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This is very, very true. one interesting thing that was mentioned yesterday in the -- the governor mentioned this was that the state, because of this terrible shortage and they -- they have just had their worst covid wave to date. the fourth wave was the worst. the numbers are still very high. and so, they had contracted additional medical staff to arrive but they couldn't arrive because they were supposed to come, you know, the day before the storm and -- and the governor said there weren't hotels for them. so this adds to the difficulty. it is a very, very real concern here. >> doctor, there...

They're starting to smoke. and then, what happens is they are not going to be able to have any ability to leave this city because there is not gas, there's not electricity. so they are in these hot houses, they're dehydrated from drinking. and then, they don't get enough water and then they end up in the hospital. and can't even go to the hospital. so -- >> well, it seems to me, a key issue here, sherry, is -- is the timeline for power restoration. i mean, the one time that i have been in -- in a serious storm's aftermath, which was hurricane irma in florida. it was just so apparent that, you ...

Area, which is about sort of southwest of new orleans. they have had to evacuate a number of them. one of them, a rather large hospital. and as you pointed out, covid is making this much more difficult. the governor stated ahead of the storm that hospitals would not be evacuating patients. often, they do ahead of a storm. for the most part this time, they did not because there were not hospitals that had the capacity to take them. today, i spoke with one hospital official in baton rouge who is preparing to take patients from terrebonne general's hospital in the houma area and he said he inform...

Ground transportation. mostly. and they are in safe areas right now. those patients were not critically-ill patients. but once again, it's still -- you know, it -- it's very disheartening when you have to do that. when you have to move a patient. >> yeah. >> that is on iv fluid. that is requiring dialysis. these -- this makes this all the -- all the much worse when it comes to looking at this in -- in a -- in a microcosm of why is this happening all the time? infrastructure must be built so that it's not like where you can have levees hold but you don't have electricity. or you can have electr...

Computer models take this as a likely hurricane around texas or new orleans, it's too early to pinpoint exactly what we're going to deal with but for yin along the gulf coast there's a potential sunday or monday next week, dealing with a serious storm. we'll watch that days ahead. >> can't wait to get through the storm season and the warm weather. thank you very much. the vice president's trip to vietnam was delayed after two diplomats reported health incidents. the latest incidents of haryana syndrome. we're back in just a moment. d't ride the wave? (judith) no - we actively manage client p...