Next week on @CBSMornings, the story we drove up on in Barataria, LA.
Hard hit by hurricane Ida, flood water sent caskets floating away. A neighbor’s kindness brought comfort to 1 woman’s family. What happened, & what the state is doing to make it right, on Tuesday morning.
To see one like this is sobering.
It’s quieting.
It’s thought provoking.
Louisiana may be only state in the country to have a Cemetery Response Task Force. It’s their obligation to identify who’s in the casket and to ensure that there is a proper reburial.
This is Ryan Seidemann, chairman of the task force. He’s taken aerial helicopter flights above hurricane ravaged areas in Louisiana. He found multiple cemetery’s disturbed by flood water & caskets that floated away. Some far. Some within eye sight of the original resting place.
Our report airs Tuesday morning at 7am on @CBSMornings
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THREAD: Keighlie Renee Reaux, 24, died today.
She had been hospitalized, due to Covid, since August 5th. She died today at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, LA. She had been on a ventilator since August 9th. Keighlie had gone on a July 4th family vacation.
Everyone on the trip contracted Covid. None of them were vaccinated. All of them recovered, except for Keighlie, who was 38 weeks pregnant, at the time. When she started feeling severely ill, doctors performed an emergency C-section and delivered her baby boy Krew.
He was healthy and still is today. She never got to hold him. Keighlie’s parents have been caring for him while holding vigil for their daughter who fought hard for more than a month.
We interviewed Dr. Hasan Kakli 2 weeks ago when he tried everything to save the life of a US Army veteran who died of a treatable condition b/c he couldn’t get emergency care fast enough. Dr. Kakli told us then: come spend 12hrs with me in the E.R. We did.
Dr. Hasan Kakli: “Covid is kicking humanity's ass, and as a member, as a team player on team Humanity, I take that personally."
Dr. Hasan Kakli, who works at El Campo Memorial Hospital Emergency Department in Texas, is in a race against time to give patients specialized care with a lack of resources due to the COVID-19 pandemic. cbsnews.com/video/weve-nev…
Tomorrow on @CBSMornings our report from inside the E.R. at El Campo Memorial Hospital, a rural lifeline 76mls SW of Houston. When Dr. Hasan Kakli opened his computer he couldn’t believe his sickest patients were waiting thousands of minutes for an ICU bed. Why the wait? Covid.
“You would never see four digits on minutes since checked in. We’re four digits minutes, thousands of minutes. We’ve never seen this. Ever. Ever.”
“We see like 200 minutes since checked in, 250 minutes since checked in. We all get antsy, like why is this patient still here, we got to get them out, get them out, get the helicopter, get whoever, let’s get a bed for them.”
Must See: Here’s the extended raw clip of what the SWAT team at the St. John the Baptist Sheriffs Office in LA. did to check on & care for a 77yo man named John Moore, & his dog Nixon. The tender compassion those men showed him was beautiful. Makes me a proud to be from Louisiana
It will break your heart.
It will make you cry.
It will make you smile.
And it will want to make you say: thank you.
THREAD: From a mom (@kodiwilson) in Louisiana: “I’m in Baton Rouge at @ololhealth Children’s Hospital with my medically fragile son, on a hospital ventilator & 6 other machines. We have done all the right things, pulled daughter from sports, we don’t go out, & Covid still came…
“… knocking on our door. My family and friends are all saying - if this virus can get to your family, then it’s coming for everyone. It’s absolutely crushing to know that he may not live, because others are dismissive of his right to live as they weaponize their own bodies…”
“…not recognizing that they bring harm to their community. There are no more pediatric beds available. The Pediatric ICU is full. My son who may not live is actually one of the less sick children in the unit- and it has been surreal to watch him struggle to live and breathe…”
THREAD: At our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette LA., the youngest COVID patient in ICU, Keighlie Reaux, is 24.
2 weeks ago she delivered a boy, Krew, & never got to hold him.
She’s been on a ventilator for the last 13 days.
This is baby Krew being held by Keighlie’s mother, Aime.
Keighlie had no pre existing conditions before testing positive for COVID19, says her mother Aime who adds: “we let our guard down” and took a family vacation for July 4th. When they came back everyone in the family tested + for Covid. Everyone recovered except Keighlie.