passes and we do our assessment we know what damage we have sustained and we ll work hard to restore power. if a citizen of tallahassee is watching at 7:25 in the morning, what do you recommend they do at this point? there isn t storm surge. they may have time to prepare. what are you telling your residents? time to stay home. shelter in place. we re about 30 minutes away from landfill. we are already starting to feel the effects. folks, just stay home and stay in place. i got to tell you i m so proud of the men and women, first responders, our utility work earls, everybody here at the emergency operation center. we re working hard to keach the city of tallahassee in the big bend area safe and we ll continue to do so. how soon do you expect your people to get out after the storm in terms of assessing potential damage to structures, power lines and everything else that may go down. you confident you have enough people to surge that out once the storm passes through?
real. but this shouldn t discourage us. it should challenge us. remember, for all the hits we have taken these last few years, for all the naysayers predicting our decline, america still has the largest, most prosperous economy in the world. [ applause ] no work earls, no workers are more productive than ours. no country has more successful companies or grants more patents to investors and entrepreneurs. more students come to study than anyplace on earth. mr. obama called on americans to recognize and respond to the growing power of competitors like china and india. he called the opportunity a sputnik moment, a reminder of the challenge that faced america in 1957 when the soviet union beat the u.s. to put a satellite
phase of memorial services that started last night and now today will be a very, very somber funeral for christina green. well, meanwhile, too, we re finding out that hospital workers apparently have been fired after allegedly looking into medical records of some of the shooting victims? what do we know, ted? reporter: well, you know, it s sad reality this obviously s a story international interest and for whatever reason, whether these work earls were solicited by members of the media or whether it was just their own curiosity, apparently three staffers and an actual nurse were caught accessing the private records of some of the patients that were victims of this rampage at the hospital and immediately let go, fired all four of those individuals, but hard to believe the motivation for that. but the hospital quickly dealt with the problem when it came up. everybody wanting to get as much as they can on the story.