of course. and i think everybody here recognizes there's a lot of work to be done in puerto rico, but with your leadership sir and everybody here, we're committed to achieve thag in the long run. >> in the last 50 days though to put this in the context for america, from the virgin islands to california, we've been working in 20 different states, disasters in 20 different states. in the last 50 days under the president's administration, we've registered close to 4 million americans for individual stance. that's more than katrina, rita, wilma and sandy combined. it's been a tremendous effort. >> mr. president, is this bigger than anything we've seen and yet i think our response was better than anyone has ever seen. again, we were given an a plus by the man who did this. did what you were doing for the clinton administration. and while i don't know him, i would like to thank him for what he said.