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GOVERNOR Arnold I. Palacios on Tuesday appointed Assistant Fire Chief Juan A. Pua as commissioner of the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services. The appointment requires Senate approval.
Wednesday or thursday morning and according to them, it may scoot along the coast and not hit landfall, but still we're expecting and to expect heavy rainfall, perhaps ten inches or more, and plus tropical storm ones, and we're preparing for that. >> tell us a little bit about the preparations that you're undergoing. >> yes, ma'am. first thing we're going to do is, we're putting our city under a state of emergency effective at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. that would be this morning, excuse me. and we have met with all of our resources in the city here today and yesterday, the fire chief, our em...
People back into their homes and businesses. first, he wants to bring out and engineer to see if the roads have been undermined. you have about 175 people here that have been displaced. craig, missouri, has a new problem. overnight, the swollen waters of the missouri river breached the levee. the flood water poured in over the berms. emergency crews worked people getting people to safety. the ems chief says he never saw anything like that. >> the water is extremely cold. you can get hypothermia real quick. i've been with the district since 93. we never had water like this here. >> particularly...
An ambulance is totally unacceptable. >> so, michael, have they been talked to? did you have a chance to talk to them? why didn't they just get out of the truck, out of the ambulance, go to him and carry him over that bridge? >> i haven't been able to talk to them at this point. they have been talked to by others, ems chief. we're reviewing all the 911 calls, all the radio transmissions and all the phone calls associated with this incident. it's taken us time because as you said this incident was over 30 hours and there's many things that we have to look at. once a thorough investigation is do...
Tracks there. >> reporter: that's right. we've since had others killed. metro workers, just a couple weeks ago. there were two killed as well as they were doing maintenance. so the entire d.c. subway/metro system has been under a microsco microscope. the ntsb has been involved here. and now we have another serious derailment. in the words of the ems chief, again, hoping we don't have any injuries or fatalities. >> all right. thank you very much, tom costello. we'll get our audience more information as soon as you get it and get it to us. thank you. today is a national day of mourning in hait...