dealing with harvey? >> excellent communication. you know, the president expedited governor abbott's major disaster declaration within hours yesterday. the bottom line is, is that i've communicated with the president directly less than two hours ago. we've been speaking every day and constant communication between us and the white house and our partners within the department of homeland security and the national response framework. so we've come a long way since katrina. we're leaning forward, ready to support. >> with regard to the military, are you working part and parcel with the military? has national guard within activated in any regard? >> absolutely. so the national guard is under the governor's control. we cannot actually backfill the national guard with federal d.o.d. defense forces and they are here with us in the room behind me as well as on the ground at the regional operations center that we have in region six in texas. >> i know you've got a lot of