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Us now. >> are you guys prepared? how have you been preparing for something like this? we know you can just evacuate a hospital? >> exactly. this hospital facilities has been designed and hardened against these types of threats so the physical infrastructure is solid. we are hardened against the hurricane-force winds. we have plenty of water on tap, potable water and gray water. we have generators. and we did a planned switch over to generator power, which is more resilient for us. we have over 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel available. it keeps us powered. i think the variable here has been th...

Louisiana respects. talk about what you have done to try to combat in anticipation of ida, the amount of flood water you would have to be dealing with? >> first of all, it is not lost on us that today is the anniversary of hurricane katrina, a storm that changed this area forever. but i think it is very important for everybody in this region to know that we are much better protected than we were during katrina. the levees are strong e they are higher. there is much greater protection today than there was 16 years ago. the army corps of engineers has spent $14.6 billion improving our flood defe...

Thank you for joining us. this hurricane just made land fall. o what are the conditions like where you are? >> we started to see power outages over the last hour. one of our nursing homes lost power but has generator power. starting to hear the reports of what we anticipate will continue to increase overnight and most importantly, what we anticipate will get people to go outside. and that's our biggest worry is we really need to keep people safe over the next 24 hours until we can assess storm damage. when you start the see powerages, already, we know people are turning on generators and going...

Of exacerbating transmission of covid. it's not going to help at all and we'll have to deal with it on the back end of this. >> what steps are you taking, dr. kanter, to make sure the hospitals in louisiana have power, have staff, have supplies in the aftermath of this catastrophic storm? >> hospitals down here have been significantly hardened since hurricane katrina and the 16 years since. all of them have active generators. many of them are switched the generator power so they can do so under controlled environment. they all have a core medical staff that is staying put in-house and they're ...

Power around us. i don't know if a transformer has blown or something but everything got dark around us right now. it does seem the power has come out. we're in a nearby hotel that has generator power and that is not working either. we're now seeing power outages in downtown louisiana which we've heard reports of from local media around places where there are more trees. the trees have been taking the power lines. we're downtown literally 50 feet from a power station and the lights have gone off here. >> i want to take us to some new video that we're getting from golden meadow. you see that th...