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It is a very dramatic example of how the wind coming from the east coast to the west, has pushed the water out. the reason it is so important to understand is that we are pretty close to high tide here. and the water is gone. what is going to happen as bill has been reporting is when we get the wind from the other side, well see the opposite affect of the water being pushed out and that is when the storm surge will come in. when i sthau picture, i was like that is a great demonstration. >> were ...

Heard affect at all how you view this storm and your preparation? >> well, i think the idea of how dangerous it is, is relative. this is a monster storm. its unprecedented and weve never seen a storm like this before. and ill tell you, to expect over 100-mile-an-hour winds and particularly the storm surge, which we are expecting at high tide during a full moon. so it will be at the peak, is troubling to me, and we take this very seriously. im confident that it could be worse and it seems that we...

With some of these bands that move on shore with the lightening, with the gusty winds, some people may lose power temporarily, but look, sunday into monday morning, and there you see the orange and the red you, all the way from sara soda to fort myers to naples, fort lauderdale, jupiter beach, west palm beach, widespread power outages. if you havent left, consider that you would have difficulty food, you would have difficulty getting gas to operate anything, that you might lose power, that the r...

Preparations that you have seen given the hurricane is expected -- is being felt, lets say, not just in bahamas, but also in cuba. >> well, thats all relative. the bahamas stretches from about 30 miles off the coast of florida. good stretch when you talk in terms of geography. how far, in the southeast bahamas including the turks and caicos valley, theres been a major affect how far, in particularly towards the cay kos islands. the islands has experienced hurricane 4 winds. the islands are over ...

Process. >> at this point you have to understand hes just never going to actually do what he says. in phoenix he said were going to shutdown the government and build this wall. not only has that shipped sailed -- if youre chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, how does that affect what you do next? >> wait and negotiate your time carefully. wait for this guy to make a move under extreme duress as he struggles to get himself out of whatever problem hes in. its up to him to make a move, and hes going to ...

It is likely it is having an affect but we cant tell you how big. we had the 1935 florida keys hurricane. weve had extremely powerful storm the in past decades but if you look at super typhoon and harvey, some of these monstrous storms, you have to wonder if climate change is beginning to have a noticeable affect. but in future decades it will be even more clear. >> so category 5, which is what irma is, were seeing wind gust, chad myers just reported to us wind gust at loft, very, very high elev...

Others, its absolutely a good deal from that perspective. >> its a classic move of his to just kick the can down the road. and yeah you can think at least in his mind its not a bad deal. but inreality is given the way the political process works on capitol hill hes just thrown another gut wrench into the process. >> at this point you have to understand hes just never going to actually do what he says. in phoenix he said were going to shutdown the government and build this wall. not only has that...

Do this. and if the courts reaffirmed that power, and particularly with donald trump, you dont want the president in that power. >> doesnt this affect, though, peoples trust in the government? >> yes. >> the obama administration said come out from the shadows, so people did. >> yes. >> if now the rug is pulled out from under them, what does this do to peoples trust in the government? >> its an abandonment of what our values are supposed to be. when i see a slow thinker like chris coback come on ...

Carefully drafting state department officials were describing in private in detail where they thought this was going. last weekend shattered that. the president i think is now scrambling. he alleges reacts impulsively, i think, to new developments. he had a long conversation monday night south korean time with south korean president moon, so the rhetoric of appeasement, the threats of trade war, i think, were put in in a separate category, and theres now intensive discussion, im told, behind the...

Essentially, say we wont trade with china? >> not those -- it would be devastating for us. its not in our interests. the problem with this is that not only -- its so easily seen as an empty threat that it undercuts the credibility of the president k president, which is already a problem as rachel alluded to. members of congress are worried the presidents words are carrying less and less waceight. empty threats made, no weight at all. >> and how will this affect the u.s. economy if we stop all ti...