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Grandfather who has conquered so many challenges, and turning 80 years old, he sent us this. dolph hatfield is from washington, d.c., a father, husband, grandfather. and retired scientist from the national cancer institute. hes also a black belt in tae kwon do. hes conquered challenges throughout his whole life. hes gone skydiving, climbed kilimanjaro and el capitan. he went running with the bulls. but just a few years ago, he faced his toughest challenge yet -- complications during a surgery le...

>> sandy, can you talk about what these parents especially are going to go through? i mean, losing a child, losing a father, losing a mother. what is the road ahead like for them? >> rough. extremely rough. first they have to take care of taking care of the services. which is daunting. its really not what happens to thunderstorm right now. they will have lots of family and friends around them during this initial time. its several weeks from now. its several months from now. its a year from now. ...

That this is the life that well have to live for a foreseeable time. i know one of the discussions right now is will people leave puerto rico and move? that remains to be seen, we can tell you at least from this end, there is a robust operation to try and get supplies to people who need it. >> a new normal, is the term you hear people talk about, at that one week mark as you just described, so perfectly the reality sets in the scope of the damage, we watched last night, well be watching again to...

Own way analyze this. phil, i want to talk to you about the fact it seems to be from your piece, at least from the poll numbers, i should say, that democrats and republicans like the idea of the two parties working together. the democrats and republicans, republican president included, when it comes to maintenance stuff, dealing with hurricanes, like they did in 2008 dealing with sandy. they like chris christie standing there with regular clothes on with president obama. they like maintenance st...

Up. sure, there could be cars taking some things over, but not like the interstate to praebg yo. theres this wiggle on almost every model. the wiggle turns back for a while, aka, you know, its sandy, but so far everything turning back to the right again after that small little wiggle. we will keep watching the wiggle because the european and north american model have the small wiggle and then it turns right. this is six or seven days away and its barely a three-day forecast. the turks and caicos...

Towards the carolinas and canadian maritimes. ainsley: category 4. you said last week i had forgotten about sandy was a cat 1 with all the devastation. janice: right. absolutely. steve: janice, thank you very much. keep an eye on that. ainsley: meanwhile, president trump on the world stage addressing the u.n. general assembly with tough talk for rogue regimes all around the world. brian: how did that message resonate with the american voters? steve: lee carter is president and partner with masla...

Have to monitor this as the computer models are spread out especially as we go further out into next week. its too close for comfort. if i could show you the gss and european model monday and tuesday and then coming very close perhaps a brush across the mid-atlantic or northeast. we just need high pressure across the atlantic, the bermuda high to get stronger and maybe push the storm inland. the one thing that will be a good piece of news is that the storm will be considerably weaker but again, ...

2012. you remember what your that was. sandy. we dont want a repeat. >> and gene, theres about another month left in hurricane season. so we appreciate the perspective. thank you. >> coming up v, weve been talking about irma and the effectses. we go to florida now where thousands of people who wisely evacuated the keys ahead of last weeks killer hurricane are this weekend being allowed back to their homes for the first time since the storm. but all is not well in the florida keys. electricity, r...

Emergency funding. thats my goal, the long-term improvements, things like mid investigation against sea level rise as part of the long-term normal budgeting process. >> sometimes, you had certain members of your party attack it and say it was pork with the sandy, and it wound up stalling something for months that could have done quickly. >> sandy funded hurricane -- it was a long-term project. it was related to the storm and it should have been funded as part of the regular process and not the e...

What do people need to understand about what the needs will be here, three, six, nine, 15 months out? >> i think the mayor will address this, too, but people need to be patient and with all the goodwill and effort it takes time to rebuild a community like this, and we need power, life safety, water, suer, et cetera, and work towards the other things. >> how do you keep clear of politics like we saw in sandy? >> i hope we dont go through political mack nations to help take care of florida and tex...