>> there has been massive building, but still in the rock a ways, breezy point, statton island, people are still struggling, and in these cold difficult. >> yeah, so many people struggling. thank you for giving us this look back. for more i'm joined be the senior vice president for drastic cycle services at the american red cross, he is responsible for developing and executing plans to help americans deal with disasters. richard thank you for joining us. let's talk -- we will talk about the specific responses to some of the big weather events, and look at the natural disasters in general. when it came to natural generals how did 2013 compare to 2012? >> they were not dissimilar in terms of the frequency and type of events. we did not see any major hurricanes make landfall. so that was a good thing. but we saw an above average wildfire season. a tornado season that started early and continued until even november of this year. we basically have seen about 146 major disasters that the red cross responded to across the country in 2013. so for us we also responded to over 52,000 times to si