small hours of the morning here. it is bit early cold. there is absolutely no national electrical system. there is only generator power for the very few people that have access to generators. there is relatively little food and no running water. there are tens of thousands of people that live in the city and they re also being constantly harassed by mortar fire. there are only perhaps a kilometer away from the russian front lines across the river where wea ve been running aroun the town yesterday pretty close pretty close to the central areas of this city. there s a large amount of randoming coming mortar fire and out going fire as both times of them, both times of both sides continue to harass each other with this fire in order to prevent each other from building up any further elsewhere in the
there have not been rockets impacting kyiv today, but that s not true in the rest of the country. in the south, it was a bombardment early this morning the likes of which we saw here in the last 48 hours. we have had sirens here, and i can tell you people are taking them much more seriously now because of what happened in the last 48 hours. add to that this is now a country that s facing a bit of an energy crisis. about 30% of the energy grid was damaged in the 48-hour barrage that the russians unleashed on the country. add to that the concerns about the nuclear power plant. the power has been going on and off at the nuclear power plant. this is the largest nuclear power plant in all of europe. the reason the power running to this plant is important is that s how they cool the nuclear rods. so at times they are switching to generator power. the generators run on diesel fuel. the problem with that is we re told by energy sources here in the capital the russians are stopping the flow of
of the care being done here. and our facilities are in good shape. the challenge we had with utilities as you mentioned. we ran on generator power for a couple of days. we re back to full power. and the most challenge aspect was our water supplies. had two hospitals with no running water so we had put emergency protocols in place with water tankers. i m happy to say that we have water restored and we re testing the systems right now to make sure that those pressures are adequate. if they are indeed adequate, we are cautiously optimistic that we could stop evacuating patients. we have to evacuate over 400 patients including our entire children s hospital. so today our focus is on our staff. now that we know our facilities are coming back, we ve got to check on our staff and make sure that they re okay. we ve had people come into our health system working during the initial stages who didn t know whether they even had a house, whether their families wero cape
we have footage to share of what you went through. i imagine seeing footage from other parts of this area, you probably consider yourself lucky. yeah, we do. i think the biggest issue is water around here. some of the places are on generator power, but most without water and electricity. at this point the water becomes so critical. where we were at a high-rise on the river front here in fort myers, we were on the 27th floor, our first floor got completely flooded out. cars were floating out. we got a couple of shots down there. the wind really held up in the building, but around us is destr destruction. what is going through your mind when this hurricane was a category 3 and then seemingly within hours it shoots to almost a category 5, a shade under category 5, and you re deciding whether you re going to stay wlrk you re going to leave, and you see conditions deteriorating around you, what does that feel like? the 3 to 5 happened in