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Around me attached to a that some houses are built on off of sea level but as you building. i know youre a pro at this but said, a lot of the areas hit be very careful. right now are poor areas, lower you have high winds and you have income areas and if your house got the idea that there could be wasnt destroyed you had no tornadoes around there. reason to rebuild. >> right. remember, what we saw after trees are coming down and none of the codes prepared for oak hurricane katrina was a lot of pl...

Winds. the storm surge one to 13 feet over a 100-mile section of the florida coastline. a lot of this is small fishing towns and little oil towns. joe, youve been to these areas here. picturing panama city beach later on, you know the building codes are very strict in florida, but theyre not strict for this keep of hurricane damage. >> if it goes in at a cat 4, this will be the strongest one in such a long time. back in 2004, hurricane ivan hit pen pensacola. the impact was devastating. talk to ...

As a powerful category 3 as early as tomorrow. nbcs kerry sanders is on the ground in panama city beach, florida. give us the latest. >> okay, so -- sorry, just having a little bit of difficulty hearing you. the latest is the mandatory evacuation is under effect right now. some people are leaving. you mentioned the state of machine taking place right now in florida. thats because this storm is likely to be as forecast a category 3 when it comes ashore. while so much of the focus is on those wind...

Then you have rebuilding. people have to rebuild the bridges an their houses. from an economic standpoint it adds to economic growth over the long term. >> even though when you think about this theres a lot of agriculture here. theres a lot of tourism here. both of those are going to get hit. >> those are going to get hit. but ive seen a lot of analysis of hurricane impacts and what they do to the economy and while there is the potential for dislocated agriculture and crops being destroyed, all ...

Responders. it really starts ahead of time with things like building codes and how prepared communities are, but it takes unity of effort. everybody all trying to help each other out. and working together. there is no replacement for unity of effort. >> and we see that when we look at all these pictures that are astounding from the aerial views of these neighborhoods and live pictures now as we see the devastation coming in here. and this goes beyond our coverage here. we see what you are talkin...

Feet high. and behind that they have the houses on the beaches. and in north carolina, the building codes are very strict. same with south carolina. so you have to have the house on the stilts, on the pilings and on top of that. what you have to picture in this area of the 7 to 11 feet. you have the normal high tide and you add 11 feet to that. well, thats going to be over the top of the dunes. now maybe some of those houses are at the 7 to 11 foot height. but this doesnt even take into account ...

Thats worst case. thats not going to happen. can that will we really see something that bad? six or nine feet. you have floating cars. and peoples first floor covered. >> it depends on how low the elevation is. eastern north carolina is relatively flat. houston and even some of the below sea level. new orleans. a lot of eastern north carolina has a little bit of elevation. i dont think well see nine feet of water up to a rooftop. well see the houses the building codes are strict. they get a hurr...

Entire communities living in such low flood plains? they said well, you know, maybe they shouldnt have built there. is that one of the issues we face now? >> it is a huge issue. a number of groups, pugh being one of them, that are working on changing, making flood regulations, making standard building codes a thing. and it p it is an issue. there are -- theres a need to enforce building codes. theres a need to make our building codes stronger. and people are continuing to work on that. >> when y...

Describe hurricane florence as a mike tyson punch to the carolina coast. well see. this type of hit is not that common. most hurricanes that strike the carolinas usually come up the coast weaken a bit along the way. florence is coming straight across the atlantic and zeroing in on the carolinas. trace gallagher with a history lesson on punishing storms. trace? >> hey, shep. lets begin with hurricane hazel in 1954, which as you noted was the last category four storm to hit above south carolina. h...

Southeast coastline into south carolina, even more problemat it includes more people. very happy they took precautions when they could two days ago and told everybody in coates canal south carolina to get out of the way friendship for a while taking georgetown southwards. now they could have quite storm to talk about when theyre done. >> i was going to ask really quickly. no stranger to hurricanes historically but the cities, are they built for what theyre about to see in terms of walls, drainag...