emergency service shelter facilities we ve set up throughout the city. we have a capacity for something like 70,000 people. having said that, capacity is a little misleading. we do not have beds for 70,000 people, but we ll make due with whatever we can. to insure security and safety we ve increased the police protection throughout the evacuation zone. we have ten teams and each borough is being used to help evacuate elderly and nursing home patients. we have nursing homes and adult care facilities and zoning in the rockaways to go, but some 7,000 patients and residents have already been evacuated, and i just wanted to point out that the management of those facilities, the senior homes, the nursing homes, and the hospitals have been phenomenally cooperative. it s gone so smoothly they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for not, but we cannot take
nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and that s basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means you ve got to do that right now. 2 1/2 hours left for mass transit. city employees, if you volunteered to help serve in the shelters today, we need you to report to your sites now. it is going to be very difficult to get to or from these sites, and when with people show up really will make a difference. to those city ployees who volunteered, thank you so much for doing so, but we need you to start making that trip. bring some stuff with you if you have to stay for a while, but you really are g