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Unprecedented step to direct the Department Of Defense to use military Health Care Personnel to operate all covid facilities. At the Javits Center in new york, at the Convention Center in new orleans, and at the Convention Center in dallas. And we informed each of the governors of those states today at their requests we were making those military medical personnel available to operate in all covid facility. But we would emphasize to people in that community who believe youve been impacted or have contracted the coronavirus, contact your local Health Care Provider. We anticipate in the new york...

Imposed some forms of export restrictions in their country against the rest of the world. and what we're learning from that is that no matter how many treatyious have -- >> i want to pull out for a second good, to our white house correspondent kristen welker. i want to go to dr. megan rainey that you have gotten to know during these broadcasts for a little bit of a reality check about the situation with the ppe and the supply chain. first to you, kristen welker. you know, before the day began, if you had asked me who is playing point on the supply chain issues, i thought the answer was fema an...

Advice, telling people to download the app while they still have phone service and power and that app will help people understand what their local risk is so that they can react accordingly. >> and president trump making this rare trip to camp david this weekend ahead of the storm, canceling his overseas trip. what is on his agenda? >> we do know that the president will be going to camp david to monitor this hurricane and he will be holding meetings. we've brought up this point again that the head of fema, which is this critical agency during massive storms like this, the head is -- this indiv...

For hurricane dorian? >> well, fred, you know all eyes are going to be on this acting fema director and how he leads the agency through all of this, peter gainer. he took over, as you know, after brock long resigned in february. but federal officials, they say that they are bracing for this big storm and it will warrant a big response and it will have a multi-billion price tag. fema is saying if this truly does hit florida as a category four, it's going to be into the billions of dollars. as far as damage goes, they say they expect damage both along the coast, as well as inland, and fema is sa...

Officials atop the department of homeland security and deputy secretary of homeland security post and in the position of acting administrator overseeing fema. what do we know about those officials? >> so peter gainer is currently the administrator at fema. that's probably a name most of your viewers ever heard of before. he replaced brock long last year. this will be his first hurricane season. by all accounts he's one of those longtime government emergency response managers who has done this before and who is, by all accounts, someone who is seen as quite competent in this role. that said, he...