stephan for disaster operations is also a critical function requires that financed planning. while we focus on the use of local volunteers and when possible we also have a cadre of people trained and available to leave their communities to go to disasters. that number is now 90,000 which is a substantial increase from 23,000 we had available for hurricane katrina. these disaster workers are trained for specific jobs and we are now in the process of evaluating the availability for disasters over the next several months. since hurricane katrina is a result of several after action imports including one from the senate committee on homeland security and government affairs the red cross is focus more resources on coordination with federal, state and local government with support from fema we currently about four times read cross representatives in ten of the fema regional offices and we also have two additional staff working at fema headquarters. i've also asked the staff members to work with a national disaster housing task force. during the last few we've been working with gover