a bad situation for the city. there's really nothing she could have done. it's just one of those horrible casualties of a terrible storm. >> 49,000 calls they got to 911 on that monday. they were terribly busy. the streets were a mess. now, the sanitation department, in terms of the cleanup afterwards, in the ensuing days are blaming these on budget cuts. 400 people who should have been on the job that weren't. mayor bloomberg denies that he cut anyone from the sanitation department. >> well, i mean -- let's listen. >> we take our emergency life saving responsibilities very seriously. and i'm extremely dissatisfied with the way our emergency response systems performed, as i announced yesterday, we're going to take a look at everything we did to see if it can be done better. starting with the communications and dispatching system. can we do a better jobby we're going to try to find out. could our ambulances have taken different routes? we're looking at that.