earlier, standing right over there. joe biden is currently on his first overseas trip as president. which is good news for diplomacy, bad news for me. because i had hoped to have him as my first guest for our return to the ed sullivan theater. i'm sorry, you're stuck with jon stewart. ( laughter ) but-- i've just been told that joe biden has made time to be with us live via satellite. joining me now, from brussels, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: mr. president-- mr. president-- >> oh, there you are. yeah, yeah, there you are. ( cheers and applause ) thanks. thanks. yeah, thank you for being here. >> stephen: mr. president, thank you for being here. >> thank you for being here. thank you for being there-- because here's the deal, nobody's better than you, and i know we can do better than that, no joke! >> stephen: well, i appreciate that, sir. >> i appreciate you, merv. ( la