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right. and may i say that my former colleague in congress, karen bass, who is now the mayor of los angeles and i are working extremely closely, hand in hand through this emergency. we have in los angeles county the homeless initiative department and they are literally going out tent by tent, encampment by encampment, having face-to-face outreach. our sheriff s department is using bull horns. they have a helicopter flying over the l.a. river to try and alert those who are in tents and encampments that they should leave, they should evacuate. we are making shelter rooms available to anybody that needs separate accommodations. but, again, i think people come here because we have such great weather. we don t really have weather-related crises. so this is new for everybody and it s about convincing people ....