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Quickly and drawing chilling comparison tosca trina. >> reporter: hurricane ida comes in at number four. as 150-mile-per-hour winds screamed ashore in september. but that was just the beginning. idas aftermath dropped a rain bomb on new york sudden enough to drown families in their basement apartments. and all told, the same storm cost over $60 billion. >> breaking news this morning. a dangerous and deadly night across the central united states. a powerful line of storms unleashing at least 24 t...

The hurricane is intensifying quickly and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. >> reporter: hurricane ida comes in at number four. as 150-mile-per-hour winds screamed ashore in louisiana in early september. but that was just the beginning. idas aftermath dropped a rain bomb on new york sudden enough to drown families in their basement apartments. and all told, the single storm cost over $60 billion. >> we are following breaking news this morning. a dangerous and deadly night across the centr...

To drown families in their basement apartments. and all told, the single storm cost over $60 billion. >> we are following breaking news this morning. a dangerous and deadly night across the central united states. a powerful line of storms unleashing at least 24 tornados across five states. >> reporter: at number three, tornados in winter. december usually brings the fewest twisters of any month but record warmth in the heartland spun up funnel clouds from arkansas to ohio and weeks later, the da...

Coal, cars, cash and trees, probably is going to be cash that provides the biggest challenge. for the first time in 26 meetings, the worlds delegates agree that fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis. but not a single country committed to stopping oil or coal production any time soon. >> a monster named ida. the hurricane is intensifying quickly and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. >> hurricane ida comes in at number four. as 150-mile-per-hour winds screamed ashore in louisiana, in ...

Comparisons to katrina. >> ida comes in at number four as 150 mile per hour winds come in early september. that was just the beginning. idas aftermath dropped a rain bomb on new york sudden enough to drawn families in their basement apartments. and all told, the single storm cost over $60 billion. >> we are following breaking news this morning. a dangerous and deadly night across the central united states. a powerful line of storms unleashing at least 24 tornados across five states. >> at number...

That provides the biggest challenge. for the first time in 26 meetings, the worlds delegates agreed that fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis, but not a single country committed to stopping oil or coal production any time soon. a monster named ida. the hurricane is intensifying quickly. >> reporter: hurricane ida comes in at number four. as 150-mile-per-hour winds screamed ashore in louisiana in early september. that was just the beginning. idas aftermath dropped a rain bomb on new york...

>> a monster named ida, a hurricane thats intensifying quickly and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. >> hurricane ida comes in at number four. as 150 mile-per-hour winds screamed ashore in louisiana in early september, but that was just the beginning. idas aftermath dropped a rain bomb on new york sudden enough to drown families in their basement apartments, and all told, the single storm cost over $60 billion. >> we are following breaking news this morning. a dangerous and deadly night a...

He wants people to pay attention. take a listen to the acting fema director this morning. >> this is going to be a long duration, major storm. again, i think wherever it makes landfall it has a potential to go up the 95 corridor, florida into georgia, rain, flooding, debris. its going to be a large-impact storm. dont dismiss, just because you dont live on the coast, just because you dont live in west palm, you have to believe that its going to impact you. and again, the clock is ticking. >> repo...

Because the coastal shelf is shallow, we are expecting to see 25 to 30-foot seas closer to the coast because of the shallow. shallow doesnt get as high as 83 that you heard at the center. i guess that was reported yesterday. >> reid hawkins from the national weather service in wilmington, north carolina. stay safe. keep us posted. >> thank you. >> hurricane florence as the potential to be the most expensive to hit the united states. nearly 759,000 homes in the carolinas and virginia are in the d...

Dangerous storm. according to early analysis. from core logic. worst case more than $170 billion to rebuild. 62 billion more than hurricane katrina in 2005. that storm cost at least 108 billion. in property damage. that has the dubious honor of the costliest in u.s. history. however the cost projections were made before the storm was downgraded. the impact remains a mystery here. these forecasts will change a lot. as we go through the next few days. insurance companies are bracing for a hit if a...