roland pickens. my pleasure to be here in person with you today and joined by sandra simon, our new ceo nursing home administrator along with other members of the laguna honda executive staff and members of the cms incident command are also present and joining us virtually. i stand here today on behalf of all of them to present you with the very brief but hopefully comprehensive update on the cms recertification journey of laguna honda. as you imagine, staff work tirelessly towards cms recertifyation. we welcome surveys for the cms medicare certification survey. that survey consisted of two components. the first was a health inspection portion, which took place between november 27 and december 1 and the second portion, the fire, life safety and emergency preparedness portion which took place december 4 through december 7. you will recall after the successful medicaid recertification back in august, we achieved our goal of becoming recertified in the medicaid program. as you know, more then 95 percent

pickens for the report. if you have some--well, i am curious about understanding more of 90 day gap and the recertification process that then you are saying because we had the medi-cal-we sent the medi-cal survey which an serve did i understand that correctly, we still are waitk you dr. chow for th question. you did understand correctly. the reasonable assurance period is a period 120 days, so that august survey, which gave us back certification in medicaid has s to be our first of two medicare e requirement onable assurance period. that is over and done and we are beyond that. >> good. according to your previous statements, the issue of tgoing to be pending the recertification completion for dicare, so it would be good to hear that we are still intending to do that. >> very much so. we maintain all along that ce of those 120 beds, not only to laguna, but the entire san francisco bay area, and so we intention upon applying for the requisite waver when we feel we and have that verecei fully approved. that is

we made stops in lee, allendale, bamberg, pickens, mccormick, clarendon, barnwell, fairfield, york, spartanburg, sumter, newberry, and richland, and they are all here, and they are excited. we are literally meeting voters where they are in their communities. and we still have stops to make that are coming up. and we are reminding voters that the election is now, and it ends on saturday, february 3. so if you have not voted, please make sure you do so. we are reminding voters there's too much at stake in 2024 to sit out this election. we are also reminding voters that it doesn't matter that our incumbent president is in the race. we have to put our nominee on the best possible footing to defeat whatever ,aga republican -- whatever maga republican comes out of their primary. we are reminding voters they should not get involved in a republican primary with every single -- where every single republican wants to ban abortion nationwide, wants to cut social security and medicare, and wants to cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy. [applause] we are reminding voters that they should not get involved in a re

we made stops in lee, allendale, pickens, mccormick, clarendon, barnwell, fairfield, york, spartanburg, sumter, newberry, and richmond. they are all here and they are excited. we are literally meeting voters where they are in their communities. and we still have stops to make that are coming up. we are reminding voters that the election is now and it ends on saturday, february 3. if you have not voted, please make sure you do so. we are reminding voters there is too much at stake in 2024 to sit out this election. we are also reminding voters that it does not matter that our incumbent president is in the race, we have to put our nominee on the best possible footing to defeat whatever maga republican comes out of their primary. we are reminding voters that they should not get involved in a republican primary where every single republican wants to ban abortion nationwide. wants to cut social security and medicare and wants to cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy. we are reminding south carolina democrats that nikki haley is the mother of maga. she was maga before it had a name. she signed an e

water rescues have happened in upstate south carolina, pickens county.nder a flash flood warning. charlotte and roanoke. this will translate north later on today. the dangerous conditions will arrive washington, d.c. and new york city by about 5:00 p.m. to midnight and with it will come intense winds. 162 million people under wind alerts and the wind predictions have been increasing. we're now thinking the jersey shore and long island could hit winds of up to 70 miles an hour. we will have probably millions without power come this time tomorrow. >> really dangerous. bill karins, thank you so very much. that does it for me and this edition of msnbc reports. thank you for the privilege of your time. katy tur picks up our coverage next here on msnbc. thanks and i'll see you. >>> good to be with you. it has been an extraordinary day. in washington, appellate

pickens for his five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr.thern border under the control of secretary mayorkas is 1954 miles of failure. 10 million illegal crossings in three years. the total loss of american law and order. exponential enhancement, millions of american families crushed by unspeakable loss and unprecedented loss of american leister drugs and violent crime. this is the legacy of secretary alejandro mayorkas , and as god is my witness we will impeach that man in this committee. we will hold him accountable for his colossal failure, and we will take no pleasure in doing so, because it closes the chapter of a disastrous era of american history. we have largely lost our country down there. this body should be discussing sending massive military aid to texas, not to ukraine. i lost a daughter not long ago. it is a club nobody wants to join. i listened. it was difficult to listen to you testify. i read your submitted testimony. and the message that i received was that your daughters are perfected and they are very, very proud of you

pickens for his five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, our southern border under the control of secretary mayorkas is 1954 miles of failure. 10 million illegal crossings in three years. the total loss of american law and order. exponential enhancement, millions of american families crushed by unspeakable loss and unprecedented loss of american leister drugs and violent crime. this is the legacy of secretary alejandro mayorkas , and as god is my witness we will impeach that man in this committee. we will hold him accountable for his colossal failure, and we will take no pleasure in doing so, because it closes the chapter of a disastrous era of american history. we have largely lost our country down there. this body should be discussing sending massive military aid to texas, not to ukraine. i lost a daughter not long ago. it is a club nobody wants to join. i listened. it was difficult to listen to you testify. i read your submitted testimony. and the message that i received was that your daughters are perfected and they are very,