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Its at 13.68, which is, right now could take a lot more water. they, you know, the big risk they have there is, of course, too much water. it looks like, so far, you know, something could change, this storm is moving fast. we will not get the same sort of rain texas got. that can change. the biggest risk on the dike of okeechobee is too much rain. that is why they are lowering levels. the same with the canal. we are trying to make sure because we get a lot of rain, the issue with miami-dade is n...

At 13.68. >> i think its gotten to 18.67 or something without anything happenin happening. >> 14.68 feet they can take a lot of water right now. for whatever reason it just sat here and dumped rain, thats their concern. their concern is not the wind right now. [ inaudible question ] >> yep. so turkey point, of course, will be closed at the right point. and the -- ive been talking to fp & l. theyre all prepared to do t were preparing both, to close it and how to reopen it. the big issue on reopen...

Right now. the big risk they have there, of course, is if we get too much water. it looks like so far this storm is moving fast, which means we wont get the same sort of rain that texas got. now, that can all change but the biggest risk on the dike at okeechobee is too much rain and why theyre lowering levels and doing the same thing with the canals. so were trying to make sure to the extent if we get a lot of rain and the storm surge at miami-dade. the canals will be as low as we can get them. ...

A new ranking of the worlds best economy shows up. improving financial markets helped the u.s. place fifth on this years list. just two spots higher from a year ago. the leader, switzerland, scoring particularly well for business spending on research and development. singapore ranked second followed by finland, germany, and the u.s. californias minimum wage will go up to $9 next year and $10 in 2016 if governor jerry brown approves the increase as expected. currently washington is the high estat...

Further. i agree, we should not go in the direction of more debt. i will say when i came to congress in january of 2007 it took us 219 years to accumulate $8.67 in debt. this year we will double that amount in six years time. we cannot go down this road and suffer any delusion we will remain the superpower of the world. we went. i want the united states to be the number one economic and military power and in order to do that we need to start acting like a superpower and stop spending more money ...

More time around them. but, you know, mom is often doing other things and you know, mom may be checking e-mail while the kids are watching tv or the kids are playing by themselves or the kids are in school or napping. and the kids have their own lives, too. so when you look at how people actually spend their time, the numbers are not that different. >> for example, sleep, who sleeps more? men or women? >> we all think that men must be sleeping more because women have so many things on their plat...