the tv resting on it. everything is destroyed that these people had. now they are left to deal with that destruction and that was one woman that the president had spoken with. then later on we went to queens where of course we saw a lot of devastation with flooding there. we were in an alli between two rows of homes. a lot of homes in new york have basement units where it's the basement that a family used or an entirely separate unit that families live in. they were telling the president about their experiences last week, anderson. several of those people in those basement units, those low lying dwellings were trapped in their homes and died because they could not get to safety. it was just this larger piece of seeing the devastation up close of a storm that had started out in the bayou, made its way to the boroughs. you're seeing the devastation that these people have to live with and how much wreckage there is to their own homes and what they have to do now going forward to pick up the pieces. >> this is something presidents