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Is going straight up. thats because a lot of the flood plaplains have been paved over. >> sprawl and floodplains are not a good mix. its been good for the economy and growth, but its very bad for hurricanes. and officials in houston have resisted zoning and building codes to prepare for a hurricane. i was reading last night a series published in partnership with texas tribune. it was a year ago. they were warning that the next big hurricane to hit houston is going to be a disaster. so when this ...

Windstorm, we lost 100,000 home homes. we very carefully looked at why the homes failed. we changed our building codes. now our homes have been built since then. hurricane katrina, there was a lot of issues with not calling for an evacuation. like we see in texas. the mayor not calling for evacuation, we lost over 1800 people because they got stuck in their homes, a lot of them drowned. very pleased to see what texas is doing. they have a proactive governor making sure that people know what they...

Sent a tweet out, he says ive spoken with governor abbott of texas and louisa governor edwards. closely monitoring hurricane harvey developments and here to assist as needed. i heard you speaking earlier today and you talked about the amount of money that goes toward the disaster once it happens versus before the disaster. >> we are spending 14 times more money on post disaster versus predisaster. we say can we transfer some of that money from one side to the other? its going to service very wel...

Care of our families for three or four days after the storm makes land fall. i hope the people have done that. >> its always important to ask about lessons learned. you got the speerpts of hurricane andrew, category 5 storm. and devastation. but something like katrina, which presented one way initially and became more devastating. what lessons do you draw from these experiences that impact how you think think about preparedness now. >> one thing we learned in hurricane andrew is we have over 100...

Building codes that are enforced. so theres an opportunity there to look at those lessons learned that we learned in andrew and katrina and other hurricanes, and go back and do those mitigation efforts. right now, were spending 14 times more money on the disaster site as opposed to the pre disaster site. its certainly not sustainable with the cost of katrina, sandy and this storm coming in. the costs go up and up. we have to sart doing something on pre disaster side to make sure that when the st...

Group that we had at one point about 30, then became 60. i got on the phone that the day the president withdrew from the paris agreements and today we have 339 cities in 44 states representing 65 million americans that have joined me he for taking the pledge for their cities to say we will continue this work. and the dirty little secret is it was always in cities where the action was even during the obama administration, we had a great federal partner, but whether building codes, public transpor...

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Of our land. were changing building codes, changing zoning because were adapting. were becoming a very resilient city. unfortunately, to have the federal government take actions against what were trying to do, its very disappointing and i can tell you for the people down here, we dont like to hear about it. >> its disappointing. is it potentially debilitating? can you uphold the paris accord without the federal government participating? >> so what were doing is weve gathered with other mayors ac...

>> let me tell you whats going on in miami beach, we have streets that are flooding during sunny days. the water levels have gone up dramatically. we moved forward to raise our roads, put in pumps, change our building codes. is not because were so excited to have to do that but we have to do it for survival of our city. its not just miami beach commits coastal cities all over the world. i heard what you had to say but ive got to tell you something, when the world leading scientists are telling y...

Problem in miami beach. >> let me tell you whats going on in miami beach, we have streets that are flooding during sunny days. the water levels have gone up dramatically. we moved forward to raise our roads, put in pumps, change our building codes. is not because were so excited to have to do that but we have to do it for survival of our city. its not just miami beach commits coastal cities all over the world. i heard what you had to say but ive got to tell you something, when the world leading ...