take it as seriously as they should have because this always has been a rain event predominantly and will have 15-20 inches of rain across most of southern louisiana for about 24 hours, that rain will fall in about 24 hours. we need people to take every precaution to be patient, listen to their local elected officials, and we are doing everything we can to posture ourselves with national guard, state police, with buses, shelters today so that we will be ready for that. i'm very thankful that president trump yesterday signed off on the declaration request that i made so that federal assistance is available to us and able to coordinate with federal agencies and get movement sooner to what otherwise would be the case of the central equipment and personnel for life saving activities here in louisiana and also to protect property. >> martha: everybody obviously