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>> to that point, two of five gas stations are out of gas and hope to be refueled or replenished, some dicey math stands to work against consumers. national preparedness administrator with us, as far as what you see going on, how do you think it is going? >> it is going very well, category 4 hurricane, we have teams from south florida to the carolinas. what we see from the public, hearing words from local elected officials, the efforts they made to get supplies, it is heartening, and no one should blink. any fluctuation in this forecast would make a huge difference. keep it up especially now, ...

Sandy barely registered as a hurricane and obviously did a lot more damage. what do you tell people now to look for? >> well, here is my biggest concern at this. i hope that it keeps on an eastward track and most models indicate that and hurricanes do what it wants to do. if it stays on the eastern track ap denigrates into a tropical storm or depression, georgia, carolinas, washington d.c. and that means buckets and buckets, boatloads of rain which means flash flooding and flash flooding can be as dangerous or more dangerous than hurricane winds. so this hurricane, you know, may -- it may drop...

If it goes to new orleans we have this problem, biloxi, pensaco pensacola miami-dade. mother nature is going to do what mother nature wants to do and we have to be prepared along the arc. what happened, we just came out of 2004, successfully dealing with hurricanes in florida. everybody thought, no big deal, we can handle this, but i'm screaming, no, we have the serious problems along the coastline. so i think what katrina taught everybody was, there's a cone of uncertainty, we might as well look for the worst and hope for the best. i think that's the lesson people learned. >> we've learned th...

America. >> you hear the president question that number of how many are dead. you hear the president say we did a great job, people say we did great in puerto rico, it's amazing what we did. how do you take that? >> i only take that as one thing. i think any leader, especially the president of the united states, 51% of leadership is empathy. nobody's blaming you for the deaths personally, but if you're in charge you are in charge. you need to praise others when they do a good job, but you should be taking the responsibility when things don't go as planned. probably we saw the numbers in north ...

What we need to make sure is that we learned a lesson so this will never, ever happen again in america. >> you hear the president question that number of how many are dead. you hear the president say we did a great job, people say we did great in puerto rico, it's amazing what we did. how do you take that? >> i only take that as one thing. i think any leader, especially the president of the united states, 51% of leadership is empathy. nobody's blaming you for the deaths personally, but if you're in charge you are in charge. you need to praise others when they do a good job, but you should be t...