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Department and our outpatient clinics. covid has been a big component of that over the past couple months. about 20% of the children that we see on an outpatient basis in louisiana today are covid positive. and then in addition, we will be seeing children who have been injured or who are ill in the aftermath of hurricane ida. you know, we literally saw no patients in our emergency department today because we were shut down. no one could come in or go out. but we'll see what happens in the ensuing days. i think it's important to remind people that there are a lot of hazards out there in the aft...

Not heard too much about search and rescue. as the hours are passing, the reports are that the winds here will start dying down at 8:00 a.m. they expect those are the sustained winds and the rain throughout the night. the best case scenario is by noonish tomorrow that you start to get to a point where things should really be in much better position. what we are going to do is to throughout our district from top to bottom and substantiate live tweeting and letting the neighborhood leaders know what we are seeing and finding. we are hearing about downed tree limbs, trees, roofs and as we look in...

That's washed out. in some areas it's completely closed, in others, completely impa impassable. that's why a curfew has been in effect. you saw throughout the day where this storm really shifted and it shifted very quickly. it would go through periods of light rain, light wind. sometimes you would see the sun break out and 20 minutes later wind bets really whipping up. gusts that bill said yesterday were getting up to 60 miles per hour. that's enough to do significant damage, enough to bring down tree limbs and power lines and again that threat of tornados. there are local reports of possible ...

That storm, of course, still threatening him. i believe we might have bill karins on standby. is bill with us? >> yes. you got me? >> hi, bill. talk us through what it is we're seeing, the ways in which this storm is moving. i know that you are doing the hard work of actually tracking the storm. so i'm going to pull you away from your monitor, move you over here where you can explain it to me and explain to the audience. >> a little break. i can get out and look at the data. and the big story that's going on right now is that the storm stopped going west. the storm was heading towards houma. i...

Threat of flash floods, things falling down, tree limbs coming down, so there's definitely that concern will, despite the moment of reprieve. for that reason, the shelters have been opened all across the county, a place impacted severely by hurricane katrina, and for some people it's a scar that is still pretty fresh. let's listen to one gentleman who sought refuse this morning told me. >> trying to compare it to hurricane katrina, so if that's the case, man, i'm trying to get out of the way. i ain't going to take a risk. i was staying in orange grove area, but still it got bad every, man. >> ...