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Harvey, the federal response priority was to rescue people trapped by the enormous flooding. in the state of florida, whats been the priority for the federal government? >> a number of priorities for the federal government. now because the storm is ongoing our priority is life sustaining in the keys taking a considerable amount of our attention right now. what youre see in florida and more broadly speaking acomparative area, narrow operations kpired to what we have now. a large-scale area of ope...

Turned upsidedown and have to rebuild from scratch. they went through wilma and they said this was far more devastating. >> this was just a giant storm. were waiting for the governor rick scott to give an update on the damage out there. jacob, the water table is already so high to begin with in florida, and it is such a flat state, what is the expectation for when that water is going to recede? >> well, the big question is as our colleague chris hayes has been talking a lot about even with ali v...

>> reporter: weve seen not only boats under water but homes and vehicles completely submerged. the water rushed into this neighborhood, house after house, florida keys have suffered some severe damage. weve seen a family, couple people out here wading through what looks like knee deep water here. this is the area the military is trying to reach, folks that may not have been able to evacuate in time. it looks like theres also a truck now trying to pull through the water here. folks that may not h...

Into account the fact that climate change is happening, its real and its contributing to events like this. and you may not want to live at or below sea level in many cases. >> and its a worthy conversation to have not just here and not just about flooding, but across the country, places like malibu. should you be building in an area that is so prone to fires and so prone to brush fires or places where youre prone to mudslides up the california coast. its just a lot of talk about where were build...

Were about 30 miles just south of jacksonville, we stopped, i saw a woman whose home had been flooded. i walked out and i said, maam, i shouted to her across the water to her front porch and i said do you need anything, do you need any water, i have snacks in my vehicle. she said, no. we walked up to talk to her, put on waders and made it to her front door and she said in all my years like this ive never seen anything to this degree with this level of severity. she said she grew up in this area....

This could be good news, but we could see some delayed effects of that water rising before it begins to subside. >> dave, can you give us a quick update on georgia? >> yeah, we can. in fact, lets begin to advance just a little bit as we take a look at savannah and all the way up to charleston. the waters continue to roll on through. and as you can see we have both tornado warnings around charleston and flood watches posted through sections of georgia as well. wind speeds impressive, look at this...

Where the water is worrying and people are trying to get out of their apartments. but right now you can see were in downtown jacksonville. i can see fallen signs here under the water. and this water is supposed to rise around this time, so 2:00 is when they said high tide was going to be for this area. we were going to see these waters rise another 4 to 6 feet. theres already been a mandatory evacuation, a lot of those low lying areas around jacksonville, but we were traveling all the way from g...

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