place and we are afraid the trees will fall on our emergency personnel and kill them. we have to assess it before we can get out there. i can tell you, they are coming in and the calls are coming in, and for those folks that heeded the advice of the emergency operators, that's what we wanted them to do, but those that rode the storm out we knew we would have these kinds of situations, but we will get out there as soon as we can, and these men and women are dedicated to saving peoples' lives and that's what we are going to do. >> mayor saffo i understand you receive add call from the president of the united states last night, and what can you tell us about that? >> he was very gracious. he let us know that they were there for us, and they have been monitoring the situation on a daily basis and he just wanted to assure me he would be there