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Convention in orlando. >> down here is one here that said 75%. at a normal time if the cost of building material were to increase by 75%, people would be coming unglued. but look what it is. most of them are 200% or more. >> reporter: there are a few reasons why, but the problem begins in the canadian rockies. one in almost every three boards hammered in american homes and where a plague of beetles arrived with the power to kill 100,000 trees a day, so many you could hear them over the phone. >> you could actually hear the beetles underneath the bark. i'm listening to my trees being killed. >>...

Beachfront property in scranton, but somehow it doesn't grab people, especially the older people get, that this is such a critical issue. how do you as a candidate translate the importance of paying attention and doing something trying to get elected? how do you do it? >> in our state it's two things. one, it's climate-dependent jobs, it's putting food on the table for families. two, it's a public safety issue. with longer, dryer summers, we've had an increase in incidents of forest fires over the last decade. we need to do a better job on mitigation and prevention, but also address some of th...