IT COULD HAVE BEEN MY FAMILY.
THE TWO SHOOTING VICTIMS
WERE HOSPITALIZED AND ONE WAS
IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND THE
OTHER WAS IN STABLE CONDITION.
NO EMPLOYEES OR BYSTANDERS WERE
INJURED.
NOW TO AN EXCLUSIVE
INVESTIGATION INTO A SYSTEM FOR
N95 MASKS THAT ENDED UP COSTING
FLORIDA TAXPAYERS MUCH MORE
MONEY THAN IT WAS WORTH.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP SOME
WITH A NATIONWIDE SHORTAGE OF
MASKS . AT LEAST IN FLORIDA
THOUGH, THE PROJECT FELL FLAT.
TO MAKE THIS DECONTAMINATION
SYSTEM ALLOWS YOU TO CLEAN
THINGS LIKE N95 MASKS.
IN EARLY MAY GOVERNOR RON
DESANTIS HERALDED THE ARRIVAL
OF TWO NEW PIECES OF EQUIPMENT
PUSHED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP A
GIVEN EMERGENCY APPROVAL BY THE
FDA.
IT CAN DECONTAMINATE UP TO
80,000 MASKS PER DAY.
YOU HAVE HOSPITAL SYSTEMS, THEY
CAN SEND IN 30,000 OR WHATEVER
THEY HAVE FOR MASKS, THEY CAN
BE DECONTAMINATED AND THEN SENT
BACK A COUPLE DAYS LATER.
FOR MAC ON THURSDAY WITH LITTLE
NOTICE, THE STATE SHUT DOWN ITS
TWO DECONTAMINATION UNITS
LOCATED AT HARD ROCK STADIUM.
IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE TO
CONTINUE TO RUN IT.
Reporter: IN AN INTERVIEW,
THE STATES EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
DIRECTOR, JARED MOSCOWITZ SAID
THAT IN A 30 DAY MACHINES WERE
OPERATING, THE DECONTAMINATED
ONLY 597 MASKS.
I CAN TELL YOU FROM MY END,
TOO CLEAN 600 MASKS WHEN
YOU'RE TALKING HUNDREDS UPON
HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS PER MASK.
Reporter: ACCORDING TO
FIGURES BY THE STATE, IT COSTS
$589.44 TOO CLEAN EACH OF THOSE
MASKS.
A BRAND-NEW MASK, EVEN DURING
THE PANDEMIC , COST LESS THAN
EIGHT DOLLARS TO BUY.
I'M JUST MORTIFIED THAT
THERE IS SO MUCH MISMANAGEMENT.
Reporter: ANOTHER REVIEW BY
THIS CONGRESSWOMAN.
THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
THE AT ABSOLUTE MISMANAGEMENT
OF THIS COVID-19 CRISIS.
Reporter: SHE EXPECTS THE
COMPANY THAT DESIGNED THE
SYSTEM, DEFENSE CONTRACTOR
PATEL, SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS BEING SPENT TO FIGHT
COVID-19.
ABC NEWS REPORTED THAT THE
INITIAL CONTRACT FOR THE
MACHINES WAS $60 MILLION.
IT MAY NOW END UP COSTING
TAXPAYERS BETWEEN 400 AND $600
MILLION.
SLOPPINESS IS ONE THING, WE
HAVE ALWAYS OVERSPENT AND THE
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
THERE USED TO OVERSPENDING ON
PLANES AND SHIPS AND EVERYTHING
ELSE.
THIS IS OVERSPENDING AND
PUTTING PEOPLE'S LIVES AT RISK.
IT IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BALL
GAME.
IT'S VERY DANGEROUS.
Reporter: HE HAD NOT
RECEIVED ANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT
THE MACHINES AND DOES NOT KNOW
WHY THEY WERE GIVEN SO FEW
MASKS TOO CLEAN.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DIDN'T
USE IT, OBVIOUSLY WE ARE IN A
PANDEMIC.
THIS IS OUR FIRST EXPENSE FOR
EVERYBODY.
THERE WAS VERY LITTLE
SCIENCE ON HOW SAFE IS THIS
TECHNOLOGY.
PART MAC MARTHA BAKER
REPRESENTS HEALTHCARE WORKERS.
THE RE-STERILIZATION OF MASS
WAS A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS.
THE FIRST IS THE WAS IT WAS
BASED ON SUPPLY AND DEMAND NOT
BASED ON SCIENCE.
PERHAPS DESPERATION.
Reporter: SHE DEFENDED THE
DECISION TO BRING THE MACHINES
INTO THE STATE.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE
HOSPITALS AT EVERY TONE THE
TOOLBOX AND EVERYTHING WAS
BEING OFFERED TO US BY THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Reporter: HE SAID HE
BELIEVES THAT FLORIDA IS THE
FIRST STATE IN THE COUNTRY TO
RETURN THE PATEL MACHINES.
CBS4 NEWS.
A SHORT TIME BEFORE WE WENT
ON THE AIR, THE STATE CONTACTED
US WITH REVISED NUMBERS.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MASKS CLEAN
WAS 3592.