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Than half the country for most of the year and costing $30 billion. remember, the drought leads to wildfires which last year burned 9 million acres across the country. so whats being done? >> this is urgent work. it must begin now. >> reporter: just this week, new york citys mayor, michael bloomberg, proposed a $20 billion plan to build flood walls, levees and upgrade the citys building codes. new york city suffered $19 billion for sandy. a similar storm could cost nearly five times that. $90 bi...

Perhaps lost in the coverage, washed away by news of sandy, was the year-long drought. the longest since the dust bowl days of the 1930s affecting more than half the country for most of the year and costing $30 billion. and remember the drought leads to wildfires, which last year burned 9 million acres across the country. so whats being done? >> this is urgent work and it must begin now. >> reporter: just this week new york citys mayor, michael bloomberg, proposed a $20 billion plan to build flo...

Most of the year and costing $30 billion. and remember, the drought leads to wildfires, which last year burned $9 million acres across the country. what is being done? >> this is urgent work and it must begin now. just this week, new york citys mayor, michael bloomberg, proposed a 20 billion plan, to upgrade the citys building codes. new york city suffered $19 billion in damage post sandy, and bloomberg says the forecast by mid century is that a similar storm could cost nearly five times that. $...

Weather is becoming more extreme. >> reporter: the most extreme of 2012, superstorm sandy. $65 billion in damage and lets not forget the human cost. more than 130 lives. perhaps lost in the coverage, washed away by news of sandy, was the year-long drought. the longest since the dust bowl days of the 1930s affecting more than half the country for most of the year and costing $30 billion. and remember, the draugought le to wildfires. so whats being done? >> this is urgent work, and it must begin n...

1996. it doesnt meet the current building codes and wanted to make way for this park. first structure to be imploded in the city for more than a decade. >> they should implode more. >> good morning. all right, and tomorrow the transplant network is going to be meeting to review their age policy. last week a judge ordered 10-year-old sarah and 11-year-old javier accosta to be added to the adult transplant list. we have been following this for weeks. both have cystic fibrosis and need lungs to sur...

Question to me is, the carbon emission element of this, if the population of the planet has doubled and theyre pumping out more and more carbon emissions, it doesnt take a genius to work out, this must be having detrimental effect on the planet. nobody is going to convince me this is helping everybody. it must be making things worse. the shorter you have to tackle -- it is chicken and the egg. you cant say we cant do anything about tornadoes and hurricanes. its all about where you people have go...

Nobody is going to convince me this is helping everybody. it must be making things worse. the shorter you have to tackle -- it is chicken and the egg. you cant say we cant do anything about tornadoes and hurricanes. its all about where you people have got to live. youve got to tack the emissions as well. >> youve got to tackle both, as bill said. youve also got to realize, we have to focus and make sure we do the smart things. now, as bill also pointed out, if you want to help people in the next...

Responsibly, we have better building codes, simple things. if you want to help with the climate change, we have to realize that we have tried to cut carbon emissions in the past 50 years, people burn the fossil fuels because it powers everything we like. it pulled 60 million people out of poverty in china. what we need to do is find a way to make green energy cheap, everybody wants to buy it. that is by innovativing smart, green energy. >> lets bring in storm chaser, near the texas/oklahoma bord...

Any new school built to have safe rooms for students. but that could change for tornado areas when new building codes are adopted in the coming years. and in joplin the site of the storm two years ago. the paper says 1,000 safe rooms were bought in the first year after the storm. the city of moore, oklahoma, has been trying to get federal money to subsidize residents who want to buy safe rooms. in february, the city expressed frustration -- saying, "we found the fema requirements and their inter...

Least $2 billion. homeland security secretary janet napolitano is already on the ground, helping with efforts for clean-up and get fema assistance for those whose homes were destroyed. the mass destruction on the ground, there are a lot of people taking a hard look at building codes in the state of oklahoma. here is tom costello. >> reporter: yet another devastating tornado and so many people are asking, why arent there more basements in the very place they need the most, tornado alley. and wher...