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Him, because we were watching bill today really get the strong winds. i havent seen the winds that bill has seen. so bill is joining us now. bill, i understand that you are under a curfew i dont understand what the conditions are where you are right now. i cant see, but whats up? >> actually, its much better, don. its both the radar and the evidence in the sky above us here, is that the worst of the event has passed punta gorda thank holy. it has been a marathon of buffeting winds and intense ra...

As i said, we are getting just sheets and sheets of rain. and usually these bands, as you know, when we cover these things, bands of rain they come in the go. this one come as it has gone, tom? >> no, youre in the circulation right now, and that northern part of the heavier bands of rainfall. in fact, its gonna continue to be quite heavy until the system moves out near the back edge. but because it continues to circulate, counterclockwise, don, were gonna be looking at heavy amounts of rain cont...

A center, we can get a hotel or something. probably a hotel is going to be out of the question. from that point on im not really sure what were going to do. >> how long do you think itll take to fix all the stuff thats damaged? >> depending on i would say if you got somebody to do it right away, youd probably be looking at four to six weeks. but i know as bad as its going to be everywhere, id be surprised if its going to be fixed that soon. >> yeah, itd be hard to find workers, enough people the...

Shortly after airtime i spoke with a couple. they are in a flooded home in fort myers. we taped the interview because their phone battery was running down. i talked to them about 30 or so minutes ago. don, how are you holding up tonight? what are the conditions like right now? >> well, the rain has slacked off a little bit, but we dont know if its going to come back around, you know, approaching the backside of it. its been pretty -- pretty hectic. i think it started about 11:00 or so, 11:00 or ...

Passes its just the beginning of their sort of personal nightmare. as they wrestle with this, the scope of this so many lives will be affected by this. and i just watched this great documentary about the katrina degeneration, the kids who live through that storm in new orleans. and it affected them for the rest of their lives. you gotta wonder if itll be an in generation, we dont know yet. we dont know the full extent but a lot of it will depend on response, frankly. and you know, quick disaster...

Don. >> all right, bill. i want you to stand by. ill going to get to my colleague derek in bradenton. you like enthis going into a car wash with windows down and i know youre getting debris flying. i want to show viewers. we are getting the same thing. things are flying off the building from time to time. some of this flew over from earlier but its a pretty dangerous situation here and im sure its dangerous where you are. you had some heavy winds earlier today. whats up now? >> don we are on our...

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I know that its been written extensively in several different books, he believes that he determines, solely, determines what the value of the acid is. >> did he know he was breaking the law? >> i believe the answer is yes. he knew that he was never worth ten billion dollars. he knew exactly how much the assets were worth. he certainly knew how big the size of his apartment is. where he came up with a price per square foot never achieved in new york city, let alone not even a third of it in the b...