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So far they are releasing little information saying only the attack happened saturday night and a gate at one of the substations was removed. power went down at 7 p.m. the same time a drag show was set to take place in the area. police say so far they have found no evidence connecting the two. >> no motivation. nobody's -- no group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept that they are the twhauns have done it. >> reporter: this is what homeland security has warned about. the department of homeland security updated the national threat assessment bulletin november 30th sounding the alarm about t...

Found no evidence connecting the two. >> no motivation. no group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept it. >> reporter: the attack is the type of incident homeland security officials have warned about as early at last week. they updated their bulletin november 30th sounding the alarm about attacks on critical infrastructure. the outages have left the community here scrambling, leaving 40,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing hospitals to run off backup generators. officials are saying power isn't likely to be fully restored until thursday. >> we don't have any heat because we do...

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But finding survivors and helping them as job number one. >> that is the individual piece of, it you also, of course, alluded to this institutional piece of, it when it comes to hospitals. you said there had been successful evacuations. i wonder if you can give us a sense of what they look like. but then the other challenges that the hospitals are up against in these moments? >> yeah. first of all, you remember years ago we had problems with katrina, where the generators, the backup generators, were located in the basement, and the generators were put out of order and that was a big problem --...

Recovery room. but then we weren't expecting that it would flood on the fourth floor. and that of course made it difficult because now we had water on the first floor but we also had water coming down from the fourth floor. and that was -- >> what a day. thank god. so, i mean -- you said the 160 beds, you weren't able to evacuate any of them out yet. obviously that's something you would like to do. you say they're all still in the hospital. >> we're all still in the hospital, which is why of course doctors are staying and the nurses are staying, which is fantastic. we've had to put three and f...