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Amount of money, one of the busiest ports in the world and they have put all these brand new cranes to take that cargo off. they laid a majority of those cranes down. they had time to take those cranes and put them down. but, apparently it takes longer to take those construction cranes down around the buildings. so, they havent taken those down. but they put them on free swing, which means theyve pinned -- got those things up, but the crane that loads the -- takes up the. >> containers. >> right...

>> for every wobble, one degree made so much difference, depending on the community where you were waiting for sandy. with every one degree wobble, this is big news for marco island, naples, ft. myers. >> even tampa. if youre in tampa, lot of people care about your family and property, you would rather see it go further inland at the expense of ft. myers and naples because it may be weaker by the time it gets to you. theyre calling for 120 miles per hour wind gusts in tampa. >> thats not built t...

Only a category 1. for us in new york, new jersey that lived through sandy, the damage was remarkable. where i live on a barrier island in new jersey, the entire island was covered bay to ocean. were talking about a category 3 possibly 4. it was a 4 in some areas of virgin islands which got decimated. as youre looking at the images, theres wind, weve been through this before. get your head around the difference between a category 1 and a category 3. this is no joke. >> the other thing about a st...

Threat. storm surges have cost most of the deaths of hurricane katrina in 2005. in 2012, hurricane sandy induced flooding as high asinine feet above the ground in parts of new jersey. that caused billions of dollars in damage. a storm surge of 6 inches, below my knees, can knock a person down. a storm surge of -- this would be about 2 feet, it will take your car or suv out. even though sandy was a category 1 with wind of about 80 miles per hour, the issue was it came into places with a lot of wa...

Water that could be associated with power lines on it. so its imperative, again, we learn from sandy, we learn from harvey, take that grid down when you get the hurricane winds. otherwise you have fires. >> reporter: yes. and then power out for some time. russell honore, general, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate your insight here as we continue to work through what you call a first quarter of a disaster like this. the quarter that mother nature usually wins. we come in in the s...

Parts of the coast line here, not to serious, theyre not particularly populated, but the populated areas start here and go up into this area. the thin chain of islands, the florida keys, sitting below sea level and southwest florida is going to bare the brunt of this storm. the surge levels could hit as high as 15 feet. im under 6 feet, were talking more than double my height, all this as torrential rains can add another foot of water to the area. the storm surge is the water that gets pushed in...

Flat land, that will flood in hundreds and hundreds of yards even half a mile or further. all of the water you add increases the radius of destruction. i covered the after math of sandy, did part of a television series about it, a woman lost her husband and 13-year-old daughter. she was on one of those islands and the storm surge came, they were holding on to that shower rod, and boom the storm surge came and they were gone, they were swept up in the water. that is the kind of catastrophic scena...

Long beach island in new jersey, in their house got wiped out by sandy. they said screw it, well move to the key west, and now they just bought a house there. i hope everything works out. back to what jennifer lawrence. i am not a doctor. since everybody is playing one on tv these days, their plane psychiatrist. let me give you my prognosis on jennifer lawrence. absent suffering from derangement syndrome or an acute strain, a dts. this is a situation where apparently side effects are clues blami...

This is an opportunity. >> it was an opportunity, not only to have bipartisan support and help both sides, democrats and republicans, politically as many of their seats up for grabs. but more so, i think very telling when you have even though it was less than 20g.o.p. nos on this, simply because, i think, this just shows some of the american people still that what is more important. is it finances and the debt ceiling or is it financing individuals in states such as texas that have been hit by n...

Water in its path. as you can see the computer models are in very good agreement as we get into the weekend and keys and south florida. then we start to see some question marks. does it go completely over the state of florida? does it hug the coast of florida? does it make a landfall across the southeast? we still dont know yet. here is one of our reliable forecast models. thats at least a category 4 on saturday as it comes so close to south florida and the keys. this one has, you know, the stor...