she's at the new york langone medical center. a hospital which has largely been evacuated. she's learned there's still a number of patients who were too sick to be moved. elizabe elizabeth, how many patients are actually still in the hospital? >> nyu folks tell us about five or six patients are there and anderson, they say they are so critically ill, many of them on life support. the doctors got together and said you know what, if we move these people we could kill them. it is safer to have them weather the storm here at nyu. what is really so heroic, anderson, about 15 to 20 doctors and nurses said we're staying here to take care of those patients. we're not going anywhere either. i asked folks at nyu, are they nervous? they're practically on the east river, which could very likely overflow. they said, no, they're not. they're new yorkers, they're tough, this is what they need to do. >> at what point would they know when it's okay to bring patients back? at what point would that decision be made? at least for now, in terms of rain, maybe the winds might pick up, but in ter

the nyu langone medical center brought in 20,000 of these bags of sand.reason why is just on the other side of these doors. come here, let me show you what i mean. just across the street from the hospital is the east river. as you can see, that hospital is so close, it's just about 100 yards away from the river, anderson. i'm told that about 15 nurses and 2 doctors volunteered to stay at the hospital to take care of these six -- five or six sick people. i asked the administrator was it a tough sell? did you have to convince these gals and guys to stay? he said absolutely not. they wanted to stay and take care of these people. >> it's an excellent hospital. i've been there myself. we'll take a quick break. our coverage continues in a moment. we'll be right back. if something is simply the color of gold, is it really worth more? we don't think so. chase sapphire preferred is a card of a different color. unlike others, you get twice the points on travel, and twice the points on dining, and no foreign transaction fees. call now or apply at chasesapphire.com/p

and, there is a sense that, you know, ken langone, a prominent new york republican, business guy and meeting of people to encourage chris christie to run and out of the meeting, people felt people like chris would be interested and have to look at it again and people talked to paul ryan and i get the sense from some of them, maybe it is wish of thinking they are so enthusiastic about him or christie jumping into the race what they get out of the conversations is what they want to nor but there is enough chatter we have to give it credence and looking at the schedule of sarah palin, after labor day, i think she has a campaign style schedule, post labor day, that is either going to be accentuated of her celebrityhood or, lay the predicate for running or president. martha: you are a very influential person and you say that and talk about the candidates who claim they don't want to run people think you are not satisfied with mitt romney urich perry or michelle bachmann. >> no, what i said is we have a good field, but, obviously there are people talking to these people who are walking awa