let me give you another idea, americorps and vista. there are seven applications from high school graduates for every spot. for less than $1 billion we could create 60,000 jobs for high school kids, that's the demographic that needs jobs the most, by just filling up those slots, and by the way, our americorps and vista kids do great things in our neighborhoods. we have in fha and fannie mae and freddie mac, we have 300,000 foreclosured homes that belong to those three federal agencies, sitting there waiting for someone to buy them. it's not going to happen in this market. fix them up, spend money fixing them up, it will put a lot of construction workers to work and rent them to families and use the rental income to offset the cost of the money to fix them up. you know that part of the most successful part of the stimulus was, of course, cash for clunkers, but there was also a great rebate for buying energy efficiency appliances and weatherizing your homes, that was sold out. let's put it back into place right now, october 1st, it will

americorps with other non-profit organizations. we are anticipating it to be a huge geographical area with lots of people impacted. from the time perspective, this could take weeks, maybe months to be able to respond to. let me give you a few quick numbers. we have well over 200 emergency response vehicles that we are sending to the east coast. these are vehicles that can drive around through neighborhoods, give out meals, relief items. buckets and mops and pales, et cetera. we are spending 60,000 ready-to-eat meals to areas. we are working with the southern kitchen es to prepare a lot of meals. we hope to serve up to 1 million meals a day, if necessary. our local chapters have thousands of volunteers already on the ground. we are deploying -- we have already deployed 1,000 volunteer specialists, a number of whom were part of the spring storms. we can get up to 60,000 volunteers in the area additionally. we have opened up shelters in north carolina and opened up a few shelters in long island. we have 15,000 potential shelter sites

., hope worldwide, americorps and a whole host of other faith-based organizations and nonprofit organizations. we are anticipating that, as i said, it will be a huge geographical area with lots of people impacted, and from a time perspective, this could take weeks, maybe even months to be able to respond to. let me give you a few quick numbers. we have over 200 emergency response vehicles that we're sending to the east coast. these are vehicles that can drive around through neighborhoods, give out meals, relief items, things like buckets, mops, pails, et cetera. we are sending 60,000 ready-to-eat meals into richmond and another 60,000 up to massachusetts. we're working with the southern baptists and they bring in big kitchens so they can prepare a lot of meals and we think we can serve 250,000 meals a day, initially, and we can actually gin that up to a million meals a day if necessary. our local chapters have thousands of volunteers already on the ground and we have already deployed a thousand of highly skilled volunteer specialists, a number of whom were part of our response during the spri

naacp, the ngo's like hope worldwide and americorps. we are anticipating that it will be a huge geographical area with lots of people impacted. from a time perspective, this could take weeks and maybe even months to be able to respond to. we have over 200 emergency response vehicles that we're sending to the east coast. these can drive through neighborhoods and give out meals, relief items, things like buckets, pails, mops. we're sending 60,000 ready-to- eat meals into richmond. we're working with the southern baptists. they bring in big kitchens so that they can prepare a lot of meals. we can serve 250,000 mills today and we can increase that to one million if necessary. we of deployed 1000 of highly skilled volunteer specialists, a number of whom have been a part of our response during the spring storms. over 60,000 additional volunteers in the area if need be. we've opened up shelters in north carolina and a few shelters on long island. we have 15,000 potential shelter sites. if any of your viewers need to know where those shelters a