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Security, that seems to be when you are in most need because then you have thrill seekers, surfers, boaters that want to get out there that might be bored. they think its safe to leave their homes and get back out there. if they do, how dangerous is this ocean right now? how dangerous is it going to get? >> so i think its important to note that earlier today as we were monitoring some of the wave heights, really not that far off shore there was 35 to 40 foot waves still being pushed by this syst...

Contact with the storm. fema was here ahead of time. we had all of government here ahead of time. the storm over-matched the capacity here and it broke the infrastructure. >> you know, fema said look, we cant pre-position supplies in front of a big storm on an island like that. is that the case? >> i think the budget guys next year need to say they have to pre-position, because if youre going to leave the people here, you need to structure. this is not a criticism, its a suggestion. we have to r...

Veterans of hurricanes. we saw a lot of that working, as devastating as these storms have been, the fact that 1800 people died during katrina and the death toll, thank heavens, is so much lower this time amidst this immense damage, speaks to some of the lessons. do you evacuate houston? no. do you evacuate in florida? yes. 100 poem died evacuating houston before rita. officials know more about how to pre position, the role of the military, 21,000 military personnel helping. 64,000 federal offici...

For some time. while there are some political appointees always in positions like fema, there is a staff that is well-rehearsed in this and well studied in this. thats one. reasons, for instance, they knew to start pre positioning supplies. fema used to wait until after the fact and see what we can do. now fema has an operation that pre-positions supplies. they work with large companies like walmart, like budweiser to get cans. that normally would have beer in them with water. rush into communit...

You could see the look an their face, scott got out, he looked, still blocked almost from head to toe. i told him to get inside, get some medical help. i told him to get up on various buildings and we had one get up on each side and i had one up on this building. they knew where they needed to go. so, each one of them went to their pre position. preplanned positions. jack is up on this roof. rooms up here. or tom and db are here. take it over in this corner. im over here. >> you guys are exhaust...

You could see the look an their face, scott got out, he looked, still blocked almost from head to toe. i told him to get inside, get some medical help. i told him to get up on various buildings and we had one get up on each side and i had one up on this building. they knew where they needed to go. so, each one of them went to their pre position. preplanned positions. jack is up on this roof. rooms up here. or tom and db are here. take it over in this corner. im over here. >> you guys are exhaust...

You could see the look an their face, scott got out, he looked, still blocked almost from head to toe. i told him to get inside, get some medical help. i told him to get up on various buildings and we had one get up on each side and i had one up on this building. they knew where they needed to go. so, each one of them went to their pre position. preplanned positions. jack is up on this roof. rooms up here. or tom and db are here. take it over in this corner. im over here. >> you guys are exhaust...

You could see the look an their face, scott got out, he looked, still blocked almost from head to toe. i told him to get inside, get some medical help. i told him to get up on various buildings and we had one get up on each side and i had one up on this building. they knew where they needed to go. so, each one of them went to their pre position. preplanned positions. jack is up on this roof. rooms up here. or tom and db are here. take it over in this corner. im over here. >> you guys are exhaust...

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