through you we can. and then my text question i neo you have water spilling over. what about the people that live downstream? >> we don't know on this particular incident. i do know that the local officials in saint mar's county are working with the department of natural resources and the maryland department of the environment which is the state agency charged with dam safety and working to make sure that the people downstream are aware of what is going on. >> i appreciate that because this is breaking right now on the associated press and now reuters wires. i underand it that saint mary's county has just over 105,000 people according to the latest u.s. census figures. ed mcdonough with the emergency management agency there. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> millions hunkered down as hurricane irene marchs up the