Post Katrina News Today

south carolina continue to recovery from rains wind and cataclysmic flooding. ian slammed into south carolina just shy of category 5. the current death toll of at least 45 people likely to come in the days as search and rescue cruise go through blocked floodwaters, as of this morning, 1.3 million homes and businesses still in the dark. according to the latest estimate ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses which could make it the most expensive storm in the state ...

Determined by market forces, not individual companies. and claims that the price at the pump is anything but a function of supply and demand are false. there are anti-price gouging laws on the books in the 48 states and the district of columbia. and plus, sellers have no incentive to expend extra effort to ramp-up supply which causes shortages for all. joining me now to discuss is raffy mohammed, hes a pricing strategy consultant and author of the book "the art of pricing." and a harvard busines...

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>> so to be totally honest with you, we have -- we are beginning to think post-katrina now where it doesnt look like were going to get a quick recovery in terms of infrastructure, in terms of water drainage. sewage is a big problem for us because without power, you cant keep your sewage lines cleaned out. so we are thinking in that direction, and i think the longer that this goes, the high temperatures that are predicted for the next week, its going to make living conditions virtually unbearable...

Effort? those conditions you were describing not only sound uninhabitable now, but they seem uninhabitable for many days, potentially weeks or months ahead. if there are people in those communities who are piecing it together in these first couple of days, will there be an effort to clear them out? >> so to be totally honest with you, we have -- we are beginning to think post-katrina now where it doesnt look like were going to get a quick recovery in terms of infrastructure, in terms of water dr...

Specifically, st. john parish, st. james parish. were sending our members out there. and we want to be help ful to or neighbors, who really received horrific devastation as a result of this storm. we are assessing our damages this morning. we will have a unified command meeting to discuss it, but we really want to assist, because we were spared. we are extremely grateful. >> of course, you and everyone was conscious about the importance of this anniversary, this happening 16 years after. the dev...

Hour over a large area for a long period of time, three, four, five hours. my producers rooms were shaking. we are in a heavily reinforced concrete building that was built post-katrina. it was about 13 years old. that is post-katrina. it can different hurricane specifications it was built to withstand and it was still shaking. at the moment we are hearing the hum of generators. we dont have electricity. helicopters are flying around the area. the only cars we have seen are emergency vehicles, an...

And the national weather service verifies that. theyve issued what is called an extreme wind warning. our phones have been lighting up, left, right, and center with the alerts. and its reserved for only the most dangerous of situations. sustained 115-mile-per-hour winds. there goes the camera lens from our particular camera equipment. youll have to bear with us. were in the middle of a hurricane. clearly. and conditions change very rapidly. i want our viewers at home to understand we have the ab...

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