personal are helping with the government response to irma, including many members of the coast guard. joining me now for more perspective on that, captain jeffrey januassen, a commander the coast guard s key west sector. commander, can you hear me? yeah, good morning, kate. how are you? i m very well. thank you so much for jumping on. you ve been in the air quite often surveying the damage over the keys. how bad is it? what are you seeing? first of all, i wanted to let you know that the coast guard parties, first and foremost, are life-saving search and rescue and martime law enforcement. i was on a navy h-670 helicopter yesterday surveying the port. i can tell you literally probably hundreds of sunken vessels around key west. as captain of port, i need to ensure that the waterway is safe for both commercial and recreational vessels before i hope it. the port is closed at this time. but once i get the survey done, that s basically where you come in, i can see above on the flight,