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Needs them. we've got coast guard from california, from the great lakes, and all the way to cape cod that are prestaged and ready to support life-saving, life sustaining missions as soon as the storm passes and it's safe to do so. >> and 24 00 fema personnel have been deployed. give us a a breakdown of what the workers are doing. if the number could go up. i suppose you have the capacity to ramp up even more depending on what the storm does. >> well, that's right. and you see the folks seated behind me in the national response coordination center. we're getting resource requests and making sur...

Magnitude, the first thing we can do is go to the hardest-hit communities. fortunately, we had ample warning from the national weather service. we knew the storm was coming through, so we had staff and resources prepositioned. we were on stand by. we had a heightened alert for the state emergency operation center leading into this storm. so we knew the possibility of this storm being severe was quite high, of course. nobody can predict just the sheer damage and destruction that we're all looking at today. >> what are your first priorities? i know craig fugate was ordered from fema, the preside...