dr. steven patty. saint bernard hospital in the bronx. dr. lee vinokur, a e.r.and adjunct professor in shreveport, louisiana. you get a lot of heat in shreveport, louisiana, but right now the whole country is feeling it, doctor. what is your best advice? >> people in the south a little well more acclimated to it. so you hear about more deaths from the heat up in northern cities. but you have to --. jon: can you get acclimated to this kind of heat? it really does affect different parts of the country differently based on what you're used to? >> it is hotter down south but people seem to do better in the heat they're more used to it. more of the deaths you read about are usually, excuse me, in northern cities, chicago, new york, those kind of things. so you can get acclimated. when it is 105 degrees, anywhere, it can be a risk. you have to make sure you're well-hydrated. that is key and get out of the elements as much as you can. and, you know, if you can get into air-conditioning that is really key. jenna: dr. patty, as dr. vinokur was saying to us, drink water a

a physician is joining us who is attending physician in the bronx, dr. patti. what is the process?the people who respond at the scene, jenna, they need to first secure the area and make sure that it's contained prior to allowing the first responders to go in and administer first aid and get these injured ancic people out. then once they get them out, and they do a triage process where they decide who is serious, who needs to be transported immediately, and who could probably be treated as a safe tree age area that they set there up at the scene, removed from the danger zone, then they'll start that treatment process. and they'll bring the seriously injured ones to the hospital where we will then take over. jenna: we have to remember that you could have other people coming in from other incidents into that hospital at the very same time, dr. patti. we've been talking a lot about the shooting victims for obvious reasons, but we also are getting reports about people suffering from, you know, reaction to the chemical, whatever he threw into that theater, according to reports, burning s