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This but there's even concern about folks at home who may not have considered coming to a hospital who need power for things like a cpap or oxygen machine, dialysis, refrigerating insulin. you're also trying to work for the community to give them access whether it's power or refrigeration. how is that rolling out? >> yeah. so for us at the hospital, we have 60,000 gallons of fuel stored. that's three days of use. we refuel on an every two-day basis so we stay ahead of that. initially when this came, the power outage came on saturday, we really act quickly to make rounds in our hospital and the...

Generator. i know you told my colleagues yesterday you could essentially operate indefinitely on that backup generator power. so based on that, what is your biggest concern? what are your biggest needs this morning? >> our biggest concerns and needs are really around communication. you recognize the internet is out and it really is kind of the mainstay of communication. so that's been a challenge for us, communication, cell phone, et cetera. so we practice for these as health care providers across the country and first health of the carolinas is prepared always to manage these situations, whet...

Devices. and the hillcrest rec center which can hold up to 250 people has overnight stays and then also helps people with power, charging their devices as well. so i do -- i think the longer this goes on, the more challenging it is to certainly stay in your home without power, so we are really focused on the public health and the safety needs of our community. people come here for a bit of respite to get food, et cetera. we're a city in and of ourselves, so we're meeting all those needs. >> in the fbi bulletin, hopefully you could hear the reporting from my colleague whitney wild there. but th...

Does that make a difference? >> i think it makes a difference for walker to some extent. as john was just showing on that map of those three counties, governor kemp had coat tails on the regular election day. governor kemp is not on the ballot now and so walker is going to have to make up some of that difference where you had republican voters coming out to vote for kemp who may or may not come out now just to support walker against warnock. >> kevin riley, david swerdlick, thanks so much. cnn's special live coverage of the georgia runoff starts later today at 4:00 eastern time right here on...

Good tuesday morning. i'm erica hill. >> and i'm jim sciutto. it is election day in georgia. right now polls are open across the state as the republican senate candidate herschel walker looks to unseat the democratic senator, raphael warnock, in a runoff. ahead we'll take you outside one polling site in atlanta. plus, more than 36,000 customers remain without power in moore county, north carolina, this morning. as officials are still searching for the person who damaged moore county's power infrastructure. we have new details on the fbi's warning in the week leading up to the attack. plus ...