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Of having our team here. we have the ability to do that. what we don't have is space and health care workers because of covid. we have 619 people in-house today. we have 157 covid patients. that's unbelievable and still higher than we've ever seen in this pandemic before. so how do you handle that much icu care knowing you're going to take in more, and what we'll need to do is take in health care workers from the southeast part of the state with the patients which we're prepared to do. >> good luck. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for all the critically important life-saving work you ...

>> it's pretty bad. i don't know how much badder it's going to be. i haven't looked -- my cell phone is in and out of service. the tower is still up. i'm shocked about this. but i seen, like, a power line earlier today before it started. it was like sparked. and then the power is all out over here. i can't even see the buildings from the boat. and i'm up at the dock right now. >> have you ever experienced anything like this before? >> no. i live more or less around alita bend. we get them there, but this is the first time i've actually been in one. >> well, it looks pretty awful. be careful. a...

This direction. now, the concerns here is that the storm has made land fall. there are people within the path of the eye. just like homa, louisiana where i'm located. what you're going to see so you understand what you're going to encounter within the next 15 or 20 minutes depending on where you're located is clearing skies. you will likely see sunshine and get a break in the weather. birds may fly around, and then, just then, you will have to be aware that the conditions will change rapidly on the backside of the eye. any of the debris that you see flying behind me, the damage that's been cau...

Louisiana, we are looking at the potential for devastation. what form? power outages, storm surge. that will be the big one. we're looking at localized flooding. it would be devastating for weeks in fact, if not months. category three is when it's on shore. the water temperature here is very warm. some of the warmest we have seen all summer. with temperatures in the 80s and upper 80s. it will cause us to intensify, and grow to a category 4 before land fall on sunday. >> we will be watching. karen, thank you. our breaks ing news tonight, ne warnings for u.s. citizens to leave the kabul airport ...

Moving to the northwest at 15 miles per hour. again, it needs to get past cuba over the very warm open water, and that's when we really operate this storm to really begin to strengthen more. because of the operated land fall, this is where we have our hurricane watches in pink. the yellow indicating a tropical storm watch. again, you even got some of the hurricane warnings and even tropical storm warnings across the western portion of cuba. here's a look. once it gets back out into the gulf of mexico, again, that's where we anticipate seeing this strengthen, perhaps doing a rapid intensificati...