sim latly s similarly situated. disaster has to be a federal responsibility working with our local leaders from the state to the cities and counties. i hope you agree with that. >> absolutely, yes ma'am. >> in the course of that, and i read your statement, and noted as the chairman made mention of the changing map, the fact that you have a map that so much rain fell that we had to update the color charts. and i remember looking at those charts in a command center and that's the one that you have, and in fact, we couldn't discern the boundaries of harris county or houston or anywhere else. there was some places where we were simply an ocean. i think people had to be there to understand the catastrophic nature of it. i raise this point as we are beginning to work, i kbguess on second half, which is long-term recovery. what i would like to have is the input of the governor on hoping working with the chairman and ranking member. we all have ideas but mine is written as we speak over the years of experience. that is fema in the immediate rescue. i want to put it in that term. rushing in, dealing with the immediate rescue,