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Tally already sits at 149 for the current decade and we're still at the peak number before the end of october. while some people debate the seriousness of the climate threat, one thing is crystal clear, it's becoming a fiscal nightmare. since 1980, there have been 250 weather events costing a billion dollars or mor. that's adjusted for inflation. and almost half of them, 111, have occurred in this current decade. and look at how the costs have gone up. in the 1980s, there were only 28 high-dollar weather events. at a cost of, say, about $172 billion. now, look at this decade. 111 into early 20...

Local taxes, the property taxes, but there are other deductions that are going away here, there's the credits for elderly and disabled, adoptions, student loans, tax preparation, medical expenses, alimony, moving expenses, the medical savings accounts, the unreimbursed business expense, educator expenses, meanwhile, you bought the to super rich. they're going to save $172 billion on estate taxes, 696 billion on alternative minimum taxes, $847 billion on corporate taxes. >> yeah, that's exactly the right way to think about this. in other words with retakic away from a bunch of folks who itemize...

As it moves north. it is expected to leave expensive extremely trail of destruction the largest state economy, the fact that it comes right on the heels of the devastation of hurricane irma, makes the economic outlook a lot worse. one-two punch, two big hurricanes back to back. >> that makes this hurricane season likely the 2017 hurricane season likely the most expensive in history, if not almost on top of the list. the top of the estimates for irma are $172 billion, how does that compare with katrina, for example? that would be worse than katr a katrina. we just don't know the sprawling scope...

Check the power of this toppled tree. caused a water main break here as well. one of the other concerns going about, you can imagine if you had a live wire fall into this water that would be very dangerous to step in. those are the hazards among many. the cleanup is under way this morning. christine, they really had full force here, hurricane 1 -- category 1 status but it could have been a lot worse. >> all right. thank you. as irma batters florida with wind and rain, how much will the damage cost? well it's early, but the estimates here is a price tag of $172 billion making it one the costl...

Cuts, so they can see the benefits when they are running the midterms. we are focused on the short-term but they are focused on next year, the midterms. >> eric: some of the things they are talking about is attaching these agenda items to bills the other side can't vote no for. funding government, funding veterans affairs, they are catching some major -- attaching some major initiatives to these bills. legislation of -- legislative gymnastics. >> senator scott said last week that we are going to keep the tax increases in the health care plan, the ones i was mentioning for obamacare. we know ho...