Seafarers from shipping company Seapeak have joined forces with Mercy Ships to give their employees the opportunity to share their skills with the int.
150 years old, the old esteban yan tree in the country. and my hope is that it will be restored. but very importantly, yes, as i said yesterday, we are in a period of mourning and loss as we search for more people who are still unl accounted for. some of them have been found in the shelters. i visited one with some residents sleeping on cots. and we are going to need to provide them with short-term and long-term housing. but we are all there en masse to do that. ordinary hawaii residents have been mobilizing to support the victims of these fires. as you note, fema is there and other government agencies. my colleague bill weir is reporting from maui, and he s hearing from people there who are still desperate for more help from the government, people who are wondering where is the navy, where is the army, why isn t the military flooding into the region, where are the hospital ships, et cetera? are you satisfied that
the hospital ships, et cetera? are you satisfied that everything possible is being done to ensure that these hawaiians are getting all of the help they need from the government? i can understand why there is frustration because, as i say, we are in a period of shock and loss. from what i can see the government agencies are there and they will set up areas so people can come and people can get their driver s licenses restored and yes, they ll need a lot of help and from what i saw there is a pledge. president biden called me directly to pledge his support because we know that recovery will be long and the resources will be necessary. i have also heard from my senate colleagues. chuck schumer and others pledging their support. it will take a lot of resources and the focus right now is truly on the recovery, there are still people who are unaccounted for.
reporter: off in the distance, a floating hospital, a near necessity after natural disasters like this. after all, as with most other buildings, the hospitals often don t survive either. these hospital ships provide immediate beds and operating rooms, like this one, with 37- year-old minute receive an operation on his leg after falling two stories during the earthquake. even a maternity ward. yes, tragically, more than 40,000 people have died, but there has also been new life here. a beautiful baby girl. another benefit, the captain tells me. unlike the field hospitals on firm ground, these hospital ships in the water are relatively protected from the numerous aftershocks that continuously devastate the land. for now, the ground is quiet, but the skies are loud, and that is good, as this part of
the world slowly, surely finds its footing. sunday, we seen these hospital ships before. i remember you were on one in the aftermath of the earthquake in haiti. how effective are they? reporter: yeah, they re really effective, anderson. if you think about it, the hospitals are just as vulnerable as all the other buildings and a quake zone, so the hospitals, in some way, become their own patients. so bringing in a ship with all those resources, it s, it s critically important. and i saw that in haiti. that was the s&s carl vinson that actually flung me out there to perform surgery on a little girl named kimberly. but the thing that struck me today, talking to the captain of the ship, was, look, there s all these aftershocks, and you put in a field hospital, they can be vulnerable to these aftershocks. it s something they had to sort