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>> 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. its 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. its coastal citiesbu all over the world. i heard what you had to say, but ive got to tell you something.g. when the worlds leading scientists are telli...

Head on, hes made it far, far worse. were going to continue to see the russia story line be the dominant story line of his presidency. >> yeah, the russian connection question, peter, what does this request from your opinion here suggest to you about how fast the senate intelligence committee is moving in their investigation so far, this as the trump camp probably worried? >> i think theres now real cooperation between the chairman burr and the minority leader, mark warner. i would see them movi...

Im still buying electric vehicles for my fleet. converting our energy to green electricity, making sure our building codes can handle reduced water. but we will stand up for the values that are american values. my city is 63% immigrants or the children of immigrants. i am the grandson of a dreamer who came across the border from mexico probably without any documents fleeing a war and now im a mayor of the largest city in the largest state in this union. when we invest in our immigrants we get sa...

Single week when i was there. more than one time in a week. i called them three times in one week myself. there were several police there, derek, michael, i knew thome a first name basis. they were there on a regular basis. i called and explained everything when i was leaving. >> so, she brings up safety concerns. robert, we do know property records say this warehouse -- or the owner there had received notifications from the city, some violations of code, issues regarding hazardous debris and tr...

Heard the ladys presentation and its really -- inexcusable in terms of our response. certainly by the police being there, acknowledging the activity going on, and certainly the neighbors have reported it for several years, the activity, the merchants have been involved in reporting the activity at night. especially on the weekends, its -- its unexplainable. im not here to make excuses but i will tell the public that, one, is public safety is a priority. we want to make sure that within these war...

While it wont add to trump it dampens the vote for her. >> if anything, hillary clinton was a wronged woman and her husband didnt have fidelity -- >> can we talk about something in the eleventh hour, the attack is at the dunham womans vote about hillary not being generous -- im not defending the line of attack. the strategy goes you highlight hillary clintons treatment of the women who became entangled with bill clinton. >> this the equivalent of like responding to an earthquake by attacking tha...

The storm surge still a chance to be major to historic. >> bill karins, thank you so much for that. still ahead, in the wake of hurricane andrew, florida made wholesale changes to its building codes, but this morning it may not be wind gusts that do the most damage as you heard there from bill karins. some of the scenarios the storm surge could play out when our breaking news coverage continues. glasses. yeah. well, we gotta hand it to fedex. eyve helped make our e-commerce so easy, and now we...

That is when sandy passed by. that was just a tropical storm. that storm surge was powerful enough to wash a1a, the highway system here in florida, to wash it away. were talking about a cat 4, cat 5 hurricane coming by here. weve heard the governor say, get out, your life is in danger. a lot of people may think hes being overly dramatic. clearly thats not the case. if it can wash away a road, imagine what a hurricane can do. >> that man in the green shirt, hes one of the people that causes probl...

Be a major rebuild operation given the type of damages weve seen before. >> what is this comparable to? is it comparable to what you saw leading into andrew 24 years ago? >> andrew was a very compact storm. it didnt bring a lot of storm surge. this one is kind of our -- one of the scenarios you dont want to see is off the coast and strong, damaging winds. the i-95 corridor from florida up into south carolina. so, if youre east of that, thats the area were concerned about, how much wind and how f...

Such a small eye for as long as it takes to get to here. if that happens, then all of a sudden, you lose that 140 and you get 120. sure, a bigger area of 120 this second eye wall here. but you lose 140. so yes, its hard to describe whether thats a good thing or bad thing depending on the timing. but if we can lose 140, we lose devastation, a lot of buildings will hold up to 120. the shingles will be gone but the roofs will still be there. even after andrew, after the new building codes, all thes...