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Talking, just putting out plans, trying to decide what to do has to end. this is a crisis. it is a state of emergency, and we have to deal with it that way. >> okay. but youre still going to be -- if you were the president of the united states, emergency powers notwithstanding, youll still dealing with a democracy. youre still dealing with a two-party system in the united states senate there will be opposition. part of the issue for climate legislation has been that one party is just dead set in...

Trying to decide what to do has to end. this is a crisis. it is a state of emergency, and we have to deal with it that way. >> okay. but youre still going to be -- if you were the president of the united states, emergency powers notwithstanding, youll still dealing with a democracy. youre still dealing with a two-party system in the united states senate there will be opposition. part of the issue for climate legislation has been that one party is just dead set in killing it. . >> youre right, ch...

Paying the price of the cost of flooding as in st. paul and other places around the country. theyre literally paying the price and they need the federal government to be a partner not only in mitigating disasters and helping to harden our infrastructure for the next big disaster, but also doing things like improving building codes and providing good tax incentives for the kind of carbon neutral energy, clean energy, that is going to put us on the right path. >> senator, good to talk to you. than...

You can see that surf churning up pretty good. the winds strong enough to pick up small pieces of sand and blow in your face, right now state of emergency has been declared in mississippi, theyve also opened up a number of emergency shelters as well, deployed 3,000 national guards and getting ready for what could be hit the next day or two. sea wall thats been built since 2005. 30-foot storm surge in katrina, since then they built the wall, they changed building codes too, a lot of the houses yo...

That one is 6. and these numbers are just one reminder that in the age of sea level rise, evaluation is everything. >> the plan is to raise the sea wall to here. >> it will be about this high. >> reporter: in ritzy miami beach, theyre raising streets, changing building codes. >> the water is rising and it wont recede. >> reporter: in well-to-do pine crest, they formed americas first underwater homeowners association. but in working class immigrant neighborhoods like little haiti, year-to-year se...

Say, the world renown seismologist turn to understand these earthquakes and her tweet says the sequence is now decaying and the possibility of more aftershocks are still dropping. we could see magnitude 4s and 5z but the larger quakes are now looking more improbable and thats very good news from the standpoint of infrastructure because the more earthquakes we have the more damage. the governor of california came to the area yesterday to assess the damage and took it as a time to point out that r...

Closed as they were dealing with that. the good news, though, is that dr. lucy jones, the world renown seismologist tweeted that looks like were in for less earthquakes as she puts it the sequence is decaying so the probability of more aftershocks is dropping. next week could still see magnitudes 4 and 5s. thats going to be less damaging than those larger earthquakes which she says now look like they are improbable. so thats good news here and from an infrastructure standpoint, especially when y...

Itting it suggests that things were pretty well built in ridgecrest. ridgecrest was mostly built in the 1940s by which time we already had the building codes in place. building codes really do make a difference. theres none of the older structures there. that said, theres lots of things that fall off the shelves, damage to some buildings. the most noticeable thing we should learn from is looking at the gas leaks and gas line breaks and the fires that have been caused from that. thats going to be...

Devastating could that be? >> with earthquaking its all about locations, building codes and preparation, so if a similar earthquake had happened underneath san francisco and la we would be looking repeat of 1989, 1994 north ridge in la, similarity sized earthquakes, for real contrast you can look at when we had i think the 2010 earthquake in haiti, that was magnitude 7.0, technically smaller than this and yet tens of thousands of people died because the earthquake was right underneath major citi...

>> are the damages that were seeing consistent with what youd expect from a quake this size from this particular fault? >> yes. if anything, theyre a little on the low side. it suggests that things were built pretty well in ridgecrest. its a new town and it only began in the 1940s by which time we had the basic earthquake building codes in place. building codes really do make a difference. so theres no older of the -- none of the older structures there. that said, theres lots of things off of al...