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Good to have you back with us today. do you agree at this point federal aid needs to be brought in for your city? and if so, what would that change? we do need help. we ve been asking for the governor in the state to pass along a request for help which they have been reluctant to do up until the last couple days to bring in nurse contingents because our hospitals are simply overwhelmed. they ve reached their breaking point. they have beyond their limit of capacity. yesterday in san antonio we had 26 minutes where the 7th largest city in the united states was without ems units to transport people. we ve seen record numbers of ems calls to transport to hospital for covid-19, and the situation is only getting dire, more dire. and the sad part about this is, erica, is that we have the tools to prevent this at the local level. it s been our governor who has prevented us from using those tools. ....