emergency shelters. there s one at the san bruno recreation center at 251 city parkway. they have approximately 80 folk who have come there for shelter. and a second shelter has been set up at a senior center, a little over a hundred there. we have been working in concert with the red cross. they are terrific. and a number that you might want to air for folks is 650-259-1750. that s a phone number folks can call if they are trying to look for somebody or look for shelter as the red cross can help from there. mary, can you go ahead and repeat that number for us? a lot of people are still looking for relatives, maybe they haven t heard from them and want to make sure everything is okay. that s right. the red cross number can be helpful for them. it is area code 650-259-1750.
gras, for food and music and the music is the one that we have sent out around the world. but with the floods came fears that rich musical history could be swept away. perhaps the biggest symbol of the loss, new orleans preservation hall, dedicated to protect and honor new orleans jazz. it would go dark and silent for eight months. and it could have been longer than that. preservation hall was built in 1750. it is like sacred. you see, the damage katrina did to the building was only the beginning. the other problem was that some of the new orleans musicians who played there lost their instruments in the hurricane. i lost a concert grand. a 1955 b 34 hammond organ with two leslies. ricky monet has been playing piano regularly at preservation hall for 15 years. i needed a keyboard.
2.8 million jobs that were either saved or created. so folks the act is working. because the recovery act is working and is done all these things, there is a lot of folks, include something on capitol hill who are of the view somehow that it s over. it worked and must be finished. the point of my talking to you today is that although more people are going to be put to work this summer, the pace on the ball i talked about early on, the pace on the ball continues to increase, not decrease as the act rolls out in the final summer. last summer we had 1,000 these slides show we had 1,750 highway projects that were underway. shovel ready when the governors signing of the contracts and did it by the numbers, there were 1,750 projects underway.
responsibility. president obama has commanded over 5,000 vessels in the region to make sure they are involved in the cleanup. 26,000 federal employees involved in the cleanup down there, mobilized and authorized up to 17,50 members of the national guard and is on his way down to the gulf region for the fourth time. this is an unprecedented response to an unprecedented man-made disaster. doris, let s put this in a larger frame. something struck me looking at president obama s interviews overtime. in october 2006 he was on this program. he said something that any candidate can say because it becomes true when you re president. let s play that. most of the time it seems that the president has maybe 10% of his agenda set by himself and 90% of it set by circumstances. how is he doing with the 90%, doris? it s interesting just listening to what you were saying about how much he actually has mobilized there, 17
responsibility. president obama has commanded over 5,000 vessels in the region to make sure they are involved in the cleanup. 26,000 federal employees involved in the cleanup down there, mobilized and authorized up to 17,50 members of the national guard and is on his way down to the gulf region for the fourth time. this is an unprecedented response to an unprecedented man-made disaster. doris, let s put this in a larger frame. something struck me looking at president obama s interviews overtime. in october 2006 he was on this program. he said something that any candidate can say because it becomes true when you re president. let s play that. most of the time it seems that the president has maybe 10% of his agenda set by himself and 90% of it set by circumstances. how is he doing with the 90%, doris? it s interesting just listening to what you were saying about how much he actually has mobilized there, 17 sthou national guard, 20,000