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The solar panels are they really good for the environment? and how much money are people going to save from this? you put a lot of money upfront. do you know the answer to that? >> listen, im all for the free market and one of the sponsors of our radio show is a solar panel company. im all for it if you want to do it and thats the great thing about a free country. if you want to put solar panels on your house free to do it. some houses its not a good idea. the angle of the roof maybe there is tr...

The president has put forward. 1.5 trillion dollars, 10-year public-private investment. congressional located $21 billion, just over 1%. and theres various inputs from different people in how much it would impact the economy. i grew up in a rural area like the one that you represent. and im curious when it comes to infrastructure who do you think for your district are the most important types of projects you would like to see funded? . well, certainly the president is quite correct in making inf...

At immediate danger by drinking this water. we are considering it a long-term risk. >> reporter: what e.p.a. officials are saying they believe it would require long-term exposure drinking the water to suffer serious side effects and health problems associated with drinking the water over a long period of time. we have spoken with a number of independent experts on water issues and they say it is alarming and disturbing that perhaps these wells werent shut off or turned off given the possible imp...

And it underscores enormous problem thats not just today or tomorrow, this is going to go on for weeks and months. mia? >> weeks and months. fuel slohortages, that means people will have problems with generators. and folks i talked to that do have generators maybe only last two or three hours. hospitals are running out of fuel for theirs as well. food shortages as well. water issues. so you heard mayor of san juan say the sos needs to be heard. president can talk about his good glowing reviews i...

Issues, water issues. its actually harder to get supplies in to the virgin islands. >> its a harder situation where you have access to the keys via a road. you dont have access to these islands. were talking about runways that were destroyed, docks that were destroyed. thats why i really do want to stress, the u.s. military is going to take this situation over, and they already have. the u.ss e-- u.s.s.iwojima. theyre dropping food and people have to walk through roads where you have power lines...

Businesses, their homes as were traveling into this section right along the coastline. we saw those shutters already closed so evacuation orders are in effect tomorrow. theres no school today or tomorrow in this county. they definitely want people out of here and into a safer place. >> its pretty amazing, that womans been waiting for six hours to get ten sandbags to protect her home, and that line is so very long, i can only imagine what its like to try get gasoline where you are. >> reporter: a...

Equipment, personnel and plans in place thats still a high volume. were working as quickly as possible to address triage and address each one of those calls to make sure were keeping everybody in houston as safe as possible. we need the people of houston to help us out. we need them if theyre no need for them to be out on the roads to shelter in place. we need them if they are seeing water issues that are not life threatening not to call 911 so we can keep that line open for emergencies that nee...

On the phone with one of the candidates and actually had former governor omalley and met with him. i think what we really need to do is get the ideas where there can be action and most importantly, to see who theyre going to pull into their cabinet, because you need brains. you need people who really have the experience and know what theyre doing and know how to interface and so much of this in the economy. we have water issues here. certainly in south carolina, they have water issues. so whats ...

>> maybe when we come back we will do that. taking the salt out seems like an up hill battle. do you think we are going to see that at a larger scale, too? >> absolutely. its a little cheaper right now. >> cheaper? >> yes. >> thats very interesting. jay, great pleasure to have you here. i follow you closely on water issues. >> thanks so much. >> we are live at the griffith observatory in los angeles. up next, ill ask the director of the observetive about the news of outer space. the first up clo...

Within a decade, 1.8 billion people will be living with absolute water scarcity. desalination is not a silver bullet to deal with water issues, but there is all this saltwater around us. in samuel taylor colridges poem, "the rhyme of the ancient mariner," theres a famous line spoken by the mariner as his ship is stuck at sea, "water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." not a problem anymore if we can do desalination right. the correct answer to the "gps" challenge question is d. accordin...