will be mailed next year. visit medicare.gov/fraud stay sharp people! a crucial part of florida s recovery is reopen the state s sea ports, a much tougher job than you might think. joining me on the phone now is rear admaterial peter brown of the atlanta coast guard. the coast guard conducted a very thorough search of the area just to make sure everything was safe. what types of things were you looking for? well, don, thank you for the opportunity to come back to your show and explain how the united states coast guard has responded to the multiple impacts of hurricane irma in the united states. with regard to the port reopening specifically, the coast guard together with the army corp of engineers and national geographic and atmospheric association and
trump is unwavering. we re running out of lying to give up. residents of virginia don t have time to wait for washington to debate climate change. i agree, but our problem is to our community is eroding away. they live fewer than 100 miles from the white house on an island in the middle of the chesapeake bay. population about 450. area, just 1.3 square miles. and shrinking. during severe weather such as super storm sandy in 2012, the island is buried under feet of water. the army corp of engineers says erosion and rising sea levels will make this community un uninhabitable in as little as 20 years.
illegally. william lodgeness is live with more. this is where the actual first fence was ever built on the mexican borddn t look like with the wire top and bottom. what the president can do by executive order and others require okay from congress. other things can happen here at the border. number one he promised to end catch and release. if you re caught, you re deported. secondly the wall. he could also tell the army corp of engineers to start the wall and more fencing there and you have a road in between. that s very effective. thirdly, if you look at the apprehensions down on the rio grande valley about half of the people caught on the border right now are in that little spot in texas. many of those, about half, are asylum seekers women, children, families looking for asylum.
talk to us a little bit about what your most urgent needs are right now and future cleanup. you re going to need the army corp of engineers? well, yeah. we need the army corp of engineers to actually dredge our lake. they believe that taneycomo can hold more than is can. we need it dredged badly. it s getting to the point now where it s a safety concern. are you also worried about broken power lines and electrical hazards not to mention all those floating gas and propane tanks that our reporter was talking about? yeah. whenever we did the water rescue, it was a lady and her 8-year-old son that was in a cabin that we thought was empty. and come to find out they were in there. well, there s also there was live 220 electrical lines going
supporting this massive project with the hopes it will protect them from a life of future storms. sandy damaged or destroyed basically every one of the more than 500 homesçó alone and there were many more vulnerable coastal communities up and down the jersey shore. the army corp of engineers is ready to begin work on a 50 mile long and $1 billion 75-foot wide and 25-foot tall sand dune. and it widened the beach by hundreds of feet and possibly starting here. this burrow like many towns in the jersey shore feel strongly of the value they will get from the army corp project and the protection it will offer not only the homeowners, but the entire community fnlt. they say if they start in the next couple months, harris, they could be finished here before next summer. rick, i know these holdouts say they are not giving up. right, one has hired an attorney and the other four still have not caved despite