separated from him? >> it did. and we also had been -- there was a woman across the hall from us who got a phone call just as the storm was blowing in, and she started streaming and hung up the phone. and it turned out that her mom was on the roof of the lower ninth ward. we knew something was wrong early. even though we were pretty safe in the hospital which is a brick building that there was something going on outside that wasn't right. >> something going on that wasn't right was a huge, huge catastrophe. at what point in time, katie, did you realize what was happening outside of this hospital? >> i think we found out because hector's dad is a cigarette smoker, he would smoke cigarettes from people with the hospital coming in and out. they were able to tell him, it's flooded all the through certain wards or it's flooded all through certain neighborhoods and it's getting worse. on monday we were hearing that