WATCH: New Orleans Cruise Ship Crash Update | 100 Pulled From Water, 9 Still Hospitalised

We believe now that we roughly pulled about 100 people from the water, that first responders pulled roughly 100 people from the water. We set up a family assistance center at the Hilton Riverside Hotel, where the passengers from the ship were staying. We now have 50 to 60 passengers still remaining at the Hilton Riverside. The crew members have been put in three different hotels across the city. Yesterday, we told you all that we had 32 people at local hospitals, but now all but nine have been discharged. So we have nine people still remaining in the hospital. The Atlantic Asphalt, which is the tanker, it has been towed away from this site. But I do wanna mention, so we can manage everyone's expectations, that the American Heritage may likely take weeks to ultimately remove from this site. So for us now we have shifted our operations from the search and rescue to now working on fully reopening the river and coordinating salvage operations for the American Heritage. As the mayor mentioned that we have moved the Atlantic asphalt to another location it's over at the Perry Street Wharf. We have been coordinating with the port throughout the evening and early in the morning to be able to reopen the area to get the cruise ships in, so that's happening. Our top priority is now the safe removal of the hazardous material on board the American Heritage, so that's where we're transitioning to now. We have completed initial assessments on the vessel by conducting soundings to try and figure out how much fuel is on board. It's still pretty early, we are estimating about 60,000 gallons are still on board the American Heritage, so we're working on a good plan to be able to remove that safely. We're going to have divers in the water so they can do a full assessment on what's the right path to be able to remove it. We're going to do that safely and we're going to take care of that. We also have teams that have been deployed throughout the entire area, the river system, To monitor the area for any pollution. So far we have not seen any product that we need to remove out of the water but we will continue to keep monitoring that and especially as the operations and the salvage operations are ongoing there's the potential for release of hazardous material we're going to be there and make sure that we are are collecting all that we have boom that's out we have all kinds of resources that are here and ready to be able to remove those those hazardous materials. The investigations are still ongoing. We are coordinating the Coast Guard with NTSB to make sure that they have all of the information that we've collected with our investigative officers to make sure that they are able to move forward with this investigation as quickly as possible. We are used to working with NTSB. They are great partners and we're And we're going to be able to make sure that they have everything that they need. So I know a lot of folks are probably still asking the questions why and again that's why there's an investigation that is in place that's going to be ongoing. I can say though I do not have any indication that this is terrorism related in any way shape or form but again the investigators will continue to keep working through that. So to get into the actual reasons why that happened specifically but it is something with the steering is the best that we know from all the reports and the information that came out. For the call for help, but there is gonna be a lot more that will be forthcoming.