pete daly traveled to port commission with willie adams. there was a record attendance of 12,500 participants and the portmanaged, manned i guess is a better word, an exhibit for the couple of days during the conference. metro ports which is our steve adore company, had a boost and we hosted a cocktail reception for our key suppliers. our customers, if you will. and we also joined by not only commissioner adams as a member of the iowu international secretary treasurer, but also by mike vigilante who is in the back rooting for the giants there. and also james plato who came from the local [speaker not understood], a new approach that we took, it was extraordinarily well received, and together the port and iow delegation met with many of our customers and one on one came home with some good results. and, so, if i can, i'd like to defer over to commissioner adams to see if there is anything he'd like to highlight or share your perspective on. >> thank you. first of all, our going to houston is very historical. by the fact in the past only the

ben stein, charles payne, gerri willis along with adam lashinsky, and saying give them 15 billion more. >> 14 billion more, but not to fema, it's the wrong place to put it. it's a mess and owes 18 billion dollars from hurricane katrina. i mean, this is an agency that cannot manage itself. the inspector general wrote a long report last year saying the agency is mismanaged, it doesn't have systems in place that can talk to states. they can't talk to each other, they don't have the right computers in place and let me tell you, they are maning more disasters all the time. president obama has called more disasters than any other president in the last 20 years. fema is not the organization. give it to the local states, they're the people who can make these decisions and spend the money wisely. >> neil: i don't dismiss the role of a federal presence disasters like these, but when bottled water can't arrive to a site and folks supposed to weather the storm close, at antithesis of what you're supposed to adopt and send e-mails to people who don't have powers and texts to phone to people who don

willis was just telling us the story about walmart. now that the president's been reelected, how are they dealing with it? adam this story for us. >> reporter: and there's a lot of concern that there could be layoffs because of the costs of the health care act or that there could not be people being hired because of it. i want to read you a quote from mercer, a company that is a consultant on health care benefits to companies. and one of their analysts, a guy by the name of matthew stevenson, the principal work force analytics in the sector, he said, and he's quote: rather than lay people off, they -- companies -- will look for ways to move people from full time to part time. why does he think this could happen? take a look from a survey they did of mooe than 1200 employers nationwide. retail and hospitality employees, people who work in industries dependent upon part-time employees are going to take the hardest hit according to mercer. 32 percent of the respondents actually said they're looking at ways to cut hours of employees and use fewer employees who will work less than 30 hours. there's a 30-hour thresh