update on the latest here for hurricane sandy. let s take a listen. that s correct, but it is going to be. the forecasts are reasonably accurate this close to when we re predicting something and it is going to be very high winds. will be a lot of road closures. you know mass transit is not working and driving when you have big gusts like that is dangerous. overnight city ems crews transkbound 13 homebound he will terry from zone a residences. they transport residents from city homeless shelters in zone a. increasing effort to reach homeless on the street with focus of those in zone a. manhattan veterans affairs hospital and downtown hospital have been fully evacuated incidentally. some 45,000 of the 375,000 new yorkers live in zone a are residents of city public housing developments. we continue to make enormous efforts to reach them because they need to leave for their own safety.
it because of all the snow. i called the ambulance again and told them he s in real bad pain, he can t walk, he can t move, he has to lie down. they said they were going to send the ambulance. so i hung up. then i kept calling back every half an hour, i kept calling back. reporter: the ambulance came three times in two days. each time the call was cancelled. a fashion with city ems a physician with city ems says there were communication issues. the public safety director is angry. it s unacceptable. you ve got to get out of your truck and you ve got to go there. as dr. roth tried to explain, that was working for us on some calls where we didn t get the ambulance back into the neighborhoods because we didn t want to get it stuck. i understand that. but you get out of the damn truck and you walk to the residence. that s what needed to happen. we could have carried him out across the west elizabeth bridge. reporter: curtis mitchell died early sunday morning. sharon says if he wo