1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:01,713 - Thanks Brooks 2 00:00:01,713 --> 00:00:02,990 and I'm really glad to be here today. 3 00:00:02,990 --> 00:00:05,050 I just flew in actually an hour and a half ago 4 00:00:05,050 --> 00:00:05,883 from New York city. 5 00:00:05,883 --> 00:00:08,610 So what I wanna do is take a little bit of time 6 00:00:08,610 --> 00:00:11,160 just to kind of review what we're doing, 7 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,580 so you have a good clarity of where we're going. 8 00:00:13,580 --> 00:00:15,870 And then since I talked last Friday afternoon, 9 00:00:15,870 --> 00:00:16,980 give you a little update 10 00:00:16,980 --> 00:00:19,240 as to what's happened in the last seven days. 11 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:21,920 But what's most important is where are we going? 12 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:23,010 It's gotta be able to look out 13 00:00:23,010 --> 00:00:24,410 two and three weeks out there, 14 00:00:24,410 --> 00:00:26,700 so that those who might not have heard me in the past 15 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:28,620 it's a very, very short synopsis. 16 00:00:28,620 --> 00:00:31,160 Very, very complicated situation 17 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,580 and as I've been saying all week, 18 00:00:32,580 --> 00:00:34,150 there's no way we can solve this 19 00:00:34,150 --> 00:00:35,660 with a complicated solution. 20 00:00:35,660 --> 00:00:38,060 We need a very, very simplistic solution. 21 00:00:38,060 --> 00:00:41,720 So we went in and designed four types of facilities 22 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,090 and we basically broke it into two big bins, 23 00:00:45,090 --> 00:00:47,270 places to put COVID patients 24 00:00:47,270 --> 00:00:49,910 and places to put non-COVID patients. 25 00:00:49,910 --> 00:00:51,650 We looked through the entire array 26 00:00:51,650 --> 00:00:53,250 of different facilities out there 27 00:00:53,250 --> 00:00:56,440 and we came back actually into compartmentalize rooms, 28 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,720 which I would call dormitories and hotels 29 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,870 and then large open spaces 30 00:01:01,870 --> 00:01:05,650 which primarily go to field houses and convention centers. 31 00:01:05,650 --> 00:01:08,760 I'm gonna kind of walk you through how those four options 32 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,430 COVID, non-COVID, hotel, convention center. 33 00:01:11,430 --> 00:01:12,263 How we do that? 34 00:01:12,263 --> 00:01:16,000 We designed a standard design 35 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,780 working with HHS and the theme 36 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:20,020 of the entire federal government. 37 00:01:20,020 --> 00:01:22,890 The vice president gave us guidance on how would we continue 38 00:01:22,890 --> 00:01:25,920 to be able to put together a federal solution, 39 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,820 so then we could offer it up to States and cities 40 00:01:28,820 --> 00:01:32,690 to be able to then cite adapt to standard design. 41 00:01:32,690 --> 00:01:34,010 The challenge we did this is 42 00:01:34,010 --> 00:01:35,920 this is a state decision 43 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,430 as to how they want to treat these patients. 44 00:01:38,430 --> 00:01:41,460 What we're seeing is some governors are making a decision 45 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:44,120 is to take the people that are non-COVID, 46 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,650 normally low acute that are in hospitals 47 00:01:46,650 --> 00:01:48,520 and take them out of the hospitals 48 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,070 and make room for the COVID patients in the hospital. 49 00:01:52,070 --> 00:01:53,200 We're seeing other States 50 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:54,950 that are doing exactly the opposite. 51 00:01:54,950 --> 00:01:57,330 They're taken all the COVID patients 52 00:01:57,330 --> 00:01:59,540 and putting them in a particular facility. 53 00:01:59,540 --> 00:02:01,450 Just a couple of other quick dynamics. 54 00:02:01,450 --> 00:02:03,890 When you have the compartmentalize rooms, 55 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:05,850 the hotel and the dormitory, 56 00:02:05,850 --> 00:02:07,520 it's harder to staff it 57 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,670 because you don't have such an open area 58 00:02:09,670 --> 00:02:12,800 where one or two nurses can see 20 people at once. 59 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,200 There's still ways we can work our way through that, 60 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,200 but what we're seeing in the last week 61 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,010 is most of the cities in the States 62 00:02:19,010 --> 00:02:21,100 want to go to a wider area 63 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:24,010 where they can have more people in a population. 64 00:02:24,010 --> 00:02:27,190 I will say probably 30 or 40 in kind of a node 65 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:29,130 that then they can control that 66 00:02:29,130 --> 00:02:31,530 as we work through the nurses stations. 67 00:02:31,530 --> 00:02:35,110 So then what happens is we went to... 68 00:02:35,110 --> 00:02:37,920 First of all, we went to Governor Cuomo a week from Monday 69 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:38,937 and he said, 70 00:02:38,937 --> 00:02:41,800 "What can I do to be able to help get you started?" 71 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,430 The president told us, be aggressive, make something happen. 72 00:02:45,430 --> 00:02:48,487 Dr. Esper, my boss, the Secretary of Defense said, 73 00:02:48,487 --> 00:02:49,337 "Get ahead of it. 74 00:02:49,337 --> 00:02:51,170 "Anticipate where the problems are." 75 00:02:51,170 --> 00:02:53,070 So that day when we were talking to Governor Cuomo, 76 00:02:53,070 --> 00:02:53,927 he said, right up front, 77 00:02:53,927 --> 00:02:55,597 "We need one building by the end of the day, 78 00:02:55,597 --> 00:02:57,850 "we probably need three buildings by tomorrow. 79 00:02:57,850 --> 00:02:59,710 We need seven or eight buildings by this weekend." 80 00:02:59,710 --> 00:03:00,940 And then all of a sudden, 81 00:03:00,940 --> 00:03:02,970 and I'll just use New York as an example, 82 00:03:02,970 --> 00:03:06,820 we were turned on within about 24 hours by FEMA 83 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:08,290 to go into the Javits Center. 84 00:03:08,290 --> 00:03:10,120 I'm gonna use an example today, 85 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,790 talking about the Javits Center. 86 00:03:11,790 --> 00:03:14,710 How is the entire federal team came together 87 00:03:14,710 --> 00:03:15,940 to be able to do that. 88 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:17,710 But with the same time, 89 00:03:17,710 --> 00:03:20,370 our Corps of Engineers are working side by side 90 00:03:20,370 --> 00:03:22,590 and I wanna always make sure you know this is a team. 91 00:03:22,590 --> 00:03:24,360 This is the FEMA rep, 92 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,960 the HHS rep, 93 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,300 the Corps of Engineers rep, 94 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:29,500 all three people standing by side by side 95 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:30,660 with their shirts on 96 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:32,860 out talking to the city mayors, 97 00:03:32,860 --> 00:03:34,630 talking to the state officials 98 00:03:34,630 --> 00:03:35,630 to be able to say 99 00:03:35,630 --> 00:03:37,510 what works best for Illinois, 100 00:03:37,510 --> 00:03:39,330 what works best for California. 101 00:03:39,330 --> 00:03:41,170 I've got nine general officer divisions. 102 00:03:41,170 --> 00:03:44,470 They have been in 51 governors' offices 103 00:03:44,470 --> 00:03:45,570 in the last seven days. 104 00:03:45,570 --> 00:03:47,440 We've talked to the rest of them on the phone. 105 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,010 We want to be able to tailor a solution 106 00:03:50,010 --> 00:03:53,180 that works best for a given city or a given state. 107 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:54,740 So let's get into a little bit of the details 108 00:03:54,740 --> 00:03:56,320 and I'll stop and answer some questions. 109 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,160 So what we're finding in Javits Center 110 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,010 is probably the best example. 111 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:03,830 What is nice about using in a permanent facility 112 00:04:03,830 --> 00:04:06,170 is that you have all the infrastructures there. 113 00:04:06,170 --> 00:04:07,003 Somebody once said, 114 00:04:07,003 --> 00:04:08,300 "You know, let's go build a hospital 115 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:09,140 in the middle of a parking lot." 116 00:04:09,140 --> 00:04:11,040 You can't do that in two or three weeks 117 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:11,873 and we don't have any more, 118 00:04:11,873 --> 00:04:13,300 time than two or three weeks. 119 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:15,290 So we're going into these facilities 120 00:04:15,290 --> 00:04:16,810 that already have electricity. 121 00:04:16,810 --> 00:04:17,980 They already have water, 122 00:04:17,980 --> 00:04:19,540 they have all the fire protection, 123 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:21,610 they have all of the driveways all put in. 124 00:04:21,610 --> 00:04:23,370 They have all the capability they need do, 125 00:04:23,370 --> 00:04:25,860 Javits Center is an amazing facility. 126 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:27,840 The people that work in the Javits Center 127 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:29,240 are amazing people. 128 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,930 They've had many partitions. 129 00:04:30,930 --> 00:04:33,240 So we went in there and working with the city 130 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,500 kind of laid out 131 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:37,110 where would in different, we call them pods. 132 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:39,550 Where would the different patients pods be? 133 00:04:39,550 --> 00:04:41,530 Where would the nurses' stations be? 134 00:04:41,530 --> 00:04:43,660 And then how would we array all that out? 135 00:04:43,660 --> 00:04:47,460 At the same time, FEMA offered up through HHS 136 00:04:47,460 --> 00:04:50,820 four, 250 person hospitals. 137 00:04:50,820 --> 00:04:52,410 So those came in big boxes. 138 00:04:52,410 --> 00:04:54,450 Yesterday, the New York National Guard 139 00:04:54,450 --> 00:04:56,300 was opening up cardboard boxes 140 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:58,530 and they're putting beds in every one of these. 141 00:04:58,530 --> 00:05:00,890 This is a 10 by 10 foot area. 142 00:05:00,890 --> 00:05:04,250 It's got hard partitions around three of the walls 143 00:05:04,250 --> 00:05:05,550 in a curtain on one of them. 144 00:05:05,550 --> 00:05:07,570 And they're almost all up. 145 00:05:07,570 --> 00:05:11,860 We basically took that four by 250 is a thousand, 146 00:05:11,860 --> 00:05:15,100 we thought we could expand it by stretching the ratio. 147 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:20,000 So today we're gonna plan on having 2,910 rooms 148 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,670 up by Monday morning in the Javits Center 149 00:05:22,670 --> 00:05:23,950 working as a team. 150 00:05:23,950 --> 00:05:25,520 The nice thing about convention centers, 151 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:26,580 you might not know this, 152 00:05:26,580 --> 00:05:29,300 every 10 feet there's a great big steel door on the floor. 153 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:30,310 You open it up 154 00:05:30,310 --> 00:05:31,900 and in there is all the electrical, 155 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:33,970 there's cold water, there's hot water, 156 00:05:33,970 --> 00:05:35,420 and there's a place for sewers. 157 00:05:35,420 --> 00:05:37,600 So you can actually do things like sinks 158 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,250 right in the middle of a convention center 159 00:05:39,250 --> 00:05:40,590 to be able to make that happen. 160 00:05:40,590 --> 00:05:42,070 So that's all there. 161 00:05:42,070 --> 00:05:45,680 This particular one is gonna be non-COVID. 162 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,640 So non-COVID patients 163 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,420 that are in the New York city hospitals, 164 00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:50,700 we'd come out 165 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:52,430 and they would go into the backside 166 00:05:52,430 --> 00:05:53,290 of the convention center. 167 00:05:53,290 --> 00:05:54,760 There's a receiving area. 168 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,050 The hospital will deliver them, 169 00:05:56,050 --> 00:05:56,940 they'll get part... 170 00:05:56,940 --> 00:05:59,050 They'll get accepted back in, 171 00:05:59,050 --> 00:06:00,580 they'll go into those note nodes 172 00:06:00,580 --> 00:06:03,260 and then the staff comes from the other side is coming in. 173 00:06:03,260 --> 00:06:07,690 And then not only do you have the FEMA hospitals, 174 00:06:07,690 --> 00:06:09,820 you've got the HHS doctors 175 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:12,130 and then Dr. Esper, the Secretary of Defense 176 00:06:12,130 --> 00:06:15,060 set up to army field hospitals 177 00:06:15,060 --> 00:06:16,850 to be able to augment the staff, 178 00:06:16,850 --> 00:06:19,180 so the whole team's working side by side. 179 00:06:19,180 --> 00:06:21,990 Now, there's three other hospitals we're doing in New York, 180 00:06:21,990 --> 00:06:23,130 which are gonna be COVID. 181 00:06:23,130 --> 00:06:25,510 They're off the place and I could talk about that, 182 00:06:25,510 --> 00:06:26,880 but they're out more in the communities 183 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,270 and in this city has got a lot of hospitals. 184 00:06:29,270 --> 00:06:32,000 Governor Cuomo, I talked to him a couple of days ago. 185 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,960 I was in a Governor de Blasio's office last night. 186 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,200 Both of the senior leaders are very, very aggressive 187 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,810 of trying to handle this facility deficit. 188 00:06:40,810 --> 00:06:43,300 I'm gonna talk to you about Chicago in a little bit 189 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:44,190 and if you have a question 190 00:06:44,190 --> 00:06:46,830 'cause Chicago's got completely different scenario, 191 00:06:46,830 --> 00:06:48,750 but where last week we kind of talked about 192 00:06:48,750 --> 00:06:50,130 the hotel and dormitory. 193 00:06:50,130 --> 00:06:51,580 We are doing those, 194 00:06:51,580 --> 00:06:52,420 but what we're finding, 195 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:55,120 we can probably get a little bit more bang for the buck 196 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,780 by going in the large facilities. 197 00:06:56,780 --> 00:07:00,770 Today, we're looking at 114 different facilities, 198 00:07:00,770 --> 00:07:03,850 in 50 States, and five territories. 199 00:07:03,850 --> 00:07:05,760 We've assessed 81 of them. 200 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,110 We've already cut contracts 201 00:07:07,110 --> 00:07:08,950 and we're cutting contracts every night 202 00:07:08,950 --> 00:07:10,440 to be able to get contractors 203 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,040 to be able to come into the facilities. 204 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,526 So I wanna just continue to stress standard design 205 00:07:15,526 --> 00:07:18,440 validated by the federal government 206 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,580 and then passed down to states and cities to cite, adapt. 207 00:07:22,580 --> 00:07:25,210 I've got 43 colonels that worked for the Corps of Engineers. 208 00:07:25,210 --> 00:07:27,230 They have the authority and the power 209 00:07:27,230 --> 00:07:30,200 where they're unbelievably talented civilian teams 210 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,340 to put these hospitals on the ground. 211 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:33,893 So I'll stop right there and take some questions 212 00:07:33,893 --> 00:07:37,960 that I can weave some other vignettes in if you want to. 213 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:38,793 - Thank you, sir. 214 00:07:38,793 --> 00:07:40,970 Let's go ahead and begin in the room with Tom Baldwin. 215 00:07:40,970 --> 00:07:41,803 - Tom. - General, thanks 216 00:07:41,803 --> 00:07:42,940 for doing this. 217 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:45,313 You said you were told to anticipate where the problems are 218 00:07:45,313 --> 00:07:49,270 that you just said 115 different facilities in 50 States. 219 00:07:49,270 --> 00:07:51,720 We talked a little bit about New York and Javits. 220 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,640 Talk about the other hot spots, 221 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,040 Washington state, 222 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,523 I guess San Francisco, LA. 223 00:07:57,570 --> 00:07:58,700 What do you expect there? 224 00:07:58,700 --> 00:07:59,650 How long is it gonna take? 225 00:07:59,650 --> 00:08:01,460 How many facilities? 226 00:08:01,460 --> 00:08:02,790 - The best thing I could do is again, 227 00:08:02,790 --> 00:08:04,437 just like as Vice President Pence said, 228 00:08:04,437 --> 00:08:06,370 "Take leave from the task force." 229 00:08:06,370 --> 00:08:08,130 So we don't have a lot of different opinions out there. 230 00:08:08,130 --> 00:08:10,300 I take most of my leave from CDC 231 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:11,460 and what they're being... 232 00:08:11,460 --> 00:08:13,200 What are in the daily briefs out there. 233 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,050 But we're also doing a lot of modeling. 234 00:08:15,050 --> 00:08:16,610 So we're looking at where we see, 235 00:08:16,610 --> 00:08:17,960 and here's the big thing, Tom, 236 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,760 it's not only necessarily 237 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,720 how many people were affected today, 238 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,680 it's the rate of the infection. 239 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,530 Someone's are going faster than others, 240 00:08:25,530 --> 00:08:26,890 so we've got to anticipate, 241 00:08:26,890 --> 00:08:28,360 and being an engineer, 242 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,060 I can't work two or three days out. 243 00:08:30,060 --> 00:08:31,540 this is two weeks out, 244 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:33,530 where do we think we're gonna have that challenge? 245 00:08:33,530 --> 00:08:35,480 So we're taking two variables, 246 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,660 the slope of the line of the growth of the curve 247 00:08:38,660 --> 00:08:40,820 and we're also taking the bed shortage 248 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:43,000 and how much bed shortage do we wanna have. 249 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,290 And when you put those together, 250 00:08:44,290 --> 00:08:46,370 we've got some analytics that we doing the core 251 00:08:46,370 --> 00:08:47,310 to be able to say, 252 00:08:47,310 --> 00:08:49,230 here's where we think our biggest targets are. 253 00:08:49,230 --> 00:08:50,950 But what's most important is getting 254 00:08:50,950 --> 00:08:53,860 one of my colonels sitting next to a mayor or a governor 255 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:55,610 saying, where do you anticipate the need? 256 00:08:55,610 --> 00:08:57,355 'Cause they know that better than anybody else. 257 00:08:57,355 --> 00:08:58,433 - But at this point you know 258 00:08:58,433 --> 00:09:00,890 what you're gonna be doing in Seattle? 259 00:09:00,890 --> 00:09:02,880 Let's say San Francisco, LA-- 260 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:04,510 - I've got 114 spots 261 00:09:04,510 --> 00:09:06,050 I know exactly what we're gonna be doing. 262 00:09:06,050 --> 00:09:06,897 - [Tom] And you said-- 263 00:09:06,897 --> 00:09:08,760 - And they are in a lot of the big areas. 264 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,119 We're focused on Washington, California, 265 00:09:11,119 --> 00:09:13,290 - [Tom] Can you give us the detail of Washington? 266 00:09:13,290 --> 00:09:14,630 - What do you have-- - I do I'll go run you 267 00:09:14,630 --> 00:09:16,010 through a couple of details here. 268 00:09:16,010 --> 00:09:17,773 - And then L.A and San Francisco if you got. 269 00:09:17,773 --> 00:09:19,970 - And again, I don't wanna get deep into all of them 270 00:09:19,970 --> 00:09:22,900 because again, some of these, my guys is on. 271 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:24,290 New York, I mean the bottom line, 272 00:09:24,290 --> 00:09:27,400 I told you a 2,900 non-COVID really in the Javits Center 273 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,233 and then again, 274 00:09:28,233 --> 00:09:31,750 we see more and more facilities coming onboard next week. 275 00:09:31,750 --> 00:09:34,080 California, I think right now in Sacramento 276 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,727 we're looking around 603, 600... 277 00:09:36,727 --> 00:09:38,520 No, I'm sorry, 360. 278 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,350 Some of those are COVID, some of those are non-COVID. 279 00:09:41,350 --> 00:09:43,550 That's just in a whisk called the Sleep Train Arena 280 00:09:43,550 --> 00:09:45,310 out in California where you've been asked to look. 281 00:09:45,310 --> 00:09:47,810 And again, we're mainly doing this almost city by city. 282 00:09:47,810 --> 00:09:49,840 As much as the governor makes a list, 283 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,410 my guys are calling back saying, 284 00:09:51,410 --> 00:09:53,200 here's what this one city talks about. 285 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,810 Seattle, we're working very closely 286 00:09:54,810 --> 00:09:57,960 with the leadership of the State of Washington. 287 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:02,040 DOD did send a couple of those field hospitals to Seattle, 288 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,970 so we'll continue to work the numbers there. 289 00:10:03,970 --> 00:10:06,700 It's premature to say exactly what the site is 290 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:08,170 or exactly what the numbers. 291 00:10:08,170 --> 00:10:10,240 And then, I think the one that really has popped here 292 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,710 in the last 24 hours 293 00:10:11,710 --> 00:10:12,830 is the one in Chicago. 294 00:10:12,830 --> 00:10:14,730 So let me just kind of tell you about Chicago 295 00:10:14,730 --> 00:10:16,700 'cause this is really out of the box. 296 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:19,070 I did an interview this morning and somebody asked me, 297 00:10:19,070 --> 00:10:21,520 do you have a battle drill for how you've done this? 298 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,700 We've never done a pandemic capability. 299 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:26,140 We don't have on the shelf 300 00:10:26,140 --> 00:10:30,770 designs of how to modify hotels into COVID centers. 301 00:10:30,770 --> 00:10:32,940 So we're went into the McCormick convention center 302 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:33,773 and I told you 303 00:10:33,773 --> 00:10:35,650 the ability to do negative pressure 304 00:10:35,650 --> 00:10:37,580 in a hotel room is pretty easy. 305 00:10:37,580 --> 00:10:39,960 But when you go into a gigantic voluminous room 306 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,260 like a convention center 307 00:10:41,260 --> 00:10:43,080 to try to bring the pressure down, 308 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,750 we didn't think it was attainable. 309 00:10:44,750 --> 00:10:46,970 What we're doing in McCormick is we're basically, 310 00:10:46,970 --> 00:10:50,850 we've got turned on by FEMA to do a $75 million build. 311 00:10:50,850 --> 00:10:53,290 So we're in there now hall see, Tom 312 00:10:53,290 --> 00:10:56,130 is basically two of the FMS. 313 00:10:56,130 --> 00:10:57,900 These are the FEMA hotel... 314 00:10:57,900 --> 00:10:59,111 The FEMA hospitals, 315 00:10:59,111 --> 00:11:00,950 250 people each 316 00:11:00,950 --> 00:11:02,690 a total of 500 people. 317 00:11:02,690 --> 00:11:05,520 They're going in, there relatively what's called low acute, 318 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,150 not a lot of injuries, okay? 319 00:11:07,150 --> 00:11:11,390 And in this entire convention center is all COVID, 320 00:11:11,390 --> 00:11:12,910 all COVID in a convention center 321 00:11:12,910 --> 00:11:14,180 - [Tom] So 500 all COVID (mumbles) 322 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:15,440 - On in hall C. 323 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:16,273 - [Tom] Correct. - Okay. 324 00:11:16,273 --> 00:11:18,830 Now, what we're gonna do in hall A, 325 00:11:18,830 --> 00:11:21,840 we're gonna go in and we're gonna put 1800 in hall A. 326 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,630 And that's also COVID, 327 00:11:23,630 --> 00:11:25,490 but that's gonna be a little higher 328 00:11:25,490 --> 00:11:27,610 on the complexity of their injuries. 329 00:11:27,610 --> 00:11:28,443 And I'm not a doctor, 330 00:11:28,443 --> 00:11:30,160 so I'm not gonna try to articulate that. 331 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,480 Hall C is low, hall A is little bit higher. 332 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,440 Hall B is the hardest one. 333 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,330 Those are 750, 334 00:11:37,330 --> 00:11:39,570 they need self-contained units. 335 00:11:39,570 --> 00:11:42,120 So what we're doing is we're gonna, in hall C and A, 336 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,910 we're bringing the pressure down 337 00:11:43,910 --> 00:11:45,223 in the entire convention center. 338 00:11:45,223 --> 00:11:47,010 It's gonna be lower pressure, 339 00:11:47,010 --> 00:11:48,560 keeps all the containment in. 340 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,890 But in hall B, what they've asked us to do 341 00:11:50,890 --> 00:11:53,670 is to actually go get some type of a module 342 00:11:53,670 --> 00:11:55,360 that we can set inside there. 343 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,120 So we're right in the middle of discussions 344 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,500 right now with contractors. 345 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:00,010 Do we buy something like a... 346 00:12:00,010 --> 00:12:01,460 What's called the 40 foot mill van, 347 00:12:01,460 --> 00:12:03,030 the isolated container 348 00:12:03,030 --> 00:12:04,320 or do it with a tent 349 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,020 and our guys are trying to figure that out now. 350 00:12:06,020 --> 00:12:08,430 Now, is it one person, is it six person? 351 00:12:08,430 --> 00:12:09,890 We're working through that, 352 00:12:09,890 --> 00:12:13,070 but the total there is somewhere on the order of magnitude, 353 00:12:13,070 --> 00:12:16,380 I think about 3000 that are gonna go into 354 00:12:16,380 --> 00:12:17,920 the Chicago convention center... 355 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,560 This McCormick convention center 356 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,840 and we wanna write those contracts and get that in. 357 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,040 Our goal is to have that one done 358 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,520 somewhere around the 24th of April. 359 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,920 And this is the main message that you need to know. 360 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,065 - [Tom] (mumbles) all COVID. 361 00:12:30,065 --> 00:12:31,280 - All COVID. - [Tom] All right. 362 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,000 - I did not think we could meet the COVID standard 363 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,540 in a massive big building, 364 00:12:35,540 --> 00:12:36,870 but my engineers are telling me 365 00:12:36,870 --> 00:12:39,300 we think we've got the capability to do that. 366 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:42,130 The main thing is I go to people and I'll tell ya, 367 00:12:42,130 --> 00:12:43,720 there a lot of times everybody says, 368 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,180 here's the standard I have to have. 369 00:12:45,180 --> 00:12:46,380 You've got to get to here 370 00:12:46,380 --> 00:12:47,930 And we calculate and we say 371 00:12:47,930 --> 00:12:48,763 that's six weeks out 372 00:12:48,763 --> 00:12:49,670 and you can't do that. 373 00:12:49,670 --> 00:12:51,140 I say, I tell our guys, 374 00:12:51,140 --> 00:12:52,140 you have three weeks, 375 00:12:52,140 --> 00:12:53,920 you get as much as you can done in three weeks 376 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,670 and then mission's complete 377 00:12:55,670 --> 00:12:59,010 because we have a very, very narrow window of opportunity 378 00:12:59,010 --> 00:13:02,130 If we don't leverage that opportunity, 379 00:13:02,130 --> 00:13:03,240 we're gonna miss it. 380 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,630 - Quickly the Defense Secretary said two weeks ago, 381 00:13:06,630 --> 00:13:09,390 five million masks would be sent out, 382 00:13:09,390 --> 00:13:10,880 2000 ventilators. 383 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,170 We've been reaching out to FEMA repeatedly 384 00:13:14,170 --> 00:13:16,040 to find out where those masks, ventilators have gone-- 385 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,910 - So Tom, I'm a good soldier. 386 00:13:17,910 --> 00:13:19,110 I stay in my lane, okay. 387 00:13:19,110 --> 00:13:20,990 There are three parts of this stool 388 00:13:20,990 --> 00:13:22,000 to be able to help make it. 389 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,810 We need to find the sites. 390 00:13:23,810 --> 00:13:25,150 That's the first S. 391 00:13:25,150 --> 00:13:26,660 We need to find the supplies. 392 00:13:26,660 --> 00:13:27,690 That's the second S, 393 00:13:27,690 --> 00:13:29,130 and we need to find the staff. 394 00:13:29,130 --> 00:13:30,210 That's the third S. 395 00:13:30,210 --> 00:13:31,290 I'm the first S, 396 00:13:31,290 --> 00:13:32,720 so all the other two, 397 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,590 there's a lot of other people in the federal government 398 00:13:34,590 --> 00:13:36,120 that can answer those questions. 399 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,190 I have got enough to do worrying about sites. 400 00:13:38,190 --> 00:13:40,550 So when it comes to mask and ventilators, 401 00:13:40,550 --> 00:13:43,120 I'd say find another person to ask 402 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:44,587 and they will give you much, much more detail than me. 403 00:13:44,587 --> 00:13:46,030 And I don't want us to be negative, 404 00:13:46,030 --> 00:13:46,910 but I'm just saying 405 00:13:46,910 --> 00:13:49,124 I'm worried about getting hospital beds built. 406 00:13:49,124 --> 00:13:50,870 (mumbles) 407 00:13:50,870 --> 00:13:51,703 - [Blonde Woman] Thank you. 408 00:13:51,703 --> 00:13:52,536 - Hi - Thanks General for 409 00:13:52,536 --> 00:13:53,400 doing this. 410 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:54,233 Can you talk about 411 00:13:54,233 --> 00:13:57,630 how you're going to fit the Seattle Seahawks stadium? 412 00:13:57,630 --> 00:14:00,930 is going to be kind of this along the same lines as Chicago. 413 00:14:00,930 --> 00:14:03,560 And then, can you provide a little bit more detail 414 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,720 on how you're gonna do both COVID 415 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,740 and non-COVID in Sacramento? 416 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:08,880 Would that be at one location 417 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,340 or is of those different locations? 418 00:14:11,340 --> 00:14:13,610 And then, last question for you. 419 00:14:13,610 --> 00:14:14,950 Last week when you talked to us 420 00:14:14,950 --> 00:14:18,670 and we asked for maybe a ballpark of how many hospital beds 421 00:14:18,670 --> 00:14:20,660 you thought you would have to create 422 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:24,120 and I think you offered about 10,000 423 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,290 or even possibly more than that. 424 00:14:26,290 --> 00:14:28,690 As we have seen cases rise, 425 00:14:28,690 --> 00:14:29,630 has that number gone up? 426 00:14:29,630 --> 00:14:30,570 Do you think you're actually gonna be 427 00:14:30,570 --> 00:14:32,310 building more than that? 428 00:14:32,310 --> 00:14:34,430 - So I'll try to think doesn't order. 429 00:14:34,430 --> 00:14:37,840 There are still negotiations happening in Seattle right now. 430 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,250 So I don't know the exact specifics. 431 00:14:40,250 --> 00:14:42,820 I know that my team on the ground is working very closely 432 00:14:42,820 --> 00:14:45,290 with the FEMA leaders, the HHS leaders. 433 00:14:45,290 --> 00:14:47,030 Exactly, is it in the stadium? 434 00:14:47,030 --> 00:14:48,900 There's also an event center there. 435 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:51,340 So it's probably premature to tell you exactly what it is. 436 00:14:51,340 --> 00:14:52,940 When I go there and I look at it, 437 00:14:52,940 --> 00:14:53,930 I'll come back and brief you 438 00:14:53,930 --> 00:14:56,100 just like I'm doing on Chicago or Javits, 439 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,690 but I know that it's a significant investment 440 00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:01,670 that we're gonna make in that area 441 00:15:01,670 --> 00:15:03,920 and I just don't know exactly where the stadium is. 442 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,070 It's certainly not gonna be out. 443 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:06,740 If they'll ever was in the stadium, 444 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:07,990 it wouldn't be on the field, 445 00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:09,480 it would be in supporting facilities. 446 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:10,800 So we'll work through that. 447 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,940 The one in California, the Sacramento one, 448 00:15:13,940 --> 00:15:15,440 what my guys are telling me is 449 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,620 it is gonna be COVID in one portion 450 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:18,770 and non-COVID in the other 451 00:15:18,770 --> 00:15:21,680 These convention centers actually have big walls, 452 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,340 like big foldable walls. 453 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:24,290 In some portions, 454 00:15:24,290 --> 00:15:26,850 they're actually concrete walls right in between them 455 00:15:26,850 --> 00:15:28,500 with big sealed doors. 456 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:29,870 So I do think there's an ability, 457 00:15:29,870 --> 00:15:33,360 we have a lot of capability with this isolation doors 458 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,300 and baffled chambers and all the rest 459 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:37,057 that we could take a big convention center 460 00:15:37,057 --> 00:15:39,480 and I think on one half have it COVID 461 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,050 and on the other one have it non-COVID. 462 00:15:41,050 --> 00:15:43,020 Now that's what we gotta be careful and ends where 463 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:46,110 we as engineers have to lean on the metal community to say, 464 00:15:46,110 --> 00:15:48,310 boy, if you start having people going back and forth, 465 00:15:48,310 --> 00:15:49,230 how do you work that? 466 00:15:49,230 --> 00:15:50,680 It brings up an interesting point 467 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,800 and I'll bring it back to the Chicago piece 468 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,460 because when you have all COVID people in one room, 469 00:15:56,460 --> 00:15:57,370 then you say how do you 470 00:15:57,370 --> 00:15:59,260 to protect the staff that's in there. 471 00:15:59,260 --> 00:16:01,565 They have made a decision then in that facility, 472 00:16:01,565 --> 00:16:03,080 everybody that goes in there 473 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,080 that is gonna be staff 474 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,950 will be 100% PPE. 475 00:16:05,950 --> 00:16:07,830 So you will all suit up 476 00:16:07,830 --> 00:16:08,663 and you'll go in there 477 00:16:08,663 --> 00:16:11,030 and you will be protected as an individual, 478 00:16:11,030 --> 00:16:12,930 but everybody else in the facility, 479 00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:15,170 we would not and they'd all be in the open area. 480 00:16:15,170 --> 00:16:17,930 If you go into Javits because it's non-COVID, 481 00:16:17,930 --> 00:16:19,870 then there's really no risk to the staff 482 00:16:19,870 --> 00:16:20,880 that's walking around. 483 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:21,730 And I think the last thing, 484 00:16:21,730 --> 00:16:23,200 we don't really know the numbers. 485 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,550 What we're doing and everybody would want to say, 486 00:16:25,550 --> 00:16:26,740 give me a big number. 487 00:16:26,740 --> 00:16:28,150 I can't work that way. 488 00:16:28,150 --> 00:16:28,983 I'm an engineer. 489 00:16:28,983 --> 00:16:30,450 I like to work in very, very detail, 490 00:16:30,450 --> 00:16:32,990 so here's a city that's got 3000 here, 491 00:16:32,990 --> 00:16:35,310 here's 10,000, here's 15,000. 492 00:16:35,310 --> 00:16:37,050 I've got my list of 141. 493 00:16:37,050 --> 00:16:38,100 I know you wanna see them all, 494 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:39,137 but I can't show it to you. 495 00:16:39,137 --> 00:16:40,680 And every one of those says 496 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,610 maybe 10,000, maybe 5,000. 497 00:16:42,610 --> 00:16:46,480 So in time, and I wanna continue to reiterate, 498 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,990 the Corps of Engineers in this particular mission 499 00:16:48,990 --> 00:16:50,530 is working for FEMA. 500 00:16:50,530 --> 00:16:52,763 These requests go through this state, 501 00:16:54,050 --> 00:16:55,870 administrator again, is the decision maker, 502 00:16:55,870 --> 00:16:58,950 so he's gotta figure out where do we see the threat. 503 00:16:58,950 --> 00:17:01,840 And if the threat is a distributed in some other place 504 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,910 than where most of the requests come from 505 00:17:03,910 --> 00:17:05,230 just in apportionment, 506 00:17:05,230 --> 00:17:07,600 he's gotta be able to make sure the federal government 507 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,260 applies the resources in a balanced approach 508 00:17:10,260 --> 00:17:11,420 and that's where basically 509 00:17:11,420 --> 00:17:13,620 he signs a tasking order to me 510 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:15,090 and then the Corps of Engineers builds 511 00:17:15,090 --> 00:17:16,091 where we need to build. 512 00:17:16,091 --> 00:17:17,500 - And then another is to shift. 513 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:18,760 From last week it seemed like 514 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,170 you were really focused on hotel rooms or dorm rooms 515 00:17:21,170 --> 00:17:22,710 and now it's large facilities. 516 00:17:22,710 --> 00:17:24,545 Was there a hesitancy to use the hotels? 517 00:17:24,545 --> 00:17:27,170 Like could you clean them up afterwards 518 00:17:27,170 --> 00:17:29,330 to still be used as a hotel after this is over? 519 00:17:29,330 --> 00:17:31,220 Is that the reason for this shift? 520 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:34,060 - No, I think it was more that the cities felt 521 00:17:34,060 --> 00:17:38,130 that the amount of requirement was gonna be so big. 522 00:17:38,130 --> 00:17:40,720 Just the amount of hotels was gonna be just a lot of work. 523 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,267 By the time you sign a lease and put us in their 524 00:17:42,267 --> 00:17:44,400 The hotel rooms, I'll be honest with you 525 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,230 are probably a little more accommodating. 526 00:17:46,230 --> 00:17:47,720 But on the other hand, when you... 527 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,150 Like the Javits Center, I was in there yesterday 528 00:17:50,150 --> 00:17:51,790 and it is a big, big area, 529 00:17:51,790 --> 00:17:53,029 but I was on the second floor 530 00:17:53,029 --> 00:17:55,710 and you can do an awful lot, very, very fast. 531 00:17:55,710 --> 00:17:57,520 So from an efficiency perspective 532 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,850 and as much as we wanna be accommodating, 533 00:17:59,850 --> 00:18:01,210 I continue to stress to you 534 00:18:01,210 --> 00:18:02,700 and I'll do that every time I breathe. 535 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:04,430 It's gotta be the good enough solution 536 00:18:04,430 --> 00:18:06,790 and Javits is the good enough solution. 537 00:18:06,790 --> 00:18:08,055 - Sir let's go to phone 538 00:18:08,055 --> 00:18:09,905 - Of course - David Martin with CBS. 539 00:18:13,764 --> 00:18:17,233 - [Martin] General, a short time ago, 540 00:18:18,190 --> 00:18:21,790 General Hyten spoke with reporters, 541 00:18:21,790 --> 00:18:22,900 on the record 542 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:24,949 and in addition to Chicago, 543 00:18:24,949 --> 00:18:29,021 he mentioned that the next areas of greatest concern 544 00:18:29,021 --> 00:18:32,850 as a Michigan, Florida, and Louisiana. 545 00:18:32,850 --> 00:18:36,140 So, I'd like to ask you 546 00:18:36,140 --> 00:18:38,130 to give us some specifics 547 00:18:38,130 --> 00:18:41,033 about what you're doing in those three States. 548 00:18:42,352 --> 00:18:46,550 - (mumbles) we'll continue to be concerned about all those. 549 00:18:46,550 --> 00:18:49,980 I talked to Governor Edwards two days ago personally 550 00:18:49,980 --> 00:18:51,910 on what we see down there. 551 00:18:51,910 --> 00:18:53,660 We are looking at options for him. 552 00:18:53,660 --> 00:18:56,190 It's premature to say what facilities, 553 00:18:56,190 --> 00:18:57,930 but you're very aware in Louisiana, 554 00:18:57,930 --> 00:19:01,950 we do have some relatively large facilities that we can use 555 00:19:01,950 --> 00:19:04,940 and my engineer's are doing plans for him today 556 00:19:04,940 --> 00:19:07,480 to try to give him some options. 557 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,540 When we look at Florida, 558 00:19:08,540 --> 00:19:11,100 you have a more aging community there. 559 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:13,370 I know that the state continues 560 00:19:13,370 --> 00:19:17,570 to look at challenges in Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. 561 00:19:17,570 --> 00:19:20,160 Right now, I think we're still developing options 562 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,690 and is probably premature, 563 00:19:21,690 --> 00:19:24,790 but we're very aware that because of the... 564 00:19:24,790 --> 00:19:27,020 A little bit more senior community 565 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:30,150 that that could be an unbelievable high demand. 566 00:19:30,150 --> 00:19:31,750 And then I've got a Colonel today 567 00:19:31,750 --> 00:19:33,840 who's actually in Michigan 568 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,760 working with the leadership of Michigan. 569 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,310 I don't think I have any exact leads on facilities there, 570 00:19:39,310 --> 00:19:41,410 but as this continues to work out 571 00:19:41,410 --> 00:19:44,490 and I get smarter on our 141 sites, 572 00:19:44,490 --> 00:19:45,910 I'll be able to give you more. 573 00:19:45,910 --> 00:19:46,743 Right now, again, 574 00:19:46,743 --> 00:19:48,550 because it's decentralized, 575 00:19:48,550 --> 00:19:49,570 the worst thing I can do 576 00:19:49,570 --> 00:19:52,760 is be calling down to 43 colonels at one o'clock 577 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,620 saying I got a press conference at three, 578 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:56,900 take the time to figure out what I should say. 579 00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:58,870 I'd rather say, go sign a lease, 580 00:19:58,870 --> 00:20:00,090 go build a hospital, 581 00:20:00,090 --> 00:20:01,280 and then we'll figure it out. 582 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,600 And if I gotta tell you guys, 583 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,050 I'll get back to you two or three days, 584 00:20:04,050 --> 00:20:05,350 I think you'll understand. 585 00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:08,173 - Staying with the phone, 586 00:20:08,173 --> 00:20:10,093 let's go to Courtney Kube with NBC. 587 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:12,810 - [Martin] Let me just (mumbles) 588 00:20:12,810 --> 00:20:15,300 you're now saying 141 589 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:18,800 and earlier you had said 114, 590 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:19,820 which is it? 591 00:20:19,820 --> 00:20:21,470 - Sorry, it is a 114. 592 00:20:21,470 --> 00:20:24,880 114 facilities, the sites that we're looking at. 593 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:25,960 One of the sites I think actually 594 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,430 has three or four buildings, 595 00:20:27,430 --> 00:20:28,550 so it's a little bit different, 596 00:20:28,550 --> 00:20:29,870 but that's my fault. 597 00:20:29,870 --> 00:20:32,340 114 facilities, 598 00:20:32,340 --> 00:20:34,120 81 of those assessments. 599 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:35,410 These are assessments, 600 00:20:35,410 --> 00:20:36,460 are complete. 601 00:20:36,460 --> 00:20:39,880 We continue to do probably 15 or 20 a day. 602 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,540 I would think that 114 is gonna keep going up 603 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:44,573 by 20 or 30 every single day. 604 00:20:46,490 --> 00:20:47,540 - Courtney, go ahead. 605 00:20:50,234 --> 00:20:51,115 - [Courtney] All right, thank you. 606 00:20:51,115 --> 00:20:53,640 Okay, so I wanna ask just a couple of clarifications 607 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,193 on the specifically the Chicago 608 00:20:55,193 --> 00:20:58,290 and the McCormick place convention center. 609 00:20:58,290 --> 00:21:01,010 So the $75 million bill 610 00:21:01,010 --> 00:21:03,993 that's for the entire thing, right halls A, B and C? 611 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:08,290 - I believe so Courtney, I saw my guys briefed me. 612 00:21:08,290 --> 00:21:09,123 - [Courtney] Okay, great. 613 00:21:09,123 --> 00:21:09,956 And I just wanted to be clear 614 00:21:09,956 --> 00:21:12,290 'cause you said it before the first hall 615 00:21:12,290 --> 00:21:14,880 and I wanted to make sure it was the entire project. 616 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:15,970 I know you can't... 617 00:21:15,970 --> 00:21:17,110 You don't wanna go through a whole 618 00:21:17,110 --> 00:21:20,010 like a comprehensive list of the 114 facilities 619 00:21:20,010 --> 00:21:21,760 or the 81 who they could have been assessed. 620 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,810 But it's just, is it possible? 621 00:21:23,810 --> 00:21:25,980 Could your team give us a list 622 00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:29,300 of sort of those facilities that have been assessed 623 00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:31,590 or even low, even if it's not the individual facilities, 624 00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:33,070 but the locations. 625 00:21:33,070 --> 00:21:36,070 Just so we can get a sense of where some of the places 626 00:21:36,070 --> 00:21:39,080 that you might be starting to branch out and lock. 627 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,237 Is that possible? 628 00:21:40,237 --> 00:21:41,430 - And I think into fairness, 629 00:21:41,430 --> 00:21:43,590 what I would tell you is that I will probably go back 630 00:21:43,590 --> 00:21:45,750 to the people I work for is FEMA 631 00:21:45,750 --> 00:21:46,850 and let them continue 632 00:21:46,850 --> 00:21:48,700 to be able to have the option of doing that. 633 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:51,100 If they have no problem with me showing this 634 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:53,670 and I certainly wanna be supportive to your needs. 635 00:21:53,670 --> 00:21:55,073 On the other hand, I don't want to get ahead of FEMA 636 00:21:55,073 --> 00:21:56,880 because they might feel that 637 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,595 there's some area that's got five sites 638 00:21:58,595 --> 00:22:00,790 and they don't wanna raise expectations. 639 00:22:00,790 --> 00:22:02,450 So I would say, Courtney, 640 00:22:02,450 --> 00:22:03,970 let me work that offline 641 00:22:03,970 --> 00:22:05,130 and on next time I talk to you 642 00:22:05,130 --> 00:22:07,803 I'll tell you what the answer to that question is, okay. 643 00:22:11,050 --> 00:22:13,510 - Thanks Courtney, let's go to back of the room. 644 00:22:13,510 --> 00:22:14,990 Barbara CNN. 645 00:22:14,990 --> 00:22:15,823 - General Semonite, 646 00:22:15,823 --> 00:22:17,560 you talked at the beginning a little bit 647 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,900 about this window that you see. 648 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:20,990 You described it as like 649 00:22:20,990 --> 00:22:24,440 things have to get done in three weeks ish. 650 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:25,510 Tell me what to you, 651 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:26,900 what that window is? 652 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:28,230 Is it that 653 00:22:28,230 --> 00:22:30,800 you see the rate of infection 654 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:35,220 peaking in three weeks, continuing to get worse in three. 655 00:22:35,220 --> 00:22:39,267 What is that three week window to you about... 656 00:22:39,267 --> 00:22:40,940 Vis a vis COVID? 657 00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:41,930 - So I think, 658 00:22:41,930 --> 00:22:45,770 and again the window is different for every single city. 659 00:22:45,770 --> 00:22:48,720 So last night I was with the Commissioner of Health 660 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,720 in the mayor's office in New York city, 661 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,317 and she gave us what she felt was the window. 662 00:22:53,317 --> 00:22:55,290 And there were a very, very firm date. 663 00:22:55,290 --> 00:22:58,470 I need X amount of hospital beds by this date. 664 00:22:58,470 --> 00:23:01,800 So we're working toward her suspense in New York city. 665 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,330 Now I know that in other cities 666 00:23:03,330 --> 00:23:06,390 I just got off the phone with another one of my commanders. 667 00:23:06,390 --> 00:23:10,280 He's got seven more days till that he meets that window. 668 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,000 And I would tell you that when the ambulance 669 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,600 has come streaming down the street 670 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,860 and they pull into the back of the hospital, 671 00:23:15,860 --> 00:23:16,950 whatever that facility, 672 00:23:16,950 --> 00:23:17,880 and you're taking somebody out 673 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,040 that needs to go on a hospital bed. 674 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,570 We don't want the facility to be the critical path. 675 00:23:22,570 --> 00:23:24,020 And is, I'll go back to Tom's question. 676 00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:26,720 We know the staff is an issue, ventilators are an issue. 677 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:27,553 I got it, 678 00:23:27,553 --> 00:23:30,460 but right now when those people come out, 679 00:23:30,460 --> 00:23:31,640 we want to be able to make sure 680 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:32,770 they have an adequate facility. 681 00:23:32,770 --> 00:23:33,603 Now don't forget, 682 00:23:33,603 --> 00:23:34,700 everything that I am doing 683 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:36,670 with the Corps of Engineers and FEMA 684 00:23:36,670 --> 00:23:41,220 is assuming that all possible 685 00:23:41,220 --> 00:23:42,530 stretches have been done. 686 00:23:42,530 --> 00:23:45,180 You ever been in a hospital room where there's one bed, 687 00:23:45,180 --> 00:23:46,820 but you look on the other side of the wall 688 00:23:46,820 --> 00:23:48,410 and there's two or three other plugs 689 00:23:48,410 --> 00:23:49,760 where they could put three other beds. 690 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:50,780 A lot of these hospitals 691 00:23:50,780 --> 00:23:52,950 have a massive expansive capability. 692 00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:54,480 They're doing that right now. 693 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,360 The city in New York is doing an awful lot 694 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,090 to go out and actually get hotels on their own 695 00:23:59,090 --> 00:24:00,410 to do some of these kinds of things. 696 00:24:00,410 --> 00:24:03,940 So this is when everybody is at max capacity, 697 00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:05,090 then we're trying to come in 698 00:24:05,090 --> 00:24:06,060 to be able to make sure 699 00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:08,480 we build that augmentation capacity 700 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,020 to take the stress off. 701 00:24:10,020 --> 00:24:13,620 So therefore, if they need the room in the real hospital, 702 00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:16,970 the beds available because we've got the backup one, 703 00:24:16,970 --> 00:24:18,570 the where the person was to place into. 704 00:24:18,570 --> 00:24:20,287 So it's a different answer for every city. 705 00:24:20,287 --> 00:24:22,890 - But it is the point at which 706 00:24:24,220 --> 00:24:26,690 existing the hospital capacity 707 00:24:26,690 --> 00:24:29,050 is at a critical state. 708 00:24:29,050 --> 00:24:29,926 - That's how we're looking at it. 709 00:24:29,926 --> 00:24:30,885 - [Barbara] Thank you. 710 00:24:30,885 --> 00:24:33,510 - (mumbles) so we'll stay in the room here, Megan? 711 00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:35,010 - So up until about this week, 712 00:24:35,010 --> 00:24:37,869 secretary Esper was kind of urging more 713 00:24:37,869 --> 00:24:38,930 that cities and States 714 00:24:38,930 --> 00:24:40,940 should look to their local contractors 715 00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:42,130 to be able to do this on their own 716 00:24:42,130 --> 00:24:43,330 because the Army Corps of Engineers, 717 00:24:43,330 --> 00:24:45,400 we'll take some time to turn all that around. 718 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,310 But it seems like you guys 719 00:24:46,310 --> 00:24:47,920 have gotten up and running in just a few days. 720 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,030 So how are you able to expedite your process 721 00:24:51,030 --> 00:24:53,610 to do this as quickly as anybody else was able to do it? 722 00:24:53,610 --> 00:24:54,840 - So first of all, two things. 723 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,090 The first thing is to be able to have an idea 724 00:24:58,090 --> 00:25:00,010 and to excite a passion 725 00:25:00,010 --> 00:25:01,660 versus to be able to have a design. 726 00:25:01,660 --> 00:25:02,820 We've got to tell everybody, 727 00:25:02,820 --> 00:25:04,060 you got to go all in. 728 00:25:04,060 --> 00:25:05,810 I was telling somebody the other day, 729 00:25:05,810 --> 00:25:07,260 you know, the federal government has said 730 00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:09,750 maybe the best way to beat this is stay home. 731 00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:11,240 I told a bunch of people today, 732 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,073 I said, the best way to do this, 733 00:25:12,073 --> 00:25:14,010 to stay home and be on the phone. 734 00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:15,340 If you have a hotel, 735 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:17,390 call up your mayor or call up your governor. 736 00:25:17,390 --> 00:25:19,490 If you're a professor and a dormitory 737 00:25:19,490 --> 00:25:21,980 and you've got 5,000 empty rooms that we don't know about, 738 00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:23,990 call up your state and let them know. 739 00:25:23,990 --> 00:25:26,720 So let people know that there are facilities out there, 740 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:27,940 so we can work this out. 741 00:25:27,940 --> 00:25:30,750 So it's the ability to leverage the idea. 742 00:25:30,750 --> 00:25:33,840 It's much more of an idea than it is a final design 743 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,540 and then let this grow bottoms up! 744 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:37,510 And that's what we're really seeing is taken off. 745 00:25:37,510 --> 00:25:39,110 We actually had the... 746 00:25:39,110 --> 00:25:41,330 Britain called us three days ago 747 00:25:41,330 --> 00:25:43,840 asking us to export our idea over to Britain, 748 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,280 so they can leverage it over there. 749 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,800 We're working with Australia right now 750 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,390 to be able to coach them through 751 00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:49,910 how to do this in Australia. 752 00:25:49,910 --> 00:25:51,050 So we're really working at it. 753 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:52,450 Just like Dr. Asper said, 754 00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:54,520 we need cities and States to do it, 755 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,327 but President Trump has said right up front, 756 00:25:56,327 --> 00:25:59,200 "The federal government has to step in here as well." 757 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,810 We've got to be able to continue to push 758 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:02,414 and that's where I tell our guys, 759 00:26:02,414 --> 00:26:04,089 don't wait for the phone to ring. 760 00:26:04,089 --> 00:26:06,240 We're looking at the red dot 761 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,960 and if we haven't got a phone call, 762 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,640 we're calling up our Colonel say 763 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:10,640 you go down to that city. 764 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,260 I just did one two hours ago, Tom. 765 00:26:12,260 --> 00:26:13,770 I said this DOD is too big 766 00:26:13,770 --> 00:26:15,040 and yet I don't see an assessment. 767 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,720 I don't see it and it's not on my 114 cities. 768 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,240 Get our guy down there and go find the mayor and say, 769 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,073 what are you doing? 770 00:26:21,073 --> 00:26:23,290 Some of these mayors have a great plan, maybe 771 00:26:23,290 --> 00:26:25,050 that they've got some other capability. 772 00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:26,900 We had one city where there's three hospitals 773 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:28,240 are being built right now. 774 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,550 Then they're coming on board in another couple of weeks 775 00:26:30,550 --> 00:26:31,750 that mayor knows that. 776 00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:32,670 We don't know that. 777 00:26:32,670 --> 00:26:34,650 So we're seeing a demand signal, 778 00:26:34,650 --> 00:26:36,860 but we don't necessarily know what the requirement is. 779 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:39,410 So as the ability to be able to be aggressive, 780 00:26:39,410 --> 00:26:41,100 get ahead of the requirement, 781 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,460 anticipate it before we need it, 782 00:26:43,460 --> 00:26:45,410 but also work side by side, 783 00:26:45,410 --> 00:26:47,940 so as the federal is pulling hard, 784 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:49,150 the state pulling hard, 785 00:26:49,150 --> 00:26:50,530 and the city is pulling hard. 786 00:26:50,530 --> 00:26:51,460 Everybody working together. 787 00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:52,700 When I walked into Javits, 788 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:53,533 I don't think I said this 789 00:26:53,533 --> 00:26:55,030 As I walked into Javits last night 790 00:26:55,030 --> 00:26:56,500 and there's 20 people there 791 00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,410 and they didn't hear because there's some General coming 792 00:26:58,410 --> 00:26:59,243 and I walked in and 793 00:26:59,243 --> 00:27:00,760 all of a sudden here's 794 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,787 the colonels from the army hospital 795 00:27:02,787 --> 00:27:04,286 and here's the HHS team, 796 00:27:04,286 --> 00:27:07,100 all their where their HHS shirts and DHS. 797 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:09,060 And everybody was around the table 798 00:27:09,060 --> 00:27:09,980 trying to figure out 799 00:27:09,980 --> 00:27:12,360 how can we stretch some more beds into Javits. 800 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,270 It's an amazing... 801 00:27:13,270 --> 00:27:16,150 And this is where a lot of the challenges go away 802 00:27:16,150 --> 00:27:17,930 when you all have a common vision 803 00:27:17,930 --> 00:27:20,590 to try to make solving a problem all together. 804 00:27:20,590 --> 00:27:21,840 So that is a good question Megan, 805 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,394 but you gotta be aggressive here. 806 00:27:23,394 --> 00:27:25,560 - Sir we'll do one more on the phone. 807 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,337 Let's go to Jared with-- 808 00:27:27,337 --> 00:27:28,250 And we could take him to, 809 00:27:28,250 --> 00:27:29,710 cause we'll try to get him as well. 810 00:27:29,710 --> 00:27:30,730 Okay, good. 811 00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:32,145 - Yes, General. 812 00:27:32,145 --> 00:27:32,978 Go ahead Jared. 813 00:27:32,978 --> 00:27:34,230 - [Jared] Yeah thanks General. 814 00:27:34,230 --> 00:27:35,063 I'm just curious, 815 00:27:35,063 --> 00:27:36,660 considering all the infrastructure advantages 816 00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:38,710 you talked about with convention centers. 817 00:27:39,550 --> 00:27:41,730 To what extent are you making formal recommendations 818 00:27:41,730 --> 00:27:44,770 to States and cities that that's their best option? 819 00:27:44,770 --> 00:27:47,820 Or is it just completely dependent on local conditions? 820 00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:49,340 - You know, I've got to admit 821 00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:51,570 I'm not real, real smart on the infrastructure 822 00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:52,500 and the convention center, 823 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,210 but I went through with the Javits team yesterday. 824 00:27:55,210 --> 00:27:57,410 They walked me through their infrastructure 825 00:27:57,410 --> 00:27:59,330 and I was amazed at the flexibility. 826 00:27:59,330 --> 00:28:01,920 These people do 171 events a year 827 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:02,805 from car shows to boat shows. 828 00:28:02,805 --> 00:28:05,420 they have down in their basement, 829 00:28:05,420 --> 00:28:06,920 all kinds of wall panels. 830 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,430 They can make almost any kind of configurations. 831 00:28:09,430 --> 00:28:12,100 And so, as I think through more and more on this, 832 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:15,830 the convention center model is a pretty good model. 833 00:28:15,830 --> 00:28:16,870 The nice thing is 834 00:28:16,870 --> 00:28:18,560 I don't have to bring all this stuff in 835 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,550 with other contractors, 836 00:28:19,550 --> 00:28:20,830 they have the majority of it. 837 00:28:20,830 --> 00:28:22,570 They have a massive workforce 838 00:28:22,570 --> 00:28:25,190 in the Javits convention center that's already trained. 839 00:28:25,190 --> 00:28:26,150 They're already there. 840 00:28:26,150 --> 00:28:27,790 They need their jobs as well, 841 00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:29,170 so we can put them back to work. 842 00:28:29,170 --> 00:28:32,150 So, I'm leaning very heavily on the convention center. 843 00:28:32,150 --> 00:28:34,280 We're excited that we might have the potential 844 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,610 to do the convention center model COVID, 845 00:28:37,610 --> 00:28:40,910 but it really goes back to what works best for that city. 846 00:28:40,910 --> 00:28:43,170 And the hotel arrangement 847 00:28:43,170 --> 00:28:45,560 might be better for smaller cities. 848 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,720 If you have a bunch of five or six hotels 849 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,730 out near a highway intersection 850 00:28:49,730 --> 00:28:52,840 and you don't have great big large open spaces, 851 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,180 then we could go into that hotel capability 852 00:28:55,180 --> 00:28:57,960 and give you 150 or 200 853 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,780 and still be able to take a demand off 854 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:02,320 because it's not just the big, big cities. 855 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,310 The smaller cities are gonna have the same exact problem. 856 00:29:05,310 --> 00:29:06,610 It's just scale. 857 00:29:06,610 --> 00:29:09,200 The smaller cities might be able to scale up to it, 858 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,550 but it goes back to what is that individual requirement 859 00:29:12,550 --> 00:29:14,310 and how do we continue to support them. 860 00:29:14,310 --> 00:29:15,260 So over to you. 861 00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:17,540 - General (mumbles) in Fox News. 862 00:29:17,540 --> 00:29:18,910 There's a lot of people in L.A. 863 00:29:18,910 --> 00:29:20,980 that are worried that they could be the next New York. 864 00:29:20,980 --> 00:29:22,763 What are you doing in L.A? 865 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,940 What are your efforts there? 866 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:26,380 - So, let me get back to that one. 867 00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:28,060 I've got a briefing in about an hour 868 00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:29,130 with all of my commanders. 869 00:29:29,130 --> 00:29:30,150 I'll double check. 870 00:29:30,150 --> 00:29:32,180 I know right now that I think, 871 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:34,540 we definitely have people working in L.A, 872 00:29:34,540 --> 00:29:36,000 but I don't have the specifics 873 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,040 with respect to which convention center I'm in. 874 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,470 I've got reams of paper and your I could dig it out, 875 00:29:40,470 --> 00:29:42,720 but I think let me do a little bit more details 876 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,030 and we can talk to L.A later. 877 00:29:44,030 --> 00:29:45,200 - And in New York, 878 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,622 what are you looking to ramp up to? 879 00:29:46,622 --> 00:29:49,180 Like you mentioned the 2,900 rooms in Javits Center, 880 00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:51,300 but what are your plans right now? 881 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,200 How many beds total in New York? 882 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,380 - Yeah, so I think the... 883 00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:57,010 And I'm not gonna get into specifics 884 00:29:57,010 --> 00:29:57,970 'cause I'm really only talking 885 00:29:57,970 --> 00:29:59,210 about the facilities we're helping. 886 00:29:59,210 --> 00:30:01,950 I know the mayor's got a lot of his own facilities 887 00:30:01,950 --> 00:30:03,630 and I don't know all those numbers. 888 00:30:03,630 --> 00:30:06,450 The governor has got a lot of his own facilities 889 00:30:06,450 --> 00:30:07,860 that I don't know those numbers. 890 00:30:07,860 --> 00:30:09,070 I know that we have been asked 891 00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:11,420 to go out both for this city in the state 892 00:30:11,420 --> 00:30:14,370 to find three more each, three more big facilities 893 00:30:14,370 --> 00:30:17,240 and we're right in the middle of writing contracts right now 894 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,450 for some of those state facilities. 895 00:30:19,450 --> 00:30:21,440 And we're still trying to figure out 896 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,280 if is it COVID or non-COVID 897 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,630 for some of the city facilities. 898 00:30:24,630 --> 00:30:26,234 And I flew out two hours ago, 899 00:30:26,234 --> 00:30:28,233 my guys are on the ground working those out right now. 900 00:30:28,233 --> 00:30:31,700 - And how is the hospital ship comfort 901 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,343 arriving in New York money gonna help your efforts. 902 00:30:35,540 --> 00:30:36,950 - And again, I'll probably stay in my lane. 903 00:30:36,950 --> 00:30:38,350 I don't have a lot to do with the comfort. 904 00:30:38,350 --> 00:30:41,440 All I know is that when you think about the concept 905 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,420 of taking people that are non-COVID out of hospitals 906 00:30:46,441 --> 00:30:48,260 And I hear the numbers about a thousand. 907 00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:51,190 That will end up bringing more of that workload 908 00:30:51,190 --> 00:30:52,280 out of those hospitals, 909 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,980 so that if I was asked to build an extra thousand, 910 00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:56,870 that thousand could go into the comfort, 911 00:30:56,870 --> 00:30:59,350 which means an extra thousand or we don't have to handle. 912 00:30:59,350 --> 00:31:02,340 And I'm gonna try to be on the ground about every other day. 913 00:31:02,340 --> 00:31:03,410 So hopefully when I come in 914 00:31:03,410 --> 00:31:05,520 we'll be able to do kind of a deep dive 915 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:06,800 on a specific facility. 916 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,640 And then again, whatever we can do, 917 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,320 either through the FEMA or HHR architecture, 918 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,030 our goal is to be transparent, 919 00:31:13,030 --> 00:31:14,930 but it's also to be extremely aggressive 920 00:31:14,930 --> 00:31:16,430 and try to be again, 921 00:31:16,430 --> 00:31:17,650 I can't stress it enough, 922 00:31:17,650 --> 00:31:19,560 the good enough solution on time. 923 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,630 - And I think it'll be helpful to get a listing 924 00:31:21,630 --> 00:31:22,990 of those 114. 925 00:31:22,990 --> 00:31:23,840 - Let me get with FEMA-- 926 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,980 - [Tom] I wanna ask you whatever city in the country, 927 00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:28,996 - Let me see if there's any problem, Tom of that. 928 00:31:28,996 --> 00:31:31,296 - Have they've been to visit Washington State. 929 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:34,250 - Right now I think I've got... 930 00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:36,280 Every day is crazy and you can imagine that. 931 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:37,993 So, that's probably my next one. 932 00:31:37,993 --> 00:31:39,930 I think I'm doing Chicago next week 933 00:31:39,930 --> 00:31:41,170 and then, I mean, early next week 934 00:31:41,170 --> 00:31:42,719 and I'll try to do Washington perhaps later, okay. 935 00:31:42,719 --> 00:31:44,689 - Sir, thank for your time we really appreciate it. 936 00:31:44,689 --> 00:31:45,522 - [Tom] Thanks a lot. 937 00:31:45,522 --> 00:31:46,405 - Thank you very much. - Thank you very much guys, 938 00:31:46,405 --> 00:31:47,238 we'll see you. 939 00:31:47,238 --> 00:31:48,905 Thank you very much.