joining us on the phone to explain more 1* major general gregory lusk who is with the national guard. i am looking on the computer and i can see that irene is now 60 miles off the coast of north carolina. what are you seeing in your state in. good morning. thanks. i haven't seen much from my position. i am located in raleigh, north carolina right now. we are experiencing some of the rain bands and occasional gusts, but unfortunately i'm not at the coast, so i can't say firsthand what is going on there. >> tell us about the resources you have lined up and ready to go to respond to this hurricane. reliability is the three key tenants. in our case the governor called us up and got us in position. we have had about almost 300 soldiers and airmen who have gotten into positions with various nodes at the enterprise over the last few days. primarily broken up into teams that are capable of doing specialty tasks. the warehouse operations for example are ones they can manage commodities for distribution into the impacted areas after the storm has lifted. distribution teams are capable of gettin