about operations at acadia. this past year has for minded us how important national park's -- has reminded us how important national parks are to our well-being. national parks are a way for us to connect with the wonders of nature and stories that bond us to meaningful places. the national park service wants every visitor to have a great park experience. we seek ways to support more exclusive experiences -- more inclusive experiences. ensuring visitors have enjoyable experiences is becoming increasingly challenging in our most popular parks. there are 423 parks in the national parks system, encompassing over 85 million acres across the nation, but visitation trends among them vary greatly. among half of our recreation visits are occurring at the top 23 most visited parks, with significant congestion concentrated in the most popular 12 to 15 parks. crowded conditions can be filled at the most popular scenic viewpoints within one quarter mile of a parking lot. congestion occurs when demand to access a site, entra

. >> reporter: we were right there when 48-year-old julia klay was loaded in the back of acadia ambulancette, louisiana. 59% of the beds here are filled with covid patients, and 93% of them are unvaccinated. and now clay is one of them. >> reporter: you wish you would have taken the vaccine? >> yes. >> reporter: acadia ambulance based in louisiana is the largest privately owned ambulance company in the country. we spent three days with them. dr. chuck bernal is their chief medical officer. of your call volume, how much is dominated by covid patients? >> around 30 to 40% of our calls is covid patients. >> reporter: 27-year-old trent is a field supervisor for acadia. >> we have three of them right now apparently waiting. >> reporter: he took us to lafayette general where ambulances were backed up because no e.r. beds were available. they had to wait with patients 30 minutes to three hours. >> we have to tell the

. >> reporter: acadia ambulance based in louisiana is the largest privately owned ambulance company in the country. we spent three days with them. dr. chuck bernal is their chief medical officer. of your call volume, how much is dominated by covid patients? >> around 30 to 40% of our calls is covid patients. >> reporter: 27-year-old trent is a field supervisor for acadia. >> we have three of them right now apparently waiting. >> reporter: he took us to lafayette general where ambulances were backed up because no e.r. beds were available. they had to wait with patients 30 minutes to three hours. >> we have to tell the hospital, like, look, find something. we don't care where you put this patient. you have to put them somewhere because we need to run emergencies. >> reporter: the supervisor is keisha. >> they're all drowning. we're all drowning and sucking air for sure. >> reporter: people will say it's not as bad as you're saying it is. >> i would tell them they might want to come work in e.m.s. come in the e.r., because the nurses feel it. we feel it. >> reporter: this covid surge has

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with unvaccinated kids at tpg we've got three picks for national parks and just beautiful places, acadiahigan, which has caribbean blue waters, and glacier national park in montana. >> and, of course, we can't ignore the delta variant and the spread of the virus. what should people know about booking and more importantly cancellations right now? >> so, flexibility is key. you need to have options so i highly recommend use your frequent flier miles. most airlines now waive the fees if you want to cancel for any reason, you'll get your miles and taxes and fees back. even if you buy tickets, most airlines will let you change for free. however, if you book the cheapest tickets, those basic economy fares, they do have some hefty change fees associated with them. highly recommend booking in advance. if you're not comfortable traveling change your plans, most airlines and hotels have flexible cancellation policies. >> so a lot of people really haven't been traveling much the last couple of years they might be a little rusty, nervous to get back out there. you're traveling all the time. what are

they have also completed the evacuation of 2500 inmates from seven local jails, those being acadia, or liens, clack amen some, st. mary, st. bernard and terrabone parishes. all of our hurricanes protection systems have been fully -- i'm sorry -- have been completely closed and all structures are fully operational at this time. as late at this morning, additional protection measures were being taken by levee districts. they completed sandbagging operations to address low areas ahead of the storm. based on the hurricane track and the wind, rain and surge forecast for the remainder of the hurricane, the cpra is indicating some overtopping of the soy portions of the laroche to golden meadow levee system, non-federal backed levees and and non-federal level in lower st. bernard parish as well. obviously overtopping is concerns, but i want to make sure overtopping and levee failure are not the same thing. a levee failure can be much more catastrophic, and so they are not the same things. obviously we're going to continue to monitor this flood protection system. i can tell you right now, we ha

if, for example, you live in lafayette, louisiana, you are a daily newspaper maybe the acadia daily advertiser. here is the front page of the daily advertiser from this morning. you see the big front page picture there. it is there a one feature on the bombing of the kabul airport yesterday. next to that, tropical storm ida takes aim at louisiana. the forecast says conditions are favorable to become a category three hurricane. this is from this morning. the forecast is now even worse and now looking like a category four. but even with those two big stories, really important stories on the front page, look at their top story, above the fold, all the way across the top. don't take horse mids. that's their main story. public health officer and agriculture commissioner warned against taking a livestock drug for covid-19. that is the top story today, even with everything else going on, in lafayette, louisiana. and i have to tell you, some kind of local iteration of that story has run in more than a half dozen states in the last few days. in mississippi, a version of that story has been front page n

they've also completed the evacuation of 2500 inmates from seven local jails, those being acadia, orleanssaint mary and terebone parishes. they continue to monitor gates across the coastal zone. a total of 459 gates out of 692 are closed. that's up 246 since the briefing yesterday. all of our hurricane protection systems have been fully -- i'm sorry, have been completely closed and all structures are fully operational at this time. as late as this morning, additional protection measures were being undertaken by levee districts such as the south levee district, they actually completed sheet pile and sandbagging operations to address low areas ahead of the storm. based on the hurricane track and the wind, rain and surge forecast for the remainder of the hurricane, the cpra is anticipating some over-topping of the southeast portions of the la rose to golden meadow levee system, nonfederal backed levees around middle grove and alliance and plakamans parish and saint bernard parish as well and obviously over-topping is concerning. i want to make sure everybody understands over-topping and leve

those being acadia, st. mary, st. bernard, vermilion. the cpr rate continues to monitor rates across the coastal zone. as of earlier today a total of 459 gates out of 692 are closed. that's up 246 since the briefing yesterday. all of our hurricane protection systems have been fully -- i'm sorry, have been completely closed and all structures are fully operational at this time. as late as this morning additional protection measures were being undertaken by levy districts such as the south lapouce. they addressed low areas ahead of the storm. based on the hurricane prak and the wind rain and surge forecast for the remainder of the hurricane, the cpra is anticipating some over topping of the southeast portions of the la rose to golden meadow levy system. nonfederal backed and alliance and nonfederal levies in lower st. bernard perish as well. obviously overtopping is concerning but i want to make sure that everybody understands, overtopping and levy failure are not the same thing. a levy failure can be more catastrophic. they're not the sam