over the weekend he was in camp david, and was participating in daily teleconferences, phone calls as well, according to his aides. but also yesterday, you know, he sent mike pence to fema to get a briefing on the status of the storm. he was receiving updates through his chief of staff john kelly. so in some ways, that's pretty typical of this president. he tends to get his information through his aides. he likes to be briefed in that way. and it seems that very much so that he's been keeping track of it in that way. it remains to be seen what the empathy factor is going to be here. that's -- i think he understands the magnitude of the storm, the depth of the, the destruction, the gravity of the rescue efforts under way. what we are hoping to see today or what we might see today is where the president is in terms of what jeff was talking about. the hugs, the handshakes, the