rommel was born, the director of the emergency management addition could not be here today but he prepared a report about hurricane preparedness and i but like to submit that to the record. they are doing an exercise in south carolina, major exercise by ron is a great guy and i would like to put this in the record. >> without objection. >> one final thought as you talk about, you know when you go down to the coast of south carolina, way and is obviously very valuable, but when there are a lot of minority communities where do they go? the people have been their generation after generation after generation, and where do they go and what do they do from someone that may live in nebraska or the upper part of south carolina where the hurricanes are in such a factor i think we want to make sure our coastal residents can get help. people are not being irresponsible. they are not living in areas that are mudslides. there are so many people in the country that live along the coast and it is a rich tradition culturally and i want to hang onto it and make sure that we have that rational approach. mad

germany could not possibly prevail against -- but if rommel stopped them cold on the beaches -- this was an all-or-nothing operation. eisenhower, when he took command in january of 1944, said, "this operation is being planned as a success. there are no contingency plans." had they stopped him -- and they came very close to stopping him -- we would not have been able to mount another operation in 1944. this was hitler's great chance to win the war -- stop them in june of 1944 on the atlantic coast, then he can move 11 panzer divisions to the east. eleven panzer divisions might well have swung the balance on the eastern front, or they might have had another effect. they might have led stalin to conclude, "those blankety-blank capitalists. they're up to their old tricks. they're going to fight till the last red army soldier. to hell with that. i'm going to cut a deal with my friend adolph again, just like we did in 1939. we'll divide eastern europe between us." that wouldn't have lasted. sooner or later they would have clashed, but the democracies wouldn't have been in on it anymore. c-