know, folks who have become stranded and they re offering assistance and any kind of help that they can. i think that is typical of what georgians do to help people who find themselves in difficult situations. now, the agency that is have been working together, cooperatively, with the mayor s office and with the city of atlanta personnel are numerous. i want to call on several of them to come and briefly tell you what they have been doing and the success that they have had up to this point. and first of all let me start with the department of transportation commissioner keith golden. if you would come up and give us an overview of what your folks have been doing. thank you, governor, and just an update from what we ve been doing since last evening. we continued to work on our roadways. this is a statewide effort for the department of transportation. we had crews working throughout the entire state. late last evening as things started to break in the southern regions we were able to s