yes, because the association, the member organization we re a part of is called america s blood center, and they re actually located up there in the northeast, and they have a system, a disaster relief system where they call upon certain blood centers. if we call up to them and say, hey, we need more of this type of product, they can call around and find out who has it and call upon those centers if they have access to it. linda, thank you very much. once again, linda goelzer of the carter blood center. we appreciate you joining us. we have a live press conference to get to. patrick senjin, a sergeant from waco, texas. they have a command post set up. they have hazmat people on scene. they are working with some of the local meteorologists here. as you know, we ve had pretty significant strong south winds throughout the night. at some point, we re hearing at 7:00 or so in the morning, our winds are going to switch to the north and are going to continue
additional agencies in and around the area. i will tell you, we have seen involvement, not only from mclennan county, which is where we are. but we re seeing surrounding agencies from additional counties in and around mclennan county, that are here, as well, helping. there s been a huge outpouring of that. there s a law enforcement command post set up. an incident command post set up. they have hazmat people on scene. they are working with some of the local meteorologists here. we ve had strong south winds throughout the night. at some point we re hearing about 7:00 or so in the morning, our winds are going to switch to the north and will continue to be as strong. we re looking at a whole other area that may be affected, once those winds shift. we are still in the process of trying to get people out and get them to help. and also, those that have not been injured, but are affected