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Den r-- degeneres' video. thankfully again as water levels are coming down, we wanted to show you over my right-hand shoulder if we can pan ever so delicately so we do not lose our shot here, this is a boulder collection system that was built five years ago after the devastating landslides and what you see are metal spikes in the ground about six feet tall and boulders caught by these barriers so they do not fall into the riverbed and into these neighborhoods behind our camera. as we zoom in you can see a second and a third barrier with less and less of those black poles visible. neighbors hav...

The hurricanes. these extreme rain events that are going on, and also the flooding. this is not new science. in the 1856, units newton pope showed that by the utilization of these types of things, that we were going to base these types of situations and, of course, now the ipcc, the national climate assessment reports, have all said that we continue to have an addiction to fossil fuels and to burn them, then we are going to intensify the things that we see from the climate crisis. >> you know latosha, i wanted to have you on as a part of this conversation because when katrina happened, nobody ...

It's traveling. what's happening now? >> it is. let me begin with the radar, laura, a little bit of good news if we can find it on this extremely sad day today. the rain is finally moving out of florida. you can see in areas off to the northeast. we do have a little bit of a northeast wind up here, so we still have a little bit of a surge just going on or at least continuing to keep the water up on the shoreline. but just a terrible day, where we had several hours with one in 1,000-year rain events, one the two feet almost of rainfall and all the rescues from everywhere, st. augustine up to ja...

Not in a fema flood zone. >> absolutely. >> reporter: fema classifies roughly 8.7 million properties as having substantial risk of flooding. but the nonprofit first street foundation, a research firm that considers climate change a mapping risk, identifies nearly 70% more properties with the same level of risk. that means about 6 million property owners are likely underestimating or unaware of their current flood risk. this summer, five ultra rare 1,000 year rain events happened over the past three months. starting in kentucky and st. louis this july, southeastern illinois, and death valley in...

Risk from severe flooding and likely don't have flood insurance because they don't know they're at risk. do you believe that there needs to be an update to fema's maps? >> yeah, so fema's maps right now are really focused on riverine flooding and coastal flooding. our maps, and we work with local jurisdictions to update the map when they ask us to provide additional assistance to update them. i think the part that's really difficult right now is the fact that our flood maps don't take into account excessive rain that comes in when we're seeing these record rainfalls that are happening. st. lou...