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>> martha: heres a very hot topic, the role that tech companies increasingly play in our lives, our commerce and our politics. companies like google, amazon, facebook, apple, are quote of the night comes from the new book "world without end: existential threat of big tech." he says this. "when it comes to the most central tenet of individualism, free will, the tech companies have a different way. they hope to automate our choices, the large and small choices we make as we flowed through the day....

>> no, i dont think hes going that far. hes saying, look, im going to cover my bases and try to get some democrats votes. >> neil: looks like hes got that. >> yeah, hes got a few. well see if he can get to the 60 threshold. that will be tough. it also a supervisors youll have 52 republicans. i dont know if hes got them. so it all depends on what is in the package. >> neil: he could easily get 15 to 20 democrats. >> right. as a detail for the wonts out there, our republican package was scored to ...

Daytona beach. drew driscoll, can you hear me? >> chris, i can. good morning from the worlds famous beach. >> chief, i can hear you. if you can hear me, tell us about the rescues that were necessary. pwepb the first responders dont want to go out once the winds are above 40. thats why you are the best of us. you will save us even in the worst of conditions. >> yes. unfortunately, the winds exceeded our threshold where we had to stop operations. once life came in jeopardy we had to take calculate...

Irmas track butts check-in with adam. >> currently irma is spinning north of fort myers. that is our center of circulation. the big story is this has now moved inland. it will track up the west side of the state but likely wont run back over water which is weakening the storm system. wins are currently at 100 miles per hour so just barely at that threshold, hanging onto a category two storm. it wont hang on a whole lot longer. theres tampa. were actually little to the east of tampa as we lift up...

Come in, the systems dropped a little bit more to 105 sustained winds, gusts are still 130 and those hurricane force winds still extend outward a good 80 miles so there is still some force to be reckoned with here. but again, when you look at the radar, and here is the problem, i talked about the eye is closing up, were seeing more of a rain shaft now, and now there is still a center that you can mark and track, but were now seeing, in fact this is what was confusing in the last hit i was with y...

Are, 63-mile-per-hour winds sustained. definitely gusting over 74 miles an hour. the threshold for hurricane force. the national weather service from broward county said that hurricane force winds should be expected this morning and into this afternoon. im in miami-dade county on south beach and it certainly feels hurricane force here. classic hurricane conditions behind us, trees, palm trees, there are signs that have been completely knocked over. were protecting ourselves here because these si...

Could generate storm surge what it could do to areas like this. >> we saw what happened at barbuda and what happened at the bvi and the u.s. virgin islands and we knew that this was the biggest storm america may have ever have to encounter. what happened overnight was a godsend and a blessing for america and not so much for cuba, because the storm ran over the northern coast of cuba, losing significant intensity in the process but also damaging that country significantly on the north side. as th...

Because its deteriorated even since you and i have talked. so people hopefully, if they have decided to not heed the evacuation warning that they are bunkered inside and in part of their house, away from windows, but the word from emergency management here is theyre on their own. if they did not leave, there is no one here to help them because winds have become more sustained than 40 miles per hour. that was the threshold for fire and police rescue here. theyre going to start removing their emer...

Food on the ground and there is no assessment than the visual. the cause waves, they were under ground, they were under ground and we did sustain storm surge, we are concerned of the bear cut bridge and its integrity. the island itself sustained a storm surge of three to five each and we are looking to see what flooding is, we also, the winds -- the wind i am in miami, the wind continues to blow. and we had on key biscayn biscaynbiscayne -- [ inaudible ] >> i was talking to sam champion whos in ...

Some time tomorrow afternoon and the streets flood very easily. it pools quickly. and that lets you know that it just doesnt have a lot of threshold for water and that means things are going to flood easily. the number one killer in a hurricane is not the wind. i know you intuitively you think it is, but its drowning and that storm surge is the number one component of that. thats why the governor peoples telling the story of an elderly woman who only survived because she got lucky. thats an impo...