ban, are there things that can be done right now to help prevent the supply crisis from getting worse if, indeed, the new variant adds to the misery? congressman: well, there are, and a lot of those things are taking place. the president said this go 24/7 at western ports, la and long beach, they are not yet at 24/7. one to have port operators is operating close to that. we have also seen a 30% reduction in the backlog at those two ports, so it is beginning to thin out, but there s a whole series of just simple operational things that need to take place, take the containers off the chasses and that requires space so the cities of long beach are creating space so those containers can be taking off the chasses and chasses can be used. there s a simple operational