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Get the infrastructure up. so the community can take care of one another. >> in some places youre saying city officials are town officials may start to think about encouraging people to evacuate if its going to be a long rebuilding process in that neighborhood, in that community? >> absolutely. every one of those individuals have to now negotiate with fema. they have to negotiate with an insurance company. or they have to negotiate with the small business loan, unless theyre independently wealth...

>> jon: im surprised they are talking about getting the power back on state wide in the next ten days or so. hurricane andrew was a less intense storm, covered a much smaller quadrant of florida and it took ten days at least to get all the power back on after that storm that only crisscross the state. this one mode all the way up to the north from the south. >> i think its important to learn that for everybody who is involved in a response to a disaster like this, we learn from every disaster, w...

The wind, or whether you got it with water, either way, its a tough slog out. >> and even though the power is still out in many places and thats a huge issue and theres still so much to be done, a lot after such a big massive disaster like this is the question of what are the lessons learned. do you have any lessons learned for state or for the response or for the citizens of florida that youve already gathered so far? >> two good lessons learned. people obeyed evacuation orders in a good part o...

Now but things are going to get better. this shall pass, like they say. >> bill: an awesome message. thank you, sir. really good to have you on. the administrator for the county of monroe. well stay in contact with you. thank you. he is painting, shannon, a much different picture than weve been told so far. the recovery will be difficult and youll have to rebuild but they are tough people and they chose to live there for a reason. the building codes are very strict, too. while that picture is en...

Right there anecdoteal evidence you look dumb. >> juan: it looked like he was trying to force an argument. >> dana: he wanted to -- what was your question? >> juan: i was going to say to you, though, to be respectful of jim acosta the scientists say you have warmer waters, that makes for more intense hurricanes. is there -- can you fairly as a reporter say there is a correlation between the hurricane and climate change? >> dana: i know last week greg spent time going through all the data so we d...

Done as well. depending on where they are flying, it is indiscriminate about what gets destroyed and what doesnt. different homes built at different times under different building codes, but this particularly one is lost. where adam housley was earlier in the key largo area, there was a lot of houseboats. people for the most part year-round in houseboats. seven or eight in the location where he was had been destroyed as well. i want to get to east naples. i should say south naples where we have ...

Category 3 you expect a little more damage. we were speaking to the mayor of marco island yesterday, moments after the storm came and he still could not go out obviously because the winds were so strong and the rains were still pounding but he had a lot of questions about what would happen with a bunch of homes in marco island that were built before hurricane andrew. the building codes, across the state, they were rewritten because they found out what some of the strong storms could do. a lot of...

Events, so it could be a microburst or a tornado. theres adverse interaction with other buildings with the wind, it could cause higher than expected wind speeds through funneling and it could have been an error in construction, you never know at this point. arthel: youve got about two dozen cranes perched on on construction sites in the miami area and you just laid out many variables that could come into play. the question is why couldnt the cranes be moved before the storm? >> good question, a ...

More -- the architecture that takes it from high ground and pushing it downstream into the ocean starts to alter. you see that all across the areas in florida. keep in mind, also, the coast are the areas most built up, the coasts are the places that retain the most valuable property. >> thats where they want to build their buildings. >> reporter: thats exactly right. so right now four miles west of where i am where that storm surge is spiking up, the latest readings have it two miles above groun...

There, a natural protection, natural barrier for 120rstorms youre go asking for trouble. people are re-evaluating and they did after andrew. they re-evaluated the strength of the building codes. 245e thats why we have these high-rises with the hurricane protection. well see how they do after the storms. but the other thing that you want to look at is that natural protecti protection. i dont want people think im just talking about something that isnt a real. its real. they absorb these storms in ...