and it s heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my passport, screaming to the people who were controlling the gate. i cannot leave this country since august 16. i tried everything to leave. i don t know what went wrong. and why i couldn t leave. but i just want to record this for my family and my friends so they know what s going on. i have young kids and i have women, i have guys who are been waiting for so long, since 2017, 2018. they have been waiting.
dr. gee, based on that problem, what do you understand to be the challenge ahead there? normally you have more time to evacuate. that s the other thing that we didn t have this time. the storm picked up speed very quickly. it got stronger very quickly, almost unprecedented because of the heat of the gulf. normally we have three or four days to get everyone out. we didn t have time. it wasn t people wanting to stay, many couldn t leave. didn t have time to get people out of hospitals, and they re full of covid patients on ventilators. we had hundreds of patients in may and june, we have thousands of patients in july and august in hospitals on ventilators, ventilators need electricity. ventilators are of course one of the biggest concerns now with the power out and hospitals requiring generators. there isn t anywhere for patients to go. normally we try to empty outpatients and staff, but there
given the music club has been known to stay open during storms. the general manager says, quote, we re not tempting fate this time. she joins me now on the phone. i have enjoyed your club many times. i am thrilled to be speaking with you. tell me about this decision. why do something out of the ordinary this time? well, thank you. i m happy to see you guys at the other end of this storm. i think for the most part, we have a lot of staff and musicians who are locals and normally they will stay. this time has gotten them wary. i think everyone is evacuating, except for maybe one or two that couldn t leave because of one reason or the other. for the most part, we have evacuated. you told the wall street journal, i feel some ptsd every year already and it is like the
agent thomas decided to show his cards and see what happened. we ve talked to colton. did colton know about you texting rachel? mm-hmm. did you tell him about it? yeah. this is an ongoing investigation, and it s up to you to be honest. there s obviously more to this rachel thing. she was under the impression that lisa was going to be packing her stuff up and leaving. when? last night, today. he said he d talked to rachel about him divorcing lisa as recently as the night before at work. she just asked if i was going to go through with it and i said, yeah. i mean, i shouldn t have lied, obviously. he admitted he liked rachel s attention but said he really was just stringing her along. we were having a baby. i wasn t going to leave her. i couldn t leave. lying to rachel was wrong, he said. but he claimed that lying earlier in the interview was a way to spare his grieving father-in-law, todd caldwell, the embarrassment. this is something i didn t want todd to fi
take on some of the storm surge but when you have sustained winds that strong they re anticipating a significant loss of power and we know firefighters themselves will be hunkering down for hours on end before even they feel it s safe to get out and try to help people who may be in need. i had a chance to speak to one gentleman who was trying to leave town, had family members that were working and couldn t leave, so he chose to stay behind. and here is what he had to say about ida s approach. take a listen. i m not feeling so good about this one. i ve been through gustav but this one is going to be bad. the winds and the floodwater, that s our concern. reporter: as the wind picks up here, this is nothing new for the folks who live in this community. you heard him mention gustav and that is a storm back in 2008.