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Cnn's polo sandoval and nadia romero are watching all the developments. we're hearing that dozens of hospitals in new york are now stopping nonessential surgeries. >> reporter: yeah, schools and also hospitals and health care, it seems that that is dominating the conversation. and now new york state, the latest to announce that they are asking, at least ordering about 40 health care facilities in the city of new york, to temporarily suspend some of those nonessential surgeries. basically what they're doing is hopefully making some room, bed space to ensure that they do have enough capacity to ...

And this hurricane are our top priorities. >> all right. mayor of baton rouge, louisiana, best of luck as you ride out both of these continuing storms. we'll be keeping an eye on things and wish you the very best. louisiana's surge in the covid-19 cases that, certainly is going to complicate the hurricane response. hospitals are bracing for duel public health emergencies and joining me now is dr. mark klein. dr. klein, talk about your biggest concerns not only with your patient occupancy filling up due to covid-19 but the fact that ida may bring more people who need medical assistance. >> we...