maurice bridges, perry calvin, jerry chapman, kenneth harris, jimmy matus, judith monroe, joseph krasinski, cyrus reed, mariano saldivar and kevin sanders, douglas zemeckis, robert synovus, and buck up their they are brave firefighters whose lives and families have been affected by this and the inability for all of us to be able to understand the nature of the threat before it presented itself. wow we know that this was not likely an act of terrorism, imagine if it had been. what kind of questioning would be going on today about the failure to connect the dots or the failure to perform. west texas as the backdrop for today's hearing and the mission is the reasons for the lack of awareness at this outline facilities. chemicals have been identified as high-risk and the department of homeland security and the environmental protection agency and the occupational safety and health administration. not only were they not registered with the program, they didn't even know that the plants were in existence. we must understand what the department is doing to correct the serious shortcoming. i was en