of course that should include women, as well, but it is never more true for the following reason for all of us. we have a satellite photo to show you published by the war zone website showing container ships in a grid pattern in the pacific ocean waiting to be unloaded at the port of long beach, just one photo and one port in the country and the one picture telling the story of the global supply chain right about now. we get the story from nbc's tom costello off the coast of california. >> reporter: on the water with los angeles port police as the backup affecting the busiest port in the u.s. comes into view. from the air a stunning 76 ships headed for the ports of l.a. or long beach now sit idle, extending 40 miles out into the ocean. everywhere you look there's a ship just sitting out here on the water. just one clog in a supply chain that extends across the ocean to asia, leaving some u.s. store