>> i was in the pentagon in the fall of 2012 when superstorm sandy hit new york and secretary pin et ta and the entire military leadership sprung into action to deploy resources. because nobody can do logistics, nobody can deliver air drops of fuel and of supplies, nobody can conduct an amphibious landing lie the u.s. department of defense. we have the people, and the resources. i spoke to mitch landrieu, who was in washington talking about the lessons learned from katrina. if you get 48 hours or 72 hours behind a storm, it is very hard to catch up. you're basically looking at cascading problems, one on top of the other on top of the other. right now it appears the problem du jour is they don't have drivers, because they can't get to work because there's no gas in their tanks because the gas tanks have no electricity. but if the military is deployed, if they're deployed rapidly, i believe the humanitarian