situation, but too flexible. what we will do now is assess or go in with the states and assess the damage to individuals, to businesses, to public infrastructure like highway 12 in north carolina, damage to crops and see what the amount of uninsured loss, because remember that the federal government does not kcover insured loss, but ony uninsured loss. and up in north carolina for example, we will move those as quickly as possible. well, the reason we are asking you that madam secretary, is because fema has had to divert funds to be used for the reconstruction of joplin, missouri, and that is raising the question of where the money will come from regardless of the ultimate figure has to be with regard to the construction work. yes, the premise of the question is inaccurate. we are not diverting any funds
devastation, destruction and indeed death occurred that time around. i think that the analyses after the fact showed that, yeah, the slowness in response, and that is not just katrina, but in any disaster slow innocence response c slowness in response can lead to more damage and loss of life, and that is why you have to be leaning forward as the president said, and be prepared and work so har with the cities and the towns and the states training and exercising to make sure they have the equipment they need. because they have the lead on these things. we come in behind them, but they are on the front line. indeed. with some of the damage estimates leaning upwards to $40 billion, where is the money coming to pay for this? where is it coming from? well, i would caution against putting a firm number right now on any damage estimates. this is too fluid of a