is still using today joining us now on our first cnbc interview, union pacific chairman and ceo lance fritzay. i'm going to jump right into it here in terms of those record first quarter financial results, a lot of catastrophic and really difficult weather that impacted the railroad last quarter, like many other companies we have seen before. you said here in the results that the unified plan 2020, which is that longer term strategy, the implementation of precision scheduled railroading helped create a robust network allowing you to continue to normal operations. how did that happen? >> thank you for having me this morning. the way the unified plan 2020 helped us recover quickly is that essentially it removed work from the network, we're touching cars fewer times and that gave us more capacity in our terminals to handle a surge. and we did one other thing that i'm very, very proud of the team for thinking of and that is the hardest part of the network is our manifest part of the network, switching cars and terminals and building trains versus our bulk products which tend to be unit trains f