really appreciate the opportunity is a pleasure now welcome to our show lieutenant general russel honore ray he's perhaps best known for serving as the commander of the joint task force katrina where he was responsible for coordinating katrina affected areas across the gulf calls is related to the military he has been critical of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic he joins us from baton rouge do you do you remain a critic general or have things improved. i do remain to credit because i know you're going to learn. where are we failing. well. number one in issue decisive diet's. we knew from day one the technique we should be using is people stayed in whole and we selectively. use that across the state level to go with us and we still have some 10 states still not pricey social distance when you're going to have a logistics problem and then when you do not have enough equipment you're to doctors and hospitals. and we still haven't fixed that problem and from the perspective of how we managing netlist just. i learned a long time ago that you know when you don't want to disasters t

the back with retired general lieutenant general russel honore ray he's joining us from baton rouge lieutenant general what's the situation currently like in louisiana louisiana is. isabel getting worse larry is going to get worse for we get better numbers every day the number of people dying and one being admitted because we their 1st test we did it 70 days a going to take the man alone to get the results back right about the numbers of people that's been certified and having the virus. unfortunately it takes of up that mountain time for people to test it down to go in with durward is an issue we've described as don't we want you know and they're certified sammy the virus and it was then i helped enough to survive and the worst was secondary conditions you know not surviving those with diabetes elderly obese or having car issues it's hard for people with those conditions to survive high what it what would you say to in this time of peril and there's no on the better word for it and you handled katrina so well what would you say to americans now watching and others around the world what advice