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Babies in the nicu are waiting to be evacuated. elizabeth, you went on the water as it was being tested. what, exactly, are they looking for? >> we tested for a variety of agents. first of all, we were looking for bacteria, lots of different kinds, especially fecal. we were looking for chemicals, things like run off from gas stations or dry cleaners or any industrial source and heavy metals, things like arsenic, lead, they have been in floodwaters before, for example, katrina. >> doctor, we talked to some people that have been able to get back to their homes. the first thing that seems to be d...

Commander of joint task force katrina. thank you very much. the biggest need that you see today? >> the biggest need, i think, is going to be search and rescue mission in beaumont and establish a control system there. the search and rescue operation. hopefully they have taken that and using the grid system and having the helicopters work grids because right now, they are literally going out and looking for people as the control in the town and the about to talk to the ground is limited. so, they are really going out looking for people, flagging them down for help. >> general, you called the se...

I want to pose this. we have 47 confirmed deaths. that number will go up. it will still never come close to katrina, 1800. sandy was about 70 deaths in the united states proper. so, the death count here versus just the scope of the devastation and the images here, relatively low. one death is too many, but still lower than it could have been. what went right? >> let me put my comments in context. in a disaster, governments don't have control of what is going on, they are responding. my irritation with that is to see politicians patting each other on the back while we are in a search and rescue...

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Talk about, to give your expertise in this. how should the marines be used? and do you think they should have been put into action sooner? >> whether the national guard or active troops says last friday night that we need to scale up the response and the numbers as of last friday/saturday morning we have 3,000 national guard mobilized out of a total force of 9,000. as well as what we learned from katrina was you're probably going to need a ship to come in behind the storm and we ended up deploying 20 ships in the hospital ships near katrina as well as 240 helicopters. we just wept over 100 hel...