to these military members and their families. i m not a pilot, but i am a vet rap along with chief arthur and many horse in the room, and i would imagine that for a pilot this is the day that you dread, that you hope never comes, and so for them and their families who have experienced that that worst day, we just want them to know and their families to know that our thoughts and prayers are with them, and for all of our service members, this is going to have an impact on our local community because we are a military community. so we just want to know that we as first responders, we as the city of lake worth are standing with you and supporting you through this. speaking to the schools and hospital question that you had, we are, this crash location ask a block away from a middle school, but i ve been in contact with the school staff, and we do not expect school operations to be affected tomorrow.
is, but literally tens and tens of thousands of people drive through it every day. i drive that stretch of road every single day that i am home. it is right in the heart of the congressional district. as a matter of fact, chris, this is a little bit of the there but for the grace of god story. almost every monday i and my wife paula get up in the middle of the night, she takes me to the airport, drops me off, goes home. this is almost exactly the time she would have been at exactly that point. but as it turns out, on a rare departure from my usual practice, i actually came back to washington d.c. yesterday so she was not there. lots of other people were. lots of people may be on their way down to portland to get to grandma and grandpa for christmas, lots of people going to work for state government. lots of people are going to be traumatized by this for a long time. the hospital question, chris, we have two outstanding hospitals