Lieutenant General tied Sema Night General Semi night.

Thank you for joining us this morning.

And thank you for your service.

Just give everyone a sense right now, the scope of the mission you're facing.

So, George, first of all, on behalf of all of us in the Department of Defense, I mean, our thoughts and prayers go out to all the people that are affected by this so many different families.

And we're just so committed to be part of this national team to be able to try to mitigate this any way possible.

The scope is immense and there's really three different aspects of this.

There's a shortage of sites or facilities where that's what we're gonna talk about today.

Clearly, there's a shortage of supplies and enters a potential shortage of staff.

So we're trying to work the facility piece and we're looking right now at around 341 different facilities across all of the United States.

Vory summer to the Javits Center.

We've got eight contracts under gear right now, people in centers, constructing facilities, probably about 8500 beds.

And then by the end of the day, we should have another five contracts awarded with somewhere around another 4000 beds.

We don't know where this is going to go.

This is a state and local decision.

But what the corps wanted to do is to come up with an option.

So if we could be ableto be able to mitigate this dealt in some way, were able to find a solution that states could employ.

So when you're called into retrofitted dorm Ah, hotel, take us inside that what exactly happens, how do you do it?

So you talked a bit before coming in about the tent is out there in Central Park.

Think about establishing something on green grass that's awful hard.

You gotta bring electricity and water.

All the utilities are concept.

And when Governor Cuomo called us about two weeks ago, Secretary McCarthy from the Army said, Get to New York and find out a solution our thought was make it extremely simple.

Finding existing facility that already has all the codes has heat, has water, has I t has parking lots and then just put in whatever we can like a hospital.

Inside of the two big type of thoughts, one is hotels and dormitories were doing a lot of those.

The other one is large, big open spaces, field Hoff bills and convention centers and then us working side by side with the team.

And it is a federal state team.

HHS, FEMA we go in and either put in temporary hospitals will build rooms inside there, but the ability to be ableto build out an existing facility.

That's like Javits right now.

We started out and basically got that a couple of days ahead of time and brought that in with about 2900 rooms that non cove it people could be be be treated it.

There's two types of facilities.

Cove.

It is one kind, and that's a little bit more complicated with the pressure.

And then there's non Cove.

It very similar to what you're seeing in the comfort ship that's up there.

Now.

How do you stay out of the curve?

Where do you expect to be next?

Thank you.

The biggest thing probably is modeling, and we're taking a lot of guidance from Vice president.

Tense task forces.

We're looking at some amazing analytics to be able to figure out where do we see the growth of the of the threat being Maur more than anywhere else.

And where do we see the bed shortage?

So I've got a bunch of engineers in a back room who were looking at Where do we see us having big shortages?

Two or three weeks?

I've got 43 different command commanders and an unbelievable amount of technicians.

Is my civilians who were talking to governors mayors saying, We anticipate you're gonna have a shortage.

What is your What is your solution?

And here's some potential options.

So it's the ability to a ray a standard solution that is vetted at the national level.

But then, decentralized, what we've gotta do here, Georges, we've got to be able to come over the minimum essential.

We can't.

We don't have time for the perfect solution.

We've got to be able to cut to the chase and get this ahead and need.

And General, do you all have everything you need right now?

I think we do.

I think the biggest single thing is we've got to be able to make sure that decision makers at local and state levels really have to be able to probably think about what is worst case.

And I'd much rather take the time to convert a facility.

And if it's not used in four weeks, it's gonna be okay.

But what?

The worst thing we want to do is to be ableto have, you know, the the supply taking curve in the staff taking care of.

And yet we have ambulances with nowhere to go.

So that's where the Core is really trying to step up on behalf of FEMA to try to set to be able to mitigate this amazing delta.

And we know you are on top of it.

Thank you very much that thank you.

Very time this morning.

Thanks, General A George Thanks an awful lot for having a son.

And our numbers are going to change every single day, So I'd love to have you out on the ground.

You've got to see what this is like and the passion of this team to be able to step up for America and make things happen.

We will do it.

Thank you, General.