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Somewhere. "fox and friends" updated by with what is happening across the state as we see right now hurricane burma has made landfall in the florida keys. right now we are going to bryan llenas in miami beach. they are keeping a. how you doing? >> we are doing alright. these are the most serious winds we are seeing. thats what makes them sustain. i would say around 20, 30 miles an hour. with you guys around 6:00, especially it just stays this way. really fully showing just how powerful this is. ...

This. so it takes the whole government. these disasters, were funding them kind of a an off thing. congress needs to figure out how were going to, you know, invest our federal taxpayer dollars so that were billing stronger communities. we are strengthening our communities through rebuilding. its not just well throw some money at it when it happens. we need to start stlenrengtheni our communities now. >> billing codes. you must have at least a 2 foot elevation above the base elevation for anythin...

Of codes and buildings thats been done? >> i will tell you that, since donna a long time ago and andrew, wilma got us that the coast is getting tougher and strict stricter, which is good every year. it is a tough code. that part of it has been good. as far as the low line area and as far as the flood protection, who knows because of that surge. >> mayor barnette, we are thinking of you and we got the folks of naples. may you have the safest of tonight. of course, you will get a sense of what the...

Cooler that can keep eyes frozen for days at a time. if you have no way out, we can survive for 3-4 weeks. >> jon: and in a structure like a condominium, it will be sound? >> my condominium was built after hurricane andrew, which at the rules, regulations come at that did, change so now we have impact windows and they can withstand winds up to 185 miles per hour. >> jon: they have really improved the codes since then. i have mentioned. you can -- they have to take a two by four and fire it with ...

80 miles per hour. this is now a category-2 storm, 100 mile-per-hour winds. there is no way you could stand in this. significant damage to roofs, to windows. this is now a category 3. 115 miles per hour. the wind is pulling my cheeks and my skin back. anything that isnt tied down will be uprooted and torn from its foundation. after just a few minutes in cat-3 winds last year, the engineers said enough. >> its just absolutely exhausting to stand in those kind of winds. >> reporter: irma at 155 mi...

Theres still a lot of people that still live here that remember what it was like to go through a major storm, so i think were much better prepared than we were 25 years ago. lets just put it that way. >> certainly any new construction is going to be better. the codes are stronger, but did you, do you have people like we just spoke to the mayor of key biscayne, people who have not left? >> yes, we do. there are some people that have stayed either by choice or because they just really didnt have a...

We saw in houston, people trying to do something there. the only place out of the car is into the water, flooding into your car. >> jesse: tell me about the buildings. i heard after andrew an 93 that they have new codes where you have to build it to a certain level where he could withstand the wins. if youre going to see winds at 100 miles an hour, web buildings will be able to withstand it and what wont? it seems like residential homes are just going to get demolished. >> rick: 100 miles an hou...

Coming into a really big population area that is going to be completely cut off. its a serious thing. sorry to be mean to your beachology. pete: you know construction well. you see those images as well. how confident are you that zoning codes have created environment where buildings can we stand that. rick: buildings have gotten better. because of hurricane andrew they changed. this a lot of buildings are built to withstand cat 3 storms. this is going to be a stronger storm than that a lot of bu...

A lot of building codes actually changed for homes especially for the rooftops, specifically because they couldnt sustain category four winds. so miami beach, how does it, how does it hold up? >> locally, the decisions on where people build, of course, zoning laws are a local decision, and then building codes are the responsibility of the state. but the federal government is concerned about -- and specifically the corps of engineers -- is the movement of water around the state, in particular lak...

And horrible disaster post andrew. no coordination between agencies or levels of government. this is not happening this time. >> you think lessons have been learned. >> absolutely. first of all, building and construction codes and shelters and how to get to shelters, everybodys been preparing and after we saw what happened in houston, people got the message. >> people are talking about the scope of damage here. because that path is going up right the entirety of the state. >> its a big one. >> t...