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>> gosh. there have already been evacuations. i know theres an air force base there along the coast. theres a lot of tourism along the coast there. the big highrises. one hopes that those highrises are built to withstand 140 mile-per-hour winds. >> yeah. i mean, you know, im sure they were high codes, being on the beach there. there are substantial structures. but wind speeds of that magnitude, all bet are off. were expecting -- all bets are off. were expecting structural damage. >> all right. n...

Hurricane center puts out its surge warning which, by the way, they use life threatening inundation and the word historic mainly because all the storms have been west of panama city since 1950. we havent had them this close into the east. you were talking about building codes. andrew in 92 changed the way many homes were built. it changed the codes. there were so many homes built before 1992 that do not have those supporting hurricane brackets or the way they adhere their tiles. this will be a w...

Its going to be harder to know whats going on. unique challenges here. >> good point. >> now, tom, king tides, what are they, when are they, relevance? >> king tides typically -- its hard to give a scientific definition because there is some discrepancy in how this is formed. its usually the highest point of the tide cycle. some say its once a year, some say once a month the highest tides. were already seeing flooding. this is king tide time. were seeing flooding, seeing it in miami. were seeing...

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...

Worst-case scenario kind of fema administrator under storm for the florida panhandle as the national weather service president obama, craig fugate. is saying. the wind gusts really starting to pick up in the past hour to craig has a deep understanding the point unsafe for us to be of storms and storms in this region. craig, lets start with outside. we drove over here. along the way we could really see the trees, the debris start 155-mile-a-hour winds. what does that mean to structures in the are...

We already lost power in the hotel as the storm starts to you know, what are you most make the way here, make landfall worried about here? are you most worried about the in panama city beach in the next destructive high velocity winds couple of hours. >> where are you physically? the building you are in. of 155 miles per hour where as are you in a hotel? you said we talk to people with an office building? im asking because this storm houses built in the 1920s and came on so quickly, did enough 1...

Said who you talked to the months before this it wasnt too daunting because my parents were very open with me about scenarios like that and actually i had the privilege of not being party members but despite that working in well respected positions. they were quite open. they had a strong courageous attitude which they passed on to me as a child. so if questioned id say why are you asking me or i just refuse to answer you know what i dont remember being afraid of giving anything away but i did k...

Testified before congress on television. brett kavanaughs life had been the subject of six previous fbi probes, and not only was he cleared in all six of them, he was given access to americas nuclear codes. we knew all we were going to know about an event that supposedly took place 37 years ago and thats why the fbi said it had zero interest in getting involved again. and yet democrats involved asked for a new investigation and then protesters screamed at poor jeff flake in an elevator in the se...

The two people at the very center that had already testified before congress on television. brett kavanaughs life had been the subject of six previous fbi probes, and not only was he cleared and all six of them, he was given access to americas nuclear codes. we knew all we were going to know about an event that supposedly took place 37 years ago and thats why the fbi said it had zero interest in getting involved again. and yet democrats involved in ad for a new investigation and then protesters ...

Not true. >> what kind of person was debby ramirez in college? >> debby ramirez was really striking to me in college. you know, yale was full of people very well educated, sharp and sophisticated and smart but from a very often a common background. you know, there were a lot of people like brett. there were a lot of people like me. we had a lot in common, brett and i. east coast people from wealthy backgrounds who went to boarding school and who knew the language and the social codes of the plac...