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When Hurricane Ian made landfall around Fort Myers, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane, it became one of the strongest storms to hit the United States. The damage in coastal and low areas was catastrophic, with a record-breaking storm surge washing away houses, roads, and bridges and leaving at least 80 people dead. Amid all this devastation, our early assessments reveal a silver lining — one that is instructive for the rest of the nation.

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Rear. ill be honest with you. >> we always appreciate the honesty james. you live in new orleans seen oboe covering after hurricanes. >> i ive dealt with them all, i know the toilets that work and i know you need immigrants and a lot of them to rebuild and i know the fact of hot water on hurricanes. i promise you. >> we believe you but tell me what you think, florida needs to be doing at this moment in its recovery efforts? >> first of all, they got something more than a photo op. dennis desanti...

At all these things. i think that, you know -- i mean, look, i grew newspaper a poor family, so i always think about the cost of things, because the impact on poor families every time you raise the cost of something, but you also want to keep people safe. so how do you make sure people evacuate, get out of harms way as quickly as possible? that was a big issue i focused on as governor. you do have to look at what should -- what housing should we allow to make sure people will always be safe. >> ...

The coast or whether its inland along a riverbed or even in tornado alley. people need to understand what their risk is, and we need to make sure as we rebuild, were at least rebuilding with the current building codes that are going to protect and reduce the impacts of these storms. we could see some new construction that withheld very well in some parts of the state, but certainly parts that were destroyed. it takes a combination of things, and people need to make informed decisions about what ...

Also known as noah, there. youve been writing about extreme weather for decades, how does the force and destruction of hurricane ian compare with fast storms youve observed? >> it is right up there. i mean, this is going to be one of the all-time most famous and tragic hurricanes of all-time. it is the fifth strongest hurricane ever to hit the continental u.s.. unfortunately weve been seeing a lot of these lately. weve seen six, five, four hurricanes hit the u.s. just in the fast past -- years. ...

Proper problem? >> we have to lend strong building codes. florida has a strong building code that needs to be adopted along hurricane alley, because it really does prevent wind damage. like you are saying, water damage is another matter. if you have a house that survived the winds but gets flooded inside, its going to get totaled. we should not be building any more structures on barrier islands. they are too vulnerable. sea level rise is making them even harder to defend, so you really have to r...

Are simply homeless, and where theyre going to live. as you said, it could cost tens of billions of dollars. the areas were seeing some of these devastating images are along a shore that is totally destroyed. have we reached a point where it might be safer and less costly to relocate people rather than spending all those billions of dollars to rebuild places that could get destroyed again? >> i think the important thing, dana, is that people need to understand what their potential risk can be, w...

>> dealing with the storm, most politicians give the federal government and the state of florida high marks. the key was preparing a head of storm. >> the biggest thing that we knew and what the governors concern was taking care of the people in the way of the storms path. we positioned the largest amount of search and rescue assets that i think we have ever put in place before, bringing together the federal family, search and rescue teams, coast guard, department of defense. >> the recovery wil...