facing a dire public health emergency. covid hospitalizations of children have overwhelmed hospitals in the states, just as hurricane idea is forecast to make landfall on sunday as a category four storm, six years to the day after hurricane katrina hit louisiana as a category three storm. there have been mandatory evacuations ordered for low lying areas outside the levee system of the city. she is also calling for evacuations inside the levee system. our next guest is the physician in chief at the children's hospital in new orleans, where a surge team was called in to the city, of doctors, nurses and paramedics. louisiana is a state with a very low vaccination rate.