"...the biggest need in Asheville is water. There is no running water in the city. So, that is showers. That is flushing toilets. That is, of course, drinking water. So the water is definitely the biggest need.

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"People are wandering around the streets, basically trying to find service or a Wi-Fi hot spot.

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• Amna Nawaz:
 

"You covered the visit of the governor and FEMA officials to Asheville today. What are they telling you about when some of that aid, when water will be able to make its way in, and also why they weren't better prepared in terms of pre-positioning some of these materials?


• Gerard Albert III:


"Right.
 They're — they — in their visit, they stress that help is here. They're doing what they can. But I think it feels so slow because some of the roads are still not traversable even by these rescue vehicles.


"But the federal government, the state government, the local governments, all of them are still working on rescue missions. They are getting water out into places that they feel need it. They are going to the hospitals and making sure they have power and they have water, because that was an issue too.

In one of the biggest hospitals here, Mission Hospital in Asheville, doctors would do procedures and couldn't wash their hands afterwards. They had no sterile equipment. So now they have some of that, *according to the governor.*

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"...It is still rescue mode. It is still trying to get in contact with somebody, trying to find *water*, trying to find food. It's not at the recovery stage just yet.

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"It causes anxiety. And I had a place to stay, luckily, but for people that maybe don't have a place to stay, it's just a very anxious time. People are on edge. People are worried. And it's getting to the point where they're getting to their wit's end with the lack of food, the *lack of water,* the lack of being able to reach people."