joining us is the american red cross president and ceo gail mcgovern. good morning. >> good morning. >> great to have you. this has been an extraordinary year for the red cross. the last 12 months has seen catastrophic floods and wildfires and hurricanes. how does the red cross respond to all of the disasters? >> the way we respond is because of the generosity of the american public and time and time again they step up for us whether it is a financial donation or by volunteering. as really challenging year. we had to deploy 24,000 volunteers to respond to those major disasters. that you talked about. right in your state, we had volunteers from all 50 states helping out. it is really an extraordinary year. >> certainly it is. the aftermath of the hurricane, you don't just respond to big disasters, the ones that make news headlines. explain how the red cross helps local communities.>> we operate in just about every one of the counties in our country and every year we respond to 66,000 disasters of. that is one every eight minutes. most of them are single-