night. but he's doing a little bit better today. >> brendan, i can tell from your voice that you are visibly shaken still by that traumatic experience. did you have a sense from the weather that this event that you are going to could have potentially been a high risk situation? do you believe that local officials should have made it known to the public or to those that were going that perhaps this event should have been been called off? >> from what i could tell, i didn't think that the weather was going to be that much of an issue. it all happened, you know, just like that. it started with a little bit of rain. about halfway into the first act. and it went into the second act and the rain picked up. and next thing you know the wind started blowing. >> one of the things that we've learned today is that this circus, the walker brothers, did not have a place of assembly permit that should have been issued to them. what are your thoughts on the