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Still every corner you turn to looks like this, they are making big progress cleaning up the roads, electric vehicles getting here to get electricity restored, everyone is still without electricity, people are still in their homes, 3 or 4 blocks, that have not been damaged, generator power or moved onto neighboring communities. we are at the point, a better sense of the death toll, governor bashir spoke about the death toll in kentucky. listen to his reaction? >> we are up to 74 kentuckians we lost. >> you can understand the

We are operating on generator power right now the best we can. >> trooper burgess, what is the best-case scenario right now? we know a lot of people lost their lives overnight. you are still involved in active rescues. what are you hoping to see today? >> of course, the hope is zero fatalities. that is not looking promising. we expect loss of life. as minimum as possible. we don't have a number. we can't begin to predict. >> you, like other emergency workers, you are not thinking about numbers right now in total numbers. you are thinking of saving the people calling and requiring the help you ...

Power a day. the difference has to be made up with generator power, private generator power, which costs around $100 a week. and most people simply can't afford them. so you go to the stores, these sort of luxury items, even basic items that were plentiful before simply aren't there. and i think that study was done recently that said that 70% of the population has difficulty to find the resources to buy an adequate amount of food. so the situation has dramatically declined and many of those who can, including the young and the well-educated the killed are trying to leave this country as quickl...

Year ago and still running off generator power. we have to do something different. recovery is going to be real hard. if you bear with me for a second. all of our first responders are survivors. the political people who work in the parish and state offices in the regions are survivors. meaning their homes are destroyed or they don't have power. to include the medical workers. we have two disasters at one time. covid and ida. ida didn't stop in louisiana, as you said, it went up the east coast. we have to rethink how we do recovery. >> let me ask you this. how many longer do people have to find...

Think more than 1000 employees, in louisiana and mississippi alone, supporting the hurricane aftermath there. i have to tell you though, as this week has gone on, looking at the conditions on the ground, it does not feel like enough, i am worried about how long hospitals in louisiana constand generator power. particularly given the fact there's no slack in this system, and it took a huge surge of very sick covid patients. how long can people live in the dark in the heat? i know there's no estimate, and a lot of places as to when the powers coming back on. what else can be done? >> we are prepa...