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Who can talk about this plainly. when it came time for the money to get paid for sandy, you got the first chunk of money like $9 billion. then that second, third, fourth iterations of the bill. big price tags, $50, 60. of tomorrow price wspeaker of t want it. cruz changed what he says happened back then. he says 2/3 was -- if he dont wall it out for what it was then, why would it be any better now. >> ive been calling it out for the last 24 hours. senator cruz was playing politics in 2012 trying...

Sandy. its unacceptable to me, absolutely unacceptable. >> strong language from the republican governor from new jersey. governor christie right, senator cruz responded. >> im sorry that there are politicians who seem really desperate to get their names in the news and are saying whatever they need to do that. we have a crisis on the ground and people are hurt right now. for folks who are focused on raising political shots about this and the sandy bill. the fact of the matter is the sandy bill w...

Face the music. >> when you are professor teaching children, really. lets check in with brian kill lead to see what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> reporter: lets tell you what we have over the next week 3 hours, governor chris christie live on what texas needs, he knows after sandy, senator ted cruz on the ground in houston bringing us up to date as he joins us live, senator mike lee how to bring the gop together. david bossi inside the trump white house, how the president scored yesterda...

You dont raise prices as a reflection of the tragedy. all right? if you do, you should be shot. youre exploiting the very worst instincts of humanity. youre saying im going to take advantage of this for my personal gain. >> neil: you wonder why. a lot of people will come back to the same businesses. do they ever think long-term that whatever pot they get from the gouging theyll lose in customer loyalty? >> theyre short-sighted. they dont last. thank god, home depot. were going to do everything w...

Terms of property damage the united states has ever seen. bigger than some of the likes of sandy, right now, katrina. a big hurricane that hit florida, share that dubious honor along with rita. because we are such a, you know, large metropolitan area. and theres going to be a significant percentage of homes including mine, i might add, that are under water. so this will be a very large undertaking. the key issue for people to watch though is then what is going to be the response of the federal s...

>> wes, what have we learned from katrina? >> we have to understand this is a long-term operation. this is not going to be a week or month. i think about what happened with sandy. sandy was five years ago. one was just out in the neighborhoods two weeks ago. still people are recovering from sandy. these type of disasters are marathons that you run like a sprint, every single day. the human implications will be there. whats going on really important also are the funding streams. when katrina happ...

Agency. so heres the challenge, okay? you have the agent come out to your hos and you say heres the damage and he says okay, you have flood insurance, youre lucky because your home owners doesnt cover this. in houston, only 1 in 6 homes as flood insurance, so thats another story. the insurance agent comes out, they do the adjustment and say, you know what, you have $200,000 worth of damage and you stand there and you go, well, thats absurd. i think its more like $400,000. the problem is because ...

Is, you know, a legitimate point. >> the infrastructure of the city seems at one level overwhelmed. as it would be. given the sheer amount of water. what is your sense of how bad this is going to be for the city of houston in long-term? >> first in american perspectives, it could be the largest natural disaster in terms of property damage the united states has ever seen. bigger than some of the likes of sandy, right now, katrina. a big hurricane that hit florida, share that dubious honor along w...

Near term is dealing with the immediate crisis and getting people out of harms way. there are issues around the corner, how we are going to pay for this and whether the republicans, in the aftermath of sandy, including senators who would not fund reconstruction unless it was offset by cuts elsewhere. where the republicans hold to that? perhaps we are going to ask once in a lifetime event in katrina, once in a lifetime in sandy, once in a lifetime here. do we need to have that debate more directl...

Problem. >> after my ex left me, she had my daughter and the house is wiped out and we started getting our house fixed and moved back in and six weeks later, sandy came and it was like a one-two pun. . it was pretty heavy. >> on the night of arrest, bernard says his father accused him of stealing his keys and wallet. when he denied, he says he did argument and sue. he said i put a gun to his head and that i am going to kill him which was not true. i was on the second floor of my home when they t...