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Hurricane andrew hardening the facilities to make sure we have generator power, all the medical supplies, food, everything we need. we can be self-sustaining for a good, solid week, probably two weeks if necessary, before help arrives. we are in good shape. the staff is planning to be here for the duration. we have our teams coming in to relieve them. we drill all yearlong for incidents like this. the governor is right, this is a monster storm, unlike anything we have seen since andrew, but the degree you can be prepared for it, i think we are in good shape. >> thank you for joining us and for...

Operations on tuesday. all city employees are due back at their post on tuesday. >> [inaudible] >> municipal court took in some water, water was taken in in the garage area for the annex and city hall, the electrical circuit. that was impacted so we don't -- we were on generator power from the annex to pumping out water it now. we expect to be back in operation by the end of the weekend, monday at the latest, people are going to be working through the weekend and that is why i am saying on tuesday we should be fully operational.

A hospital. and wasn't functioning as a hospital. so you know they have to find -- they have to make place for patients wherever they can. they're performing operations in rooms that aren't sipically used for operations. and right now i'm in a tent city outside where so many people are living. thousands of people all around me here living not necessarily because their homes are destroyed but because they're worried that they could be still with these tremors that are ongoing. >> going back to that little girl that you performed surgery on. did you have the right surgical tools to be able to do...

I think there's an infrastructure issue, wolf. you know the hospital we were at did have generator power but much is gasoline. they're being judicious about the use of the gasoline and trying to, you know today doing the operation they did not want to use power tools, for example which might zap energy more rudimentary tools for the operation, so an infrastructure issue. what i would say wolf you've covered these stories for many years as well is that right now there's a need. i would remind people a few weeks from now, few months from now, there will still be a need. so, you know just don't f...

See a different kind of action or reaction. now you have the transponders going down and akars system going down and this turn for no reason. if the pilot because they had an explosive depression, they have already programmed the track to go through kuala lumpur to beijing so the airplane would have continued to fly towards beijing. it would not have been programmed to make a left turn and come back. >> if you had an electrical failure, there's a backup, where you could still get generator power to run critical instruments. >> absolutely but you have to come down to a lower altitude. it powers...