mr. chaisson: yeah.hainsaw crews and trustees, crews in partnership with our sheriff's office, cutting up the trees and power line -- powerlines. a lot of the employees were here because they are essential. as they come in, we are opening up the regional field offices and getting excavators and things like that to push the stuff off the road. the big part into tonight and tomorrow will be getting bigger amounts of supplies into the parish. food, mre's, ice, and water to be able to open up those points of distribution so we can help people survive bette judy: you mentioned the hospitals. tell us what the situation there is. mr. chaisson: two of our hospitals, the one in the central part and the one down south had roof damage, caused significant water damage. all of the patients themselves are safe and have been taken out of the facilities to other regional hospitals that were not affected. we are working with our partners, with the governor's office, homeland security of emergency preparedness, and the na

archie chaisson is the president of lafourche parish. >> woodruff: mr. chaisson, thank you very much f joining us. first of all, tell us how padly was lafourche parish hit? >> we got hit by a mac truck over the last 16 hours. it was ever bit the strong category 4 they told us it would be. two-thirds of our parish, and the top third has probably some moderate damage to homes and businesses. two of our local hospitals, both of those facilities are comprised, and we're working on getting patients out of there. our water system to the bottom third of our parish is compromised, and we will try to figure out why that system is leaking, whether we lost a water tower somewhere alone the way or we have a mainline breach somewhere. it is picking up the pieces. communications are tough. most of the cell phone towers were hard hit. so trying to communicate on radios, dispatch with our sheriff's office is a little difficult at the moment. >> woodruff: it sounds like just about everything was affected. what about peple? injuries? >> so luckily no reported fatalities.