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The same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, water treatment plants and pumping stations. we have a plan that will short ly bring power to at least the central medical center, which is our largest public facility for medical services and where the federal government and the federal health aid is going to be operating from. at least that center should have power within the next three days. so -- >> those hospitals, do they have -- i assume they have generators now? >> the...

Conductors down. and we still have no communications with two of our power plants. so its devastating. >> i mention in some areas, theres still flooding, even beginning to work on that is going to be difficult. how long do you foresee taking to get power restored. >> well, you know, were working on priorities first and foremost. the same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, water treatment plants and pumping stations. we have a plan will shortly bring power to at least th...

Clean water. how are they going to work? >> thats our task. and congressman velasquez has taken a leadership role as well as the city counsel speaker here in new york city in making sure we take emergency help immediately to puerto rico. that means emergency generators, tphop perishable goods. all the items that are usually important right after the storm. it is important we take the items that are needed right now, not two weeks from now but right now. >> lets talk about how congress is going t...

And into peoples houses it is clear, they are on their own. the government told them you have to hold out for 72 hours. they are trying to do that. living out on the streets, cooking on the street, washing on the streets, waiting and hoping that help comes soon. back to you, neil. >> neil: incredible. brock long, the fema director, fema headquarters. you said it would be a long ordeal and the worse would the come after the fact. this is proving it. what is the latest you can tell us? >> well, i ...

Upon for supervision by their management staff and by their ownership. state regulations sure. i think this begs the question as to what regulations are in place in terms of power outages at these types of facilities. are they required by state law to have emergency generators kicked in? this opportunity like you said at the top of your comments begs the question of how are we preparing these types of fas for multiday power out ands in the heat of summer. >> do we know for sure, mr. mayor, that ...

Yesterday. one at texas a&m. its standard operating proceed your to have a compound to kn neutralize it. >> i cant comment on that. i dont know the process you are talking about. [ inaudible question ] >> described as extraordinary measures. >> okay. understand. so, on friday we, before the storm hit, we started taking measures to shut down our plant. the plant was safely shut down. we put in place multiple layers of protection to try to provide refrigeration for the materials that need to be ke...

Standard operating procedure at facilities like this to neutralize a chemical. why did arkema not have the chemical? >> i cant comment on that. i dont know the chemistry youre describing. pardon? [ inaudible question ] >> yes, we do. >> please describe the extraordinary measures. [ inaudible ] >> understand. so on friday, before the storm hit we started taking measures to shut down our plant. it was safely shut down and we put in place multiple layers of protection to try to provide refrigeratio...

Absolutely. so obviously our primary way of protection with our power supply, when the storm hits, we offered primary power, we brought in emergency generators to provide backup power to provide refrigeration for those products, as the floodwaters rose, those generators were compromised, and we lost the use of those generators because of the floodwaters. we actually had a third system in place, which was liquid nitrogen, we have a liquid nitrogen system on-site to provide refrigeration to these ...

Commodities. we have a tremendous amount of supplies in the state and the state is pilling our resources already to be able to put those out. its occurring all over the state of texas. through our partners at the army corps of engineers, were working to restore power. were providing emergency generators for critical infrastructures to support things such as 911 centers or other critical infrastructure within the state of texas. finally, were also providing emergency communications. were trying t...

Resources to get those out. its occurring all over the sit of texas. through our partners at the army corps of engineers we are working to restore power. so we are providing emergency generators for critical infrastructure to support things scruch as 911 centers or other critical infrastructure within the state of texas. finally, were also providing emergency communications. were trying to help the state reroute 911 centers but also making sure that we are interoperable between the federal state...