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By 3:00 this afternoon when high flight returned, there were three cruise ships in port unloading passenger and tankers were on their way as well. i believe two tankers arrived in tampa today. one in port canaveral and one in the queue for tomorrow. there may be as many as seven today. >> i understand the coast guard has also been involved in rescue operations in the state. what can you tell us about those and how many people the coast guard rescued? >> that's a great question. the safety of those are really our top priority. we're very fortunate with hurricane irma people really paid attentio...

You wrote, we all wanted to believe there were survivors. it's funny, the power of human denial, because we saw that spark in the sky. you only had a couple of hours to write that speech. >> we had to scramble. i was very lucky that a woman who had been with the president came in and gave me notes of what he had just said in his office. and that became the spine of the speech, but that was a really challenging day. >> and as you sat down to write it, you know, needing to come up with something creative, something powerful and soothing for the country to be delivered by the commander of chief f...

Noonan. you worked on this with him. >> i worked on it with him. you would have to tell the american people the search has been called off. we know we have lost all of them. >> you can see the final line. >> as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and slipped the bonds of earth to touch the face of god. >> david, the poem that the president quoted by john gill p gillespie mcghee, jr., called "high flight" i thought if the president uses it it will be because he knows the poem and loves it. he called me and said, how did you know i knew that poem? it turned out to have been very i...

Left-hand corner. noonan. you worked on this with him. >> i worked on it with him. you would have to tell the american people the search has been called off. we know we have lost all of them. >> you can see the final line. >> as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and slipped the bonds of earth to touch the face of god. >> david, the poem that the president quoted by john gill p gillespie mcghee, jr., called "high flight" i thought if the president uses it it will be because he knows the poem and loves it. he called me and said, how did you know i knew that poem? it turned out t...