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It waits for the bodies of covid-19 patients to come. with that, let s bring in our lead off discussion group on a thursday night. sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast, dr. venn gupta. he specializes in treating respiratory illnesses like covid-19. he s also an affiliate, assistant professor at the university of washington s department of health metric sciences. also with us shannon pettypiece, veteran journalist, senior white house reporter for us at nbc news digital. doctor, i would like to begin with you. i ve covered my fair share of hurricanes over the years. we re always driving in as others are driving out, and there comes a moment where the emergency operations director says to everybody if you didn t get out, there is now no more time for that. stay in place, batten down. is that where we are with this ....
There were posts on facebook all night long, people asking for help, their roofs are blown off, they re crowding in pantries and bathrooms with children begging for help. and obviously there s not a lot that first responders could do. the governor did a great job. he was on the radio constantly updating the folks all night long. he warned even to be safe, batten down. we didn t have much time for the storm. it was pretty rough. we thought we were going to lose it the a few times in the middle of the night. it didn t let up until 4:00 in the morning. we re receiving rain and bands and lightning and high gusty winds at the present time. that is really scare, particularly since you were trying to ride out the storm, as i understand it, with your mom who is 82 years old. yes. and your 63-year-old neighbor and your dogs. so in the throes of it, what was that like? well, she was nervous, of ....
Time. i m sure your mom was very happy that you went down and rode this out. thank you for joining us. we re happy you re all safe. ye is. we hope even on the virgin islands and our sister islands going through this too. i hope even weathers the storm as we move forward. we do too. thank you so much, jodie. thank you. a lot of families kphebgted to the commonwealths and territories. puerto rio a commonwealth of the u.s. congresswoman stacy plaskett. what do people know about what this combined toll has done to the islands? thanks so much. we just finished cleanup. are beginning the cleanup from irma on the islands of st. thomas and st. john, which were heavily damaged. ....
Conditions. we ll check back with you as often as possible. please take cough. be careful during this time. wowza. our next guest rode out hurricane maria in st. croix. judy goodrich. thank you for being here. good morning. how are you? doing well. how about you? is. we re all safe here. that is what is important. we lost part of a patio roof. many trees and branches are completely gone. looking around the valley, lots of leaves and everything blown off the trees similar to what happened in hugo. i see a lot of buildings on the north shore standing. my neighbor last nearly their entire roof. i m going down the hill as soon as i get off the phone with you to check on them. nobody has heard from them. ....