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What we're counting on. i'll turn it over to the general on the first question. whatever the costs will be are bigger than the airlift. i can tell you that we don't have an estimate right now. our focus and the focus of the entire interagency is to get as many people out as fast as we can and as safely as we can. we're not letting costs drive the factor here. costs drive the operation. the operation is driving the operation and the need to do this in a very urgent and orderly way. i'll turn it over to the general if he has any more data for you in terms of the cost from his perspective. >> yea...

General, on your first question. but whatever the costs are going to be, laura, are bigger than just the airlift. and i can tell you that we don't have an estimate right now. our focus and the focus of the entire inneragency is to get as many people out as fast as we can and as safely as we can. and we're not letting cost drive the factor here. cost drive the operation. the operation is driving the operation and the need to do this in a very urgent and orderly way. but i'll turn it over to the general. if he has any more data for you in terms of the cost from his perspective. >> yeah, i couldn...

Monitoring food costs because the profit margins so small. >> somewhere between 86,000 and $110,000 in sales which is a fair amount considering the average ticket price is about $9 so, you know, doing that is a lot of turn over. the first difficulty with tracking costs is suppliers don't always give notice. the second obstacle is the paper trail. the receipts listing changes comes in on scraps of paper left behind by the delivery man. no digital records at all. >> you get the paper every day from vendors but there's so much paper that it's sort of becomes pointless. because it you couldn't rea...