ayman. >> we're looking at those live pictures of the president shaking hands with what appears to be some residents there. he's flanked as well by our new york city mayor, bill de blasio, as well as he continues touring that area in east elmhurst. mike, let's cross over to you and pose to you the question that the president is going to receive as we heard from that woman earlier from new jersey. the white house is asking congress to pass additional funds to help address the aftermath of the damage from hurricane ida. what more can you tell us about what this white house is trying to do to get money into the hands or additional resources, whatever they may be, into the hands of those affected by this? >> reporter: what's interesting about the nature of these storms now is when hurricane ida as a category 4 storm was bearing down on the gulf coast, the white house was able to issue sort of preemptive emergency declarations to try to put some resources down in the area to be ready to deal with the aftermath