fox5 was the first to tell you how kc's health department suspended umc 's license to conduct object settic care. one mother telling fox5 her care before giving birth was terrible. the hospital is in a tough situation . it has been, it was when i became mayor. over the weekend the washington post report odd a consulting firm brought in by the bowser administration for $300,000 a month to get umc back on track. the post reports the founder of that firm donated to the bowser campaign. but the mayor today defended the firm's work. they are turning things around financially. that's what them on in an emergency basis the hospital was going to have trouble making payroll. several years ago as mayor and now as council member vincent gray proposed a new hospital at st. elizabeth's but funding was held back. he says if he had had his way, the hospital would be less than two years from completion. i could almost tell you the day would have been 2019. we're in 2017 now. so we would be probably less than two years away from opening the new hospital. now we got $300 million once again in the budg

s health department suspended umc's license to conduct obstetric careone mother telling fox5 her careth was terrible. the hospital is in a of tough situation. it has been. it was when i became mayor. over the weekend the washington post reported on a consulting firm brought in by the bowser administration for $300,000 a in to get umc back on track. the post reports the founder of that firm donated to the bowser quam pain, but the mayor today defended the firm's work. they are turning things around financially. that's what the numbers show. when we brought the hospital was going to have trouble making payroll. several years ago as mayor council member, vincent gray proposed a new hospital at st. elizabeth's, but funding was held back. he says if he had had his way, the hospital would be less than two years from completion. i could almost tell you you the day would have been 2019. we're in 2017 now so we would probably less than two years away from opening the new hospital. now we got $300 million once again in the budget, but some of us in the out years which pleens if it stays on its

s hell department suspended umc's license to conduct obstetric care.er terrible. >> the hospital's in a tough situation and has been. it was when i became mayor. >> reporter: over the weekend the washington post reported on a consulting firm brought in by the bowser administration for $300,000 a month to get umc back on track. the post reports the founder of that firm donated to the bowser campaign. but the firm's work. >> they are turning things around financially. that's what the numbers show. when we brought them on in an emergency basis, the hospital was going to have trouble making payroll. >> reporter: several years ago, as mayor and now as council member vincent gray proposed a new hospital at saint elizabeth's but funding was held back. he says if he had his way the hospital would be less than two years from completion. >> i could almost tell you the day would have been 1919. we're in 2017 now we would be probably less than two years away from opening the new hospital. we got $300 million once again in the budget, but some of it's in the out ye

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i'm director of the sampson center for mental health services and umc for today. each year sampson releases most recent findings from the national service on drug use and health. it's commonly referred to as listed. were releasing results from the

days, i launched another streaming site called umc, the urban movie channel, that's focused on giving and the like, a chance to showcase their content and go to subscribers who want to pay for it, so you're not just limited to saying you got -- i got hbo, i got show time, i got other stars and all the others you can get something that's tailor made to your viewing interest and also creates an economic system to fund content creation by african-american talent that's grossly under employed in hollywood. it becomes very good business, and that's the way i look at it. i'm excited about that >> you know, in the hotel, we just acquired a company called falcore, and that makes us now approximately 160 some hoelgss the third largest in the country. even if you stream the notion is google and facebook and am skblon, they're all going to disintermediate the networks and have sports on you don't have the band width to do it necessarily unless it's done the way it's done right now. the players may still be around. you may still be watching sports on nbc or espn five years from now. >> how is del

>> well, i've heard local estimates, but jacksonville umc will have more information than i have right now. >> mr. mayor, earlier in the morning, we were talking about a story. we were hearing that first responders were using bets to go into a community near where you are, i believe, to try to get people out who were caught by surprise by this. do you have any update on that situation? >> matt, i don't have any specific information about specific events. we've had several incidents where fell trees have blocked our way into neighborhoods that are flooded. we're telling our citizens, please stay indoors, give the weather an opportunity to subside completely and get our rescue crews and survey crews out on the street. and you know, we're positioned to recover well. we just need to work together to get through it. >> jacksonville beach mayor, charlie latham, we appreciate you spending time with us this morning. we know you have quite a bit ahead of you today and in the weeks to come, so we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks, mr. mayor. >> thank you. >> president trump was quick to dec