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The same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, water treatment plants and pumping stations. we have a plan that will short ly bring power to at least the central medical center, which is our largest public facility for medical services and where the federal government and the federal health aid is going to be operating from. at least that center should have power within the next three days. so -- >> those hospitals, do they have -- i assume they have generators now? >> they do have generators, but those are emergency generators, they need to be stopped frequently for oil...

Conductors down. and we still have no communications with two of our power plants. so it's devastating. >> i mention in some areas, there's still flooding, even beginning to work on that is going to be difficult. how long do you foresee taking to get power restored. >> well, you know, we're working on priorities first and foremost. the same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, water treatment plants and pumping stations. we have a plan will shortly bring power to at least the central medical center, which is our largest public facility for medical services and where the...

Get these temporary pumping stations working. the pumping station upstream was completely under water. it's got to be above water. it has motors in it. it shorted out. a secondary source, additional pumping stations off a well not far from here. they got flooded as well. that's how this all happened, jim and they've got the best engineers in the world trying to fix this. >> brian, i remember during katrina, i lived on a boat a couple of weeks. getting a shower is not easy when in an area like that after that kind of devastation. i can understand why that woman there you were just talking to wo...

And as people are wading through their neighborhoods, one of the biggest concerns right now is contamination and disease. keep in mind in beaumont, the water system, that's still gone. floods have disabled pumping stations, and now a hospital has had to transfer its patients and shut down. and on top of all of this, there is irma, a category two hurricane, turning across the open atlantic toward, well, no one really knows as of yet. let's start this hour with nick valencia. flood victims are just beginning to pick up their lives and take those next first steps forward. a lot of these familie...

Water after the city's pumping stations went down. crews are working to restore water service to beaumont residents as right now it's not clear when that might happen. let's go to nbc's blake mccoy, who is in port arthur, texas, where the water is finally starting to recede. blake, what's the latest where you are? >> yeah. you set up the big picture quite nicely. it's been a dramatic improvement over the last 24 hours. this is one of the last remaining neighborhoods that is underwater. we've seen authorities, as you mentioned, go door to door, at one point opening up a door, plowing it in and ...