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We're here on bourbon street. it is very, very dark out here. the only reason you can see some light on this building behind me is because our photojournalist, jake, who is going to zoom in, is throwing a light on that house from an independent power source. there's some lights on in a taller building behind it, but that's because of generator power. the only buildings that have any kind of power in new orleans right now are running on generator power. that presents yet another possible danger here because according to louisiana state officials, last year when hurricane laura came through here...

For these people even though they've been used to going through this. >> bill: a couple of things. you are west of new orleans. i don't know if you were at the eye in your location. i don't know how easy for you to drive around the streets. behind you you aren't getting past that road for sometimes. sometimes they cut the power intentionally to preserve it for a later time. have you gotten word of that? >> yes, we've heard about some controlled power outages that happened before landfall and during landfall. specifically at some of the hospitals. those were planned outages so they could conver...

0 helicopter with the state police to get him on the island and as long as there is communication, we will communicate with him to see what is going on there, the but it is hard to have no word from the island and the people on it. in lafitte, the water is very high, and from the louisiana national guard and others are there doing the search and rescue. they are having to get the boats in and out, and we are sheltering the people at the park playground, and then the state is going to coordinate the pickup and move them out to alexandria is the plan. and our systems are down and we have no comm...

We'll need them to help take care of these patients. we don't have enough here to stretch beyond the patients that we have in-house. that's a different scenario. one we're planning for. how do we offer them a home when we know their homes are under great stress right now? >> yeah. i mean, it's really -- as i keep pointing out, katrina 16 years ago was horrible. more than 1800 people were killed as a result of katrina. but there was no covid at the time. now you've got an even more intense hurricane. that was a category 3. this is a category 4, almost a category 5. it's going to cause enormous ...

Ground-level to show you that had on chart of the intensity at this moment. we are not only worried about the incredible windspeed but what is in the wind like that projectiles even assign can be lethal on this type of wind. numerous power outages in gulfport and biloxi highway 90 is to my right it is flooded and closed in all directions. we have seen a few of the police officers and sheriff's deputies we have seen them mostly clear off the road. just as he was indicating on the new orleans side if someone were to call for help right now, there is a chance no one could respond the conditions a...