dr. john torres. dr. torres, good to have you on board with us. let's talk about your position there as a doctor. what is your biggest concern right now? >> alex, one of the biggest things with any hurricane is the trauma itself from the hurricane. we're talking about the water, the wind, those types of things that are going on. we are actually at miami jewish health, which is the largest nursing home facility in south florida. it's also the largest elderly care facility in south florida. this is a particularly vulnerable population because of the alzheimer's, dementia and other medical issues they might have. it turns out for these patients it's more important that they stay in place than get evacuated because evacuation can be very risky, so here at miami jewish health, they have done what they need to do to ride out the hurricane, keeping the patients here and taking care of them. they stocked up with water, with food. their staff has come in to spend time here, what they need to spend to ride out the hurricane to make sure these patients are w

dr. john torres has that story. >> reporter: this normal saturday inside one of florida's largest nursing homes is anything but. the 700 seniors who live here less than a mile from the storm-swept atlantic will not evacuate. >> where would we go? >> for florida's most vulnerable, a new study shows evacuation could be more dangerous than hunkering down. it looked at nearly 40,000 nursing home residents hit by hurricanes in recent years. for those who evacuate, doctors found double the risk of death and quadruple the chance of seniors would end up in the hospital. >> they all experienced adverse events when they moved patients from their nursing home to someplace else. >> reporter: it's especially risky for alzheimer's patients. more than half a million live in florida. >> new people, new faces, all are tough on alzheimer's patients. so if we can kind of keep the semblance of the routine and the order going, that's going to help. >> reporter: here at the miami jewish health complex -- >> that's a bingo! >> reporter: -- everyone, including staff, stays put through the storm. so it looks like

dr. john torres both in puerto rico with the very latest on the ground there, but first the fierce reaction pouring in today after president trump unleashes a furious twitter rant slamming the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. kelly o'donnell right near the president's golf resort in new jersey. another good day to you. any comment from the administration after the present blast of the san juan mayor on twitter today? >> reporter: no and the standard response from the white house will with anything related to the president's tweets is that they speak for themselves and we have found that senior officials don't engage in trying to explain or somehow justify the president's tweets. they simply stay hands off and that the president speaks directly and frankly in his own way they say but what he said in the way that he said it in the time that he said it using twitter is something that is really drawn an emotional and angry response because of the nature of the personal criticism that's implicit in the president's tweets. let's look at the series of tweets from earlier today that has kicked off t

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dr. john torres, who made his way to miami as well. dr. torres. >> craig, florida is home to more people over 65 than any other part of the country, a large number with dementia and alzheimer's. it's much better to keep them in place, even with evacuation orders and natural disaster like irma than it is to evacuate them to. help with this, miami health, largest facility in south florida property in extra help and supplies to keep these patients healthy and safe. this normal saturday inside one of florida's largest nursing homes is anything but to 700 seniors who live here, less than a mile from the storm swept atlantic will not evacuate. for florida's most vulnerable, studies show evacuating could be more dangerous than hunkering down. it looked at recent years. for those who evacuate, doctors found double the risk of death and quadruple the chance seniors would end up in the hospital. >> they all experienced adverse events when they moved patients from their nursing home to someplace else. >> reporter: it's especially risky for alzheimer's

dr. john torres is back from texas after witnesses the crisis firsthand.e the thanksgiving thing concerning to you right now? >> people are getting back to their houses and starting to get back to their lives. can you see in the pictures where where people are taking things out of their lives? in their house, mold is a big issue. they're extremely concerned about mold, especially in any water got in there whatsoever. food poisoning could be a big deal. food could have gotten spoiled, and when people left, a lot of people left without medications and without medical treatment they needed because they were going through chemotherapy and dialysis. make sure you get back with your doctor and get on your regime and just the difference hazards out there while you're out and about. >> i've heard about the water having any number of contaminants. one was saying millions of contaminants in that water. you're going to have to wade through it for some folks. >> people are going to have to go through the water. one of the first things, if you have water in your house

dr. john torres both in puerto rico with the latest on the ground there.e'll start with you, kelly, right near the president's golf resort in new jersey. the president spending his weekend there. kelly, are you hearing anything more from the administration following the president's twitter rant this morning when he was attacking the mayor of san juan, puerto rico? >> reporter: no comment from officials we have asked about the president's tweet. we've seen in just a two day span two different messages from the president, different tone emotionally and that is very notable. when he was departing the white house to come here for his weekend in new jersey, the president spoke at length with reporters. he was asked about puerto rico and the response. he talked about some of the resources that have been sent. he talked about the need to rebuild the power grid, citing his own history as someone from the building world and construction, so a tone of wanting to reach out and be helpful. very different tone reading the string of tweets early this morning where the p

dr. john torres joining me by phone, dr. survival for children that young trapped in the rubble? >> it completely depends on where they're trapped, how bad the trapping is and how much rubble is over the top of them. the same rescue workers have to concentrate on number one, finding out if there's survivors, getting to them as quickly as possible. and also that as they start moving the rubble, that none of the rubble falls on top of them. and also they have to make sure that the child or the adult gets some type of hydration, because dehydration is going to be the big killer right here. they need some type of water, because as they lay still their muscles are going to break down which can cause kidney issues and other things that are life threatening as well. >> we do know that they did feed down some liquids, pedialyte or water or some other life sustaining liquids, so that is of course a hopeful sign. all of this breaking news continues, my colleague craig melvin is up here on msnbc. >> craig melvin, here at msnbc headquar

dr. john torres. dr. john, thank you for joining us. i want to talk about the real concerns about the health of the kids down there. they've been trapped now for almost 48 hours. this earthquake happened during this show two days ago. they're presumably in a pretty tight space. what are first responders, what are paramedics concerned about right now? >> paramedics, definitely, katy, are racing against the clock. one of the things you have to worry about is being dehydrated. people can live a few days without getting food. that's why they're putting tubes down there. dehydration affects the whole body but more fortunately in this case, because they're lying still, they might be trapped under the rubble where the rubble is crushing against them. the muscles start breaking down, and when they start breaking down that can be a deadly condition that can actually kill them and you counter that by giving fluids. if they don't give fluids, as time goes on it gets more desperate. that's why you see them doing this race against the clock. >> and

dr. john torres reporting. let's bring in meteorologist steve sosna. went to cat 1 about an hour ago. any chance this could resurge and go up to a cat 2 at this point? >> i have really good news for you. that's not going to happen. >> yea! >> everybody's nerves are frazzled, everybody's exhausted. we will get better. it's not there yet but we do have some improvement in the fact this will not intensify. so, certainly the takeaway here after we've had just a really tough 72 hours across the state of florida right now. it's an 85-mile-per-hour storm, a cat 1, the loews on the scale here. its not a storm that is void of problems here. we have some heavy rain, some gusty winds out there. and, certainly, that will cause some problems. let's take a look at the projected path. when do we get rid of the storm in northern florida? it doesn't happen until probably late in the day today and into tomorrow night until this storm is finally out of here. so, that means that the rain and the wind across north florida will still continue here as you wake up on this monday morning and as you head off t

dr. john torres reporting. let's bring in meteorologist steve sosna. went to cat 1 about an hour ago. any chance this could resurge and go up to a cat 2 at this point? >> i have really good news for you. that's not going to happen. >> yea! >> everybody's nerves are frazzled, everybody's exhausted. we will get better. it's not there yet but we do have some improvement in the fact this will not intensify. so, certainly the takeaway here after we've had just a really tough 72 hours across the state of florida right now. it's an 85-mile-per-hour storm, a cat 1, the loews on the scale here. its not a storm that is void of problems here. we have some heavy rain, some gusty winds out there. and, certainly, that will cause some problems. let's take a look at the projected path. when do we get rid of the storm in northern florida? it doesn't happen until probably late in the day today and into tomorrow night until this storm is finally out of here. so, that means that the rain and the wind across north florida will still continue here as you wake up on this monday morning and as you head off t

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dr. john torres visited the only medical facility in the caribbean, located in san juan. >> reporter: thispital in san juan, paurt rico. it's the only trauma center on the island. up until two days ago they were running on generators that gave them some electricity they needed, but not all. two days ago they got full electricity and full water so they're up and running. they're one of the few hospitals in puerto rico that actually has that. all other hospitals on the island are struggling on generators, running out of gasoline, having trouble, patients getting to them because of access. that creates a domino effect meaning hospitals like this one become overwhelmed because patients from other parts of the island come here for treatment. the staff has been here 24/7, even though they have problems at home themselves, taking care of patients. they're more than willing to do that. they're now saying they're starting to let patients go and staff go because they're finally getting things under control since electricity and water is back, but that's what the other hospitals in the island need as

dr. john torres is here with more on that. great to see you, dr. john. >> good morning.y's relentless rains started on saturday. by sunday, nearly two feet had fallen, making roads impossible. for one patient at m.d. anderson cancer center who needed critical care on make sure he got it. when harvey made its way to houston last weekend, the world-renowned m.d. anderson cancer center was quickly surrounded by water. dr. karen liu had to make a heartbreaking decision to shut down some of the hospital's lifesaving services. >> i've been here for 18 years, and this is the worst that it's been. i was scared on sunday. the water was high. >> reporter: this team had an even greater fear -- their patient was in the hospital while they were all stranded at home. >> we knew that the gyp fusion had to happen -- infusion had to happen on monday. >> reporter: john cormier's life and treatment couldn't wait. did you think it would happen? >> no, of course i didn't. if we didn't make this window, we would have to start over from the beginning. >> reporter: john has advanced melanoma. t