the flood waters that demonstrates that they were prepared but seems that people cannot be prepared enough when you have flood waters like the ones we've been showing on our screens. it's hard to watch. >> emily: how do you prepare for something so absolutely catastrophic like this? i remember -- not to make it about myself but a year after hurricane katrina, i volunteered a week in mississippi. we were delivering meals. three meals a day to the residents there that were still without homes, without food, without the ability to get that on their own. so i see this level of catastrophic damage, the scale of damage here across so many states. my heart breaks for these families and these people. because it's going to take so long. doesn't matter how many federal funds are being allocated. it's all procedural. it takes time. what do these family dos in the interim? my prayers and thoughts out to every within. you mentioned the governor of